Why does Islam have so many rules?
Al-Ghazali argued that the apparent scale of Islamic law serves a single purpose — the preservation of five essentials: faith, life, lineage, intellect, and property. Every rule is justified by tracing back to one of those five.
1 passages from 1 book in the library
The classical approach.
These passages are drawn from 1 book by Ibn Battuta — part of the classical Sunni tradition that carries over a thousand years of reflection on the Qurʾān, the authentic Sunnah, and the consensus of the early community. Nothing below is a paraphrase. The words are the scholars' own, translated from the original Arabic manuscripts.
14th century · Tangier, Morocco
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"We spent a wondrous night there, one of the most remarkable, and I met the virtuous scholar al-Faqih Sadr al-Sharia, who had come from Herat, a righteous, virtuous man."
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