Do we act according to the generality of the evidence or its specificity?

The questioner : Or is it necessary to specify?

The Shaykh : No, not by the generality of every text; this is the principle.

The questioner : No one is certain.

The Shaykh : How is it possible? How is it possible?

The questioner : If so, I do not innovate in the mosque; I do not sit until I pray two rak'ahs. Is this specific to the greeting prayer, or for the entire duration? Correct. There is no prayer during 'Asr; this is general for the time.

The Shaykh : In the greeting prayer.

The questioner : And your state of major ritual impurity is not affected.

The Shaykh : No, no, it is possible, but this was found to be the stronger position in the issue of prayer during the prohibited times. The stronger position is that the generality of the prohibition has been subjected to specification in several places. When a general text is subjected to specification, its generality is weakened, to the extent that some of them say that if it is specified, the indication of its generality is invalidated.

The questioner : No major ritual impurity occurred in this year.

The Shaykh : Its basis is the stronger position, meaning the stronger position. But if we assume there is no stronger position, we act according to the generality of the two texts. For this reason, Ibn 'Abbas and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib acted according to this verse regarding the waiting period of a woman whose husband died; they acted according to the longest period.