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The first question for today...

...somebody said that I'm confused between the difference of Fard and Wajib

and also Sunnah Mu'akkada and Sunnah Khair Mu'akkada,

can you please explain these terms to me?

So, this question deals with a science that all of us should be aware of.

All of us should know this broad science, it is called Osul Al-Firq.

And Osul Al-Firq is the science of how we derive Firq,

how we extract laws, what are the sources of Islamic law,

what are the terminologies, what are the language, rhetoric, and devices that we use,

and how do we reconcile between conflict or potential conflict between the sources itself?

Most of the misunderstandings that occur about Firq occur because people don't know

the chapter of Osul Al-Firq. One of my teachers used to tell, used to complain all the time,

that one of the biggest disasters, he said, is that the majority of Muslims don't even know,

there's a science called Osul Al-Firq, and so they open up the Quran and Hadith,

and without any knowledge of how to derive, they just think they can extract the laws directly.

No, there's a science of how you extract the laws.

And the science of Osul Al-Firq varies from school of law to school of law.

As we are all aware, there are four famous schools of law, but there are many more besides these,

but four that are codified and have an acceptance amongst the Ummah,

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