The ruling on slaughtering to please an opponent or by the judge's decree
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on one who slaughters in order to please an opponent with whom he has had problems, and then some people rule on that matter? The judge might be a qadi, and in some countries they call him the 'aqeed. Does this count as shirk (associating partners with Allah) or...
Answer:
This is bid'ah (religious innovation). This is bid'ah and inventing something that Allah and His Messenger did not legislate. Slaughtering for the sake of a dispute, or to please an opponent, or because it is a tribal custom, is from the matters of the jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic age of ignorance) and is not permissible. I do not think a judge of a prophet would rule this way, nor would a judge of the Shari'ah rule this way. As for a judge of a taghut (tyranny), he might rule this way. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, what is the ruling on one who slaughters in order to please an opponent with whom he has had problems, and then some people rule on that matter? The judge might be a qadi, and in some countries they call him the 'aqeed. Does this count as shirk (associating partners with Allah) or...
Answer:
This is bid'ah (religious innovation). This is bid'ah and inventing something that Allah and His Messenger did not legislate. Slaughtering for the sake of a dispute, or to please an opponent, or because it is a tribal custom, is from the matters of the jahiliyyah (the pre-Islamic age of ignorance) and is not permissible. I do not think a judge of a prophet would rule this way, nor would a judge of the Shari'ah rule this way. As for a judge of a taghut (tyranny), he might rule this way. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/61 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:09:51)
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