- Voluntary charity
- Continuous charity (e.g., building a mosque, planting a tree)
- Obligatory charity
- Charity for the poor
No category found.
- Excessive worldly indulgence
- Asceticism or detachment from worldly desires
- Generosity
- Piety
- Seeking forgiveness
- Praising Allah
- Remembering Allah
- Giving charity
- Consensus
- Custom or common practice
- Analogy
- Individual opinion
- Public interest not explicitly addressed by texts, but within spirit of Shariah
- Harmful public interest
- Private interest
- Forbidden public interest
- Juristic preference (departing from strict analogy for a more just outcome)
- Seeking guidance
- Seeking forgiveness
- Seeking knowledge
- Consensus
- Analogical deduction from existing texts
- Individual reasoning
- Direct text from Hadith
- Individual opinion
- Consensus of the Muslim scholars on a specific issue
- Analogy
- Direct text from Quran
- Essential for survival
- Facilitate life
- Complement and perfect human life (refinements)
- Harmful
- Essential for survival
- Facilitate life and remove hardship
- Luxuries
- Harmful
- Preservation of wealth
- Preservation of religion, life, intellect, progeny, and property
- Preservation of customs
- Preservation of power
- The general rules of Shariah
- The objectives or purposes of Islamic law
- The sources of Islamic law
- The branches of Islamic law
