Ma sha Allah, tabarakAllah. That’s great, very inspirational, a number of books and articles to add to my reading list, and I do hear the beckoning of law school, in sha Allah. This is the one lecture that I regretted missing at this past ISNA convention.

Does anyone have the Arabic text of the phrase by Ribee ibn Amr (that begins around 53.39): We came to take the people out of the worship of other created beings and into the worship of the Creator and from the constrictiveness of this world to the vastness of the hereafter.

Jazakum Allah Al ferdous ya Sheikh…

Assalamu ‘Alaikum,

Nice informative and heart warming lectures from both the shaykh. The way they approached this and complemented each other is also very commendable.

If Shaykh Yasir is reading this then this question is to him. I thought that you guys should have discussed a little bit about Imam Tahir bin ‘Ashur, the renowned Tunisian Mufassir and Usuli? He seems to have emphasized these principles and wrote an actual book naming “Maqasidus shariyah”. Not mentioning him seems like a missing link in such a discussion perhaps. Allahu A’alam.

Salaam alaikum,

The lectures were masha Allah beneficial. However they left many questions unanswered (at least to my mind). An example of what kind of fiqh that would be particular to the minority society would have made things very clear. What were those controversial rulings of Imam Shatabi for instance?

What would be “the controversial” rulings for the West now? What are the “unique” challenges that Muslims in a non-Muslim country face… etc.

Another question… what are the limits of the rulings derived from the maqasid (are there limits)? Can the rulings for instance overrule an explicit divinely revealed law that is mentioned in the Qur’an and Sunnah?

One would say the example of Umar RA who temporarily did not cut the hands of thieves due to famine.

But what are its implications, boundaries, rules? Who will keep a check of it? What would separate the line between rules of convenience and rules that are genuinely derived?

That scholars would supersede the laws of the Qur’an and Sunnah is difficult to digest, despite its proof being derived from the Qur’an and Sunnah itself. Or do you think it should just be left for practical issues that should be tackled as and when they arrive… instead of laying down a framework?

These are genuine questions… which i hope will be answered. Examples would be very beneficial.