Suhaib Webb – Usul alFiqh Lesson ThirtyOne Axioms Related to Bayyan
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Muhammad
Welcome back to our explanation of the Warapat,
and we're talking about
ambiguity and the clarifiers. Now we want to
talk about a few axioms that should really
help animate our minds
as we try to understand the application of
those two principles. And as I mentioned previously,
especially those people involved in dawah, those people
involved in calling to
Allah, those people who are involved in sharing
content and so on and so forth.
These these these steps are important to ensure
that our dawah is compliant,
with Islam. Results don't necessarily mean it's done
right, but Allah is merciful.
I don't want you to overthink it, but
definitely.
So the first axiom is
related to Al Bayan,
right? The clarification or the clarifier.
Is it allowed for us to imagine that
the clarification
could be delayed
after
the revelation.
So something is sent in revelation that needs
to be clarified. Is it gonna be clarified
immediately
in the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam or could that be delayed till later
date? And that's very important as we think
about the application
of teaching people and engaging people and helping
people reach moments of clarity.
Okay.
So the sheikh, he says, tahiru
tahir
to
delay something.
You know the word, the hereafter.
So the the delaying
of the clarification
at the moment of
revelation,
right? The moment that the kitab comes from
Allah
Well, you Jews will take Khirub Bayan and
walk till Khitab, you mutlaqal.
Say the Mona nasheikh is not Imam Al
Haramain. This is outside of the book of
Imam Al Haramain. Okay? So we're just adding
to some
things to help you, alhamdulillah, and to build
for greater discussions in the future.
So he says,
and
here means without restriction.
So he says it is allowed for that
to happen
in all situations,
all circumstances that could have happened.
That is the position
of Adi Sunnah.
There are some, and you may find this
as some books that attribute the
that this is not allowed according to the
Mu'tazilites.
It's it's impossible.
That would never be understood. However,
you have to be very careful
that what is attributed to the actually
said.
Sometimes it's not necessarily a,
a robust investigation.
For example, Taqin and Takbih
will talk about it in the future. They
really say what people say they said on
that issue, or was it some of them
or a few of them or this what
was the actual position of that that school?
So
here the majority,
including the Mu'tazilites,
they say it's this is possible. Why it's
in Quran? Allah
says in Surat
Surah Al Qiyamah
verse number 19 Thumma Inna Alayna Bayana Thumma
means thereafter
like torahi,
a delay
It's different than fat fat means immediately. Thumma
means like some time past.
So it implies a delay. So the verse
of Quran says thumma inna then there upon
us Bayana e Bayan o Quran.
So the Bayan came comes later. So that's
the evidence for
As well as certain actions of the Prophet
Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam. Why? Because in the Sharia there's
something called a tadaruj.
There's this, a process,
the, the, the idea of emergent
religious growth.
People grow into this. So we see now
on TikTok and other places, new Muslim to
get in a lot of, of static from
people who maybe even like not Muslims
that are trying to put so much on
their plate that is breaking them.
So these people obviously aren't aware of
We'll talk about the other application of this
in a minute, but but but what we
learned from the the the jililwahi,
the
the the generation that received revelation,
is that not every things were sent but
then later on it was clarified.
Fasting has been prescribed for you
the comes later on.
So,
the idea here is that we learn that
in the the the the method
of legislation and the method of communication
and building people to moments of clarity,
sometimes there is this process
that can be taken into account.
Also from the life of the prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallamah
you know the hummus due to Allah the
hummus due to Allah and his messenger found
a * alfal.
Right? He said the
family who, who are those nearest of kin?
The prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam later on he
clarifies, it's
Abdul Mutareb Bani Hashim
not Bani Umaima,
excuse me, not Bani Nofa, not those people.
It's it's the family of
Al Mutalabi and Hashimi that came later on
and numerous other,
narrations that we could we could give as
an example.
So the principle here is that
that the moment the revel- revelation is sit,
the clarification could come later, what it means.
Right? And we said we learned from this
as we're gonna talk about in this next
axiom, the idea of like, how do we
teach people? How do we build people? How
do we engage them over time?
Because the goal is to, to have someone,
alhamdulillah, establishing Islam
in their lives.
And so there's, there's a second axiom now
that comes from this and it says,
that the Prophet
could actually hold back teaching people certain things
at the moment it sent until there is
a need for it.
