Sharia Key Words

Question 1

sharia

Answer 1

literally “the way to the watering hole”

Islamic Law, the rightly guided path, Gods law

Question 2

qiyas

Answer 2

analogy

Question 3

hadith

Answer 3

REPORTS of what the prophet said, did, approved and disapproved of, implicitly or explicitly

Question 4

fiqh

Answer 4

law

Question 5

ijma

Answer 5

consensus of scholars

Question 6

taqlid

Answer 6

loyalty to the views of the legal scholars NOT independent reasoning

Question 7

mustahab

Answer 7

preferred, commendable

Question 8

Al mu’amalat

Answer 8

commercial and civil acts or dealings under Islamic law

Question 9

lailat al miraj

Answer 9

festival that remembers the night journey

Question 10

Al-ibadat

Answer 10

Sharia Law that governs worship

Question 11

Haram

Answer 11

absolutely forbidden

Question 12

Isnad

Answer 12

demanding a source

Question 13

Sunnah

Answer 13

what the Prophet said, did, approved and disapproved of, implicitly or explicitly

Question 14

qadis

Answer 14

Islamic judge

Question 15

urf

Answer 15

laws based on custom (cultural)

Question 16

wajib / fard

Answer 16

obligatory

Question 17

Makruh

Answer 17

discouraged, reprehensible

Question 18

madhhab

Answer 18

Islamic school of law