Is using a computer sufficient for knowing inheritance?
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Question:
Is it not sufficient to know inheritance through the computer, which has made it easy for people to know that and saved them time?
Answer:
What Allah willed, meaning we turn knowledge into tools and machines. Who operates the computer? The computer is a tool; only a scholar operates it. One who is not a scholar cannot operate the computer in inheritance. The computer is a tool in the hand of the scholar, but for one who has no knowledge, the computer is of no use; perhaps he stores errors and mistakes in it. Then, relying on these computers, mechanisms, and computers is a blunting of the mind.
It has become a luxury, an intellectual luxury that has blunted the minds. People have come to know nothing except by means of the machine. From the beginning, when there was a machine, they calculated the fastest way to know inheritance. They calculated even when they did not calculate with a pen; they calculated in their mind and with their fingers, and in an instant the problem would come out to you, because they relied on their memory and their mind, which sharpens the intellect and the mind, and this is what is required.
As for you limiting yourself to the machine and having no knowledge or understanding in your mind, that is a loss. Yes.
Is it not sufficient to know inheritance through the computer, which has made it easy for people to know that and saved them time?
Answer:
What Allah willed, meaning we turn knowledge into tools and machines. Who operates the computer? The computer is a tool; only a scholar operates it. One who is not a scholar cannot operate the computer in inheritance. The computer is a tool in the hand of the scholar, but for one who has no knowledge, the computer is of no use; perhaps he stores errors and mistakes in it. Then, relying on these computers, mechanisms, and computers is a blunting of the mind.
It has become a luxury, an intellectual luxury that has blunted the minds. People have come to know nothing except by means of the machine. From the beginning, when there was a machine, they calculated the fastest way to know inheritance. They calculated even when they did not calculate with a pen; they calculated in their mind and with their fingers, and in an instant the problem would come out to you, because they relied on their memory and their mind, which sharpens the intellect and the mind, and this is what is required.
As for you limiting yourself to the machine and having no knowledge or understanding in your mind, that is a loss. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل يكفي في معرفة المواريث استخدام الحاسب الآلي؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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