Does an absolute command imply immediacy or delay?
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh, and may Allah reward you with good. This questioner says: In the author's (may Allah have mercy on him) words in the benefits derived from the story of Hudaybiyyah, one of them is that an absolute command is for immediate execution; otherwise, [the Prophet] would not have become angry at their delay in obeying the command.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
What is the meaning of that, given al-Juwayni's statement in his *Waraqat* that a command does not imply immediacy?
The Shaykh:
No, that is not what al-Juwayni said. All scholars are in consensus that a command is for immediate execution, unless evidence indicates that it is for delay.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
So, al-Juwayni's statement of this is incorrect. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh, and may Allah reward you with good. This questioner says: In the author's (may Allah have mercy on him) words in the benefits derived from the story of Hudaybiyyah, one of them is that an absolute command is for immediate execution; otherwise, [the Prophet] would not have become angry at their delay in obeying the command.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
What is the meaning of that, given al-Juwayni's statement in his *Waraqat* that a command does not imply immediacy?
The Shaykh:
No, that is not what al-Juwayni said. All scholars are in consensus that a command is for immediate execution, unless evidence indicates that it is for delay.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
So, al-Juwayni's statement of this is incorrect. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [3436/2873] هل الأمر المطلق يقتضي الفور أم التراخي؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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