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Dr. Yasir Qadhi

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Chair, Fiqh Council of North America Dean, The Islamic Seminary of America MA (Madinah), PhD (Yale) (Managed by Admin)

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What a sad time we live in, when Muslim governments bar Muslim girls from school for wearing the hijab. We all oppose the Taliban's ban on women's education, and the whole world rightly spoke up against it. Yet hardly anyone in the Western media says a word when hijabi girls are denied an education. Concern for girls' schooling cannot be selective.

What a sad time we live in, when Muslim governments bar Muslim girls from school for wearing the hijab. We all oppose the Taliban's ban on women's education, and the whole world rightly spoke up against it. Yet hardly anyone in the Western media says a word when hijabi girls are denied an education. Concern for girls' schooling cannot be selective.

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For over ten days, the Isr@eli occupiers haven't even allowed prayers to be performed in Masjid al-Aqsa. Anyone who prevents people from worshipping God cannot claim to believe in God. ومن أظلم ممن منع مساجد الله أن يذكر فيها اسمه وسعى في خرابها

For over ten days, the Isr@eli occupiers haven't even allowed prayers to be performed in Masjid al-Aqsa. Anyone who prevents people from worshipping God cannot claim to believe in God. ومن أظلم ممن منع مساجد الله أن يذكر فيها اسمه وسعى في خرابها

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Some days have passed, yet the scene from California remains heavy upon the heart. Thousands of believers stood shoulder to shoulder for the janazah of our three brothers, taken at the Islamic Center of San Diego while defending the sanctity of the masjid and the lives within it. May Allah ﷻ accept them, raise their ranks among the shuhadāʾ, and grant their families and our wider community the strength of īmān in the face of trial. إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

Some days have passed, yet the scene from California remains heavy upon the heart. Thousands of believers stood shoulder to shoulder for the janazah of our three brothers, taken at the Islamic Center of San Diego while defending the sanctity of the masjid and the lives within it. May Allah ﷻ accept them, raise their ranks among the shuhadāʾ, and grant their families and our wider community the strength of īmān in the face of trial. إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

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Only Allah has the ultimate, unconditional right to legislate. This is a fundamental point of theology that every Muslim must believe. To claim that any entity or group of people has the unconditional authority to legislate is to claim there is another deity besides God. All religious folks believe this, not just Muslims. The technical question that needs to be asked is: does voting for a candidate, wanting to choose the lesser of two evils, necessarily entail allocation of Divine Rights to a legislative body? Or is the action of voting, while having Iman in Allah, not something that compromises one’s faith? The majority of modern Salafi, Sufi, Deobandi, Ashari, and Barelwi scholars (even non-Sunni scholars) have said that there is no compromise in one’s theology if one votes for a candidate who appears to be better for the Ummah (my recent khutbah mentions a sample list). A minority held another view. Factually speaking, the sheer quantity of modern scholars and Fiqh Councils that have allowed voting for Muslims in minority lands should at the very least demonstrate that the issue is not as clear cut as some make it out to be. Those who encourage voting are trying to make the best of a very bad situation, and wanting to save lives and protect our rights to practice our faith. While we should not doubt the sincerity of the scholars holding the minority opinion, it is extremely dangerous to ignore these nuances, cast aside the legitimate difference of opinion, and then utter blanket verdicts of kufr on the majority view. And yes, factually speaking, such a penchant to make takfīr so easily, on so many people, many of whom have studied the Islamic sciences for decades, is closer to the early Kharijite mentality than it is to mainstream Sunnism. While some may disagree with the tactic of voting (on multiple grounds), it would be more useful for those who disagree to propose realistic, tangible alternatives that we can all act upon. May Allah guide us to the truth in these complex matters and in our chaotic times! Ameen!

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