Discussion on the issue of compulsion and choice.

The Shaykh : This is similar to a means of defeating the opponent in the topic of compulsion and choice. You know, in old Islamic schools, indeed in Islamic sects, some say that the human being is compelled and possesses no freedom or choice. Some say he is not a chooser and creates his own actions; these are the Mu'tazilah. And those are the Jabriyyah; some say that the human being is a chooser in some matters and a driven one in others. Now, the idea common among the general public is compulsion itself, where they say the human being is driven, not a chooser. When you discuss with a Sunni, who says the human being is a chooser in the religious obligations, and a Jabri, they naturally enter into discussions about verses, about hadiths, and so on. One of the scholars of the Sunnis says, "If this Jabri does not respond to you with all these discussions and these proofs, meaning the text of the Qur'an that the human being has a will, if he does not respond to you, slap him." Here is the point: that one shouts and says to him, "Why did you hit me?" He says to him, "Compelled, compelled."

The questioner : Nice...

The Shaykh : Just as we learned in Syria, "Stay in your place." She is in her request, and I am in my answer to her. After a while, she calls my wife with the same questioner : 's question. I hear the question, I see the same topic, and I say to my wife, "This one asked you that hour, and we gave her the answer that the issue is not about washing it a second time or not; it is not permissible to transfer it. I asked her, 'You were not asked?'"The Shaykh : That hour? She denied it. Then we found out that she lied because her daughter called us, and we understood from her that she was the same questioner : 's question. Glory be to Allah. The important thing in the matter is that the person asks about the most important thing, not the thing that is important but far less so. My wife, of course, had an opinion in responding to this opinion with her culture and so on. She said, "What is the objection? We tell her, 'Let them wash it or not wash it?'" We told her, "In that case, if we gave her the answer, they would not care about the issue..."