Suhaib Webb – Usul alFiqh Lesson 18 The Comprehensive Terms (introduction)
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The importance of studying the Bible and the universal concept of the Awaaround is discussed, as it is necessary for personal interests and emotional health. The definition of being is not a number, but an infinite number of Afrads and is necessary for students to work on their emotional health and maturity. The definition of "compliant with the universal" is also discussed, and examples are provided to help students understand the meaning of "compliant" and " Affrad" in relation to words like " Affrad."
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Welcome back to our readings of
May Allah bless you and increase you in
It's
very important to study
if you are definitely going to be an
imam somewhere, if you're going to be a
chaplain, if you're going to be any type
of content provider
because you, without the grammar of will
perhaps inadvertently
misrepresent
the intent of the sacred texts.
We ask Allah
to ask Allah to protect us. Subhan Allah.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make it easy
for us. The The second thing is that
is not an easy subject. So if you
find any difficulty in this, don't get angry.
And that's sometimes the reaction to people When
they uncover something that's difficult for them, they
get angry, but that's not Adevyan.
Why would you get angry? Be motivated. Feel
like, wow, there's something more I need to
learn. There's something more I need to build
on in my skill set.
And then, finally, you may find some discomfort
in this subject because it marries together 2
important sciences.
Most of you are gonna be familiar with.
That is like verses of Quran, statements of
the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the,
agreements of the companions of the Prophet SallAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam, the agreement of the companions of
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam on certain legal
issues,
many people are familiar with that.
Are the sciences of logic and language, and
that's where people tend to have problems. And
Imam Al Haramain in the book that we're
reading is slowly introducing you to that second
concept. In the future Insha'Allah when we finish
this reading of the Warakat,
we'll go back and do it one more
time with the mankulat.
So then you have this well rounded experience
in books of
which is called the Awa riud. I need
you to remember this. The Awa r
is synonymous the word was sifat,
qualities or attributes.
I'm going to be talking today about
a set of words which carry a universal
meaning.
We're gonna introduce this idea of the universal,
So, let's start with some verses of Quran
and Hadith of the prophet the
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
Then
whoever, man, whoever.
Under whoever is every human being we know.
So that's
And those different human beings that are going
to fall under that are what's called Efraad
Efraad from fault. Remember that word, Efraad. The
Efraad of the Am
or the jziet
of the an'
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says,
after Abu Dhabii Misha'tan regime,
You will not achieve
righteousness
until you give from what? What you love?
So many things I love.
So what?
For the
so and
these are kind of universal
meaning
another example
indeed all humanity.
This
is so all humanity. How do you know
it's
There's an exception
except for those who believe. So under the
word in sand, there's a lot of
Christians, atheists,
magicians,
basketball players, mechanics,
computer science guys, you name it. All that
falls under
the believers
also is the from the of insane, but
it's excluded. We'll talk about this in future.
This is very important. That's why we're learning
this subject.
Another example is for example
locations
wherever you are death will reach you
wherever north south east west up down
the US, Arabian Peninsula,
wherever you are.
Allah says wherever you are death will reach
you.
And
related to
location and then
time.
When
is the help of Allah going to come?
They say in the Quran
Tomorrow, yesterday, the next hour, 5 minutes, 10
minutes,
When are you gonna come?
So this is,
there's more words that indicate this for example,
ismujins
and mudaf, we'll talk about it in the
future Insha'Allah.
But the idea here is you see these
words,
they apply to an infinite number of
components
of a term, that term is
Amin says,
He says, and
as for and I want you to pay
attention to something if you're a serious student
that
oftentimes the adjective is describing a noun which
is hidden.
As for a general
or universal, excuse me, phrase
return, or
word.
As for a universal word.
Excuse me. I like to tell some of
my students in
If you're not able to see those words
and phrases which are missing in texts,
then that's a proof that your intellect is
missing.
So it says
it
is
it is what encompasses 2 things or more.
You wanna think about is like something which
things are submerged into.
Here it becomes very clear.
If you think about the examples I gave
you earlier from the Quran.
And I mentioned one from the harith mannam
yakra al fatiha, whoever doesn't read al fatiha
then his salah is Batila.
His salah is
void.
Man, whoever.
Whoever doesn't recite the Fatiha in salah,
so man whoever.
So Imam al Haramain's definition then if we
think about it, it's the linguistic definition,
It's not the Usuri definition.
And of course, Imam Al Haramen is following
a Shirazi in Aluma as I mentioned before
because the Warakat is a summary of Aluma
and he's following him word for word here.
Before people rush to attack them or to
criticize them, let's back up this cart a
little bit and remind ourselves that the reason
they wrote both texts is to help a
person begin to conceptualize
not to master all Surufak,
especially Minjani, but as
I mentioned earlier.
So in that case, the simplicity that Imam
Shirazi
and Imam Al Haramain have employed
is not an indication
of their intellectual deficiency.
It is actually an indication of the urination
that they can simplify the science.
The hadith says that simplicity is from the
So instead of rushing, and that's a sign
that as a student, you're on the wrong
path, man. If you have
this rapid
carnivorous desire
to find the mistakes of people,
you need to work on your emotional health.
