The Ruling on the Permissibility of Sea Carrion and the Rulings Concerning Seawater
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Question:
There remain questions for Your Eminence the Shaykh regarding this, and that is: What is the wisdom behind the permissibility of sea carrion?
Answer:
Allah knows best. It is obligatory for us to accept the rulings that have come from Allah, and praise be to Allah, even if we do not know the wisdom. Our Lord is Wise and All-Knowing in everything He legislates and decrees, Glorified and Exalted is He. So when He has permitted us the food of the sea, praise be to Allah; this is from His bounty and His kindness, Exalted and Majestic is He. As for the wisdom and the operative cause, I do not see anything clear in this at the moment that I can assert with certainty, but it is among the great blessings of Allah, and praise be to Allah.
And the whale of the sea differs in this between the large and the small. And Allah brought out for the Companions, for the followers of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), a great whale named al-Anbar. When they came to the edge of the sea, and they were a detachment with them in the 'Umrah of Abu 'Ubaydah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent them and reduced their provisions, so Allah brought out for them a great whale like a mountain. They ate from it and their bodies were filled. And Abu 'Ubaydah took twelve men, or thirteen men, and seated them in the cavity of its eye, which was as large as a mountain because of the size of its body. And this is from
There remain questions for Your Eminence the Shaykh regarding this, and that is: What is the wisdom behind the permissibility of sea carrion?
Answer:
Allah knows best. It is obligatory for us to accept the rulings that have come from Allah, and praise be to Allah, even if we do not know the wisdom. Our Lord is Wise and All-Knowing in everything He legislates and decrees, Glorified and Exalted is He. So when He has permitted us the food of the sea, praise be to Allah; this is from His bounty and His kindness, Exalted and Majestic is He. As for the wisdom and the operative cause, I do not see anything clear in this at the moment that I can assert with certainty, but it is among the great blessings of Allah, and praise be to Allah.
And the whale of the sea differs in this between the large and the small. And Allah brought out for the Companions, for the followers of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), a great whale named al-Anbar. When they came to the edge of the sea, and they were a detachment with them in the 'Umrah of Abu 'Ubaydah, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent them and reduced their provisions, so Allah brought out for them a great whale like a mountain. They ate from it and their bodies were filled. And Abu 'Ubaydah took twelve men, or thirteen men, and seated them in the cavity of its eye, which was as large as a mountain because of the size of its body. And this is from
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شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، مقدمة، والتعريف بالكتاب، وكتاب الطهارة — islamhouse.com (5:54)
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