Usul ul Fiqh

Usul ul Hadith

Usul ut Tafseer

SECTION 4
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A Reflection of the shores or from the shores will never reveal the depth and contents of the oceans (Ahmed Fazel Ebrahim) 

The framework which supports Islamic Legal principles

by Ahmed Fazel Ebrahim

The simplicity of Islam is often misconstrued to mean that every facet of the religion is comprehensible to the lay person and that its rulings can be easily inferred from the primary sources of its legal base. 

The labyrinth of its legal principles which intertwine the formats of interpreting the Quran and Hadith are actually often beyond the erudition and scholarship of even the most acclaimed Islamic Scholars. 

It is thus that segments of the Ulema fraternity advocate compliance to a single school of Islamic legal thought and extending the divisions of Islamic law through inferential principles of a single school. Juridical necessity has coerced scholars to adopt rulings from other Islamic schools. Precepts of the latter nature have been recorded centuries ago in the Hanafi school.

The need to re-evaluate certain sections of Islamic Law relative to developments in secular law is crucial in some areas e.g., it is indeed true that all classical Islamic Legal texts are void of the formats of evidence which have been developed by the secular non-Islamic world.

The need for International Islamic cooperation for classification of this corpus of material is rather overdue.

Muslim Personal Law is rendered a farce in the absence of recognition of this scholastic heritage of the jurists of Islamic Law.

Muslim states created  forms of MPL that reject the Shariah in certain matters. This is pure Kufr