Fiqh (Jurisprudence)

How the scholars use Fiqh (Jurisprudence).

1. "This is discernible where ostentation compels action, not just joy from public visibility unless its impact reaches the work threshold, distancing corruption from prayer. This is our view aligned with jurisprudence principles, although the matter is nuanced since jurists have not addressed it within the fiqh discipline, and those who delved into it neglected fiqh principles and jurists' rulings on prayer validity and corruption, propelled by desires for heart purity and seeking sincerity, thus risking worship corruption upon mere thoughts."

   — Imam al-Ghazali, Book 28: Condemnation of Status and Showing Off

2. "The fifth duty is for teachers to respect all sciences and not belittle those outside their own field. A language teacher should not disparage jurisprudence, nor should a jurisprudence teacher dismiss the sciences of hadith and tafsir. Similarly, a theology teacher should not belittle jurisprudence. These attitudes are reprehensible and should be avoided."

   — Imam al-Ghazali, Book 1: The Book of Knowledge

3. "This is a profound form of delusion because the individual is engaged in a form of worship yet fails to recognize that the worship becomes a sin when it supersedes a more important obligation. Among these is the preoccupation with legal doctrines and disputes in jurisprudence for those who remain burdened by apparent and internal acts of worship and disobedience related to the limbs and the heart. For the purpose of jurisprudence is to know what others need in their affairs, while knowing what one personally needs for their heart is more fitting unless the love of leadership,"

   — Imam al-Ghazali, Book 30: The Condemnation of Self-Delusion