النص العربي
إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى فَرَضَ فَرَائِضَ فَلاَ تُضَيِّعُوهَا، وَحَدَّ حُدُودًا فَلاَ تَعْتَدُوهَا، وَحَرَّمَ أَشْيَاءَ فَلاَ تَنْتَهِكُوهَا، وَسَكَتَ عَنْ أَشْيَاءَ رَحْمَةً لَكُمْ غَيْرَ نِسْيَانٍ فَلاَ تَبْحَثُوا عَنْهَا.
الترجمة الإنجليزية
Allah has prescribed obligations — so do not neglect them. He set limits — so do not exceed them. He forbade things — so do not violate them. And He was silent on things, out of mercy, not forgetfulness — so do not search them out.
— Abu Tha‘labah (RA) (Daraqutni (ḥasan))
الشرح
Four categories of rulings: obligations, limits, prohibitions, and silence (which is mercy).
شرح موسّع
Four divine categories: obligations, limits, prohibitions, silence. The fourth — silence as mercy — is the most overlooked and the most relevant in our age of constant question-asking. Allah deliberately did not legislate everything; the gap is a divine gift, not an oversight.
Ibn Rajab links this to the verse: ‘O you who believe, do not ask about things which, if revealed to you, would distress you’ (5:101). The Banū Isrā’īl asked excessively about the cow and were burdened with progressively harder rulings. The Prophet ﷺ warned: ‘The greatest sinner among the Muslims is the one who asked about something not forbidden — and it became forbidden because he asked.’
من كلام أهل العلم
"Allah’s silence is one of the four sources — alongside His commands, His limits, and His prohibitions. To violate His silence by inventing a ruling is to overstep."
"If a matter is not addressed in revelation, the original ruling is permissibility — and asking ‘is this allowed?’ in such cases is unnecessary."
الفقه والأحكام
- •Things Allah has commanded: do them — neglect is sin.
- •Limits Allah has set (e.g., inheritance shares, ‘iddah periods): do not exceed.
- •Prohibitions: complete avoidance — partial compliance does not exist.
- •Silence: the original ruling in worldly affairs is permissibility (al-aṣl fil-ashyā’ al-ibāḥah); in worship it is restriction (al-aṣl fil-‘ibādāt at-tawqīf).
الصلة بآيات القرآن
مفردات عربية مفتاحية
obligations
limits
remained silent
out of forgetfulness
تأمل اليوم
Are you adding burdens Allah did not place — searching out rulings about matters He left silent?
أبرز الفوائد
- 1Allah's silence is intentional and merciful.
- 2Asking unnecessary questions historically led to harder obligations on past nations.
أخطاء شائعة وتنبيهات
- ⚠Do not search out fatwa on hypotheticals or matters that don’t affect you — the Salaf hated this.
- ⚠‘The original ruling is permissibility’ applies to worldly matters — NOT to acts of worship, where the original is prohibition until proven.
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