Literal and Figurative Meanings: Principles and Legal Applications
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- What makes a word literal for a meaning?
- What supports an acceptable figurative use?
- Under the principle presented, can one occurrence independently intend both literal and figurative senses?
- Why is saʿ discussed in an exchange prohibition?
- What caution is needed in a bequest to mawali?
- Under the stated example of a bequest to sons, who receives it when sons and grandsons exist?
- In the cited oath not to marry a woman, what is meant by nikah?
- What does nonviolation of this particular marriage oath NOT imply?
- What happens if a person enters wearing shoes after swearing not to set foot in the house?
- What is central to an oath against residing in someone’s house?
- Why is yawm not restricted to daylight in the cited arrival statement?
- Which three states of literal meaning are distinguished?
- What is a literal meaning called when it cannot operate in the relevant setting?
- What is commonly meant by not eating from this pot?
- Why does “not eating from this tree” shift toward its fruit?
- What does al-ightiraf indicate in the oath about a well?
- How does mahjurah differ from mutaʿadhdhirah?
- What defines a mustaʿmalah literal sense?
- What is preferred when the literal meaning is current and has no established figurative competitor?
- Under Abu Hanifa’s analysis of an oath not to eat this wheat, what of eating bread made from it?
- What supports the companions’ differing treatment of the wheat oath?
- In the Euphrates oath, what is prioritized in the attribution to Abu Hanifa?
- What additional form does the companions’ treatment of the Euphrates oath include?
- What function is emphasized under agency for a dispute?
- In the older-enslaved-person example, what consequence is discussed in Abu Hanifa’s position?
- What is the point of difference attributed to the two companions in the “my son” example?
- Why is literal impossibility alone not enough to license any figurative reading?
- Which sequence best reflects the chapter’s interpretive method?
- In mahjurah, literal performance may be possible even though customary usage has shifted to another sense.
- Abu Hanifa and his two companions always give the same result in cases of living literal and figurative meanings.