A Benefit on the Meaning of the Hadith: (Whoever Allah wills good for, He grants him understanding in the religion).

The Shaykh : This hadith.

The questioner : ... after the prayer of the sun.

The Shaykh : Keep what you have.
This hadith is interpreted in a very excessive manner; ; meaning he memorizes the detailed legal branches found in the school-specific books, from the Hanafi to the Shafi'i, and so on. This is not part of jurisprudence at all. This hadith means understanding the Book of Allah and the hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Here is the understanding, here is the jurisprudence.
It is reported in "Sahih al-Bukhari" from the hadith of Abu Juhaifah al-Suwai, a Companion, that some people asked Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "Did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) give you, O people of the House, something that he did not give to the people?" He said: "No, except for an understanding that Allah grants to a servant in His Book, and except for what is in the sheath of this sword." And he brought out a paper written on it: . And in this paper are also the wounds, rulings concerning wounds. The point is: what did he say? "He did not give us anything except for an understanding that Allah grants to a servant in His Book."
So the intended meaning is jurisprudence in the Book and the Sunnah, not memorizing the branches; because these branches are endless, as is clear to students of knowledge. The branches are in the thousands, what does a person need to memorize from them?! And also, I like a word by "Ibn Rushd al-Andalusi" on this occasion, in which he explains the difference between the one who has jurisprudence and the jurist, between the one who exercises independent legal reasoning and the one who follows a scholar without knowing his evidence. He says: The example of the one who follows a scholar without knowing his evidence is like the example of a seller of slippers - a very wonderful and delicate example - the example of the one who follows a scholar without knowing his evidence is like the seller of slippers, and the example of the one who exercises independent legal reasoning is like the shoemaker who makes the slippers and shoes. He said: A man comes to the shoe seller with the measurement of a strange, long, thin foot, and so on. He searches among the models hanging there, but he does not find it; because the measurement is strange. He goes to the shoemaker who makes them, he takes the measurement and tailors it for him precisely. This is the example of the one who exercises independent legal reasoning, and that is the example of the one who follows a scholar without knowing his evidence.
And this is actually what we know by experience; all of us Syrians know "Abu al-Yusr 'Abidin" - may Allah have mercy on him -; a strange story happened to one of the people with him. He was a merchant who had large refrigerators in which he stored meat and fruits. One day an Armenian "..." came to him and offered him a tempting wage to store pork for him. And you know that a Muslim, even if he is not committed, just hearing the name of pork makes his body shudder!!

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Yes.
So the offer attracted him at first. He said: By Allah, I want to ask. He went to the mufti at the Directorate of Ifta and told him the story.

The questioner: At "Abu al-Yusr 'Abidin"?

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner: At "Abu al-Yusr 'Abidin".

The Shaykh: Ah. He told him the story, and he said to him: Write it down. And this is one of their problems, instead of telling him: it is permissible or it is not permissible, he said: Write it down. The poor man went and wrote a fatwa and brought it to the mufti. He said to him: You will come to take the answer after a week. He went and he said to him: We have not yet found the text!! [The Shaykh laughs!]. He went after a second week. The summary is three weeks. In the third week, he knocked on the door and no one answered. He opened the door a little and saw the Shaykh lying on the table, sleeping. He knocked on him a little and he woke up. He said to him: I found the text for you. And he gave him what? The signed fatwa. This person says: I took it and went out to the salon, I was trying to understand what the answer was? I did not understand. I read and read and so on, I did not understand whether it is permissible or not permissible.

Another questioner: Please, Professor.

The Shaykh : Please proceed.
Do you know one of our brothers named "Salih al-Jazairi"? You know him, good. He was a car driver for this man. He said to him: O Salih, read this fatwa to me, I am not understanding it, or it is not making me understand. He read it and said to him: By Allah, it is not clear, meaning; because it said and said, and said and said. He said to him: I will take you to a person who is not a mufti, he is my hourly worker, but he will give you the answer immediately, and in a way that reassures you. So, by Allah, he and I came to my shop, and I asked him for the text of the fatwa. Allahu Akbar! We say it is contradictory, and from the books, if the ordinary man hears it, he is surprised. For example, it said the Qadi Khan, for example, it came in "al-Bazzaziyyah", for example, it came in "al-Wajwajiyyah"; meaning the names "al-Wajwajiyyah" and "al-Wajjiyyah", "al-Bazzaziyyah"!! Yes, we say they are completely different. It came in such a book from "Abu Hanifah" that if a Muslim is hired by a dhimmi (a non-Muslim under Muslim protection) to transport wine for him, that is permissible and his wage is pure. Another report from "Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani" said Abu Yusuf: A Christian hired a Muslim to build a church for him; is that permissible for him? No, it is not permissible, and his wage is not pure. We say what? Contradictory!! And as they say, a bundle of straw on a camel's back, in the end what does he say? And from what has been mentioned before, the answer to the question is understood.

Another questioner: He did not add anything from himself at all.

The Shaykh: At all, he is faithful to the text, meaning.
I said to him: You are right, my brother, the one who wrote this does not know where the truth is, he himself is lost among the contradictory reports. But I am reminding you of some texts, you are not a student of knowledge but you are an Arab who understands. He said - the Exalted: , is pork a sin or lawful? He said: A sin. I said to him: If you store this sin, it means you participated in the sin, you helped him in the wrong, it is not permissible! And I mentioned to him: and so on, and the other hadith: . He said to me: May Allah reward you with good, now ... .
It remains - Subhan Allah! - what is this jurisprudence that makes this person give him a delay to give such a simple answer for a week, then a second week, then a third week? So we ask Allah to grant us understanding in the religion and to teach us interpretation.