Salam alaykum,
I have a question regarding the wording in a legal ruling. In lesson two when we discuss line 11 - 12 in the poem, the author says it is legally necessary to know Allah.
What does necessary mean in the context of a legal ruling? Because I suspect it is not the same "necessary" as in a rational ruling which we remember being something that does not admit negation. Is it more akin to the necessary one finds in worship? For example, witr in the Hanafi school is necessary?
Furthermore, Shaykh Rabbani writes in the corresponding powerpoint slide that "the obligation to believe is legal (shar`i) -- not rational"
what is meant by obligation here, is it meant as in obligatory (fardh)? Because that would conflict with the statement that it is necessary to believe?
Jazak Allahu Khayran