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Added on May 30, 2013

Beginning of al-Baqarah

“If one of you leads salah (formal prayer), then let him make it easy on them (by making it quick), for there are among them those who are ill, weak, or old. And if one of you prays alone, then let him make it as lengthy as he wishes.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

“And I have mentioned in other books and studies of mine: That statistics, planning and research before actions are all at the heart of Islam, for the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah upon him) was the first who ordered an organized census of those who had believed in him after his hijrah (migration) to al-Madinah. And the effects of planning can be seen in his life story in several scenes and situations.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“Sometimes many different rulings are narrated from Imam Ahmad regarding the same issue, and this is for no reason other than the fact that his rulings changed based on changes in situations and circumstances.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned the verse: "Do not follow what you do not know" (Quran 17:36) as evidence for rejecting and prohibiting imitation, and he said: "Imitation is separate from knowledge, by the consensus of the people of knowledge." And in his I`laam al-Muwaqqi`een he stated more than eighty viewpoints toward proving imitation to be an invalid practice and countering the misconceptions of its supporters.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“And the sickness that many of those who have worked in the field of religion is this: They stayed on the surface and didn't dive to its depths, because they didn't have the necessary qualifications to swim in it and find its pearls. So appearances distracted them from the secrets and the purposes, and the branches took away their attention from the principles, and they presented the religion of Allah and the rules of its shariah as scattered groups without anything unifying them and without relating the rulings to purposes and end goals, and so the shariah ended up appearing on their tongues and pencils as if it was deficient at attaining what's beneficial to the creation. But the deficiency is not in the shariah, rather it is in their understanding.

Yusuf al-Qaradhawi

“You never speak to a group of people something (religious) they do not understand, except that it will become a cause of fitna (trials, confusion and misunderstanding) to some of them.