Fatwā
We do not issue rulings
Alyph Academy teaches texts. It does not issue fatwā, and nothing on this site is a ruling on your particular situation. That is a standing rule, not a temporary state while we get established.
The difference, plainly
What a lesson does
It presents a text, what it says, how the classical commentators read it, and where they disagreed. It is addressed to everyone and it describes a landscape.
What a fatwā does
It answers one person’s actual question, knowing their circumstances, their school, their locality and the facts of their case. It is addressed to them. It requires a qualified muftī who has heard the details.
Taking a lesson as a ruling is the most common way good material does harm. If your question begins with “in my situation”, you need the second column, not the first.
Where to actually ask
In order of usefulness, which is not the order people usually try.
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A scholar who knows you
The imām of a masjid you attend, or a teacher you study with. They can ask follow-up questions, which is most of what answering a question well consists of. No website replaces this.
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A scholar of your own school
If your family or community follows a particular madhhab, an answer from within it will fit the rest of your practice. Answers assembled from four schools at once tend not to cohere.
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An established fatwā body
Several reputable councils publish answers and accept questions. We are deliberately not listing specific bodies here yet: naming one is a form of endorsement, and endorsing a source of rulings is a decision for the academy’s scholarly board, not for whoever builds the website.
When this page will change
Once the academic board is named and seated, it may choose to publish a short list of fatwā bodies it is willing to point people to, with its reasons. Until then this page tells you the truth rather than filling itself with links nobody vouched for.