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Q&A: Is there a Clear Statement Where Taqleed for more than One Mujtahed is Forbidden

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Question & Answer: Is there a Clear Statement Where Taqleed for more than One Mujtahed is Forbidden Question: Is there a clear statement for the issue where taqleed for more than one mujtahed is forbidden? Then how will I know that this is one issue or more? May Allah reward you. Answer: In  al-Shakhsiyya  Volume One in the chapter: Moving (tanaqqul) from one mujtahid to another, [p. 234-5 (Arabic) and p.188 (English edition)], the following is mentioned: "But it should be clear that the issue where it is permissible for him to leave the ruling that he used to follow to another ruling, it is required that the issue is separated from any other issues, and that leaving it is not consequent to affecting other provisions of legitimacy. However, if it was related to another issue, then it's not permissible for him to leave it until he leaves all the issues related to it because it it considered all one issue. For example, it w

Q&A: The tax due on uncultivated land

It is stated in the book Funds in the Khilafah State on page 79 (Arabic ed.), starting from the seventh line from the bottom of the page to the third line from the bottom, the following:  "If the allocated land was uncultivated from the beginning of time, or it was cultivated and tilled then became neglected and uncultivated before Kharaj was imposed upon it, and the state had obtained the land in a legal manner and allotted it to a citizen, then its rule is like the rule of reviving uncultivated Kharaji land, it belongs to whoever revives it and secludes it, it's neck and its benefit if he is a Muslim and 'Ushr or half of the 'Ushr is due on him for it." And the question is: Is it not the correct word 'Ushri instead of Kharaji that is underlined? Answer: 1. It seems that the confusion arose because you thought that the revival of dead (barren) Kharaji land that had not been subject to Kharaj became 'Ushri. However the matter is not so, since i

Q&A: Perfumes ('Utoor) that Contain Alcohol

Question: As-Salaamu Alaikum, I would like to seek an explanation of the ruling (Hukm) related to the use of perfume ('Utoor) that contains some forms of alcohol? Baarakallahu Feekum. From Firas Khbou Answer: Wa Alaikumu Salaam wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakaatuhu, In regards to 'Utoor (perfumes) that contain alcohol then the rulings of alcohol apply upon them and this is because the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said in a Hadeeth collected by Muslim and extracted from Ibn 'Umar who said: The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: كُلُّ مُسْكِرٍ خَمْرٌ، وَكُلُّ مُسْكِرٍ حَرَامٌ "Every intoxicant is Khamr and every intoxicant is Haraam." And he صلى الله عليه وسلم said in a Hadeeth from Abu Dawood from Jaabir Bin 'Abdullah: مَا أَسْكَرَ كَثِيرُهُ، فَقَلِيلُهُ حَرَامٌ "That which a lot of it intoxicates then a little of it is Haraam." So he صلى الله عليه وسلم has explained the liquid that is called Khamr so every intoxicant w