Commentary on the Book of the Lawful Bequest in Light of the Book and the Sunnah
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The questioner : We ask His EminenceThe Shaykh : to review for us the lawful bequest that we wrote in light of the Book and the Sunnah, and we ask him to correct any errors in it. After a short time, our Shaykh, with the help of Allah the Exalted, was able to... and this bequest was prepared, I mean, by the Association of the People of the Sunnah and the Community in Australia?
The Shaykh : What is this?
Another questioner : A collection of your tapes.
The Shaykh : Yes, I have heard of it, but I have not seen it.
Another questioner : For whom, O Shaykh? I am without a name; I want to record it.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I do not know. I was told that some of the brothers here collected it from them, so I do not know. And there are many like these in the Islamic world, but this is a problem.
The questioner : There may be, for example, previous fatwas that he has since revised?
The Shaykh : That is the case. For instance, in the fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah, you will find a fatwa in which he permits seeking nearness to Allah through a means (tawassul). Have you seen it? In the Collection of Fatwas, which is thirty-five volumes, there is a fatwa in which he permits tawassul. And he has a treatise on Tawassul and the Means (al-Wasilah) in which he invalidates tawassul through created things, and that is the correct position. The reason is that a person is in a state of development. Therefore, publishing such fatwas and answers to questions contains many errors, and very many indeed.
The Shaykh : What is this?
Another questioner : A collection of your tapes.
The Shaykh : Yes, I have heard of it, but I have not seen it.
Another questioner : For whom, O Shaykh? I am without a name; I want to record it.
The Shaykh : By Allah, I do not know. I was told that some of the brothers here collected it from them, so I do not know. And there are many like these in the Islamic world, but this is a problem.
The questioner : There may be, for example, previous fatwas that he has since revised?
The Shaykh : That is the case. For instance, in the fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah, you will find a fatwa in which he permits seeking nearness to Allah through a means (tawassul). Have you seen it? In the Collection of Fatwas, which is thirty-five volumes, there is a fatwa in which he permits tawassul. And he has a treatise on Tawassul and the Means (al-Wasilah) in which he invalidates tawassul through created things, and that is the correct position. The reason is that a person is in a state of development. Therefore, publishing such fatwas and answers to questions contains many errors, and very many indeed.
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