Treatise on Islamic Ruling: its Types, Explanations and Reasons

Abstract

This research aims at clarifying three parameters of Islamic ruling. First, it explains the concept of Islamic ruling by clarifying the scholars’ trends regarding it, distinguishing the accurate ones, and using similar issues for illustration. Examples include the disagreement on the issue of the servant of Allah being a messenger and a prophet, in addition to explaining the related matter, its divisions, and the way it relates to Shari'a discourse. Second, it elucidates the concept Islamic ruling and its rules, by clarifying the truth about and the arguments advanced in this regard, with a view to explaining its correctness and explicating the effect of the concept of reason on the concept of Sharia discourse in detail. Third, the study clarifies the types of provisions on acts by dividing them into legal and rational, as well as the place of laws and reason before and after Sharia statement on them. The provisions of rational acts are known as (rational goodness and ugliness) and they are the original issues upon which people branched out many things, and which lead to big disturbance. However, its investigation includes the discussion of its chapters, its divisions, and the principles on which they are based.