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everything is permissible by default until proven otherwise (al-asl al-ibaha)

Cited in 8 segments across 5 recordings · 2014 to 2021 · principle/principle:default-permissibility

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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is everything halal unless proven haram? Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says things are halal by default and prohibiting is a heavy task, and teachers should say 'in my understanding' because they could be wrong. Lessonposition checkedeverything is permissible by default until proven otherwise (al-asl al-ibaha)halalharam machine2 min 37 s1:03:39on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth If the Prophet couldn't forbid what Allah allowed, how can scholars issue fatwas? The verse rebukes the Prophet for forbidding himself something permissible to please others, not for legislating; things are permissible by default, so declaring something haram is a weighty step. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 66:1 (why do you forbid what Allah has made lawful for you, seeking to please your wives)everything is permissible by default until proven otherwise (al-asl al-ibaha)istishab [?] (the presumption of continuity)fatwa machine3 min 59 s41:12on YouTube
18 Sep 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Why is everything permissible by default in Islamic law unless proven haram? By default everything is conclusively permissible, since Allah created everything on earth for us and what He was silent about is pardoned, and that certainty can only be removed by certainty, not by a hadith that remains probable. So Mufti Abu Layth does not declare music halal; Allah has, and the evidence against it falls short of overturning that. Lessonposition checkedeverything is permissible by default until proven otherwise (al-asl al-ibaha)ibaha (permissibility)Imam MalikMaliki school machine6 min 35 s30:08on YouTube
18 Sep 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Why is celibacy praised despite a hadith against it while music is condemned without one? A sahih hadith condemns the vow never to marry, yet unmarried scholars are praised in books like Abu Ghudda's, because celibacy fits the picture of religion as self-denial; music, which fits the opposite picture, is condemned although no clear sahih hadith names it. The default law remains that everything is permissible unless proven otherwise. Lessonposition checkedreport: three men vowed to pray all night fast every day and never marry and the prophet condemned themAbd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddaal-Ulama al-Uzzab alladhina atharu al-ilm ala al-zawaj (the unmarried scholars) [?]al-Nawawi machine6 min 30 s1:00:02on YouTube
18 Sep 2019From the Mind of a Mufti What is Mufti Abu Layth's final verdict on whether music is haram? Music is not haram: no clear sahih hadith prohibits it and the default law makes everything permissible unless proven otherwise. Mufti Abu Layth calls it the nourishment of the soul, notes that sound is only vibration interpreted by a listener, and cites music therapy in medieval Muslim hospitals. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-Bukharireport: at the end of time people will consider maazif permissible (Sahih al-Bukhari, number not stated)ma'azif (musical instruments; read as 'entertainment')everything is permissible by default until proven otherwise (al-asl al-ibaha) machine4 min 42 s1:06:32on YouTube
21 Dec 2016video Should religious Muslims focus on avoiding sin or on doing good? Focus on building up the good, not on sins: the salaf rarely said haram, things are permissible by default, and the deen should be made easy. Lessonposition checkedreport: if you leave a tenth of what you are commanded you will be destroyed; a time will come when whoever holds to a tenth will be savedreport: bashshiru wa la tunaffiru yassiru wa la tuassiruImam Malikal-Mazari machine8 min 07 s31:58on YouTube
9 May 2014video Can a woman go out of the house without a need? One speaker holds women went out only for need; the other that hadith and Maliki texts show women in public and travelling, with no text forbidding going out. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechUstadh Abdus Shakur Brooks (guest)mahramhajjreport: fatima bint qays was told to spend her waiting period in the house of ibn umm maktum [?] machine5 min 12 s22:26on YouTube
9 May 2014video Is it haram for a woman to go out for a walk? One speaker says nothing makes it haram for a woman to go for a walk and challenges the other to produce a Maliki fatwa forbidding it; the other asks whether fatwa must follow the madhhab's protocols. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechUstadh Abdus Shakur Brooks (guest)fatwaImam Maliksalaf machine10 min 42 s27:38on YouTube