The Ruling on Gradual Implementation of the Islamic Shari'ah in Our Time

The questioner : The Honorable Shaykh, it was mentioned that the gradual implementation of the legal rulings was in the beginning of the legislation, but today there are those who say that we should be gradual in the legal rulings, such as the prohibition of intoxicants and musical instruments, and so on. If this statement is incorrect, how do we refute it? Yes, I do not know about this person who says that gradualism is established today. Does it mean that we go from the ruling to abandoning the ruling? Or does this questioner mean that if a person was in the state of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, then we are gradual with him.

The Shaykh : If it is the first, then it is invalid, because the legal rulings have been established and it is never possible to compromise on them under any circumstances. As for the second, we look at it; it may be from the perspective of reconciliation to say to this person, for example, "Become a Muslim." If he becomes a Muslim and we know that if we forbid him from intoxicants he will apostatize, then at that time we remain silent about it for a period of time, then we explain the ruling to him. This is because one of the established principles in the chapter of enjoining good and forbidding evil is that if the evil cannot be removed except by something more evil than it, then we leave it alone to avert the greater of two harms by the lesser. And Allah the Exalted indicated this by saying: . The point is that insulting Allah the Exalted is greater than insulting their gods. Therefore, Allah forbade insulting their gods out of fear that they would insult Allah Mighty and Majestic. Yes.