What is the legal evidence for a Muslim to cast his vote for some of the candidates?

The questioner : What is the legal evidence for casting one's vote for some of the candidates?

The Shaykh : The legal evidence is understood by the jurist, not by the general public who are addressed by statements such as the saying of Allah the Exalted: The legal evidence is based on a legal principle, which is "repelling the greater evil by the lesser evil." If the matter revolves between two evils, one chooses the lesser of them and the one with less harm, meaning

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : Start with the one on the right, whose name is Jibril, or what?
The student : Yusuf Jibril.

The Shaykh : Yusuf Jibril. If a man is exposed to death by hunger in the desert and finds pork, he is able to hunt pork to repel his hunger with its meat, and he is able to hunt, for example, a fox or any other forbidden animal. This is available to him and this is available to him. It is not permissible for him to hunt the pig to eat it because it is a greater evil; rather, he hunts another animal that falls under This is an illustration of the principle "repelling the greater evil by the lesser evil." He finds two pieces of meat and has no recourse except to eat from one of them: a piece of sheep meat and a piece of donkey meat. It is not permissible for him to eat from the donkey meat because it is forbidden in life and in death, whereas the prohibition of the sheep meat is incidental, which is death. And so you may analogize, and there are many, many examples. Whoever understands this principle can derive from it dozens of cases. Among them is what came in the question: if there is in a Muslim community a trial where this community is afflicted with ruling by other than what Allah has revealed, and among that is establishing councils they call parliaments, and they may interpret this foreign word as the Council of the Nation, and it is without a doubt that the intended meaning of this word is not its true meaning, but rather the meaning