The Ruling on Replacing the Shariah with Man-Made Laws | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📌 In this fatwa, Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan explains the ruling on committing Istibdal, which is the repeal and replacement of a ruling from the Shariah with another law, whether man-made or otherwise. This act is not only devastating for the one who commits it, but also for those who advocate it, defend it, approve of it, or are pleased with it. This is a serious matter. A Muslim who believes in Allah and the Last Day should love, support, and desire that the Quran and Sunnah be implemented and upheld as the primary source of governance wherever he may be. ⚠️ Clarification: What is obligatory upon every Muslim is to hold the correct belief, to reject and dislike laws that oppose the Quran and Sunnah, and to love and prefer the rule of the Quran and Sunnah. Individuals are not obligated to take matters into their own hands or to forcibly bring about change. 📌 Source: ما تعليقكم على ما أصدرته جمعية نسائية حول إلغاء عدة المرأة المتوفى عنها زوجها؟ للشيخ الفوزان https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UavYqBK5a5I ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murji'ah conflate the outward rulings pertaining to legislative names and labels with the inward rulings pertaining to legislative punishments. - The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a kafir only after the clarification. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir based on the outward act he committed. Such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah.” 📚 Source:Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Aqeedah #Salafi #salafiyyah #Bidah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #SeekingKnowledge #Tawheed #Muslim #Fiqh #scholarsofsunnah #AhlusSunnah #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Creed #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #MuslimYouth #Knowledge #IslamicGuidance #Shariah #Reminder #ShirkAkbar #ExcuseOfIgnorance #Takfir #Iman #Kufr #SalafiDawah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #UsulAlDeen #KitabAlTawhid #ScholarsOfIslam #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #LajnahDaimah #Clarification #Refutation #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #Truth #Guidance #SunnahWay #Sunnah #Tawhid #PropheticSunnah #IslamicKnowledge #Salafi #zuhd #sufi #sufism