Islamic Laws

  • An Outline of Law from the Holy Quran’s Perspective

    By: Ayatollah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Summarized and Paraphrased by Karim Aghili This paper is an attempt to partially delineate the salient features of Islamic law from a Qur’anic perspective. It seeks to clarify that every human society necessitates that…

  • The Literal and Figurative Definition of Jurispudence

    The Arabic term for jurisprudence (fiqh) literally means: knowledge about something and understanding it; being clever.[2] Fiqh’s literal definition does not only mean understanding a word, instead it is a deep knowledge about it. Fiqh has been used in the…

  • The Importance of Jurispudence

    Allah, the creator of mankind and the world with all its precision and secrets, emphasizes in the Holy Scriptures that man needs order in his worldly life and needs to find the path that leads him to his purpose, which…

  • Jurisprudence Jargon

    Duty (Taklif) The Arabic term taklīf is derived from the term kulfah which means difficulty. It is used to mean the forcing of an action. For example the sentence; Zayd forces (kalafa) ‛Amr to do an action; he forces him.…

  • The Jurisprudential sects of Islam

    We learned that Islamic jurisprudence is the knowledge of Islamic laws, what is permissible and what is forbidden, what is obligatory, what is disliked and what is recommended, and what is correct and what is incorrect. We also know that…

  • The History of the Ahl Al-Bayt (A.S.) Jurisprudential

    The Three Stages of the Ahlul-Bayt (a) jurisprudence Sect An important point about the history of the Ahlul-Bayt (a) jurisprudential sect is that it is divided into different stages. Each stage will be described. THE FIRST STAGE This is the…

  • Sources of Religios Verdicts

    1.The Book What is meant by the book is the Qurān which was sent by ammad (s).)Allah to the Prophet Muh The Qurān that is in our hands today, its meaning and words has not been added to or taken…

  • Subjects of Jurisprudence

    The most famous division of jurisprudential subjects is: worship and transactions. Transactions are divided into contracts, one-party contracts and miscellaneous rulings. Shahīd al-Awal divided jurisprudence into these subjects along the mentioned foundations when he said: “All of this is divided…

  • To whom belongs the right to legislate?

    By: Ayatullah Sayyid Mujtaba Musavi Lari Consider the thinking element within the human being and the relatively high degree of intellectual power it has gradually come to attain since the beginning of the human being’s existence on earth. Examine, too,…

  • Islamic View of Matrimony

    By: Ayatullah al-Uzma Shaykh Husain Mazaheri The main topic of our discussion during this session is domestic morals. In this direction whatever we have dealt with in the previous talks was a sort of preface, although rather inadequate! Today’s talk…

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