What is the answer to the one who says: Is studying fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) according to the followed schools of jurisprudence a cause for fanaticism toward them?
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Recently, among some jurists and students of knowledge, a view has spread regarding the schools of jurisprudence, holding that they are a cause for legal stagnation, and that studying fiqh according to these schools is not permissible. It is said that fiqh must be taken directly from the Book and the Sunnah, and not from those texts. So what is your guidance, may Allah grant you success?
Answer:
This speaker is not free from one of two states: either he is malicious and misguided, wanting to divert people from knowledge. He goes to the Book and the Sunnah, but he has not learned anything; he does not know how to derive evidence, he has not mastered the rules of derivation, and he has not gone through the words of the scholars of knowledge. He goes on, his mind is empty, he knows nothing, and he tries to derive rulings. He remains, and the people remain.
So this man is either misguided and wants to mislead people, diverting them from knowledge and the straight path, or he is a compound ignoramus who does not know. His words are not taken; the words of such a person are not considered. His words are idle talk, considered among idle talk.[Al-Qasas 28:55] Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Recently, among some jurists and students of knowledge, a view has spread regarding the schools of jurisprudence, holding that they are a cause for legal stagnation, and that studying fiqh according to these schools is not permissible. It is said that fiqh must be taken directly from the Book and the Sunnah, and not from those texts. So what is your guidance, may Allah grant you success?
Answer:
This speaker is not free from one of two states: either he is malicious and misguided, wanting to divert people from knowledge. He goes to the Book and the Sunnah, but he has not learned anything; he does not know how to derive evidence, he has not mastered the rules of derivation, and he has not gone through the words of the scholars of knowledge. He goes on, his mind is empty, he knows nothing, and he tries to derive rulings. He remains, and the people remain.
So this man is either misguided and wants to mislead people, diverting them from knowledge and the straight path, or he is a compound ignoramus who does not know. His words are not taken; the words of such a person are not considered. His words are idle talk, considered among idle talk.
And when they hear ill speech, they turn away from it and say, "For us are our deeds, and for you are your deeds
وَإِذَا سَمِعُوا اللَّغْوَ أَعْرَضُوا عَنْهُ وَقَالُوا لَنَا أَعْمَالُنَا وَلَكُمْ أَعْمَالُكُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [6 -2802] ما الجواب على من يقول: إن دراسة الفقه على المذاهب المتبوعة مدعاةٌ إلى التعصب إليها؟ — youtube.com
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