fiqh

8 entries

Pages on statements about matters of fiqh and on how those statements were conveyed.

"Even If a Woman Dresses Revealingly, a Man Cannot Look"

His answer, as an Islamic jurist, to the discourse that ties sexual assault to a woman's clothing: a woman's sin belongs to her alone, and it is not even permissible for a man to look at her.

How Did the "An Economic Crisis Is Coming" Remark Enter the Indictment?

A crisis warning from one of his sermons was placed in the indictment of the 30 January 2018 file with the question "how did he know this"; Kuytul explains that this was not a prophecy but a sentence about consequences.

The Distortion of the "His Mother's Knee" Remark

A few sentences cut from a lesson of 29 April 2011 were served up in 2018 as though they were a new speech; what was being explained was the ruling on 'awrah, agreed upon by all four schools of law.

Out of context

The "They Act According to Dreams" Claim

The one who says that a dream is not acted upon is Kuytul himself: what was related on 10 April 2016 was not a ruling but glad tidings given to a tense crowd.

Unfounded

The "He Used the Friday Prayer Objection as a Political Tool" Claim

The objection is jurisprudential from the outset: an obligatory prayer that can be performed with precautions in place is not given up. The measures he proposed are the same as those applied when the mosques opened on 29 May 2020.

Distorted

The Claim That He Opposed the Coronavirus Measures

He said "I am not against the measures, but I am against their being exaggerated"; on masks, distance and hand-washing he said he would follow the experts. His objection was not to the measure but to a distinction that distance could not explain.

Distorted

The claim that "a religious teacher should not get involved in politics"

He does not deny that he speaks on political matters. But what he speaks on is not party politics; he supports no party. The field the objection calls "politics" and the field he speaks in are not the same thing.

Partly true

The claim that "politics is not the business of a scholar of fiqh"

Islamic fiqh does not consist of prayer, fasting and zakat alone; the rulings on the state, on war and on treaties are subjects of fiqh too. The Prophet himself founded a state and governed it.