Suhaib Webb – Usul alFiqh Lesson ThirtyThree The Definitive Texts

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The speaker discusses the use of the term "arre" in the Islamic language to describe actions and events. They explain that the meaning of "naaus" is its revelation and that "naaus" is not a mustar. The speaker also discusses the use of "naaus" in the Islamic language to describe actions and events, and how it is not allowed to be interpretation.

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			Welcome back to our explanation of the war
		
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			cut
		
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			of Imabul Juwani. We've been talking about Al
		
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			Mujmal 1 Mubayyah. Right? Mujmal, the ambiguous. We
		
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			talked about what that is, the causes of
		
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			it. There's no need to go into it
		
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			again, but the idea of being mixed and
		
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			being abundant like Al Jumlah, a sentence. And
		
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			the Quran, those disbelievers say, why isn't the
		
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			Quran said,
		
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			like all at once, everything together all at
		
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			once.
		
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			Well, Mubayin is the thing that clarifies
		
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			the. There's a great axiom. You are not
		
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			allowed to use a for evidence. Why? Because
		
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			that there's a great axiom
		
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			to
		
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			to expect people to be obligated to do
		
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			something that's impossible
		
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			beyond their their their ability, that's impossible for
		
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			us to believe about the Sharia.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			So to ask someone to do something which
		
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			is beyond their capacity
		
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			is impossible for us to imagine in the
		
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			Sharia.
		
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			So asking someone to act on a would
		
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			be
		
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			because it's not clear.
		
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			The job of the prophet
		
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			is to clarify the Mujmal
		
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			in the Quran.
		
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			Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. That's why Imam Shafi calls
		
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			it a bayan and in a risala.
		
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			So
		
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			he says
		
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			Right? That the ambiguous text is the one
		
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			that that is in need of clarification.
		
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			He gives the example
		
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			and so that a a divorced woman should
		
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			wait 3.
		
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			The word
		
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			write this down. In the future, we're gonna
		
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			go through this in detail.
		
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			It's called
		
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			from the same word as shirk
		
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			to associate partners with God, but here
		
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			means that a word has a number of
		
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			meanings associated
		
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			with it. Those meanings could even be opposites.
		
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			So
		
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			he
		
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			says
		
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			says this in in his explanation
		
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			that it carries the meaning of purification administration.
		
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			These are opposites.
		
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			In one word,
		
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			both meanings are shared in that word. That's
		
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			why it's called.
		
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			It's very important. Then it actually says,
		
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			And
		
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			he explains it. He said,
		
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			and this is called because
		
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			of the association
		
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			of purification,
		
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			administration to the world.
		
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			SubhanAllah.
		
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			So he says, well, well, well, well, well,
		
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			well,
		
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			to take something.
		
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			Just take something from a state of ambiguity
		
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			and confusion
		
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			to clarity
		
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			and
		
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			uh-uh
		
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			uh-uh
		
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			obviousness.
		
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			So you take it from the state of
		
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			being confusing and ambiguous
		
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			to a state of apparent
		
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			and
		
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			clear.
		
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			That's Al Bayan.
		
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			And it gives the example
		
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			from
		
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			means to make something.
		
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			To make it clear.
		
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			1 Mubayin. So then he moves from talking
		
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			about al Mujmal
		
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			to defining al Bayan to talking about Allahaf
		
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			al Mubayin.
		
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			Allahu Akbar. Man, this is very important.
		
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			The word
		
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			has two meanings in the Arabic language outside
		
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			of our
		
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			scientific study. The first is
		
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			clarity
		
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			to
		
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			be raised. That's why I heard from one
		
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			of my teachers years ago,
		
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			the the of the Jebel,
		
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			the the the peaks of a mountain. Why?
		
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			Because they're raised and they're clear. So the
		
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			word in Arabic language, it
		
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			means
		
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			any to be clear and to be high.
		
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			That's why we say I think last time
		
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			I said, actually, it's with I made a
		
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			mistake. That the, the the chair that a
		
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			couple sits on when they get married is
		
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			called.
		
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			Menesah.
		
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			There's there's a critique of this usage, by
		
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			the way, because
		
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			it's it's not a mustar.
		
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			It's not something we need to even we
		
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			don't need to talk about it now, but
		
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			in the future we'll get into it.
		
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			But the idea is that the meaning,
		
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			the meaning is clarity and to be high,
		
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			to be raised.
		
