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Originally Posted by AbdurRaheem
Fatwas are opinions / religious rulings. Ideally, fatwas SHOULD be backed up by scholarly proofs. They dont need to be, though.
that was a fatwa. It may have been incorrect, but it was a fatwa nonetheless.
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You can't say that every oppinion someone has about something is a fatwa. You have to have some knowledge to give a fatwa, or people will laugh at you. I never claimed it was a fatwa, and if I had, people would laugh at me. The reason some shaykh's don't give proof, as in that rediculous example you gave, is that the matter is either blatantly obvious, and/or the shaykh is already well known and respected as a person of knowledge. I am neither, so my oppinions aren't rulings about anything, they are simply my oppinions, and don't count as fatwas (the way common lay-people understand them to be).
Your oppinions aren't all fatwas, and don't count for sqat either, just so you know. They are just yout oppinions, that's all.