Reading from the author's text with commentary and collation of manuscripts: "And this meaning is established in everything mentioned regarding the benefit in some of the disliked religious innovations.
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The reader: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
As for after: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim "And this meaning is established in everything mentioned regarding the benefit in some of the disliked religious innovations, but this extent does not prevent their being disliked and prohibited, and substituting them with what is prescribed, in which there is no religious innovation, just as those who added the adhan to the two festivals are likewise. Indeed, the Jews and the Christians also find benefits in their worship, because their worship must necessarily include some type"
The Shaykh : In my copy, their worship
The reader: Correction.
The Shaykh : Or a copy and a sheet with you, forgive me
The reader: "And that is because their worship must necessarily include some type that is prescribed in its genus"
The Shaykh : Prescribed
The reader: "On some type that is prescribed in its genus, just as their words must necessarily include some truth transmitted from the prophets. Then, despite that, this does not necessitate that we perform their worship or narrate their words, because all religious innovations must necessarily include an evil that outweighs the good in them, for if their good had outweighed, the Shari'ah would not have neglected them. So we"
The Shaykh : I mentioned that the sentence at the end of the previous lesson is very important and that it should be attended to, so perhaps you have recorded it in the "Gharar al-Fawa'id." Yes.
The reader: "So we infer from their being a religious innovation that their sin is greater than their benefit, and that is what necessitates the prohibition. And I say that the sin of it may be removed from some individuals due to a counter-indicator, such as ijtihad or otherwise, just as the sin of"
The Shaykh : In my copy, due to a counter-indicator, ijtihad, al, better
The reader: In my copy, O Shaykh, it says "In jim, due to an obstacle"
The Shaykh : Due to an obstacle, ijtihad
The reader: It did not point to ijtihad, but
The Shaykh : In our copy, due to a counter-indicator, ijtihad. This manuscript is closer to the truth, so if you read
The reader: Due to a counter-indicator
The Shaykh : Then make it a manuscript
The reader: Listen
The Shaykh : Due to a counter-indicator, ijtihad
The reader: "And I say that the sin of it may be removed from some individuals due to a counter-indicator of ijtihad or otherwise, just as the sin of nabidh and the disputed riba is removed from the mujtahids of the Salaf. Then, despite that, it is obligatory to clarify its status, and that one should not imitate those who deemed it permissible, and that one should not be deficient in seeking the knowledge that clarifies its reality. And this evidence is sufficient to clarify that these religious innovations contain doctrinal or situational harms that contradict what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) brought, and that the benefit in them is outweighed and not suitable for counter-indication. Then it is said by way of detail: If a group of people of virtue and religion performed it, and it was left in the time of these people, believing in its dislike, and a group denied it, if they were not better than those who performed it, they are not below them. And if they were below them in virtue, then those in authority disputed over it, so it is referred to Allah and the Messenger and the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, with those who disliked it, not with those who granted a dispensation for it. Then the majority of the predecessors, who are better than the successors, are with these. As for the benefit in it, it is counter-indicated by the outweighing harms of the religious innovations in it"
The Shaykh : In my copy, the religious innovation, manuscript
The reader: "Among them, in addition to the aforementioned harm"
The Shaykh : Wait, read "refuted by the counter-indicator of what is in it"
The reader: "As for the benefit in it, it is counter-indicated by the outweighing harms of the religious innovations in it"
The Shaykh : Like this in your copy
The reader: Yes, exactly
The Shaykh : In our copy, the religious innovation
The reader: It says "The religious innovations are dropped from alif"
The Shaykh : No, in our copy, the religious innovation in the singular
The reader: A manuscript, O Shaykh
The Shaykh : Manuscript
The reader: "It is counter-indicated by the outweighing harms of the religious innovation in it. Among them, in addition to the aforementioned doctrinal and situational harm: that hearts find it sweet and become self-sufficient with it from many of the sunnahs, until you find many of the common people maintaining it in a way they do not maintain the tarawih and the five prayers. And among them: that the elite and the common people's concern for the obligatory acts and sunnahs, and their desire for them, decreases because of it, so you find the man striving in it, being sincere and turning back"
The Shaykh : Decreases, called the elite and the common people
The reader: Listen
The Shaykh : Decreases, and among them that the elite and the common people
The reader: Listen
The Shaykh : And among them that the elite and the common people
The reader: "And among them: that the elite and the common people's concern for the obligatory acts and sunnahs, and their desire for them, decreases because of it, so you find the man striving in it, being sincere and turning back, and doing in it what he does not do in the obligatory acts and sunnahs, until it is as if he performs this as worship, and performs the obligatory acts and sunnahs as a custom and duty, and this is the opposite of the religion, so he misses thereby what is in the obligatory acts and sunnahs of forgiveness, mercy, softness, purity, humility, response to the call, and the sweetness of supplication, among other benefits. And if he does not miss all of this, he must miss its perfection"
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon the noblest of the prophets and messengers, our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.
