Obedience to the Mufti and Accepting His Fatwa Without Knowing the Evidence
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Obedience to the mufti and accepting his opinion without knowing its strength leads to a situation where, as you mentioned in a previous lesson, the layperson is not required to ask for the evidence.
Answer:
Yes, the layperson accepts the fatwa and does not demand the evidence, because he does not know the evidence; he is a layperson. But he does not ask just anyone; rather, he asks the people of knowledge. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nahl 16:43] So he asks the one in whom he trusts regarding his knowledge and his religion. He asks the one in whom he trusts regarding his knowledge and his religion, and he accepts his fatwa even if he does not know the evidence, because he is a layperson who does not know how to derive rulings. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Obedience to the mufti and accepting his opinion without knowing its strength leads to a situation where, as you mentioned in a previous lesson, the layperson is not required to ask for the evidence.
Answer:
Yes, the layperson accepts the fatwa and does not demand the evidence, because he does not know the evidence; he is a layperson. But he does not ask just anyone; rather, he asks the people of knowledge. Allah the Exalted said:
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 08 من 16 / شرح مسائل الجاهلية / المسألة الخامسة والثلاثون/ صالح الفوزان / العقيدة/ كبار العلماء — youtube.com (57:20)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.