Discussion of the Shaykh Nasser’s *Fiqh al-Waqi’* (Jurisprudence of Reality) and Shaykh Ali al-Halabi’s work on it.

The student : “Shaykh, is the *Fiqh al-Waqi’* (Jurisprudence of Reality) for you and for Ali?”

The Shaykh : “... It is an external critique. May Allah reward you.”
The student : “What is it, Shaykh? Honestly, I...”

The Shaykh : “No, anyone who reads it knows it is mine, but he published it; he did that. What is the problem with that?”
The student : “But, Shaykh, the text of the treatise, I mean, it is a small treatise, about twenty pages in total. When I read it, I honestly thought it was for Ali or for the Shaykh. I mean, we want the words to be...”The Shaykh : “Simply, that is the original point of it.”

The Shaykh : “But it does no harm, Professor, if there is a distinct title that lets the reader know that this is the words of...”The Shaykh : “... and this is the words of the student.”
The student : “No, Shaykh, it is supposed that this treatise, *Fiqh al-Waqi’* (Jurisprudence of Reality), is for Shaykh Nasir al-Din al-Albani.”

The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : “There is no harm if, for example, Brother Ali comments on it in two or three pages, identifying it and presenting it. But he should not write on this matter himself as well. I mean, we want there to be a distinction for this subject.”

The Shaykh : “When I read it, I was told by some of them that I did not find anything open to criticism, because his words are distinct from my words.”
The student : “For Ali, I would add my voice to the voice of...”The Shaykh .

The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The student : “What is it? It is clearer, I mean.”

The Shaykh: Go ahead.
The student : “When this issue began and occupied people, and you answered in that tape...”

The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : “Our brother Ali, may Allah reward him with good, says the same as you. I mean, he quotes from you.”

The Shaykh: Yes.
The student : “But people, I mean, they had a reaction to the book of our brother Ali. They did not accept the book. And when the tape reached us, I remember I was sitting in Makkah. This tape was not distributed except by the opposing side, and they accepted your words, I mean, with acceptance and submission. They said, ‘This is good scholarly speech coming from a scholar about whom there is no disagreement.’ So they took the tape and distributed it. Perhaps this is more hopeful for the acceptance of the scholarly issue.”

The Shaykh : “I do not discuss this. I do not discuss this. And I believe that people, for example, who have a certain view of the publisher of the book, not the author of the book, but the publisher of the book, because he is the publisher, are disgusted.”

The questioner : May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh : “This, I believe in it.”
The student : “Okay, Shaykh, I wanted to say that this had an effect on the treatise itself, especially at this time when Brother Ali was... there were people there who had... about him and his speech. Because there, especially when he spoke about the journey and added words and dubbed the words of the journey with his own, he created a kind of confusion in the hearts of the youth. So we wanted only the treatise. I mean, when the reader reads it, he does not read words other than the words of...”The Shaykh : “... Nasser in it. That is what we are keen on, because it will have a stronger and more impactful effect on the hearts of people.”

The Shaykh : “This, as we said earlier, is a response that is returned. But as they say, the witness sees what the absent one does not see. When I hear from a brother of my brothers that he adds a few words, it does not change the subject of the treatise. First, I see that this is contrary to scholarly egoism. I see that it is my duty to accept this thing. Second: such an observation that others notice does not cross my mind. Perhaps Allah (Mighty and Majestic), if He decrees for this treatise to spread and means that our Lord (Mighty and Majestic) places acceptance for it, even among those people who may have an opposing opinion regarding what is in the treatise, perhaps we can reconsider it and separate what belongs to Zayd from what belongs to 'Amr, and it will be, if Allah wills, more beneficial.”
The student : “The reality is not that.”
Another student: “We are conveying the reality, O Shaykh.”
The student : “This is it. If I said, for example, if Brother Ali wrote two pages, one page, two pages, just a presentation of it, or we saw that we should publish the treatise based on the advice of our Shaykh and his approval of that only, that is what should be. But as soon as a person reads, he reads the words of Ali...”Al-Halabi : “... which he said in *Fiqh al-Waqi’* (Jurisprudence of Reality). I mean, it is a repetition of the words of...”The Shaykh : “... Nasser. This criticism directed at the subject.”

The questioner : “A few days before I came, the treatise was recently published. I mean, I was going to visit Prince Abdullah al-Faisal al-Farhan in al-Kharj. Perhaps you remember him.”

The Shaykh : “In al-Kharj, yes.”

The questioner : “He always asks about your news and always sends you his greetings.”

The Shaykh : “How is his strength and health?”

The questioner : “Okay, I mean.”

The Shaykh : “I met him.”

The questioner : “I mean, he was extremely delighted. He reads, one of them who has it reads your words to him, and I mean, he buys a quantity and distributes it. So he said to me, ‘By Allah, we were truly, very much pleased with this Shaykh Nasser al-'Umar, the honorable Shaykh Nasser al-Albani, especially since he returned convinced from there. I mean, he tells me, ‘He instructed us to send greetings.’”

The Shaykh : “To you, and to him (peace be upon him) as well. Convey my greetings to him.”