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| Fatwa ID: | 21824 |
| Title: | Equilibrium between worldly and religious |
| Category: | Basic Tenets of Faith (Belief) |
| Scholar: | AMJA Resident Fatwa Committee |
| Date: | 10/14/2012 |
How can equilibrium between worldly and religious sciences be achieved?
Among religious sciences, there are branches of knowledge that are compulsory for every Muslim to know (individual duty) and other braches that need not to be known but by some of the Muslims (collective duty). Learning (Individual Duties) of religious sciences is inevitable for every Muslim who is rendered sinner if he/she disregards them; like learning the principle and rulings of prayers and fasting without which such worships are not performed properly. However, it is not necessary for a Muslim to learn every issue with its proofs of legality, as it is sufficient for him/her to ask some jurist(s) whose religion and knowledge are trustworthy so as to worship Allah with deep insight.
As for (Collective Duties) of religious sciences, they are obligatory for the whole nation to know and not for every individual of it, like learning Mawarith (rulings of Estate distribution to heirs), details of rulings and dealings, etc. Thus there must be in Ummah (the whole nation) those who know such matters but it is not obligatory for every Muslim to know them.
As for worldly sciences, they are originally allowed. Some of which may be collectively duty and some may be unlawful. As collective duties of worldly sciences are represented in learning basics of professions like agriculture and industries as well as all professions for which the Ummah is need. There must be some people of the Ummah who master such professions so as not be enforced to beg its enemies to provide such services and consequently causing the Ummah to be humiliated and subordinate. However some of the worldly sciences may be unlawful like learning magic, dancing , and all unlawful, degraded arts. Muslims have got to learn – as highest priority- individual duties of the religious sciences, then get to acquire collective duties of both sorts of disciplines according to what the nation is need for on one hand, and to his interests and capabilities on the other. Allah distributed professions as He did with provisions of livelihood.
