What is Ijma (consensus) in Islam? How does it work? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

I was asked a question people ask me about each man this thing of each ma look maybe in some day I'll do something detailed have answered a lot about each map previously each map there it means consensus yeah and there is no consensus on what consensus is they haven't even scholars have an agreed on there is no each man on each map so this doesn't make any sense this is a tool that is used to intimidate other people that's

the truth I do in my personal understanding believe that age MA had an original had a Genesis which is not applicable today and it wasn't for it was only in the early community amongst the companions and what age amount was amongst them I'll tell you what in my understanding and I presented this understanding to one of the leading scholars of the Maliki world today in Morocco chef I presented this when I was in I was in Rabat at the house of Chef

Mohammed rookie and he spelt it Ruki but rupee they pronounced he's and he's a legend he was one of the grand shares of the Kareem and one of the leading Olimar of the Malik here today and I present I said this I presented this to him and he actually said that makes a lot of sense and he kind of agreed with it I don't know whether he teaches it like that in public but he did agree and he said that that does make a lot of sense I said that look in my understanding that this is mad the way scholars quoted and they use it in the books has no reality they claim it's mine everything everyone nobody agrees on what each man is and who is in this each man by the way

consensus like I asked Chavez I say who's it like the Shia ain't in our Richmond in the so the Shia so they disregarded and then the other sects are disregarded and then each other they consider them disregarded who the hell this consensus what kind of a consensus is this and where does this come from because the evidences for consensus don't come from the Quran asana the hadith they presenters of the hadith by vine so by hadith so and the verses that they present or not nothing to do with this concept but do I believe that it had an origin I do believe now I want you to pay

attention to this what I think happened upon this is my evaluation I think that this concept emerged with groups like the huar age now in early Islam the first major group sect that emerged were known were this extremist radically extreme sect which are like modern-day Isis basically back I think they were maybe a few level the head of Isis but but they were pretty much like Isis Isis are they're kind of like the kind of the illegitimate children of the hawala G

now the whole Orage believed that anybody who committed the sin is a kaffir and if they're a kafir they will definitely be in the Hellfire and and we are allowed to execute these people because they Co far they relied for this interpretation on apparent not interpretations apparent readings of the Quran so they read certain apparent verses which apparently read okay I keep saying this word so you understand that the literal verse supports their

understanding it doesn't support the majority of Muslims the literal verse says and anybody who commits who is surrounded by a sin will be in the Hellfire anybody who kills a Muslim will be in the Hellfire forever anybody see so these sins will make eternal eyes you in the Hellfire so the apparent readings of the Quran in not of all the Quran but of these select verses read like this textually literally so if you're saying something else you're going with the inter rotation they going with the apparent so this became a problem so these people

are saying that look they're saying that look the quran is saying this but you you want to go with your opinion but the quran is saying that we they are kaffir the quran is saying whoever doesn't room by according to our lhasa is a calf in the poor army saying that and strike them and kill them and hit them at they strike the necks and strike their fingertips the quran is saying this so what was happening is this group the Huaraz were using this so what happened is the companion said the great

companions people like a book people like omar ali all these great companions who are companions of understanding evening most old companions of who used to give fatwa and now i'm a ribbon on us and maui and all these great companions they said Bilal and Harley bin Walid and all these great people they said no we lived with the Prophet we he was a walking talking Quran in front of us you

know as when like I said you want to understand the Quran the Prophet was the walking talking Quran yes this verse apparently reads that it does apparently read that but it doesn't mean that how do we know that because the collected inherited understanding of these verses by his living companions alive today will demonstrate to you that the verse didn't mean this is where this is my kind of was born that look we are those

can find not any companion not like how even the Hajj Allah said o the companion anybody who met the prophet not that understanding of companion but true pants like intermedia and in these are the books I would all and these are the books when unnecessarily long on and who is asked all the Companions of the Prophet alive today and he said maybe people who saw the Prophet are alive but his companions are not alive they've passed away because what he meant what the Prophet meant by his companions were those who were often around him like his friends and his support not just like anybody who saw him but that's like a technical word companion that some

scholars kind of extended but his true companions they inherited his understanding and they said look listen we inherited this the Prophet never meant go around killing Kafar he never meant that in the core I never meant that this had a context this is where each man was born and that level of each much to do with beliefs not being corrupted and hamdullah I embrace that I wholeheartedly embrace that understanding of each man that understanding of each man to do with the Quran not being misused to do with

beliefs around people don't become calf ears and though these kind of few key issues there weren't many but these things yes the Sahaba taught that if that's what you mean by each man later on people started to expand this and they started to take it even into fifth I'm like even the Chi Sigma and this is why imam ahmed said money dial each man for work Adam whoever claims each mice and lion this is the famous saying of Imam Ahmed in Hamburg but then they're gonna say old but his followers accepted because later on people kind of went with the institutionalization because

they used each man for their own strength they used it to intimidate followers they used it to coerce opinions it was a very key tool and yes the Sunnis will reject the Shia from each man they will reject them from each man they will reject so what kind what is this all about so this is why I think that's important okay