Classes of Normative Rulings: Fard, Wajib, Sunnah and Nafl
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- What is decisive in the technical definition of fard?
- What does “al-fard lughatan huwa al-taqdir” mean?
- Which two dimensions are binding for fard?
- Why is every subsidiary interpretation not necessarily definitive merely because it is based on a Qur’anic verse?
- What does shubhah in the evidence for wajib signify?
- What does “like fard with respect to action” tell us about wajib?
- How should the phrase “like nafl with respect to assent” be understood?
- In Hanafi classification, witr prayer illustrates which category?
- What principally distinguishes fard from wajib in Hanafi legal theory?
- A source is definitively transmitted but admits competing readings on a subsidiary ruling. What follows?
- What is the point of the Hanafi example of reciting al-Fatihah?
- Two jurists label a ruling fard and wajib. What is the proper first step?
- What centrally characterizes Sunnah in this legal classification?
- Why is “fi bab al-din” important in the definition of Sunnah?
- What does “a person is called upon to uphold it” indicate about Sunnah?
- Which factor explicitly qualifies reproach for abandoning Sunnah?
- Why is equal blame for every occasional omission of a Sunnah inappropriate?
- What is the linguistic sense of nafl?
- Which best describes nafl as a legal category?
- What are the consequences of performing or omitting nafl?
- What does “nafl and tatawwuʿ are comparable” mean?
- A person offers two extra units after completing the obligatory prayer, without any separate binding requirement. What is the general classification?
- Which pair shares a binding requirement of performance?
- Which statement best captures the distinction between Sunnah and nafl here?
- What is the best way to assign one of the four categories to an act?
- Which inference from the non-definitive proof of wajib is incorrect?
- Definitive evidence is a central condition in the technical definition of fard.
- In Hanafi terminology, wajib may be omitted without excuse because it is not fard.
- Every personal or social habit automatically qualifies as Sunnah in this legal classification.
- Performing nafl earns reward, but merely omitting it is not punishable.