The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ A general principle that applies to all matters of Sharia ]

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I want to give a principle in this matter that is applicable to all issues of Sharia law, so we say that if the legislator uses a certain expression, he interprets that expression as what is understood by the terminology in the Arabic language, until the legislator assigns that expression with a special description that takes it out of the meaning of the tongue with that description. If the legislator specifies what he intended with that word, then that description becomes essentially that word. Whenever the word is mentioned by the legislator, it is assumed to be understood by the law until another piece of evidence from the law or from circumstantial evidence indicates that he means by that word the word that is understood by him in the language, or another specific matter. This also applies to everything that the lawgiver says, and an example of it is the wording of ablution, prayer, fasting, Hajj, zakat, and the like.


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