How to decide permissibility?

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Bismillah

Does the body of scholars one is consulting vary by location? For example: if I want to know about buying meat from the local supermarket, or buying a home with mortgage, and I live in the USA, I should ask a scholar in the USA, or it will be the same to ask from any other place overseas or whatever?
And to be more specific what actually classifies one as a scholar? I think alot of people understand any Sheikh to be a scholar. Is it correct, or there should be formal training?

For the first part, it does not make any difference since you are asking the correct well known scholar.


Now to be more specific, I opened a subject before in a different thread but I don't remember, and it was about Ulom Al-Quran (The sciences of Quran), Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him) came with The Quran and Sunnah, The Sunnah is to translate the word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'la which is not clear to us, the Sunnah and Ahadeeth can be put in many categories:




<ol type="1">[*]Ahadeeth concerning Fiqh(subjects concerning our daily needs)
[*]Ahadeeth concerning Tafseer(translation of Quran)
[*]Ahadeeth concerning Tajweed(how to read Quran correctley)
</ol>
And from these then comes specialization regarding type of Fiqh, then study of Arabic language, grammar, eloquence and rhetoric, and why this specific word was put in such a place and not another, all this needs special studies, so u can find scholars who are specialized in Tafseer, others in Hadeeth, others in Fiqh, others in Tajweed, and others in Qiraat( and this is also derived from Tajweed) and this needs special study, so if u want to know meanings of ayahs u go to scholars specified in tafseer, how to read Quran we go to a tajweed scholar, and so on, just like medical doctors, one is a heart doctor, the other is meternity doctor, dental doctor and so on. So in summury we take what is clear for us from Quran and which is not clear we go to search for it from Sunnah, and of course this needs specialized scholars.


So in your case dear Jenn, try to search for a scholar in your place who is specialized in Fiqh, if you did not find tell me what type of question u want and I will ask our scholars here and return the answer for you.


I hoped I helped, please if you have any other questions do not hesitate Jenn and I am ready to help.


And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'la knows best


Wasalam alaykom