Suhaib Webb – Usul alFiqh (Lesson Seventeen) The Prohibitions (PartOne)

Welcome back to now our 17th

gathering on an introduction to Ulsul Al Filq

reading from the warakat of imam

Al Haramain Ujuwani Uruhi Muhola. We're just section

now on Anahi. Anahi means a prohibition. But

before we talk about its

scientific definition in the nomenclature of Islamic law,

let's talk about its linguistic definition. Imam Iblufaris,

great great Arabist, he says,

He said that the word,

actually, the word in Arabic means to reach

a goal.

That's why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala calls the

people of knowledge Urim Nuha.

Urim Nuha, the people of Nuha, the people

who reach the goal. But what's the goal

here? SubhanAllah. Here we see the importance of

tasawaf

and to ski it to nafs and how

it has to be married to aqidah and

fiqh because tasawaf for that aqidah and fiqh

is a Dali

is a Dali,

and a Tasawwuf

without Fiqh is.

So what do we want? We want all

3, aqeedah, fiqh, tasawaf,

and amta'alayim

as we say in short fatiha.

So

those people who reach the objective. What's the

objective of stopping

themselves

from doing things which prohibited. Now you see

there's something there in the meaning

Then

the the people of knowledge, ideally,

there are people who know when to stop

themselves,

when not to pass the limits that Allah

has set.

As Allah says in the

These are the limits set by Allah, so

don't cross them.

And whoever does wrongs themselves.

And the hadith of an Naman Ibnu Bashir

Radi Allahu Ta'ala Anhu,

that the prophet

That the permissible is clear, that the forbidden

is clear. Between them are things which most

people don't know about means the ruling.

So who falls into the doubtful falls into

the haram like a shepherd

that shepherds his flock right on the border

of the sanctuary of a king.

They're gonna fall in. That's like someone who

plays with the Hudud of Allah.

So that's why the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa'alehi

wasallam, he said that one of the unique

characteristics of Islam is alwara,

is to be cautious. And saying that Imam

al Shafi'i radiallahu anhu said nobody will reach

Taqwa until they leave what's forbidden fearing that

it may cause them to fall into the

Haram.

May Allah increase us. Easier said than done,

of course.

So the word

means to reach a goal,

an objective,

and that's because of prohibition. That's the final

stop. Don't go past this. That's why they're

called.

They know when to stop themselves.

They know when to stop them.

As the Quran

says. Now we move on to the religious,

nomenclature or Surafak definition.

The prohibitions. Is

is istida' we talked about it before

to request

a turk. It's different than a command. A

command is is different than a command. But

a

turkey

Bilqaw,

right, is not to request that you do,

but to request that you abandon. You don't

do tarq. You leave it.

Bilqaw, and this, of course, these are we

talked about qud and the tareef

that's a that's a that's aqayd.

A turq,

aqayd,

limited limited so by the time you get

to the end of it, the only thing

you have in front of you is what?

This idea, this concept.

Amazing. Look at our scholarship. We have to

be very careful this idea of the scholars

were backwards. They have no. No. No. Islamic

scholarship reached a golden era that we haven't

been able to live up to yet. That's

our problem. So what do we do to

make up for inadequacies? We complain about the

scholarship that we don't even know because I'm

sure a lot of you right now are

listening to this. You're like, I never heard

anything like this before. That's okay. But this

knowledge is there.

It's there. We just have to work for

it.

Whoever works hard achieves.

He said it is the request

that

someone refrain from something,

and that request is coming from 1 and

greater authority. We talked about how this was

the way of the Mount Tazilites

and, of course, Abu al Husayn al Basri

who said,

And we said in the Surah Al Ahmad

al Akhdar, if you

We said that this actually is very problematic

for us as Sunnis, and we should stay

away from that. Alhamdulillah.

Although there were great Sunni scholars who did

consider, like, authority,

like Sayidni Imam al Baji. That's why Imam,

Sidi Abdulahi

in Maraqis Suri, he said, wahadaf al Baji

that

Imam al Baji, he differed with the other

Malekis, and he considered it as

a part

of the Amr as well as the Nahi.

But the majority, especially

He said that this request to refrain is

coming in a way that implies it it

is obligatory.

Here, there's something that we want to point

out as we finish, Insha'Allah,

and that it would perhaps be better if

he said,

because wujub means obligation,

but he said that in the order because

the order is tidayu

al talab al fa'il

Right? That that the commands are requesting something

be done,

and so he has to say

over there

to

take out the sunnah and the recommended.

Here, when he's talking about the Haram, this

is an

absolute command,

not to do something.

The lesser degree of haram is what?

So if he says,

it doesn't quite capture the same meaning as

if he said,

Why? Because when he says

Turk

all this is taking out so many things

it's taken out the wajib

it's taken out the mandub

Khalas is taken out the muba

the

is now Makru is gone. The only thing

left out of the 5 rulings in our

mind is alhurma,

aw,

tahrim,

or as we say here, a nahyu.

So what is a nahyu? It's going to

be a text

that implies

a nonnegotiable

command for us to leave something.

And that leaving, there are 2 opinions about

what that means, and we'll talk about that

as well as a few other issues related

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