{"id":24519,"date":"2026-05-09T04:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/fatwa\/the-ruling-on-a-persons-error-in-choosing-the-school-of-thought\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:03:11","slug":"the-ruling-on-a-persons-error-in-choosing-the-school-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"fatwa","link":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/fatwa\/the-ruling-on-a-persons-error-in-choosing-the-school-of-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"[The Ruling on a Person\u2019s Error in Choosing the School of Thought]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question: If a man studies the differences between the Islamic schools of thought and then chooses for himself the school of the Jabr\u012bs [those who say people are compelled] or the Mushabbihah [anthropo-morphists], and so on, how is it then judged that, according to some, he is a disbeliever by interpretation, and according to others he is a sinner \u2013 when Allah, exalted is He, says: \u201cAnd there is no blame upon you for that in which you have erred.\u201d [al-Ahzab:5] and when the Prophet (May Allah bless him and his family and grant them peace) has said: \u201cMy community has had [the burden of] error and forgetfulness lifted from it&#8230;\u201d \u2013 while this man has exerted due diligence in his investigation, has declared Allah, exalted is He, transcendent and holy, affirmed for Him what He, exalted is He, deserves of attributes of perfection, and negated from Him what does not befit His majesty of attributes of deficiency and blame; and Allah, exalted is He, has said: \u201cAllah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity.\u201d [al-Baqarah:286] and this man has done what lies within his capacity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: If a man studies the differences between the Islamic schools of thought and then chooses for himself the school of the Jabr\u012bs [those who say people are compelled] or the Mushabbihah [anthropo-morphists], and so on, how is it then judged that, according to some, he is a disbeliever by interpretation, and according to others&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/fatwa\/the-ruling-on-a-persons-error-in-choosing-the-school-of-thought\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[The Ruling on a Person\u2019s Error in Choosing the School of Thought]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1647,"featured_media":25060,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jet_sm_ready_style":"","_jet_sm_style":"","_jet_sm_controls_values":"","_jet_sm_fonts_collection":"","_jet_sm_fonts_links":"","almufti":[]},"fatwa-mufti":[780],"fatwa-subject":[849],"class_list":["post-24519","fatwa","type-fatwa","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","fatwa-mufti-al-sayyid_al-allamah_al-hujjah_muhammad_ibn_abdullah_awad_al-muayyidi_may_allah-preserve-him","fatwa-subject-the-fundamentals-of-religion-the-book-of-divine-unity","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa\/24519","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\/25060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fatwa-mufti","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa-mufti?post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"fatwa-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alorwahalwuthqa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fatwa-subject?post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}