{"id":14372,"date":"2025-10-23T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/?post_type=fatwa&#038;p=14372"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:21:22","slug":"how-does-a-seeker-of-knowledge-issue-fatwas-to-the-generalpublic","status":"publish","type":"fatwa","link":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/fatwa\/how-does-a-seeker-of-knowledge-issue-fatwas-to-the-generalpublic\/","title":{"rendered":"[How does a seeker of knowledge issue fatwas to the generalpublic?]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Question: Guides (murshid\u016bn) go out to instruct people in the<br>countryside and elsewhere, at the request of the scholars (may Allah<br>preserve them). The people of these villages must ask the guide about<br>certain matters\u2014such as prayer, zak\u0101t, and similar issues. Is it<br>permissible for the guide to give them fatw\u0101s according to what he<br>studied with the scholars from Matn al-Azh\u0101r and the like? Or must he<br>refer them to a scholar to issue the fatw\u0101?<br>And if it is not permissible for him to issue fatw\u0101s according to his<br>knowledge, does that mean his study is only for himself until he reaches<br>the rank of ijtih\u0101d and then assumes the position of giving fatw\u0101?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Guides (murshid\u016bn) go out to instruct people in thecountryside and elsewhere, at the request of the scholars (may Allahpreserve them). The people of these villages must ask the guide aboutcertain matters\u2014such as prayer, zak\u0101t, and similar issues. Is itpermissible for the guide to give them fatw\u0101s according to what hestudied with the scholars from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/fatwa\/how-does-a-seeker-of-knowledge-issue-fatwas-to-the-generalpublic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[How does a seeker of knowledge issue fatwas to the generalpublic?]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"featured_media":23347,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jet_sm_ready_style":"","_jet_sm_style":"","_jet_sm_controls_values":"","_jet_sm_fonts_collection":"","_jet_sm_fonts_links":"","almufti":["mr_allama_muhammad_abdullah_awad_al_muayyady"]},"fatwa-mufti":[780],"fatwa-subject":[575],"class_list":["post-14372","fatwa","type-fatwa","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fatwa-mufti-mr-allama-muhammad-bin-abdullah-awad-al-muayyidi","fatwa-subject-ijtihad-and-taqlid","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa\/14372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fatwa"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fatwa-mufti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa-mufti?post=14372"},{"taxonomy":"fatwa-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa-subject?post=14372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}