The default ruling for matters for which no explicit text has been revealed
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The questioner:
Allah is the Greatest. Are matters for which no explicit text has come down permissible?
The Shaykh:
The default is permissibility. This is an explicit text, one that denies the text:[Al-Baqarah 2:29], unless a text is found that prohibits us. The default is permissibility. He made known to you the lawful and the forbidden. There is nothing wrong with anything. Yes.
The questioner:
This hadith does not contain a narration about matters; it says "doubtful matters," that there are doubtful matters between them.
The Shaykh:
As for the witness, or the doubt, or the subject of the doubt, the meaning is the same, praise be to Allah.
Allah is the Greatest. Are matters for which no explicit text has come down permissible?
The Shaykh:
The default is permissibility. This is an explicit text, one that denies the text:
It is He who created for you all of that which is on the earth
هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ لَكُم مَّا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًاThe questioner:
This hadith does not contain a narration about matters; it says "doubtful matters," that there are doubtful matters between them.
The Shaykh:
As for the witness, or the doubt, or the subject of the doubt, the meaning is the same, praise be to Allah.
Source
لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء مع الشيخ ابن باز - ٢٩-٧-١٤١٧ هـ — archive.org (1:05)
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