The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The reality of fatwa is preferring legitimate knowledge over one’s natural desires ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 233 من الجزء Two

The reality of fatwa is that a person prefers the legitimate knowledge received from God over the Sunnah of the Messengers, based on his own desires and on the evidence of his mind and what his thought and consideration have ruled upon, if he contradicts the knowledge of the law prescribed for him. This is the youth, so he is in the hands of the legitimate knowledge like a dead person in the hands of the washer, and it should not be said here. He will be in the hands of the truth like a dead person in the hands of the washer, for it is a mistake and a slip of the past. The law has restricted you, so stop at its restriction. It has not made it obligatory for you to attribute it to yourself or to any of the created beings other than God. It is fatwa to attribute it to that and not to God in reality, as He commanded you, even if He directs you to Other than that, your mind rejects it, and be with legitimate knowledge. And whatever He commands you to attribute to Him, Glory be to Him,


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