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The Bywords of Islamic Law

 Islamic legal bywords are embedded in Islamic textbooks in Quran and Sunnah. These have been derived and uprooted by justices over a long period of time either deliberately or intentionally. These were established after representatives of all seminaries of study regarding Muslim Justice came together to reach a agreement. Legal bywords are general rules of fiqh, which can be applied in colorful cases that come under the common rulings. Legal bywords are theoretical abstractions, generally in the form of short descriptive statements that are suggestive, frequently in a many words, of the pretensions and objects of Sharia Law. These bywords are used to clarify and unfold Islamic legal textbooks to new situations. They don't contradict the textbooks but rather broaden and simplify them.

The Codification of these bywords, known as the Mejelle, circulated the jurisprudential bywords, and came like a legal encyclopedia of practical rulings. The rulings of this civil law were articulated according to the conventions of legal papers, 1851 of them arranged in 16 volumes. This filled an critical need of the time, as the civil matters of the Shari‘a were else scattered across innumerous books of law; with this new systematization, the responsa and colorful legal textbooks on a single content were organized according to a single system.

The five great legal bywords

 The first legal sentential matters are judged by their purposes.

 Substantiation for this lies in the Predictive hadith, “ Surely conduct are by their intentions.” For illustration, different judgments are incurred by someone who killed another, depending on whether he intended to do so or it was an accident — for the veritably base of the action differs in each case.