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Understanding Objectives of Shariah and its Role in Reforming Islamic Jurisprudence

Understanding Objectives of Shariah and its Role in Reforming Islamic Jurisprudence

Posted by | Jan 11, 2017 |

My main point from this lecture at MAS16 MAS-ICNA Convention was to emphasise a much needed multi-disciplinary approach in re-reading the Quran to develop Islamic thought in current times. But who is the “scholar” who is going to read the Quran to develop contemporary thought? We have to end the jurists’ (fuqahaa) monopoly over the reading of the Quran for dealing with the realities of life and disciplines that they do not understand, and develop multi-disciplinary researchers to read the Quran for their own disciplines. The best reader of the Quran is a person of knowledge in more than...

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

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

Posted by | Dec 24, 2016 |

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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Maqasid with Dr. Jasser Auda on Deen TV Episode 4

Maqasid with Dr. Jasser Auda on Deen TV Episode 4

Posted by | Dec 5, 2016 | ,

Rashaad Amra is an economist who works for the government of South Africa and one of my “A” students of Maqasid al-Shariah in South Africa’s International Peace College South Africa – IPSA Graduate Program. I ask him here on Deen TV some tough questions: What is it exactly we mean when we say “Islamic” banks? And why is the Islamic approach focusing on the micro and not the macro of economics? How come the current “Islamic” policies on economic issues are largely capitalist and often times neoconservative? Can a “bank” be an “Islamic” institution by definition? And the relationship...

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Maqasid with Dr. Jasser Auda on Deen TV Episode 5

Maqasid with Dr. Jasser Auda on Deen TV Episode 5

Posted by | Dec 5, 2016 | , ,

Yusuf Patel is a medical doctor and one of my “A” students of Maqasid al-Shariah in South Africa’s International Peace College South Africa – IPSA Graduate Program. I interview him here for the MAQASID program on Deen TV, and I asked him: What is “Islamic medicine”? What is Islamic bioethics? And how can medicine move from being a “business” into being an “ethical duty”? How do we define a “human” for medical purposes? What is the difference between a faithful physician and a non-faithful physician? And his views on organ...

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