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@ staySAIF
2025-02-24 18:21:06
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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