Discussion of the issue: If a part of the annual cycle has not been practiced by the Salaf, is acting upon it a religious innovation?
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The Shaykh : Can we reconcile that argument with this clear agreement in my speech?
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The student : Is it not possible to reverse this statement, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Is it not possible to do what?
The student : To reverse it.
The Shaykh : To reverse it.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : If you want the whole statement, the answer is no. But if you want part of it, what is the answer?
The student : It is to say, and Allah knows best...
The Shaykh : Do not hold me accountable if I tell you that you will repeat your previous statement.
The student : Correct, this is correct.
The Shaykh : Okay, so then.
The student : ... Shaykh Abdullah.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The student : This is what I intended to say, but my only observation is that the situation changed after rising from the bowing, according to what you held, may Allah preserve you. It is that he let them hang down and released them without clasping them. Is there not in this a call to transfer [the ruling], even though it is a foundational principle?
The Shaykh: No.
The student : This is what I want.
The Shaykh : Well done. Now let us return to the principle. Are we obligated to know the details of every particular involved in matters related to things by which we do not worship Allah except by explicit text?
The student : I did not understand.
The Shaykh : Repeat what I said. Are we obligated to know the particulars? And now I add: those that cannot be counted because they are in the thousands, indeed millions, of permissible matters whose original state is that they are not used to draw near to Allah, but are merely permissible matters. This is the answer. This is the answer. If the matter is so, and if it is not established for us, and the matter is as some followers of Imam Malik said, that Malik does not consider clasping [the hands] permissible at all, is not this opinion the correct one if there is no evidence to refute and invalidate it?
The student : ...
The Shaykh : Good, keep this in mind.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh: All right.
The student : Is it not possible to reverse this statement, Shaykh?
The Shaykh : Is it not possible to do what?
The student : To reverse it.
The Shaykh : To reverse it.
The student: Yes.
The Shaykh : If you want the whole statement, the answer is no. But if you want part of it, what is the answer?
The student : It is to say, and Allah knows best...
The Shaykh : Do not hold me accountable if I tell you that you will repeat your previous statement.
The student : Correct, this is correct.
The Shaykh : Okay, so then.
The student : ... Shaykh Abdullah.
The Shaykh : May Allah reward you with good.
The student : This is what I intended to say, but my only observation is that the situation changed after rising from the bowing, according to what you held, may Allah preserve you. It is that he let them hang down and released them without clasping them. Is there not in this a call to transfer [the ruling], even though it is a foundational principle?
The Shaykh: No.
The student : This is what I want.
The Shaykh : Well done. Now let us return to the principle. Are we obligated to know the details of every particular involved in matters related to things by which we do not worship Allah except by explicit text?
The student : I did not understand.
The Shaykh : Repeat what I said. Are we obligated to know the particulars? And now I add: those that cannot be counted because they are in the thousands, indeed millions, of permissible matters whose original state is that they are not used to draw near to Allah, but are merely permissible matters. This is the answer. This is the answer. If the matter is so, and if it is not established for us, and the matter is as some followers of Imam Malik said, that Malik does not consider clasping [the hands] permissible at all, is not this opinion the correct one if there is no evidence to refute and invalidate it?
The student : ...
The Shaykh : Good, keep this in mind.
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