Is there a sin in mentioning the evidence if a scholar or scholarly body is forced to issue a ruling?
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The questioner : If you please, this question from our brother, I mean, from an intellectual perspective, I mean!
The Shaykh: Yes!
The questioner : If they are forced to issue a ruling, are they forced to cite the evidence and hadiths?!
The Shaykh : Who is he?
The questioner : I mean, when it was attributed to them that they cited evidence, I asked our brother about the administration, or the presidency, or the Council of Senior Scholars: if they are forced to issue a ruling, are they forced to cite the evidence?!
The Shaykh : No, but naturally, a scholar, especially in a sensitive and important issue, must present the evidence in order to convince the people. But to be forced?! A mufti, when he issues a ruling, is not forced. But when the issue is as sensitive as this and has a connection to the Muslim community, no, the scholar is the one who forces them to—hold your patience, why am I waiting and you are not?
The questioner : We say: he convinces the state that the state's interest requires that you present this. So he takes this as a matter of religious devotion. Could this, my Shaykh, be closer to their situation and more fair to them?!
The Shaykh : Special material and moral circumstances, especially since they have something like the status of the one in authority!
The questioner : The one in authority, yes.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Yes, and after that, I mean, they begin to search for the evidence as a matter of religious devotion?!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What happened.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : As clarified.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I did not memorize the summary, but I will say: those who sit in the corners and the tekias, and lock themselves in rooms, I mean the students of knowledge—of course his words are clear, I mean about the scholars and students of knowledge—these people are a burden and a heavy load on the Islamic movement, because they understand or interpret the texts according to their own understanding, and I mean from a narrow circle, and they have not gone out to the street or to what?! To keep up with the movement in the street.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : Yes, because his entire book is a rambling about the jurisprudence of the movement!
The Shaykh: Yes!
The questioner : If they are forced to issue a ruling, are they forced to cite the evidence and hadiths?!
The Shaykh : Who is he?
The questioner : I mean, when it was attributed to them that they cited evidence, I asked our brother about the administration, or the presidency, or the Council of Senior Scholars: if they are forced to issue a ruling, are they forced to cite the evidence?!
The Shaykh : No, but naturally, a scholar, especially in a sensitive and important issue, must present the evidence in order to convince the people. But to be forced?! A mufti, when he issues a ruling, is not forced. But when the issue is as sensitive as this and has a connection to the Muslim community, no, the scholar is the one who forces them to—hold your patience, why am I waiting and you are not?
The questioner : We say: he convinces the state that the state's interest requires that you present this. So he takes this as a matter of religious devotion. Could this, my Shaykh, be closer to their situation and more fair to them?!
The Shaykh : Special material and moral circumstances, especially since they have something like the status of the one in authority!
The questioner : The one in authority, yes.
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : Yes, and after that, I mean, they begin to search for the evidence as a matter of religious devotion?!
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : What happened.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : As clarified.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : I did not memorize the summary, but I will say: those who sit in the corners and the tekias, and lock themselves in rooms, I mean the students of knowledge—of course his words are clear, I mean about the scholars and students of knowledge—these people are a burden and a heavy load on the Islamic movement, because they understand or interpret the texts according to their own understanding, and I mean from a narrow circle, and they have not gone out to the street or to what?! To keep up with the movement in the street.
The Shaykh: Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : Yes, because his entire book is a rambling about the jurisprudence of the movement!
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