From you’re example about Jihad being difficult on ones health and wealth, and this serving as a basis for seeking a fatwa, you seem to have misunderstood what was said. It is not the mere difficulty that serves as a criterion on when to seek a fatwa, but the level of such difficulty, so were not talking about the difficulty for example it would cause for a soldier to carry over 7kg’s on his back as part of his training, but the difficulty a blind person may face in engaging in jihad. So it is not difficulty per se, but indeed the extent of such difficulty,

What you state about seeking recourse to a mufti is confusing. Are you suggesting that the mufti is going to gave baseless verdicts just to seek ease? The principle reason why we seek the verdict of a scholar is because we are trying to stay within the dictates of the shariah, so for you to suggest that the mufti is somehow standing in opposition to the Hadith (and textual sources) seems to suggest a lack of understanding of the process of deriving Ahkam and Taysir. We have the ahadith, but how is this body of text interacted with for it to be viable for all places and times?

Regarding your whole analysis about difficulty, brother I suggest you read al Muwafaqaat, or at least Usul al-Fiqh al-Islami by Sh Wahbah Zuhaly, you will find that scholars understood that the very nature of “taklif” is difficulty, for the very word Taklif itself has within its meaning difficulty. A brief look at history will inform us how there were many difficult times, indeed in the time of the Prophet himself. The fact that their Iman was so high did not negate the fact that some actions by the nature are difficult.

I admit, this is a very subtle topic, hence the great scholar Sufyan al-Thawri said, “Making things burdensome and difficult on people is the realm of the masses. Facilitation and ease is the realm of the Faqih”, as it requires deep Fiqh, something which is becoming a very rare commodity in our times.

Wassalam

Secondaly, individual muftis according to the level of teaching, type of teacher and madrassa as well as individual
experience will come up with recommendation for their own reasons, now as we know it is difficult
to diffrentiate between Mufti’s it is therefore (in my view) better to have avoided any mufti
from “thinking as they like” rather only base on clear-cut provisions and leniencies as stated
by Prophet via ahadith. There should be no allowance made other than those made by prophet
, there is wisdom in his leniencies. We dont allow people to make changes in ibadaah.. to avoid
innovation , the similar protection level shuld have been applied to other matters as well.

2- No matter what category we give there is a difficulty..yes?
The write up does talk about the difficulty and the leniency for difficult acts but doesent
mention why there is a desparity in the deen.. as in is there difficulty or there isnt difficulty
so if there is difficulty then the verse is not right or there is no difficulty in reality
though we may linguisticly and incorrectly call things difficut but in reality there is no such thing
as difficult it is our own view that renders acts difficult.

perhaps you could try keeping the company of people that don’t have that problem

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