Fatwas Archive

Question: What is the secret behind Allah the Exalted making slaughter and sacrifice among the acts of worship and rites of ḥajj?

Question: If it is said: Allah the Exalted has detailed the rulings and limits of fasting, and He has detailed the rulings and limits of pilgrimage in the Noble Qur’an, then what is the wisdom behind not detailing the rulings...

A question was asked concerning the criticism of the Commander of the Faithful Imam ‘Alī (Peace be Upon Him) toward governors, where judges rule in a single case with different judgments, yet the governor approves all of them, while their...

Question: Is the ignorant person who follows, in his religion, scholars who are in error — whether from the Companions or others — excused due to his good intention and his seeking, by following them, the pleasure and forgiveness of...

Question: What is the evidence that disagreement in subsidiary ijtihād-based issues is permissible?

Question: Are the sciences of Ma‘ānī and Bayān necessary for ijtihād? Clarify this for us, even with some examples, may Allah reward you well.

Question: How can we know the abrogating text from the abrogated one if there is no explicit indication of it in a text from the Book, the Sunnah, or consensus, and the date of its revelation is not known? Is...

Question: We hear that so-and-so was granted authorization by such-and-such a scholar. What does authorization mean? Is it like a testimony that the one authorized is qualified to issue legal verdicts, or does it have another meaning?

Question: We found problematic the statement of the author of al-Fuṣūl: “It is forbidden to be lenient regarding ḥadīths of virtues and the like without clarifying their weakness or falsity,” etc.

Question: The scholars of uṣūl have said: the report of a single narrator does not yield more than presumption, so it is not acted upon except in subsidiary matters; and matters such as the obligation of prayer and the like—among...