As for after: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said in Iqtida' al-Sirat al-Mustaqim "And this meaning is established in everything mentioned regarding the benefit in some of the disliked religious innovations, but this extent does not prevent their being disliked and prohibited, and substituting them with what is prescribed, in which there is no religious innovation, just as those who added the adhan to the two festivals are likewise. Indeed, the Jews and the Christians also find benefits in their worship, because their worship must necessarily include some type"
The Shaykh : In my copy, their worship
The reader: Correction.
The Shaykh : Or a copy and a sheet with you, forgive me
The reader: "And that is because their worship must necessarily include some type that is prescribed in its genus"
The Shaykh : Prescribed
The reader: "On some type that is prescribed in its genus, just as their words must necessarily include some truth transmitted from the prophets. Then, despite that, this does not necessitate that we perform their worship or narrate their words, because all religious innovations must necessarily include an evil that outweighs the good in them, for if their good had outweighed, the Shari'ah would not have neglected them. So we"
The Shaykh : I mentioned that the sentence at the end of the previous lesson is very important and that it should be attended to, so perhaps you have recorded it in the "Gharar al-Fawa'id." Yes.
The reader: "So we infer from their being a religious innovation that their sin is greater than their benefit, and that is what necessitates the prohibition. And I say that the sin of it may be removed from some individuals due to a counter-indicator, such as ijtihad or otherwise, just as the sin of"
The Shaykh : In my copy, due to a counter-indicator, ijtihad, al, better
The reader: In my copy, O Shaykh, it says "In jim, due to an obstacle"
The Shaykh : Due to an obstacle, ijtihad
The reader: It did not point to ijtihad, but
The Shaykh : In our copy, due to a counter-indicator, ijtihad. This manuscript is closer to the truth, so if you read
The reader: Due to a counter-indicator
The Shaykh : Then make it a manuscript
The reader: Listen
The Shaykh : Due to a counter-indicator, ijtihad
The reader: "And I say that the sin of it may be removed from some individuals due to a counter-indicator of ijtihad or otherwise, just as the sin of nabidh and the disputed riba is removed from the mujtahids of the Salaf. Then, despite that, it is obligatory to clarify its status, and that one should not imitate those who deemed it permissible, and that one should not be deficient in seeking the knowledge that clarifies its reality. And this evidence is sufficient to clarify that these religious innovations contain doctrinal or situational harms that contradict what the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) brought, and that the benefit in them is outweighed and not suitable for counter-indication. Then it is said by way of detail: If a group of people of virtue and religion performed it, and it was left in the time of these people, believing in its dislike, and a group denied it, if they were not better than those who performed it, they are not below them. And if they were below them in virtue, then those in authority disputed over it, so it is referred to Allah and the Messenger and the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger, with those who disliked it, not with those who granted a dispensation for it. Then the majority of the predecessors, who are better than the successors, are with these. As for the benefit in it, it is counter-indicated by the outweighing harms of the religious innovations in it"
The Shaykh : In my copy, the religious innovation, manuscript
The reader: "Among them, in addition to the aforementioned harm"
The Shaykh : Wait, read "refuted by the counter-indicator of what is in it"
The reader: "As for the benefit in it, it is counter-indicated by the outweighing harms of the religious innovations in it"
The Shaykh : Like this in your copy
The reader: Yes, exactly
The Shaykh : In our copy, the religious innovation
The reader: It says "The religious innovations are dropped from alif"
The Shaykh : No, in our copy, the religious innovation in the singular
The reader: A manuscript, O Shaykh
The Shaykh : Manuscript
The reader: "It is counter-indicated by the outweighing harms of the religious innovation in it. Among them, in addition to the aforementioned doctrinal and situational harm: that hearts find it sweet and become self-sufficient with it from many of the sunnahs, until you find many of the common people maintaining it in a way they do not maintain the tarawih and the five prayers. And among them: that the elite and the common people's concern for the obligatory acts and sunnahs, and their desire for them, decreases because of it, so you find the man striving in it, being sincere and turning back"
The Shaykh : Decreases, called the elite and the common people
The reader: Listen
The Shaykh : Decreases, and among them that the elite and the common people
The reader: Listen
The Shaykh : And among them that the elite and the common people
The reader: "And among them: that the elite and the common people's concern for the obligatory acts and sunnahs, and their desire for them, decreases because of it, so you find the man striving in it, being sincere and turning back, and doing in it what he does not do in the obligatory acts and sunnahs, until it is as if he performs this as worship, and performs the obligatory acts and sunnahs as a custom and duty, and this is the opposite of the religion, so he misses thereby what is in the obligatory acts and sunnahs of forgiveness, mercy, softness, purity, humility, response to the call, and the sweetness of supplication, among other benefits. And if he does not miss all of this, he must miss its perfection"