The Concept of Ihtisab
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Question:
Would you please clarify for us the concept of ihtisab? And for example, if a man comes to work on a voluntary basis outside of his regular working hours, is that called ihtisab?
Answer:
The original term for it is enjoining good and forbidding evil. However, the jurists called it al-muhasabah (accountability) and al-hisbah (supervision); otherwise, in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, the speech of the scholars is enjoining good and forbidding evil. There is no doubt that this is the meaning, and the original term is enjoining good and forbidding evil. But calling it al-muhasabah is a technical term, a technical legal term. Yes.
Would you please clarify for us the concept of ihtisab? And for example, if a man comes to work on a voluntary basis outside of his regular working hours, is that called ihtisab?
Answer:
The original term for it is enjoining good and forbidding evil. However, the jurists called it al-muhasabah (accountability) and al-hisbah (supervision); otherwise, in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, the speech of the scholars is enjoining good and forbidding evil. There is no doubt that this is the meaning, and the original term is enjoining good and forbidding evil. But calling it al-muhasabah is a technical term, a technical legal term. Yes.
Source
75-لقاءات مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 12- — archive.org (38:32)
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