Do new industrial discoveries fall under the category of religious innovation?
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The Shaykh : If someone were to ask: What do you say about the airplanes, cars, and rocket missiles that have appeared now? Are these not religious innovations? Were these known in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him)?
The student: No.
The Shaykh : They are not known in themselves, but we say that the Qur'an contains indications of them. Allah the Exalted said:[Az-Zukhruf 43:12] So ships are vessels of the water, and airplanes are vessels of the air, vessels of the sky. Cattle, camels, are known; camels and others of what is ridden. This is in the Qur'an, this is in the Qur'an.
As for rocket missiles and the like of what has appeared, they fall under the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Anfal 8:60] [which is] indefinite. So if it is indefinite, it includes everything that constitutes strength for us against our enemies, every strength.
Now, if someone were to ask: Book printing, book printing is a religious innovation because it was not known in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Recording the voice of the lecturer, the orator, and the reciter is a religious innovation because it was not known in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). What is the answer? The answer is that these are means not intended for their own sake. We record the words of the orator, the lecturer, or the reciter in order to preserve them. So it is a means to a Shari'ah purpose. The means, according to the scholars, have the rulings of the purposes. It is a principle of jurisprudence: the means have the rulings of the purposes.
In the carpets of the mosques now, in the carpets there are lines, after the prayer, if Allah wills.
"The Adhan"
The Shaykh : O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad and upon the family of Muhammad. O Allah, Lord of this perfect call and the established prayer, grant Muhammad the intercession and the high rank, and raise him, O Allah, to the praiseworthy station which You have promised.
The student: No.
The Shaykh : They are not known in themselves, but we say that the Qur'an contains indications of them. Allah the Exalted said:
and has made for you of ships and animals those which you mount.
وجعل لكم من الفلك والأنعام ما تركبونAs for rocket missiles and the like of what has appeared, they fall under the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And prepare against them whatever you are able of power
وأعدوا لهم ما استطعتم من قوةof strength
من قوةNow, if someone were to ask: Book printing, book printing is a religious innovation because it was not known in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). Recording the voice of the lecturer, the orator, and the reciter is a religious innovation because it was not known in the time of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). What is the answer? The answer is that these are means not intended for their own sake. We record the words of the orator, the lecturer, or the reciter in order to preserve them. So it is a means to a Shari'ah purpose. The means, according to the scholars, have the rulings of the purposes. It is a principle of jurisprudence: the means have the rulings of the purposes.
In the carpets of the mosques now, in the carpets there are lines, after the prayer, if Allah wills.
"The Adhan"
The Shaykh : O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad and upon the family of Muhammad. O Allah, Lord of this perfect call and the established prayer, grant Muhammad the intercession and the high rank, and raise him, O Allah, to the praiseworthy station which You have promised.