How do we realise Maqasid Al-Shariah in the Shariah?

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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 their own right, (2) preferring a multi-dimensional understanding for the conciliation of opposing juridical evidences, instead of reductionist methods such as abrogation (naskh) and elimination (tarjīh), and (3) achieving the sharī˒ah’s universality across cultures via the consideration of customs (al-˒urf ). A number of examples are provided throughout, in order to explain the impact of the proposed methods on contemporary Islamic rulings and policies related to them.

HOW DO WE REALISE MAQASID AL-SHARIAH IN THE SHARIAH?

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