Because he says,
it makes much more sense because the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam, there are things that were
sent to him
that he knew about
that had not there was no need for
the people to know about them yet, but
he knew about them. So he waited until
there was an Eden, then he taught them
You will find these examples detailed in some
of the books of of,
of the the the application of Usul
Now I just want you to have this
idea in your mind.
Of course, you don't wanna run there's principles
for this, right?
You gotta be very careful. But what we're
taking from this is that the Sharia is
a process. And this goes against also like
the Islamophobes
and some of the crazy people, right? Everything
just has to happen right now.
Step by step
build the people to a moment of clarity
so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam to shit
he says something beautiful.
He says
because the first one we said, like,
there was a need in this situation. There's
actually no need yet. So if there's no
need, then obviously it will be allowed to
wait until the people are ready. Like the
famous hadith of Saydah Abi,
when the when he more or less I'm
going to paraphrase,
you know, when the prophet said whoever says
the shahada goes to Jannah, then he said
like even if even if he stole, even
if he committed Zina, even if he did
egregious crimes and the prophet said, yes, yes,
yes. He said, I'm going to go. He
said, but don't tell the people, don't tell
the people because it will make them lazy.
The same similar hadith, the hadith of saying
them, you know,
he told them Allah will not punish them,
but but don't tell the people yet. They're
not ready for it yet.
So the the idea of mura'at al imam
we have a great axiom
that's the idea of the imam, the teacher,
the ustad, the sheikh, the murabbi
looking out for the had, the ahuwal of
the people
and then engaging them in that way engaging
in engaging them in that way.
Khalas.
Then he says,
That's what we talked about earlier,
that it it within this idea of it,
of it being
delayed to the the point that it's needed.
Right? Because that's where we don't accept it.
And the waqtatahathub?
Yes.
Okay. The moment that it was sent is
possible.
That could come later on. A clarification could
come later.
In relationship to the prophet sallallahu alayhi salamah
ila waktil Hajjah
until the moment it's needed.
Till the, what does it mean by needed?
People need to know it to go to
Jannah. People need to know it, right? Because
of their situation.
So we have another axiom.
The opposite is not allowed for us to
believe that Allah or the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, would delay clarifying something if there
was a need for it. So keep in
mind, these these axioms that we're talking about
now, the need isn't there yet. People aren't
there yet.
So he says
is steps. Right? For
means, like, a process,
the process of of clarity.
So building people to that moment of clarity.
Out of all the different opinions,
the strong opinion is it's allowed. It's acceptable.
Because Allah says
fight the mushrikeen.
Then later on the prophet
clarifies who are the mushrikeen? Who are those
you're supposed to fight? So he mentions who
you're not allowed to fight the old people,
women,
children,
people, you know, like priests and so on
and so forth. These are exempt. So the
exemptions come later.
So the prophet and and he actually said
these in different moments at different times. So
the idea
is like this process of it happened.
Next time
the next few lessons are some of the
most important lessons we can take in the
subject of the book.
So I really hope that those of you
who have been following will pay attention
because there is a lot
to be shared there, but let's quickly review
what we've talked about. We talked about Al
Mujmal
Al Mubayin. Al Mujmal. We talked about what
it means.
Okay.
What it's, it's, it's evidence, it's significance, it's
meaning isn't clear.
Al Mubayin, we said
3 different kinds of meanings for it. We
don't wanna get caught up in that now,
but the strong, you know, opinion that we
gave was
says there's nothing wrong with what he said,
Right? That taking something from a place of
being ambiguous, crowded, talked about, to a place
of clarity.
And then we talked about some of the
reasons for both. And then we talked about
some of the axioms.
Don't come to definitive conclusions on the axioms
that I'm presenting to you now.
I'm just I just want to open a
window for you so you can know like
later on. Okay. These are the messa' and
these are the issues that are going to
come later. My my purpose in this course
is not for you to stay in the
warahat. The warahat is, is a very simple
text. It's somewhat complex,
has a lot of blessings, but is by
no means
the sort of, like, the standard, if you
will, in the sense of taking you to
the intermediate into the greater books. It's just
it's like ajormia is to Arabic.
It's a good look like to have to
fall to Tajweed. Like they're important. They help
you. They give you sort of the soul.
But my hope is, especially for the English
speaking people
and serious students, that we go beyond this.
So I'm opening up sort of a window
to you to see sort of what's beyond
the warahat.