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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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What is the difference between fard and wajib?

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Question:
Yes. The difference between fard and wajib?

Answer:
Or, according to the majority, there is no difference between them in my view; fard and wajib are one and the same, referring to what is binding. Prayer is called fard and it is called wajib. Likewise, fasting in Ramadan, and giving zakat when one is able, is called fard and it is called wajib. It is called obligatory. All of this means the same thing according to the majority of scholars. Some scholars said that fard is what has stronger and better evidence, while wajib is what has less evidence.
It is called wajib, which is stronger in their view than fard. The correct view is that there is no difference between wajib and fard in this regard. Everything that is fard is called wajib, and everything that is wajib is called fard, and it is called binding. A pillar is one whose doer is rewarded and whose deliberate abandoner is punished. The one who deliberately abandons a wajib or a fard is punished, and it is recommended to reward the one who performs it. As for the mustahabb, which is neither wajib nor fard, its doer is rewarded and its abandoner is not punished. The pillar and the wajib are one and the same; the pillar is the wajib, which is the fard. However, in the terminology of some jurists, a pillar is stronger than a wajib. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 06 ما الفرق بين الفرض والواجب؟ للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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