Assalamualaikum everyone. With everything happening in the world and the many questions you ask and have been asked; I share below a passage from the writings of a great Imam of our proud past. Please read with care and consideration.

Imam ibn alQayyim (may Allah shower his mercy upon him) said:

“Indeed the shariah; it’s foundation & build is settled upon wisdom and the provision of true benefit for the worshippers of God Almighty in their life and their hereafter. It is a system of absolute justice, absolute mercy, absolute benefit and absolute wisdom.

Thus, every scenario which departs from justice towards oppression, from mercy towards it’s oppositte (cruelty), from benefit towards harm, and from wisdom towards ignorance (and imprudence); is not considered (as the) shariah, even if it is presented as (part of) the shariah through interpretation.”

قال الإمام ابن القيم: ((فإن الشريعة مبناها وأساسها على الحكم ومصالح العباد في المعاش والمعاد وهي عدل كلها ورحمة كلها ومصالح كلها وحكمة كلها. فكل مسألة خرجت عن العدل إلى الجور، وعن الرحمة إلى
((ضدها وعن المصلحة إلى المفسدة، وعن الحكمة إلى العبث فليست من الشريعة وإن أدخلت فيها بالتأويل