On University Graduates Issuing Fatwas
by The Albaani Site
Questioner [asking about a fiqh principle about how to weigh issues and make choices as to which one has the greater or lesser harm]: I wanted [you] to clarify something which you have partially cleared up, about whether it is allowed, for example, for a student of knowledge who has graduated from a university with a degree in Shari’ah studies to implement this fiqh principle and these rulings?
Al-Albaani: No, it is not allowed, and I didn’t partially answer you, I fully answered you, saying that it is only allowed for someone who is a scholar versed in the Book and the Sunnah on the one hand and on the other that he be known for his righteousness and taqwaa—and it is not possible for us to testify as such for a youth who has just graduated in this new manner until many, very long, long years have passed such that he grows old in knowledge and in [fiqh] and the authentic Sunnah, then it may possibly be said that he is able to implement this principle.
Questioner: Jazakallaahu khair.
Fataawaa Jeddah, 16.
The Albaani Site 
I’m confused. If Allaah or his messenger (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) say so-and-so is Haraam, then isn’t it correct to tell the people that so-and-so is Haraam? Isn’t that issuing a Fatwa? Does one need to be a scholar to tell others that so-and-so is Haraam?
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Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah,
This post has been translated into Italian here:
Jazakum Allahu khayran
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