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AlGhazalisIhya-Book_of_knowledge, page : 59
But should you inquire from him concerning the li‟an form of divorce or the zihar
form, or concerning wager (sabaq) and target shooting he would recite to you
volumes of minute details, which would never be used or needed; and in the
event a need might arise for some of them the community would not lack for
someone who could render this service and spare the jurist the trouble and labor
of his studies. He thus persists laboring day and night on these details tying to
memorize and learn them, but the things, which are of real importance in religion,
he overlooks. Should he, then, be questioned about it, he would say that he had
pursued it because it was the science of religion and also a collective duty,
confusing thereby, himself and others by these excuses. The intelligent person
knows that if, in performing the collective duty, the aim of the jurist has been to
do the right thing, he should have given precedence to the fard ayn and to
several others of the collective duty. How many a town has no physician except
from among the followers of protected religions (dhimmah) whose testimony,
according to the laws of jurisprudence, especially in controversy and polemics.
Furthermore, the town is crowded with jurists employed in giving legal opinions
form, or concerning wager (sabaq) and target shooting he would recite to you
volumes of minute details, which would never be used or needed; and in the
event a need might arise for some of them the community would not lack for
someone who could render this service and spare the jurist the trouble and labor
of his studies. He thus persists laboring day and night on these details tying to
memorize and learn them, but the things, which are of real importance in religion,
he overlooks. Should he, then, be questioned about it, he would say that he had
pursued it because it was the science of religion and also a collective duty,
confusing thereby, himself and others by these excuses. The intelligent person
knows that if, in performing the collective duty, the aim of the jurist has been to
do the right thing, he should have given precedence to the fard ayn and to
several others of the collective duty. How many a town has no physician except
from among the followers of protected religions (dhimmah) whose testimony,
according to the laws of jurisprudence, especially in controversy and polemics.
Furthermore, the town is crowded with jurists employed in giving legal opinions