Mazhabs
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General |
| Can you read the fiqh texts of another mazhab? Yes, it is educational and would tremendously benefit a scholar of fiqh who is well versed in Arabic and associated Islamic sciences. It could confuse the general Muslim who intends to read it with an intention to practice upon the contents without clarification and recourse to scholars who are proficient and enabled to answer the reasons as to why the jurists of different mazhabs held diverse opinions on a single issue. Converts to Islam are advised to adhere to one school of Islamic jurisprudence in the same manner that the general Muslim public has been advised on this course for centuries due to the intricate nature of the inferential format of Islamic law. However, there would be no problem in terms of the Shari'ah to adopt a ruling that most conforms to the dictates of the qura'an and hadith and where the differences are clearly within the elaborative capacity of an erudite scholar who can proficiently advise on the ruling to be adopted. (Ahmed Fazel Ebrahim) |
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Re: [al-Zawiya] best madhab for a woman convert:
Paraphrasing
from the words of Shaykh Nuh (hafizahuLLah), the best madhhab for a woman,
or anyone else to learn, is the one she/he has access to some qualified
individual to learn from. If there is a person who has studied the abwaab
(chapters) of taharah (purity) and salat according to the Shaafi'i madhhab
in her area, and a person who has completed the Nur ul-Idah text in the
Hanafi madhhab - it is BEST that she study with the person who can take
them through a complete text. If there are multiple people of varying
madhaahib (arabic plural of Mazhab) in the area that can guide her through
a complete text of their respective madhhab, then she could choose
according to which teacher and majlis (study group) she feels most
comfortable in. There is no "easy" madhhab, i.e. for every point on which a mazhab (legal school) may seem "easier", it maybe stricter than the other schools regarding another issue. Wasalaam,Khalid |
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Following the stronger views of other Mazaahib or that which is established from the primary sources of the law |
| Leaving the opinion within a mazhab to follow a stronger opinion of another mazhab or a ruling on the same issue that is established from sound evidence |