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[quote]Mango is a Halal fruit. There is nothing inappropriate about making the hypothetical statement about liking of mangoes by the 4 Imams. Waseem, I think Usmani is not talking about a 'local majority' of scholars of present times, he is talking about the 'global majority of scholars of all times, past and present'. But this becomes a circular argument, because anyone who would not conform to this theoretical 'majority' will not even be considered a scholar according to his definition. It is like President Musharraf saying that whoever agrees with him will be part of the 'majority', even if nobody agrees with him. And people who dont agree with him even if they are infact in majority, they will not be considered as 'majority' because they dont agree with him. So the 'majority' argument is just self-assuring, self-righteous concept. it is used to validate a singular interpretation of original sources suggested by a few scholars, as the only interpretation possible and legitimate. Regards, Salman[/quote]
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