Understanding the Objectives of the Shari'ah (Maqasid al Shari'ah)
The Thinking Muslim
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The Role of the Human Intellect in the Evaluation of Benefit and Harm
The goal of understanding Masalih is not to evaluate if there are Masalih and Mafassa. It is to understand what those Masalih or MafassA are, he says. He gives some examples that maybe make this more clear. When the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said to the companions that had your people not been fresh out of Jha'liya, then I would have destroyed the Kaaba,. What is this hadith trying to tell us? "This is where utilitarianism and kind of deontological philosophy and morality kind of they fall apart in an Islamic framework"
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