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Dhari'a (the means that lead to an end; see blocking the means)

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Dhari'a in the lexicon is the means that leads to a thing; as a term it is whatever leads to a further end. It may lead to forbidden harms or to goods; the ruling on it has two sides, blocking and opening, treated under the entry on blocking the means. 1 2

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The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Dhari'a in the lexicon is the means that leads to a thing; as a term it is whatever leads to a further end. 1 A means may lead to forbidden harms or to goods: travel is a means to pilgrimage, and deferred sales are a means to usury. 1 The ruling on a means has two sides, blocking it and opening it; the detail is under the entry on blocking the means. 2

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Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8421
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8422
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islam.museum contributors. “Dhari'a (the means that lead to an end; see blocking the means)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/dhari-a-fiqh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.

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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)

Ahliyya is lexically suitability, and it is of two kinds: capacity to have rights and duties, the capacity of liability; and capacity to act, that is to perform acts recognised by the law. Its bearer passes through the stages of the foetus, childhood, discernment, puberty and maturity. Liability is complete from birth and incomplete for the foetus; the capacity to act is partial at discernment and full with puberty and reason. It is affected by heavenly impediments such as madness, imbecility, sleep, fainting, illness, slavery, menstruation, childbirth and death, and by acquired ones such as ignorance, drunkenness, jest, folly, travel, error and coercion.