Why did the Shaykh not divide the content of his book into sections: obligations, conditions, and pillars, as the jurists did, or does he have a specific viewpoint on this?

The questioner : May Allah reward you, Shaykh. The question asks: We see in some of theThe Shaykh : (may Allah preserve him) jurisprudential works a lack of focus on the division followed by previous jurists, namely: dividing the act of worship into conditions, pillars, and recommended practices. Does the Shaykh have a specific policy regarding this?

The Shaykh : No, I did not adopt this methodology; because there is much disagreement, and very much so, regarding these matters, and the style of authorship I have followed does not accommodate it, except in a book I started and then was diverted from, which is—whose name you must have heard—*Al-Thamar al-Mustatab fi Fiqh al-Sunnah wa al-Kitab*. This book was on this methodology, meaning: paying attention to distinguishing between what is a condition, what is a pillar, what is an obligation, etc.; because distinguishing these matters from one another requires very extensive research. Therefore, I do not follow this path; because its place was in that book in which I was not granted the ease to continue working. This is the answer.

The questioner : O Shaykh, do you have the book *Al-Thamar al-Mustatab* with you? Did you complete it?

The Shaykh : I tell you that I was not granted the ease to continue working on it.