Denial in Matters of Scholarly Disagreement
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Question:
The questioner asks: Is it correct to say that there is no denial in matters of scholarly disagreement, or that there is no enjoining good and forbidding evil in them by the consensus of the scholars? Please give us a ruling, and may Allah reward you.
Answer:
Matters of scholarly disagreement refer to those in which disagreement is permissible, namely the secondary issues of Islamic jurisprudence. There is no denial among the scholars who engage in independent legal reasoning in these matters. However, as for the pretender to knowledge, the one with a limited perspective, and the one who forms an opinion on his own and says, "This is a matter of disagreement, and there is no denial in independent legal reasoning; this is my independent legal reasoning," you are not among the people of independent legal reasoning, and your words have no standing. They are not to be equated with the statements of the scholars who engage in independent legal reasoning. This has its own rules and regulations. We do not say that there is no denial in every matter of disagreement. Disagreement is of different types: some is permissible and some is not; some is from the people of knowledge and some is from the ignorant. The disagreement of the ignorant has no value. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
The questioner asks: Is it correct to say that there is no denial in matters of scholarly disagreement, or that there is no enjoining good and forbidding evil in them by the consensus of the scholars? Please give us a ruling, and may Allah reward you.
Answer:
Matters of scholarly disagreement refer to those in which disagreement is permissible, namely the secondary issues of Islamic jurisprudence. There is no denial among the scholars who engage in independent legal reasoning in these matters. However, as for the pretender to knowledge, the one with a limited perspective, and the one who forms an opinion on his own and says, "This is a matter of disagreement, and there is no denial in independent legal reasoning; this is my independent legal reasoning," you are not among the people of independent legal reasoning, and your words have no standing. They are not to be equated with the statements of the scholars who engage in independent legal reasoning. This has its own rules and regulations. We do not say that there is no denial in every matter of disagreement. Disagreement is of different types: some is permissible and some is not; some is from the people of knowledge and some is from the ignorant. The disagreement of the ignorant has no value. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-51-منهج أئمة الدعوة في مسائل التكفير والخروج|صالح الفوزان|العام — youtube.com (1:16:16)
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