The Ruling on the Means and the Criterion for Declaring Something Permissible
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The questioner:
Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: The Jews declared permissible what Allah has forbidden by means of an action, which is that they rounded off the fats. Does declaring something permissible sometimes occur by means of an action? And what is the criterion for declaring something permissible?
The Shaykh:
Rounding off is a means; it is not the intended end. It is a means to transform and crush it, and the means has the ruling of the end.
The questioner:
And what is the criterion for declaring something permissible?
The Shaykh:
Declaring something permissible, making it permissible, is the same as declaring it lawful. Yes.
Your Eminence, father. The questioner says: The Jews declared permissible what Allah has forbidden by means of an action, which is that they rounded off the fats. Does declaring something permissible sometimes occur by means of an action? And what is the criterion for declaring something permissible?
The Shaykh:
Rounding off is a means; it is not the intended end. It is a means to transform and crush it, and the means has the ruling of the end.
The questioner:
And what is the criterion for declaring something permissible?
The Shaykh:
Declaring something permissible, making it permissible, is the same as declaring it lawful. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 3 من 3/عمدة الأحكام/كتاب الأشربة/بلغ عمر أن فلاناً باع خمراً/الشيخ صالح الفوزان/مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (4:46)
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