Jurisprudence of Priorities Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
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Contents Preface CHAPTER ONE Our Nation’s Need for Jurisprudence of Priorities Introduction Our nation’s current need for the jurisprudence of priorities Religious and practicing Muslims’ noncommittal to the jurisprudence of priorities CHAPTER TWO The Relationship between Jurisprudence of Priorities and Other Types of Jurisprudence The relationship between jurisprudence of priorities and jurisprudence of maintaining a balance Maintaining a balance between various benefits and interests Striking a balance between harms or evils Striking a balance between benefits and harms in case both coincide How to distinguish between benefit and harm? How to know benefits and harms of the two lives? The objective behind Ibn `Abd As-Salam’s Qawa`id Al-Ahkam Fi Masalih Al-Anam: The relationship between jurisprudence of priorities and objective-based jurisprudence
The relationship between jurisprudence of priorities and jurisprudence of texts CHAPTER THREE The Priority of Quality over Quantity The priority of quality over quantity CHAPTER FOUR Priorities in the Fields of Knowledge and Thinking Priority of knowledge over action Knowledge is conditional to assume a leading role (political, military, judicial or otherwise) The necessity of knowledge for the Mufty The necessity of knowledge for the preacher and teacher The priority of understanding over rote learning The priority of essential objectives over external appearance The priority of Ijtihad over Taqlid The priority of studying and planning worldly matters Priorities in the field of jurisprudential opinions Distinguishing between the decisive and indecisive CHAPTER FIVE Priorities in the Field of Fatwas and Da`wah The Priority of facilitation and extenuation over strictness and harshness
CHAPTER SIX Priorities in the Field of Righteous Deeds The priority of durable deeds over intermittent ones The priority of far-reaching beneficial deeds over limited ones The priority of the deeds that have a more lasting benefit and a far-reaching effect The priority of good deeds at the time of sedition and turmoil The priority of spiritual deeds over physical ones Priority differs according to time, place and circumstances CHAPTER SEVEN Priorities in Relation to Commandments The priority of basics over subsidiaries The priority of obligations over commendable and supererogatory acts The priority of personal duties over collective ones The priority of people’s rights over Allah’s Pure Rights The priority of the rights of