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Knowledge of contemporary jurisprudential issues is a necessity

Dr..

Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad

January 22, 2021

Contemporary life is full of new issues that did not have previous jurisprudential texts, and it needs a later jurisprudential consideration, and the Muslim is legally mandated to know the rule of God Almighty about it, so that he remains within the fence of the Sharia law, not excessive in his religion, and no reality within the limits of God Almighty, and no matter what one is informed According to the traditional books of jurisprudence, he will not find his intention to know any new matters.

Because our jurisprudential heritage did not explicitly stipulate it in itself, as it had not existed, and only a few hypothetical images were searched. However, they developed general texts and rules for deduction taken from presumptive texts that enable the jurist to strive in the emerging calamities, so it was necessary to seriously research contemporary issues. Adapting it, and downloading the Islamic ruling on it.

The jurists of the age have dealt with many of our contemporary issues of worship, financial, social and technical transactions, industrial, medical, genetic, and food, personal and media affairs, and issues of societal and international peace ... and many others, and such cases are not sufficient to implement individual consideration.

Because the one-sided view, regardless of whether he is familiar with the aspects of the case, refines the criteria and investigates it;

The individual may conceal other issues that were not on his mind, because there is no contemporary issue that has nothing to do with other issues that affect the issue under judgment, and it may contradict it or its similarity in perception.

So a jurist who looks into issues of worship is not sufficient for him to know the reasons for its necessity or to deputize it, and to fulfill the conditions of its validity, its pillars and its Sunnah, until he knows what affects the cause and forbids it, and whether it is obligatory or valid and nullifies it. Specialized doctors in all its aspects and explain their negatives and positives, and the interests or evils resulting from them, as well as other issues in all affairs, what it is imperative that the consideration of contemporary jurisprudential issues be an institutional consideration carried out by the councils and the role of the fatwa, conferences and seminars of the bodies concerned with these issues, which meet It includes specialists for each issue, which is what is being done in our present time. Many institutions have researched developments and have reported a lot on the issues that have been raised in the rug of discussion, as do the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, the Fiqh Academy of the Muslim World League, and the Islamic Research Academy of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif The Emirates Council for Sharia Fatwa, the Ifta Department of the Department of Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities, the Senior Scholars Authority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Sharia Board of the Accounting and Financial Review Authority

In Bahrain, the Indian Fiqh Academy, the European Council for Fatwa, and others .. I influenced the scientific arena by stating the rulings of many contemporary issues, and achieved reassurance and action, and research is still ongoing in many other issues, which are the subject of discussion, taking and responding until the complete conception of the appropriate legal ruling is completed.

What concerns us here is preparing a generation of students of knowledge capable of participating in the research of contemporary jurisprudential issues, by qualifying it first with the cognitive rooting of jurisprudence, principles and jurisprudential and intentional rules, syntactic, linguistic and logical, and how to infer from Sharia texts and jurisprudential rules, established objectives and realistic view, so that it has a faculty Good consideration and validity of reasoning, in order to reach the correct perception and clear judgment, and this is what universities and specialized colleges should be concerned with, just as the Mohammed Bin Zayed University for Human Sciences has devoted master's and doctoral courses to researching contemporary issues, and as the Al-Muwatta Center does in the subject of jurisprudence of reality and expectation. Some universities and other colleges do it as well. Such courses prepare, God Almighty’s will, a generation of young science students to be qualified for diligence in researching the emerging issues imposed by the age, and thus we balance between experimental and technical scientific disciplines, and theoretical disciplines needed by the Muslim community in His religion and his worldly life, contemporary life desperately needs all such, and this balance must be met in order to satisfy our religious and worldly needs.

It should not be seen that contemporary life is a material life;

Because this statement contradicts the reality in which the conservative Muslim community lives, as is our society, because if we left such qualification we would need to import it, and the importer may not be suitable.

Because reality has an impact on the downfall of the Islamic ruling, it must be taken into account.

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