Suhaib Webb – What is a fatwa (part one)
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The speaker thanks everyone for subscribing and engaging and introduces a new topic, the fatwa, which is to clarify a ruling and to make something which was either obscured or transitional. The fatwa is important when there is an issue which is obscured, ambiguous, or not clear and the speaker will discuss it in their next discussion.
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Myself, I want to thank all of you
guys for subscribing and engaging. Before we get
started, let's frame sort of what is a
fatwa.
A fatwa. The word fatwa is a word
which means to make something which was ambiguous
or obscured clear.
It is to clarify a ruling.
That's why linguistically
a emergent adult who's just reached the ends
of puberty
is called fitiyeh. Because now we understand.
Because now we pretty much know
what they look like and who they're probably
gonna be.
So the job of the mufthi then is
to give a fatwa, and this is very
important
when there is something which is obscured,
ambiguous, or not clear.
And what's not clear here is what is
the hokum,
what is the guidance of sharia
on an issue? I'll talk about that in
our next discussion, but I just wanted to
frame it first of all that a fatwa
is to clarify a ruling
whose reality is obscured, ambiguous, or unknown.