Usool ul Fiqh #4 Ahkaam Taklifiyah – Waajib

Islam is divided into two types of ahkaam;
i) Ahkaam Taklifiyah
ii) Ahkaam Wad’iyah
In this lesson we will be concentrating on Ahkaam Taklifiyah which are of 5 types according to majority;
- Fard
-Sunnah
-Haram
-Makrooh
-Mubah
What is Ahkaam Taklifiyah?
These rulings consists of some hardship and due to that are called taklifiyah. Takleef in Arabic language means to burden oneslef with something [...]

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Usool ul Fiqh #3: Who is the Haakim?

Issue: Who is the Haakim?
We know that Allah the most High is the Haakim and He is the only One Who has the right to legislate. If we agree on this then we need to ask “what is it that He legislates?”
answer: that He legislates what is Halal and what is [...]

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Principals related to Doubt in Worship

Issue 1:
A doubt is the opposite of certainty: hence in principal it can never overcast certainty only in the case where the person has no solid evidence to backup and to reject that doubt;
 in that case a doubt can have 2 cases:
 
1- during worship:
Any act while it is being in the process of [...]

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Usool al Fiqh vs Fiqh-Lesson #2

Issue #1
What is the difference between usul ul fiqh and fiqh:
The difference between usool ul Fiqh and Fiqh:
Usool ul Fiqh deals with tackling an evidence by using general principals such as ‘a command leads to an obligation’ this is not an evidence to prove for the validaty of prayer for example.
To establish the validty of [...]

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Introduction to Usool ul Fiqh-Lesson #1

Introductory Class:
Usool ul Fiqh: Before we speak about this we need to learn the title and its meanings. So, Usool Fiqh is constructed upon 2 spearate words i)usool ii)Fiqh. We always need to define a word by i)Lang ii)shar3′ee….so according to language usool means foundation, principal, root etc and as for shar3′ee meaning it means [...]

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