And you need to work on your maturity.
It's not a good thing.
The opposite,
that mistakes are are an inevitable part of
life.
And that the knowledge is bigger than all
of us and that we help one another
and assist one another. Alhamdulillah,
as the Quran mentions.
And that's why Al Hariri, he says,
He says in
if you find in it any mistakes then
fill the gaps.
Transcendent is the one who has no mistakes
and blessed me. Allah
So, if you find that in yourself now,
when you study with teachers or others,
you wanna suffocate that man, and have a
big heart.
So Imam Al Haramain
following Imam al Sharazi introduces it linguistically
to help you and I do what's called
a
Tasawwar
a daraka mufrad to sowaran urlim.
As Sayyidina Imam Al Akhudari mentions in the
Surlam, a daraka mufrad to sowaran
to to initially be understand this kind of
concept. It's called
conceptualization.
Talk about that in the future insha'Allah.
So this this definition is not sufficient for
us, right? What we're trying to accomplish, but
it helps us build an understanding what am
means.
We're gonna talk about that because you can
see from the verses and the hadith that
this is not 2 or more, it's an
infinite number of Afrad.
And then he gives examples,
You know, I showered Zayden Amir with gifts.
And I gave all the people
gifts, I showered them with gifts, so he
is modeling his tari, Shayain, Amrzayed,
Persaydin,
Jami Annessi.
But this is not sufficient. And what we
wanna do is quickly as we finish introducing
this topic, is to provide you a definition
from Imam Al Bairawi,
rahimuhullah
in al minhaj who says, nafanallahu ta'ala bihimi
fidarini amiqaala lafthum gestaghrihujamiyah
maya slahu lahu
I'm gonna read it enough so you can
memorize it InshaAllah.
What does that mean? A word
lafthum, yastarek,
which
submerges,
right? Which drowns,
which encompasses
everything which
is
falling into its compliancy,
is fitting to fall under that universal.
We'll talk about that in the future. We
don't want to talk about that now that'll
be a little bit complicated for you, alhamdulillah.
But this point is very important.
What does that mean?
That's the word.
Encompasses everybody that's Muslim from the beginning to
the end of time.
Which, and here is encompassing meanings as well
as
phrases, we'll talk about that in the future.
That's what I want you to pay attention
to which is compliant with that universal.
So, for example, Al Muslim
al Mbi'ahu alayhim salam Abu Bakr Umar,
Sayyidaf Fatima, Sayyidaf Aisha, Sayyidaf Khadija, Sayyidna Ali,
Sayyidna Hassan, Sayyidna Husain,
you, me, any Muslim we know falls under
the term al Muslim.
Because we're Muslims. But what about
doesn't fall, is not compliant with the word
of Muslim.
So
So,
he's not allowed to fall under the of
a Muslim.
So what could be fitting is correct under
that universal.
That's what it means,
So Alhamdulillah we did the
Sharai definition.
For example
wherever you are. So under the word
so many things wherever you are.
North, south, east, west, up, down,
all
that
is fitting to fall under that universal idea.
Man,
yamal,
man,
falls under man. You can name any human
being. Of course, there's gonna be a of
this but just for the sake of practice
is going to
is fitting to fall under that.
Whatever you do, salah, vikr, Hajj,
charity, nice words, all that,
is fitting to fall under that. See now
the application that I'm trying to show you.
When.
So this hour, the next hour, tomorrow, next
week, next month, next year, the past, the
future, all that falls under
Why is that important? Because in the future,
certain rules
are going to compel us,
or certain words are going to compel us,
to think about how some of those
some of those components of that universal
may be excused from being part of it.
Maybe taken out. It's called
so
indeed all humanity
Khalaas,
Aliflam.
All humanity is from jins also.
All humanity are lost.
Except those who believe, those who believe are
from insan. But here we've taken out
an from
the and now it has its own ruling.
This is called
Am. So we have the 'am, then we
have ilah which is the muqhasis
and then we have
which is the
This is very important for us in the
future, when we get into reading firq and
the application of Usur Al Filk.
So what did we talk about SubhanAllah, Masha
Allah man.
We talked about
examples of aam in the Qur'an and sunnah,
then we gave the definition, we talked about
the awwarid,
we talked about the definition provided by Imam
Sayyidina Imam
radihimahuallahu ta'ala.
And then we talked about how that definition
is linguistic
but not related to the nomenclature of Usulufikh.
Then we moved on to the Usuri definition
given to us by Al Qadi, Al Baydawi
and the Minhaj, Minhaju Usul ila elmi Usul.
And then we went through it and unpacked
it and then we applied the verses that
we
had read earlier
to the definition of
to show why it's important. And then we
talked about what's called the or
the of the
and we introduced
this idea of the takhsees
of the am. Meaning taking the efrad
out of
the initial ruling and giving it its own
ruling. So there are 3 things that are
happening. You have that universal, you have something
that's restricting it, and then you have the
restricted.
I'm
the and
the
That's very important when when we get into
reading the Quran and sunnah and we come
across words that have this universal meaning and
we have to look for
those things that may shade
or restrict that meaning
in relation to some of its efrad.
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