Is it not obligatory for us to have a parliament in our present age, based on the rule that whatever is necessary for the completion of an obligation is itself obligatory?

The questioner : I offer myself, O my Shaykh, as a defender of these people, and I say, for example, that their statement, "whatever is necessary for the completion of an obligation is itself obligatory," implies that from this standpoint, do we not have the right, for example, to take parliament as an obligation from which we proceed to the noble goal, which is achieving the objectives and safeguarding the rights of Muslims?

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you, this statement is not in its proper place. "Whatever is necessary for the completion of an obligation is itself obligatory" means that any permissible cause that leads to an obligation makes taking that permissible cause obligatory. As for a forbidden cause, no scholar says, "whatever is necessary for the completion of an obligation is itself obligatory." This is, in fact, either ignorance or willful neglect, and the worst of the two is bitter.