Clearing One's Conscience Before Allah and Adopting the Most Cautious Position
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Question:
This person asks how one clears his conscience before Allah, or before Allah, when there is more than one fatwa? And does a person base this on his personal ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), or does he adopt the most cautious position?
Answer:
You have heard the statement on this. If a person is knowledgeable and knows the evidence, he takes from the opinions that which has evidence from the Book and the Sunnah. If he is not knowledgeable, being a layperson or a beginner, he asks the scholars of knowledge which of these opinions is the correct one? He then follows it, following what the scholar he asks gives him as a fatwa. Yes.
This person asks how one clears his conscience before Allah, or before Allah, when there is more than one fatwa? And does a person base this on his personal ijtihad (independent legal reasoning), or does he adopt the most cautious position?
Answer:
You have heard the statement on this. If a person is knowledgeable and knows the evidence, he takes from the opinions that which has evidence from the Book and the Sunnah. If he is not knowledgeable, being a layperson or a beginner, he asks the scholars of knowledge which of these opinions is the correct one? He then follows it, following what the scholar he asks gives him as a fatwa. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-06-الاعتصام بالكتاب والسنة|صالح الفوزان|العام|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (42:28)
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