Is Dr. Farhad Shafti A Scholar
Sure you can, even though I don’t quite understand why anyone would 😁
Actually, he didn’t ask me to ask another scholar. I asked him that some scholars like Mufti Abu Layth give their audience opinions of previous scholars who had an easy going opinion on the religious matter in question so as to make things easy for the questioner and to not make things difficult for them. Of course, the opinions are still of scholars. I asked whether one can choose the easier opinion. So, he said that one can given that one is satisfied with the reasoning and when the opinion is of a scholar. I was particularly asking this because I had refered an atheist man who wanted to marry a Muslim woman to Dr. Farhad Shafti who is of the opinion that interfaith marriage is allowed in Islam.