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become reluctant to condemn those who possess them because of the
widespread practice of applying these names to all of them (alike).
The first term to be affected was jurisprudence whose meanings have been
tampered with not so much by alteration and change but by limitation. It has thus
been limited to the knowledge of unusual legal cases, the mastery of the minute
details of their origins, excessive disputation on them, and the retention of the
different opinions, which relate to them. The person who goes more deeply into
these things than his colleagues and devotes more time to them than the rest is
considered the most versatile in jurisprudence. But in the early period of Islam
the term jurisprudence (fiqh) was applied to the science of the path of the
Hereafter and the knowledge of the subtle defects of the soul, the influences,
which render works corrupt, the thorough realization of the inferiority of this life,
the urgent expectation of bliss in the Hereafter, and the domination of fear over
the heart. This is indicated by the words of Allah when He said:
“…a party from each section should go forth to become well versed in the
widespread practice of applying these names to all of them (alike).
The first term to be affected was jurisprudence whose meanings have been
tampered with not so much by alteration and change but by limitation. It has thus
been limited to the knowledge of unusual legal cases, the mastery of the minute
details of their origins, excessive disputation on them, and the retention of the
different opinions, which relate to them. The person who goes more deeply into
these things than his colleagues and devotes more time to them than the rest is
considered the most versatile in jurisprudence. But in the early period of Islam
the term jurisprudence (fiqh) was applied to the science of the path of the
Hereafter and the knowledge of the subtle defects of the soul, the influences,
which render works corrupt, the thorough realization of the inferiority of this life,
the urgent expectation of bliss in the Hereafter, and the domination of fear over
the heart. This is indicated by the words of Allah when He said:
“…a party from each section should go forth to become well versed in the