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			So the sheikh, he says,
		
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			what is
		
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			He
		
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			says
		
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			and here mat means
		
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			It is a phrase or a word
		
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			which
		
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			could also potentially be an action of the
		
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			prophet will talk about in the future. I'm
		
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			just saying words not to make it easy
		
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			for you,
		
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			but keep that
		
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			in
		
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			mind.
		
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			That only carries one meaning.
		
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			Meaning, it is immutable.
		
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			Its meaning is definitive.
		
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			It's not open for HD head. It's not
		
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			open for Tetwee.
		
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			Tetwee know who Tanzi do who.
		
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			It's that wheel is how it was revealed.
		
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			I I actually made this for students to
		
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			rhyme. It's that wheel, it's interpretation.
		
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			It's that wheel is how it was revealed.
		
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			Remember that.
		
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			So he says
		
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			Now he gives the all sort of definition
		
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			of noss,
		
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			which is a phrase
		
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			what does not
		
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			carry except
		
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			one meaning. Ishjaraq
		
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			said 2 or more meanings.
		
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			So if you think about this,
		
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			the is gonna be the the
		
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			is gonna be the
		
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			and so on and so forth. And we're
		
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			gonna go through all 8 of those in
		
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			the future. So you have it locked in,
		
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			and it's very clear for you.
		
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			He says,
		
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			and we all know who knew who that
		
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			Zade was.
		
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			Not a different Zade, not another Zade. No.
		
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			That particular Zade, we know who that Zade
		
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			is. That's
		
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			not. Here he's usually in the language.
		
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			I want to talk to you before we
		
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			get into this war
		
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			that within the Islamic
		
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			academic
		
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			canon or tradition, the word Nelson is used
		
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			in 3 ways.
		
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			First two
		
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			are sort of something that you should know
		
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			and the third one is what we wanna
		
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			focus on in Usuri studies. So the first
		
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			is a nus
		
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			is
		
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			a love
		
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			anything from the book in sunnah is called
		
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			nus
		
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			doesn't mean what we're understanding here.
		
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			The second is
		
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			The opinion
		
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			of 1 of the imams on a ruling,
		
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			we say
		
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			it's called nos.
		
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			The 3rd
		
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			usage of the word nos within the Islamic
		
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			sort of academic canon is
		
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			is what
		
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			directs us to a meaning which is definitive.
		
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			It's not open for interpretation.
		
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			It's not open for ishtia.
		
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			Sheikh Mohammed Al Hassan did do.
		
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			He said that the number of nos from
		
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			the Quran and Sunnah total are like 7%.
		
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			Shows you the ports of
		
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			shows you the importance of engaging the academic
		
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			tradition
		
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			in a very aggressive way,
		
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			a way that's motivated but should be rooted.
		
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			But the point is that's what we're concerned
		
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			with here.
		
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			That which directs to a definitive meaning, an
		
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			immutable meeting.
		
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			What is the rooting for acting on a
		
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			nurse
		
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			if it's agreed upon?
		
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			Sheikh, doctor Mahmoud Abdulhaman Abdulman, and he says,
		
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			it's obligatory to act on it.
		
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			And it's not allowed to
		
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			leave it.
		
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			Sharayin accepts whether Sharia approved
		
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			evidence
		
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			or permission.
		
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			And that last part I added for clarity.
		
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			So the sheikh,
		
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			he says, who said earlier, it is said
		
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			that Naus is its interpretation
		
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			is its revelation.
		
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			AM. Then example he gave from the Quran
		
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			and let them fast 3 days. 3 is
		
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			33 is not.
		
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			That's what Imam Ibda Hajjabi says in his
		
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			about
		
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			that's what was taught to us at the
		
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			as hard as.
		
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			We
		
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			does not accept interpretation. We're gonna talk about
		
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			interpretation in the future because it's so important,
		
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			especially in the west when interpretations have gone
		
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			wild.
		
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			Because on its own
		
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			as it was sent, it's understood.
		
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			The word
		
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			is mushtaq. And this is where Imam Haramis,
		
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			people criticise him because they said this is
		
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			is is more that
		
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			for the end user is to *
		
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			is to
		
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			* minha. I can't I'm
		
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			it's not our our time to talk about
		
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			it. It's not the must start basically. Well,
		
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			who I was stuck on men men,
		
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			not salty, and a rosy, well, who will
		
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			Corsi.
		
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			And now he goes back to the meaning
		
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			of what is
		
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			because it is raised amongst above it sticks
		
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			out
		
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			in its implications and its meanings above other
		
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			texts.
		
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			In its understanding
		
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			without having to think about it. You have
		
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			to think about it. So we'll stop here.
		
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			We're going to talk some more about
		
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			next time.