What is the discipline of deriving branches from the principles?
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The questioner : What is your opinion regarding the discipline of deriving branches from the principles?
The Shaykh : And what does it mean?
The questioner : I am coming to ask you.
The Shaykh : And what does it mean? You are asking me about the discipline of deriving branches from the principles, and what does it mean?
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : I see, may Allah reward you, that the seeking of knowledge must be based on principles, the first of which are the Book and the Sunnah, then the legal meanings that the Shari'ah considers, because knowing the principles is important. A student of knowledge who does not know the science except for specific issues is deficient without a doubt, because if he deviates even a little from the issues he knows, he will be at a standstill. So, know the principles, know the principles, so that you can analogize to them what branches from them. As for deriving branches from the principles, some people exaggerate in it and include in the principle what is not part of it, and some people are deficient in it and exclude from the principle what is part of it. Yes.
The Shaykh : And what does it mean?
The questioner : I am coming to ask you.
The Shaykh : And what does it mean? You are asking me about the discipline of deriving branches from the principles, and what does it mean?
The questioner : I do not know.
The Shaykh : I see, may Allah reward you, that the seeking of knowledge must be based on principles, the first of which are the Book and the Sunnah, then the legal meanings that the Shari'ah considers, because knowing the principles is important. A student of knowledge who does not know the science except for specific issues is deficient without a doubt, because if he deviates even a little from the issues he knows, he will be at a standstill. So, know the principles, know the principles, so that you can analogize to them what branches from them. As for deriving branches from the principles, some people exaggerate in it and include in the principle what is not part of it, and some people are deficient in it and exclude from the principle what is part of it. Yes.