The ruling is both Shari'ah and cosmic, and they *** do not coincide, nor are they the same (clarifying that there is no necessary connection between the Shari'ah ruling and the cosmic ruling, and that they may coincide)
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The Shaykh : He says: "The ruling is Shari'ah and cosmic" Is the ruling Shari'ah and cosmic? Cosmic and Shari'ah? How? Who said this?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : I ask: Who said that it is a cosmic and Shari'ah ruling? Who? Ibn al-Qayyim in al-Nuniyyah. It appears you drifted a little. All right.
"The ruling is Shari'ah and cosmic, and they *** do not coincide, nor are they the same"
This means that Allah's ruling is both cosmic and Shari'ah, and they do not coincide. That is, it is not a necessary consequence of a cosmic ruling that it be a Shari'ah ruling, nor is it a necessary consequence of a Shari'ah ruling that it be a cosmic ruling. Do you understand? For example, open sinfulness and disobedience occur in a person by the cosmic ruling, not by the Shari'ah ruling, because the Shari'ah ruling negates that. Obedience, obedience, and justice are established by the Shari'ah ruling, is that not so? But the cosmic ruling may be established or may not be established. A person may obey or may disobey, and he may be just or may be unjust. So, do the cosmic and Shari'ah rulings coincide? No. There may be a Shari'ah ruling that is not a cosmic ruling. When is that? When it does not occur. And there may be a cosmic ruling that is not Shari'ah. That is when it occurs and it is something Allah does not approve of. Is that clear? All right. He says: "and they *** do not coincide, nor are they the same"
The student: ...
The Shaykh : I ask: Who said that it is a cosmic and Shari'ah ruling? Who? Ibn al-Qayyim in al-Nuniyyah. It appears you drifted a little. All right.
"The ruling is Shari'ah and cosmic, and they *** do not coincide, nor are they the same"
This means that Allah's ruling is both cosmic and Shari'ah, and they do not coincide. That is, it is not a necessary consequence of a cosmic ruling that it be a Shari'ah ruling, nor is it a necessary consequence of a Shari'ah ruling that it be a cosmic ruling. Do you understand? For example, open sinfulness and disobedience occur in a person by the cosmic ruling, not by the Shari'ah ruling, because the Shari'ah ruling negates that. Obedience, obedience, and justice are established by the Shari'ah ruling, is that not so? But the cosmic ruling may be established or may not be established. A person may obey or may disobey, and he may be just or may be unjust. So, do the cosmic and Shari'ah rulings coincide? No. There may be a Shari'ah ruling that is not a cosmic ruling. When is that? When it does not occur. And there may be a cosmic ruling that is not Shari'ah. That is when it occurs and it is something Allah does not approve of. Is that clear? All right. He says: "and they *** do not coincide, nor are they the same"