Fatwa: Zakah could be paid to an educational Waqf endowment
Can I pay my Zakah to support Islamic education? And can I give this Zakah to a Waqf endowment, where its Return on Investment (ROI) will go to an Islamic education college?
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Maqasid al-Shariah and Constitutions in Muslim Majority Countries
Maqasid al-Shariah and Constitutions in Muslim Majority Countries:
The Egyptian Constitution as a Case Study
Aisha’s Critique of Authentic Hadith Content
Aisha’s Critique of Authentic Hadith Content via Quranic Universals[1] Jasser Auda This paper approaches the relationship between the Quran and Sunnah from the angle of using the Quranic universals to critique the content (matn) of hadith narrations. Aisha Bint Abu Bakr, the Mother of the Believers, gave us a strong example and a clear illustration for applying this method. This article will present a number of illustrative examples of hadith, in which Aisha confidently rejected other companions’ narrations, despite being ‘authentic’ according to the sanad verification criteria that had developed later. Aisha’s rejection was based on the contradiction of...
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How do we realise Maqasid Al-Shariah in the Shariah?
read This booklet explores how maqāṣid al-sharī˒ah (higher purposes and intents of the Islamic law) could contribute to the application of the sharī˒ah itself in today’s Muslim societies and to reaching appropriate juridical rules. The soundness of sharī˒ah’s application and related rules is subject to the degree of universality and flexibility of the Islamic rulings with changing circumstances, discussed from various viewpoints in this booklet. After a survey of the system of values that maqāṣid al-shariah represent, three methods are explored: (1) differentiating between scripts that are means (wasā˓il) to higher ends and scripts that are ends (ahdāf) in...
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