Re: Seafood - Crab/Lobster Halal?
I think one cannot just interpret based on common sense. One has to be equipped with a depth of knowledge in fiqh and the principles governing. One probably need to be adept at Tafseer-e-Quran and Ilm-ul-Hadith too.
sarkaar
its just interpretatiosn right, I dont have to pick one complete set of interpretations. The gentlemen in question are trying their best to interpret certain things which may be ambiguous. Now either we have to come out and say all of them or some of them are wrong, and if we are not willing to do so, and say theya re all just different interpretations, then you go with the interpretation that you like or feel is the right one.
I think if we say these are mutually exclusive formal divisions in islam, then we are making it a choo choo ka muarabba