Is there a scientific rule regarding female circumcision, and is there a difference between women in hot countries and women in cold countries in this regard?
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The questioner : You mentioned the topic of circumcision and the difference between men and women.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : You also mentioned that there is a difference between women in hot countries and women in cold countries.
The Shaykh : Correct.
The questioner : Do you, may your excellence be respected, base this on a scientific rule?
The Shaykh : Of course, we convey what the scholars establish first in the books of jurisprudence, and the doctors also in their anatomical studies!
The questioner : I meant, I meant by scientific rule the doctors and biologists. Is this correct, or is there a difference?
The Shaykh : I hope Allah blesses you. I think I have answered your question. First, I said that the jurists mention this, and second, the doctors mention this fact in their anatomical studies. This issue was studied in the recent era in scientific medical journals in Cairo, including religious journals that transmitted this fact from scientific medical books, which I have clarified. Among them, in the past, was "Nur al-Islam" magazine, which was published by al-Azhar, and then it became published under the title "Nur al-Islam." These are known facts from the scientific medical aspects, and we do not say anything, of course, except with knowledge. But it is not hidden from you that I am not a doctor, and even if I were a doctor, I am not an anatomist. A person may be an internal medicine doctor and know nothing about anatomy, and vice versa. Sciences are specializations, and it is obligatory for every scholar to specialize in a science, and then benefit from specialists in other sciences.
And my position here, regarding what I said about distinguishing between women in hot countries and women in cold countries on this same topic, is that I am a transmitter and not a scholar. No one among people, no matter how more complete than me, can be other than like me; that is, any human being. A man may have knowledge of grammar, but he has no knowledge of exegesis, no knowledge of hadith, no knowledge of jurisprudence. So what is his duty? If he speaks about jurisprudence, he should say: I heard such and such an issue. He speaks about hadith in the same way, and so on. Because these are matters of specialization. And Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:[An-Nahl 16:43]. This is my answer. [Yusuf 12:76]. If you have something to benefit us with in this particular matter, you are welcome.
The questioner : No, I wanted to clarify the issue.
The Shaykh : You are welcome as well.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : You also mentioned that there is a difference between women in hot countries and women in cold countries.
The Shaykh : Correct.
The questioner : Do you, may your excellence be respected, base this on a scientific rule?
The Shaykh : Of course, we convey what the scholars establish first in the books of jurisprudence, and the doctors also in their anatomical studies!
The questioner : I meant, I meant by scientific rule the doctors and biologists. Is this correct, or is there a difference?
The Shaykh : I hope Allah blesses you. I think I have answered your question. First, I said that the jurists mention this, and second, the doctors mention this fact in their anatomical studies. This issue was studied in the recent era in scientific medical journals in Cairo, including religious journals that transmitted this fact from scientific medical books, which I have clarified. Among them, in the past, was "Nur al-Islam" magazine, which was published by al-Azhar, and then it became published under the title "Nur al-Islam." These are known facts from the scientific medical aspects, and we do not say anything, of course, except with knowledge. But it is not hidden from you that I am not a doctor, and even if I were a doctor, I am not an anatomist. A person may be an internal medicine doctor and know nothing about anatomy, and vice versa. Sciences are specializations, and it is obligatory for every scholar to specialize in a science, and then benefit from specialists in other sciences.
And my position here, regarding what I said about distinguishing between women in hot countries and women in cold countries on this same topic, is that I am a transmitter and not a scholar. No one among people, no matter how more complete than me, can be other than like me; that is, any human being. A man may have knowledge of grammar, but he has no knowledge of exegesis, no knowledge of hadith, no knowledge of jurisprudence. So what is his duty? If he speaks about jurisprudence, he should say: I heard such and such an issue. He speaks about hadith in the same way, and so on. Because these are matters of specialization. And Allah (Mighty and Majestic) says:
So ask the people of the message if you do not know.
فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَbut over every possessor of knowledge is one [more] knowing.
وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌThe questioner : No, I wanted to clarify the issue.
The Shaykh : You are welcome as well.
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