Requesting the use of the blackboard in teaching the law of inheritance shares
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The questioner:
Among those who have passed away from the students of knowledge were those who used to receive the knowledge of fara'id (the law of inheritance shares) by traveling from place to place.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
I say, may Allah have mercy on those who have passed from among the students of knowledge who used to receive the knowledge of the law of inheritance shares through travel. As for this, the blackboard and explanation on it are necessary. So we ask you to practice on the blackboard by assigning one of the students to write and explain your understanding.
The Shaykh:
We are studying the law of inheritance shares now, we are studying jurisprudence, we are studying jurisprudence, we are not studying the law of inheritance shares. If we were studying the law of inheritance shares, it would be possible, but the mosque is not equipped with blackboards. This is a sign of your eloquence now that you do not know anything except by these blackboards. This is eloquence, just as the students know this without blackboards; they did not know blackboards at first. In fact, our Shaykh, Shaykh al-Shanqiti (may Allah have mercy on him), strongly opposed the blackboard. He said it is because it is part of the Western system, and he was not sad about it, because they did not used to learn with blackboards. When blackboards came, dullness occurred, and minds became empty, and it became necessary to have a blackboard, and a computer, and a necessity for…
Meaning, there are no ideas now, and if these things were lost, they would have nothing. And there is no computer, and no pen to write with, and this knowledge has not been lost. So it is obligatory for a person to seek help from Allah and rely on his memory, and not to replace himself with these things by looking at them, because they will be a burden on him. This is the extravagance they call intellectual extravagance. A person must have a machine, or else he does nothing? No, a person should make an effort, even if there is hardship, and even if it is difficult for him at first until he practices.
Among those who have passed away from the students of knowledge were those who used to receive the knowledge of fara'id (the law of inheritance shares) by traveling from place to place.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
I say, may Allah have mercy on those who have passed from among the students of knowledge who used to receive the knowledge of the law of inheritance shares through travel. As for this, the blackboard and explanation on it are necessary. So we ask you to practice on the blackboard by assigning one of the students to write and explain your understanding.
The Shaykh:
We are studying the law of inheritance shares now, we are studying jurisprudence, we are studying jurisprudence, we are not studying the law of inheritance shares. If we were studying the law of inheritance shares, it would be possible, but the mosque is not equipped with blackboards. This is a sign of your eloquence now that you do not know anything except by these blackboards. This is eloquence, just as the students know this without blackboards; they did not know blackboards at first. In fact, our Shaykh, Shaykh al-Shanqiti (may Allah have mercy on him), strongly opposed the blackboard. He said it is because it is part of the Western system, and he was not sad about it, because they did not used to learn with blackboards. When blackboards came, dullness occurred, and minds became empty, and it became necessary to have a blackboard, and a computer, and a necessity for…
Meaning, there are no ideas now, and if these things were lost, they would have nothing. And there is no computer, and no pen to write with, and this knowledge has not been lost. So it is obligatory for a person to seek help from Allah and rely on his memory, and not to replace himself with these things by looking at them, because they will be a burden on him. This is the extravagance they call intellectual extravagance. A person must have a machine, or else he does nothing? No, a person should make an effort, even if there is hardship, and even if it is difficult for him at first until he practices.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/109 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (58:10)
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