What is the criterion for independent legal reasoning in matters of belief?
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The questioner:
A questioner asks: Is a person forgiven for making an error in matters of belief through independent legal reasoning, or not?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
Matters of creed and belief.
The Shaykh:
There is no independent legal reasoning based on revelation in creed. Independent legal reasoning is only in practical matters of Islamic jurisprudence. As for creed, it is based on revelation and does not involve independent legal reasoning. Yes.
A questioner asks: Is a person forgiven for making an error in matters of belief through independent legal reasoning, or not?
The Shaykh:
What?
The questioner:
Matters of creed and belief.
The Shaykh:
There is no independent legal reasoning based on revelation in creed. Independent legal reasoning is only in practical matters of Islamic jurisprudence. As for creed, it is based on revelation and does not involve independent legal reasoning. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما ضابط الاجتهاد في المسائل الاعتقادية؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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