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Creative Solution or Ijtihadi Hal September 16, 2012

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Sahih Muslim, Hadith No. 1716
Quran 38:44 · Sad
Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 946
Fath al-Baari by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Vol. 2, p. 437
Al-Bidayah wa Al-Nihayah by Ibn Kathir, Vol. 3, p. 230
Quran 4:128 · An-Nisa
Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 4373
Quran 8:39 · Al-Anfal
Quran 96:9 · Al-Alaq
Quran 94:4 · Ash-Sharh
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3 min 21 sec
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Full explanation: ijtihad is simply creative solution-finding
“Ijtihad has been made into something mysterious — it isn't”
28 sec
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Definition of creative solution to a problem
“Creative solution goes a fresh perspective to a problem”
1 min 56 sec
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Ijtihad is simply creative problem-solving, explained
“Creative solution goes a fresh perspective to a problem”
42 sec
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Problems are part of God's creation plan
“Problems are part of life, not a conspiracy”
2 min 14 sec
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Pune Muslims changed a procession date to avoid riot
“Two religious processions were set to clash on the same day”
2 min 6 sec
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Squirrel's instinctive creative solution and its lesson
“A squirrel taught me what creative solution means”
41 sec
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Squirrel avoids collision: nature's creative solution
“Two squirrels collide on a wire — what happens?”
24 sec
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Without creative solutions, conflict and bloodshed follow
“No other formula will work without ijtihad”
37 sec
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Cost of failing to find creative solutions in Palestine
“Palestine has cost Muslims 10 trillion dollars”
2 min 12 sec
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Ayyub's creative solution to fulfill his oath
“Prophet Ayyub vowed to strike his wife a hundred times”
25 sec
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Prophet Ayyub's clever way to keep his oath
“Allah gave Ayyub a beautiful creative solution”
4 min 18 sec
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Companions reinterpret the Prophet's Asr prayer command
“The Prophet gave an order that seemed impossible to keep”
23 sec
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Reinterpreting a command is ijtihad, not disobedience
“This was not abandoning the Prophet's command”
3 min 29 sec
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Why the Prophet chose migration over fighting in Mecca
“Meccans gave the Prophet an ultimatum: leave or die”
5 min 44 sec
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Hudaybiyyah: an unfair treaty that became a clear victory
“The Prophet accepted every unfair term just for peace”
29 sec
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Creative solutions are judged by future results
“Don't judge it by the present, judge by the future”
3 min 3 sec
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Ibn Umar reinterprets 'end the fitna' during civil war
“A companion refused to join a civil war among Muslims”
35 sec
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Ibn Umar says the fitna has already ended
“The real fitna is already over, we ended it”
2 min 55 sec
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Why the Innocence of Muslims riots were the wrong response
“A film insulted the Prophet and Muslims rioted worldwide”
4 min 22 sec
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Salman Rushdie's book and the missed Quran-distribution opportunity
“A banned novel sold three copies; the Quran sold seventy”
1 min 39 sec
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Curiosity from controversy sells more Qurans than the book
“A Chicago bookstore sold more Qurans than the banned novel”
23 sec
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Curiosity generated exceeds the problem created
“Curiosity always outweighs the problem itself”
1 min 49 sec
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Quran calls hostile propaganda 'free publicity' for the mission
“Meccan propaganda against the Prophet backfired completely”
41 sec
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Riots are misuse of freedom, not conspiracy
“People think it's a conspiracy — it's not”
3 min
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Freedom given by God will always be misused by some
“People call it conspiracy — it's really misused freedom”
6 min 1 sec
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Ibn Taymiyyah's blasphemy ruling failed to stop blasphemy
“A 13th-century blasphemy case still echoes in Muslim law”
1 min 27 sec
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Why punishing insults fails — treat it as dawah instead
“A scholar's book against blasphemy never stopped blasphemy”
30 sec
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Respond to insults with dawah, not violence
“Treat the offender as a dawah case, not blasphemy”
2 min 29 sec
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Quran forbids provoking others, not punishing insults with violence
“Nowhere does the Quran say kill those who insult”
2 min 2 sec
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Religious 'ghairat' and hurt feelings aren't Islamic concepts
“Is there such a thing as religious pride or zeal?”
2 min 47 sec
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Softening hearts through kindness, explained with a bus story
“What is talif-e-qalb, softening the heart for dawah?”
46 sec
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Softening hearts: gifting a book on a bus
“A stranger wanted to buy our book — I gifted it”
19 sec
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Life's real choice is between two evils
“The wise know the lesser evil from the greater”
2 min 56 sec
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How refusing to accept the lesser evil sparks riots
“Muslims demand route changes, then riots erupt”
3 min 56 sec
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The Bhagalpur riot story and its real, hidden cause
“A deadly riot broke out over a religious procession's route”
39 sec
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Reacting to provocation achieves nothing, riot proved it
“A riot couldn't empty Tatarpur of Muslims, so why react?”
1 min 23 sec
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Replace emotional reactions with results-based thinking
“Emotional decisions almost always backfire”
2 min 53 sec
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Riots erupt from rumors, not actual disrespect to Quran
“A mosque burned after a rumor about Quran desecration”
49 sec
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Riots erupt over rumors, not real desecration
“There was no disrespect — it was just a rumor”