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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Requesting the application of inheritance law on the blackboard

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. May Allah have mercy on the students of knowledge who have passed away, who used to receive the knowledge of inheritance through oral transmission. They used to receive the knowledge of inheritance through dictation. But in our time, the blackboard and explanation on it are necessary. So we ask you to apply it on the blackboard by bringing out one of the students to write and explain, Honorable Shaykh.

Answer:
We are not studying inheritance law now; we are studying fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence). We are studying fiqh, not inheritance law. If we were studying inheritance law, it would be possible, but lowering the mosque to its blackboards is a sign of your dullness. You do not know anything except through the blackboard. This is dullness. Just as the students know this without a blackboard. They did not know blackboards at first. In fact, our Shaykh, Shaykh al-Shanqiti (may Allah have mercy on him), hated the blackboard very much. He said it is because it is part of the Western system, and he did not like to see it. Because they did not learn with blackboards. When blackboards came, dullness occurred, minds became sluggish, and it became necessary to have a blackboard, a computer, and so on. I do not know what. It means there are no ideas now. If these things were lost, they would have nothing. And there is no blackboard, no computer, and no pen to write with. It means this knowledge is lost. It is obligatory for a person to seek help from Allah and rely on his memory, and not to replace himself with these things and look to them, because they disable him. This is one of the luxuries they call intellectual luxury. Does a person have to have a machine, or else he does nothing?
No, a person should make an effort, even if there is hardship, or even if it is difficult for him at first until he practices.
Source شرح زاد المستقنع [65] — alfawzan.live (58:14)

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