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**Noxassope** · 08-01-2011, 06:34 PM

Assalamu alaykum

Shaykh Ibn Tamiyyah RA, the famous jurist, says in his 'Fatawa':

"Some people follow at one time an imam who holds the marriage invalid, and at another time they follow a jurist who holds it valid. They do so only to serve their individual purpose and satisfy their desires. Such a practice is impermissible according to the consensus of all the imams."

He further elaborates the point by several examples when he says:

"For example if a person wants to pre-empt a sale he adopts the view of those who give the right of pre-emption to a contingent neighbour, but if they are the seller of a property, they refuse to accept the right of pre-emption for the neighbour of the seller (on the basis of Shafi'i view) . . . and if the relevant person claims that he did not know before (that Imam Shafi'i does not give the right of pre-emption to the neighbour) and has come to know it only then, and he wants to follow that view as from today, he will not be allowed to do so, because such a practice opens the door for playing with the rules of Shari'ah, and paves the path for deciding the halal and haram in accordance with one's desires."
(Fatawa Ibn Taymiyyah Syrian ed. 2:285,286)

08-01-2011, 06:34 PM	#14
Noxassope Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 449 Senior Member	Assalamu alaykum Shaykh Ibn Tamiyyah RA, the famous jurist, says in his 'Fatawa': "Some people follow at one time an imam who holds the marriage invalid, and at another time they follow a jurist who holds it valid. They do so only to serve their individual purpose and satisfy their desires. Such a practice is impermissible according to the consensus of all the imams." He further elaborates the point by several examples when he says: "For example if a person wants to pre-empt a sale he adopts the view of those who give the right of pre-emption to a contingent neighbour, but if they are the seller of a property, they refuse to accept the right of pre-emption for the neighbour of the seller (on the basis of Shafi'i view) . . . and if the relevant person claims that he did not know before (that Imam Shafi'i does not give the right of pre-emption to the neighbour) and has come to know it only then, and he wants to follow that view as from today, he will not be allowed to do so, because such a practice opens the door for playing with the rules of Shari'ah, and paves the path for deciding the halal and haram in accordance with one's desires." (Fatawa Ibn Taymiyyah Syrian ed. 2:285,286)
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