-It's permissible to learn astronomy if it serves a purpose, such as
learning distances and times. However if a person believes the stars has a
benefit in themselves or it will lead to false beliefs then this is Haram; this is the view of Ibn
Abbas, Abu Haneefah, Ishaq, Qatadah and others.
For example, if a person sees a road sign and it gives a distance to a
particular place, no one would say that this would be Haram unless if a person
takes the road sign as something that in and of itself can give information or
benefit.
Therefore, astronomy has three rulings:
-Shirk, if it leads to false beliefs and acts of worship.
-Haram, to learn it for the sake of learning it.
-Permissible, to learn routes and time periods:
'And landmarks (signposts, etc. during the day) and by the stars (during the night), they (mankind) guide themselves.' (16:16)
-Abu Ubayd, bin Muthanna, Ahmad and others all said studying Arabic in too much
detail is not allowed as it distracts a person from what is of greater
importance.
Qasim bin Khaybarah said, "The first of it is hard and the last of it a
distraction."
Ibn Rajabc quotes Ibn al-‘Arabi saying, "Learning Nahw is like salt on
food".
Shaykh Muhammad said in commentary:
Therefore, we only need enough of Nahw to understand the religion as a tool. This goes for
all sciences as we don't have need to go into detail into all disciplines.
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