What is the meaning of His saying: “So, whatever is easy of the sacrificial animals”?
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The questioner : You said, O Shaykh: [Al-Baqarah 2:196].
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : And we made obligatory all the sacrificial animals...
The Shaykh : What is the meaning of:?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It means what is affordable. So, if you have fifty riyals in your pocket, and it does not buy for you anything but a goat or, for example, a small sheep—do you know what a sheep is?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, this is what is affordable for you. Or, your pocket is full of money, but there is no large ram in the market, only these thin, sick, weak animals. So, this is what is affordable. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made things easy for us; so do not make difficult what Allah has made easy.
Yes.
Please proceed.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, it is...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It should be here, as long as the money and the animal are affordable for him,; meaning, the thing that he can bear without hardship.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, more than that may become obligatory upon you; meaning, if more than that is affordable for him.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, he does what is affordable; and for that reason, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gathered...
The questioner : In the form of obligation?
The Shaykh : Of course; because the expression indicates obligation.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh :[Al-Baqarah 2:196], the text, as it is, contains ease regarding the poor and the weak in wealth, and it also contains strictness regarding those who have wealth.
Yes.
Please proceed.
The questioner : Is it permissible... to combine 'Umrah and Hajj in Makkah?
The Shaykh : Yes, of course, the pilgrims in Makkah... yes.
The questioner : So we said: There is no evidence... there is no harm in this...
The Shaykh : Excuse me, a moment, repeat your question.
Where is the questioner? Repeat your question.
what can be obtained with ease of sacrificial animals
فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَ مِنَ الْهَدْيِThe Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : And we made obligatory all the sacrificial animals...
The Shaykh : What is the meaning of:
So, whatever is easy
فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It means what is affordable. So, if you have fifty riyals in your pocket, and it does not buy for you anything but a goat or, for example, a small sheep—do you know what a sheep is?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : So, this is what is affordable for you. Or, your pocket is full of money, but there is no large ram in the market, only these thin, sick, weak animals. So, this is what is affordable. Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has made things easy for us; so do not make difficult what Allah has made easy.
Yes.
Please proceed.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, it is...
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : It should be here, as long as the money and the animal are affordable for him,
So, whatever is easy
فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : No, more than that may become obligatory upon you; meaning, if more than that is affordable for him.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, he does what is affordable; and for that reason, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gathered...
The questioner : In the form of obligation?
The Shaykh : Of course; because the expression
So, whatever is easy
فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَThe questioner : ... .
The Shaykh :
what can be obtained with ease of sacrificial animals
فَمَا اسْتَيْسَرَ مِنَ الْهَدْيِYes.
Please proceed.
The questioner : Is it permissible... to combine 'Umrah and Hajj in Makkah?
The Shaykh : Yes, of course, the pilgrims in Makkah... yes.
The questioner : So we said: There is no evidence... there is no harm in this...
The Shaykh : Excuse me, a moment, repeat your question.
Where is the questioner? Repeat your question.
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