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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is the offer and acceptance valid via telephone?

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The questioner : The offer and acceptance, if it is...

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner : The offer and acceptance, if it is via telephone.

The Shaykh : It is not valid; via telephone, it is not valid.

The questioner : The agent via telephone?

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : Agency via telephone.

The Shaykh : The known signature; it must be a known signature.

The questioner : And the acceptance, well...

The Shaykh : He himself signs under it.

The questioner : No, other than... the acceptance via telephone.

The Shaykh : Yes, I say he writes under it and sends it, but the voice on the telephone is easy to imitate. I saw a person with a device; if you wish, you put your voice in it as if it were a graduate... once, and it means, little by little, bit by bit, as the Sudanese say, or non-Sudanese, well, then... with the converter, and it becomes precise once, yes, he can do this; he brings a device to make his voice like so-and-so's voice, and there are people now who imitate voices, glory be to Allah, you say this is the man himself, how can one shout at him and say I am so-and-so, and my daughter is so-and-so, witness that I married my daughter to so-and-so, and he is not so-and-so, this is not acceptable.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : Circumstantial evidence?

The Shaykh : There is no circumstantial evidence at all now; there is no circumstantial evidence, meaning the truth is that you can say every person can imitate on the telephone. Yes?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : What?

The questioner : The condition of a guardian.

The Shaykh : What?
Source alathar.net

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