Combining the Pillars of Faith and Its Branches
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, another questioner from Yemen says: How do we reconcile the fact that faith is belief in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and the divine decree, its good and its evil, with the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that faith has seventy-odd branches? The hadith.
Answer:
Yes, faith has many branches, seventy-odd branches, or sixty-odd branches, according to the differences in the narrations. These are called the characteristics of faith. They are the completion of faith. As for the six pillars of faith, they are obligatory. As for these, they are called the branches of faith; a person takes from them what he is able to, in order to complete his religion with its obligatory acts and recommended practices. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Your Excellency the Shaykh, another questioner from Yemen says: How do we reconcile the fact that faith is belief in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the Last Day, and the divine decree, its good and its evil, with the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that faith has seventy-odd branches? The hadith.
Answer:
Yes, faith has many branches, seventy-odd branches, or sixty-odd branches, according to the differences in the narrations. These are called the characteristics of faith. They are the completion of faith. As for the six pillars of faith, they are obligatory. As for these, they are called the branches of faith; a person takes from them what he is able to, in order to complete his religion with its obligatory acts and recommended practices. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (203) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1441-04-22] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (10:21)
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