about the ruling on following a school of jurisprudence?
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The questioner : In the end, is it permissible to follow a school of jurisprudence or not?
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : In the end, is it permissible to follow a school of jurisprudence or not?
The Shaykh : In the end?
The Shaykh : It is permissible to follow a school of jurisprudence on the basis of adopting it as a means to knowledge. As for... hmm?
The questioner : How... in other words, what do you mean?
The Shaykh : Please, if you would be patient for the completion of the answer; because I said: "As for," what did you say? "How?" That will not do; this haste is harming you. Let me finish!
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : My brother, who told you that I am not proceeding with the main issue?!
The questioner : That what is your opinion and what is your opinion...
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : We are speaking as an opinion, what is your opinion? ...
The Shaykh : You mean you don't want to ask me, right?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : You mean you want me not to ask you?
The questioner : That you think he... wants to follow, you have a verse:[Al-Hujurat 49:12] ...
The Shaykh : Where? Who did you suspect?
The questioner : It is as if you are saying from the perspective of your hadith...
The Shaykh : I did not name a person for you!
The questioner : The shaykhs and Al-Albani.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, that is the reality, but I am not naming a person for you.
The questioner : That is... not necessary.
The Shaykh : It is not necessary.
The questioner : We... we... agree on it.
The Shaykh : No, we do not agree on it at all.
The questioner : That we... trust, there is not even...?
The Shaykh : It is not a matter of trust. We do not agree on what knowledge is? Who are the scholars? We do not know who they are. Then I am telling you that I did not name a person for you, so that you would say to me:[Al-Hujurat 49:12]!
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : I know.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, every person who attends this session is undoubtedly loaded with ideas!
The questioner : Loaded with ideas.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, loaded with ideas.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah! Why does a person not have insight? One comes and immediately dumps it; he says: "This is a good hadith," and he brings the hadith. He is not coming to understand. The one who is coming, yes, the one who is coming to understand, my brother, his silence will be more than his speech. Take this as a benefit and a lesson, especially if you admit that you are not among the students of knowledge. And I see the issue the other way around. I am silent more than others speak. Now, are you coming to teach or to learn? Are you coming to argue or to understand? If the matter is as we suspect, understanding, this is not the way of understanding. You ask a short word and listen to the answer, even if it lasts an hour. Meanwhile, I am now giving you a practical example. I have not finished speaking, and you started with "As for," and you cut me off immediately, and you said, "Now you want to direct a question according to your will!" Let me speak, my brother, according to my will. And I believe that this speech I am speaking according to my will, you will certainly benefit from it, as long as you wanted the benefit. In the end: it is permissible that you do not take the answer. There is no obstacle with us for you to ask. But cutting off my speech will not do. If you spoke and I cut off your speech, it would not be permissible for me to cut it off. The important thing is that we have a perspective and we have thirty or forty years of experience, so do not argue with me in issues that are my specialty. You say to me: "What defined you that did not define you?" That is the secret of the profession!
[Everyone laughs!]
The Shaykh : Yes?
The questioner : In the end, is it permissible to follow a school of jurisprudence or not?
The Shaykh : In the end?
The Shaykh : It is permissible to follow a school of jurisprudence on the basis of adopting it as a means to knowledge. As for... hmm?
The questioner : How... in other words, what do you mean?
The Shaykh : Please, if you would be patient for the completion of the answer; because I said: "As for," what did you say? "How?" That will not do; this haste is harming you. Let me finish!
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : My brother, who told you that I am not proceeding with the main issue?!
The questioner : That what is your opinion and what is your opinion...
The Shaykh: All right.
The questioner : We are speaking as an opinion, what is your opinion? ...
The Shaykh : You mean you don't want to ask me, right?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : You mean you want me not to ask you?
The questioner : That you think he... wants to follow, you have a verse:
O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption
يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِنَ الظَّنِّThe Shaykh : Where? Who did you suspect?
The questioner : It is as if you are saying from the perspective of your hadith...
The Shaykh : I did not name a person for you!
The questioner : The shaykhs and Al-Albani.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, that is the reality, but I am not naming a person for you.
The questioner : That is... not necessary.
The Shaykh : It is not necessary.
The questioner : We... we... agree on it.
The Shaykh : No, we do not agree on it at all.
The questioner : That we... trust, there is not even...?
The Shaykh : It is not a matter of trust. We do not agree on what knowledge is? Who are the scholars? We do not know who they are. Then I am telling you that I did not name a person for you, so that you would say to me:
avoid much [negative] assumption
اجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِنَ الظَّنِّThe questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : I know.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh: Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, every person who attends this session is undoubtedly loaded with ideas!
The questioner : Loaded with ideas.
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, loaded with ideas.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Glory be to Allah! Why does a person not have insight? One comes and immediately dumps it; he says: "This is a good hadith," and he brings the hadith. He is not coming to understand. The one who is coming, yes, the one who is coming to understand, my brother, his silence will be more than his speech. Take this as a benefit and a lesson, especially if you admit that you are not among the students of knowledge. And I see the issue the other way around. I am silent more than others speak. Now, are you coming to teach or to learn? Are you coming to argue or to understand? If the matter is as we suspect, understanding, this is not the way of understanding. You ask a short word and listen to the answer, even if it lasts an hour. Meanwhile, I am now giving you a practical example. I have not finished speaking, and you started with "As for," and you cut me off immediately, and you said, "Now you want to direct a question according to your will!" Let me speak, my brother, according to my will. And I believe that this speech I am speaking according to my will, you will certainly benefit from it, as long as you wanted the benefit. In the end: it is permissible that you do not take the answer. There is no obstacle with us for you to ask. But cutting off my speech will not do. If you spoke and I cut off your speech, it would not be permissible for me to cut it off. The important thing is that we have a perspective and we have thirty or forty years of experience, so do not argue with me in issues that are my specialty. You say to me: "What defined you that did not define you?" That is the secret of the profession!
[Everyone laughs!]
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