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Jurisprudence, its importance and qualifications

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Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Haddad

September 30, 2022

The Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs at the Egyptian Ministry of Awqaf held its 33rd conference, under the generous patronage of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Numerous, all talked about the necessity of ijtihad to clarify the legal rulings on the new incidents that a Muslim needs to explain their rulings, by virtue of the fact that he is a religious worshiper with knowledge of what is required, forbidden, recommended, hated or permitted, and this ijtihad has a great rank in Islamic jurisprudence, so someone who cannot claim it may claim it Delving into it, which is what actually happened to many of those who reached its climax and did not succeed in it.

Because he does not have his tools, his ijtihad was a fitnah for himself and others, so the conference came to address the shortcomings of his claimant, and to show people that not everyone who claims ijtihad is from the people of ijtihad, and that whoever claims it may harm him and others greater than his benefit, as he may mislead, perish, perish and perish. Whoever follows him, his qualifications must be considered

The door of ijtihad was the battlefield of the earliest jurists and fundamentalists.

Between his permissibility of survival, and his impediment, given his broad and heavy conditions, for those to whom it is granted, and this was a sense of the danger of his claim;

Because the mujtahid speaks on the tongue of the Shari’a, and he informs about God and His Messenger in what is permitted and prohibited, valid and invalid, so the intimidation of his position was great in their hearts to the extent of their fear of God that they would say in his law that which is not from him, so he called them to close his door with a pretext that those who are not from his family claim him , preferred for either way.

However, this fear is not appropriate to the capacity of Islamic Sharia, and that it is a law for every age and Egypt, and that the door of ijtihad must remain open to clarify new jurisprudential calamities, and renewed incidents, for the incidents are infinite, rather they are renewed every day. Sharia in all emerging issues, and Muslims remained perplexed in the matter of their religion, and the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, was reported to have said:“God sends to this nation at the head of every hundred years someone to renew its religion for it.” That is why the scholars of the fundamentalists and jurists have said that ijtihad must remain in every age, and that the duty is to qualify for ijtihad in a qualification that enables the deduction of the legal ruling from the speculations of the legal evidence, the interests and purposes The college, and that if the scientific conditions of the mujtahid are met, then this is what is intended by which the interests of the servants are achieved, but this qualification requires a lot of personal and institutional effort. Spending one's life, money, condition and mind in knowledge that qualifies him to be a mujtahid, cognizant of the purposes of Sharia and fulfilling the principles of evidence.

As for the institutional one, it is the existence of scientific institutions that have sufficient programs and adequate curricula in qualifying students of knowledge to be among the people of legal knowledge through which they can follow the traditions of the people of ijtihad.

This is what the conference denounced, for it warned a lot of unqualified ijtihad claimants who corrupted the land and did not reform, and claimed what they had no knowledge of. .

The door of ijtihad must remain open to clarify new jurisprudential developments.

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