The ruling on the consensus of scholars in the Kingdom on specific issues

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah preserve you. If the consensus is the consensus of the scholars of the current era on a religious matter, for example, some of the fatwas issued under the banner of the Kingdom’s consensus, such as types of insurance and organ transplantation, may be gathered under the ruling of permissibility. And when I asked one of the scholars, he said this is forbidden, and this is not permissible. If the fatwa is issued, which of the two is...

Answer:
You are the one who is mistaken. You do not have [evidence] for the permissibility of insurance; insurance is forbidden, so they equated it with prohibition. Likewise, regarding organ transplantation, they did not reach a consensus; they only issued rulings on specific issues. Is it organ transplantation in general, in every case? This is what is called consensus. Even if the Council of Ifta’ issues a fatwa, it is not called consensus, but rather it is called the opinion of the scholars of the country. As for consensus, it is necessary that all the scholars of the Muslims agree on this matter.