Suhaib Webb – What is Usul alFiqh
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Ideas around the subject of o sol lofirk.
What is the difference between firk and o
sol lofirk?
Is that firk is meant to teach us
the type of ruling.
Is it Haram?
Is it obligation?
Is it disliked?
Usul Il Filk teaches us the kinds of
rulings,
the processes of the rulings,
how we understand the ingredients
of the ruling. So I like to say
that is the is the match
and
is the referee.
Is the graphics.
Is the graphics card.
In the book that we're gonna use is
a book, you can
see there's notes in here from years ago.
This is over 10 years ago.
Subhan Allah with one of our teachers is
a book called
means a few pieces of paper.
It's called Jam Okillah.
Of the
5th century imam
and scholar imam,
aljuwayni,
Rahim
Known as Imam Al Haramain.
Sheikh Al Islam. And
Sayidna Imam Al Haramain, he dies around, like,
472.
And he was the sheikh of Imam al
Ghazali.
And Imam al Haramain,
he was known as al Imam al Haramain
because for a period in his life, he
traveled between the 2 harams,
Haram Meqi and Haram Madani. He would teach
the people.
He would teach to people. Masha'Allah.
Masha'Allah.
So let's start this journey
in this important subject.
It's gonna help you a lot because
helps us to quell the immature differences sometimes
that exist amongst the community, praying 8 raka'at,
praying 20 raka'at,
allow us to limit the scope of takfir.
You know, we find people declaring other people
as kufar,
like, so easily. What what are some of
the limitations we take even from?
They're going to help you also interpret fatwa
to make sure when you're reading a fatwa
that it's it's it's been properly sourced, properly
written,
improperly,
constructed.
And most importantly, it's
gonna increase your respect and love for the
great efforts of the ulema.
And and and, really, the,
the
that they engaged in when they they taught
this important subject, Alhamdulillah.
So, inshallah, we're going to start. The Sheikh,
he says,
after Bismillah
course, this is like humility and also it's
meant to ease the concerns and fears of
the student. Right.
And, also, it's it's meant to say, like,
you know, this is an introductory text.
What's called
like in the Quran.
Because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he doesn't want
the people to be scared when fasting starts.
Like, oh my gosh fasting,
just a few days, man.
Don't worry about it. So
You know, these are just like a a
few pieces of paper
that address
the knowledge of. He says,
another another text says,
which
contain
some some
discussions,
you know, fossil is what divides something. Right?
Divider but here means, you know, like issues
certain issues related to the subject of
related to the science of
and
now what he's going to do
is he's going to
define
and, traditionally, there were two ways to do
this.
One was to define it by addressing each
word in the compound word structure.
This was a way of the early ulama.
But later on, as became
a science and a practice,
right, the legal
philosophy of Islam,
it took on its own,
if you will, scholastic or scientific definition.
So So the first is called Tarif Ibbafi.
The second is called Tarif Lakabi.
So, you know, nobody says now, like, surf,
board, and they break down like surf and
board. Well, we understand both words to be
the under and stand. What does under mean?
What does stand mean? Now we know what
the word means.
Microbiology,
micro and we understand what the word means.
Corporate law
so something very similar.
So since the sheikh is from one of
the earlier earlier giants in Osolofilk,
he observes the the what's called Tarif Ildafi.
He says,
Said the word
You Allah.
I'm gonna make my job is to make
this as simple as possible in this in
this
portion of our journey. What it means is
that it's a compound word
and we're going to identify each mufrad,
each word. Mufrad means the work can stand
on its own. It has its own meaning.
So Asul,
Usul, Firk. Both of these words have their
own meaning.
So we're gonna do this now by defining
each word, a tarif, lakabi, idafi that I
talked about