Between facilitation and difficulty .. Where is the Islamic Sharia?

He added in his speech to an episode of “Shari’a and Life in Ramadan” program (04/4/2022) that Islamic Sharia is based on many laws;

The first of these is the denial of embarrassment from the one who is obligated in his religion, because of the Almighty’s saying (and He has not made any hardship upon you in religion), and Imam Al-Shatibi’s saying, “Any fatwa that goes from ease to difficulty is not from Sharia.”

The scholars also put facilitation of the purposes of legitimacy as well.

He continued that the second law is to look at human weakness and alleviate it, because God Almighty says (God does not burden a soul beyond its capacity).

Human capacity includes "mental, psychological, physical, and material capacity", and the human being is charged with what he reached only for the Almighty's saying (and we will not be tormented until we send a messenger), and Islamic law intended to narrow the door of the forbidden, not expand it.

The professor of jurisprudence and its origins noted that the taboos in Islam are limited, as only 4 types of food are forbidden, and in dress there are certain etiquettes that must be adhered to, and everything else is permissible. Being free from gambling and eating people’s money unjustly, and that the commodity is forbidden, and that this transaction does not cause general harm.

Facilitation or indulgence?

Fadel Murad cautioned that it is necessary to differentiate between facilitation and leniency in Islamic law, and this matter has 4 ranks: the first facilitates legitimacy, licenses during hardships, licenses for jurists, and an attempt to deviate from Shari’a. Introducing people to the ease of Islam.

He added that the licenses of the jurists are subject to controversy among them, as some of them agreed that the shortening of prayer during travel should be up to 6 months, while others believe that the duration of travel is where it was, while Imam Al-Shafi’i says that it is a precaution not to shorten the prayer for more than 16 days.

And about tracing the licenses of the sects in each issue separately, the professor of jurisprudence and its origins confirmed that the scholars agreed that following the licenses to ease the taxpayer is okay, provided that it is not following whims, because Islamic Sharia came to remove the taxpayer from following whims and what the soul desires to follow the controls legitimacy.

On the issue of extremism, Fadl Murad emphasized that extremism contradicts the spirit of facilitating Sharia and puts people in trouble in their religion and their lives, and leads to harm and hardship for the taxpayer, which is rejected in Islamic Sharia.