{"id":13111,"date":"2019-06-04T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/?p=13111"},"modified":"2021-07-16T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T10:06:18","slug":"is-our-religion-strict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/spirituality\/is-our-religion-strict\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Our Religion Strict? | Questions with Dr. Omar Abdel Kafi"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/amp-jwplayer>ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION<\/strong><\/em>\nWe thank Allah and send peace and blessings upon his prophet Muhammad \ufdfa\nIn the matter of religious steadfastness and strictness of faith for those who live in Western countries\nWhen should one be strict about their religion and what are the rulings about the matter?\nFirstly, Islamic jurisprudence has known two schools of thoughts\nThe strict school of Ibn Umar and the leniency school of Ibn Abbas\nMuslims have long lived between the rulings of these two schools of thought\nThose who choose to follow Ibn Umar\u2019s school of thought\nHave never pointed their finger towards the ones following Ibn Abbas\nWe have never heard Ibn Umar telling Ibn Abbas \u201cyou have ruined our religion by giving people all these other easy avenues and excuses\u201d\nAnd never has Ibn Abbas said that Ibn Umar has made matters harder on Muslims\nNo, they have both accepted each other\nWhoever wishes to protect themselves, by all means, do so\nBut religion is a matter of choices and there are certain risks and\nWe know that never did Allah’s Messenger\ufdfa make a choice between two things but adopting the easier one as compared to the difficult one (Sahih)\nI have read the history of Fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence)\nMy specialisation is Comparison between Fiqh rulings\nAnd I have found that the most lenient Jurist was The Prophet \ufdfa\nAnd after him were the companions\nAnd after them will be their followers and so on\nTill someone appeared and told us that when Allah told us to wash our faces for ablution\nThat person decided to ask, \u201cWhat is the face?\u201d\nAn this is when the matters of explaining what is obvious and the philosophical interpretations became the hardest thing to understand and study\nAnd now we have to learn where the face starts and where it ends\nThe companions, like Umar, never asked, \u201cWhat is the face?\u2019\nThe face is known\nThe followers like Hasan Al-Basri never asked, \u201cWhat is the face?\u201d\nBut in the age of free time and luxuries, the jurists found time to speak about what the face actually is\nStarting from the hairline at the top of the forehead till below the chin line and from one earlobe to the other \u2026.\nAnd if the Muslim is bald what if he thought that his head is part of the face?\nSeriously brother? The bald head is like the face?\nFace comes from facing someone it\u2019s obvious!\nAnd this where we entered into explaining the details\nIf you would\u2019ve asked Omar what are the things that spoil your fast?\nIt was known then there are only 3 or 4 things that spoil you fast\nBut now we study in the Books of Fiqh\nThere 63 matters that can spoil your fast\nAnd we had to as children (Studying Jurisprudence) memorise all these rulings\nWhen we reach the second page we would\u2019ve forgotten the first one\nWhen we reach the last page, we would have forgotten the pillars of fasting\nThis is how strict we\u2019ve become, although our religion is easy and lenient\nI say this and Allah knows best!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ENGLISH TRANSCRIPTION We thank Allah and send peace and blessings upon his prophet Muhammad \ufdfa In the matter of religious steadfastness and strictness of faith for those who live in Western countries When should one be strict about their religion and what are the rulings about the matter? Firstly, Islamic jurisprudence has known two schools […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow4-bBDA:productID":"","content-type":"","newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/f1402f44-8994-4c23-83de-48d0d766f08f"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"series":[],"speaker":[],"coauthors":[140],"class_list":["post-13111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality","post_format-post-format-video","entry"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/0529uu9m-720.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onepathnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Mums-on-the-RunV3.jpg?fit=2160%2C2160&ssl=1","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/onepathnetwork.com\/au\/feed\/podcast\/mums-on-the-run","embedCode":"

Is Our Religion Strict? | Questions with Dr. Omar Abdel Kafi<\/a><\/blockquote>