staySAIF on Nostr: Hot take but also correct ofc. Fatwa shopping packaged as “bad” has actually ...
Hot take but also correct ofc.
Fatwa shopping packaged as “bad” has actually nothing to do with fidelity to traditional institutions but to cultural proximity with a geographic mediation of those structures.
No serious scholar would’ve launched a critique of a subject’s taqwa in 16th century Cairo because he chose a Hanbali judge to write his nikah contract but a Hanafi judge to institute his waqf.
The idea that every Muslim must suddenly have the same relationship with fiqh as a premodern faqih-in-training or forfeit their journey of piety is ridiculous.
Note: I’m well aware of the scholastic discourse surrounding whether laity must do taqlid of a specific madhab, scholar, or the four schools at large. And the qawl of Al-Haytami.
But a position on the meta debate of what is lazim for laity is different than attacking a subject.
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Fatwa shopping packaged as “bad” has actually nothing to do with fidelity to traditional institutions but to cultural proximity with a geographic mediation of those structures.
No serious scholar would’ve launched a critique of a subject’s taqwa in 16th century Cairo because he chose a Hanbali judge to write his nikah contract but a Hanafi judge to institute his waqf.
The idea that every Muslim must suddenly have the same relationship with fiqh as a premodern faqih-in-training or forfeit their journey of piety is ridiculous.
Note: I’m well aware of the scholastic discourse surrounding whether laity must do taqlid of a specific madhab, scholar, or the four schools at large. And the qawl of Al-Haytami.
But a position on the meta debate of what is lazim for laity is different than attacking a subject.
Covenant_watch (npub1jzt…9j4q)