The Danger of Issuing Fatwas Without Knowledge and Renewing Wudu
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The questioner:
I seek forgiveness from Allah. In the book of the scholars, I found a person in the wealth of the scholars
The Shaykh:
Al-Qarini asks, the layperson asks the people of knowledge and takes the answer, the fatwa, as solace, so that if you do not know
The questioner:
And I tell you something.
The Shaykh:
If you become unable to drive a car, do you ride with a driver? Yes? Or do you drive the car and say, "No, I am free and I am...?" You destroy yourself and you destroy the people? This is not acceptable if this is in tangible worldly matters, so how is it in matters of religion, matters of creed, and matters of the Shari'ah?
This is more dangerous because you may issue a fatwa to a person with a wrong ruling, and he acts upon it for his whole life, and it is wrong, so you become the cause of his misguidance, yes, or he transmits it to the people after that and spreads it, and he misleads many people, the cause of a serious issue. And so they were cautious about the fatwa and they would decline it, even though they were qualified for it, they would decline it. Each one would go to the other to be saved from its danger. Yes. With you.
The questioner:
On the occasion of the one who is not qualified himself.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
That we seek refuge in Him from a Muslim who is greater than another in shirk (associating partners with Allah) than one who is a Muslim who is greater.
The Shaykh:
Yes, you want to say there is nothing on him, you want to say the one who mentioned another has nothing on him, this is the saying of some scholars. Yes. According to the saying of some scholars, if you choose it and it is stronger for you, it is easier. Yes. Yes? It is not a hardship, perform wudu and praise be to Allah, what is the hardship in wudu? Wudu is a good act of worship with no hardship, yes.
The questioner:
I say for you, if you perform wudu, if you ask, as if you performed wudu according to the Sunnah, then you are not able to do it. Yes.
The Shaykh:
He renews the wudu, he renews the wudu because he moved, except if he intended to enter it with the passing of wind, if he intended to enter the wudu with the passing of wind, the lesser enters the greater. Yes.
I seek forgiveness from Allah. In the book of the scholars, I found a person in the wealth of the scholars
The Shaykh:
Al-Qarini asks, the layperson asks the people of knowledge and takes the answer, the fatwa, as solace, so that if you do not know
The questioner:
And I tell you something.
The Shaykh:
If you become unable to drive a car, do you ride with a driver? Yes? Or do you drive the car and say, "No, I am free and I am...?" You destroy yourself and you destroy the people? This is not acceptable if this is in tangible worldly matters, so how is it in matters of religion, matters of creed, and matters of the Shari'ah?
This is more dangerous because you may issue a fatwa to a person with a wrong ruling, and he acts upon it for his whole life, and it is wrong, so you become the cause of his misguidance, yes, or he transmits it to the people after that and spreads it, and he misleads many people, the cause of a serious issue. And so they were cautious about the fatwa and they would decline it, even though they were qualified for it, they would decline it. Each one would go to the other to be saved from its danger. Yes. With you.
The questioner:
On the occasion of the one who is not qualified himself.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
That we seek refuge in Him from a Muslim who is greater than another in shirk (associating partners with Allah) than one who is a Muslim who is greater.
The Shaykh:
Yes, you want to say there is nothing on him, you want to say the one who mentioned another has nothing on him, this is the saying of some scholars. Yes. According to the saying of some scholars, if you choose it and it is stronger for you, it is easier. Yes. Yes? It is not a hardship, perform wudu and praise be to Allah, what is the hardship in wudu? Wudu is a good act of worship with no hardship, yes.
The questioner:
I say for you, if you perform wudu, if you ask, as if you performed wudu according to the Sunnah, then you are not able to do it. Yes.
The Shaykh:
He renews the wudu, he renews the wudu because he moved, except if he intended to enter it with the passing of wind, if he intended to enter the wudu with the passing of wind, the lesser enters the greater. Yes.
Source
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