The Art of Deriving Branches from the Principles
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What is your opinion regarding the discipline of deriving branches from the principles?The Shaykh: What does it mean?The questioner: I am asking you.
The Shaykh: You are asking me about the art of deriving branches from the principles and what it means? I see—may Allah bless you—that the pursuit of knowledge must be based on principles,The first: the Book and the Sunnah, and then the legal concepts that the Shari'ah considers; because knowing the principles is important, and a student of knowledge who knows only specific issues is certainly deficient, because if he deviates even slightly from the issues he knows, he will be at a standstill. So, know the principles so that you can analogize to them whatever branches from them.
As for deriving branches from the principles, some people may exaggerate in it, including in the principle what is not part of it, and some people are deficient in it, excluding from the principle what is part of it.
The Shaykh: You are asking me about the art of deriving branches from the principles and what it means? I see—may Allah bless you—that the pursuit of knowledge must be based on principles,The first: the Book and the Sunnah, and then the legal concepts that the Shari'ah considers; because knowing the principles is important, and a student of knowledge who knows only specific issues is certainly deficient, because if he deviates even slightly from the issues he knows, he will be at a standstill. So, know the principles so that you can analogize to them whatever branches from them.
As for deriving branches from the principles, some people may exaggerate in it, including in the principle what is not part of it, and some people are deficient in it, excluding from the principle what is part of it.