Analogy of the prohibition of the lawful to the permissibility of the unlawful
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Question:
Good. Is the prohibition of what is lawful measured by the permissibility of what is forbidden, or is it one of the two?
Answer:
What is forbidden? What is forbidden is that which Allah the Exalted has forbidden, not what people have forbidden. The discussion is about what is lawful that people forbid, whereas what is forbidden is forbidden by Allah the Exalted. Yes.
Good. Is the prohibition of what is lawful measured by the permissibility of what is forbidden, or is it one of the two?
Answer:
What is forbidden? What is forbidden is that which Allah the Exalted has forbidden, not what people have forbidden. The discussion is about what is lawful that people forbid, whereas what is forbidden is forbidden by Allah the Exalted. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 25 — youtube.com (46:14)
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