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Comment: Pork-free “pork”

January 8, 2020 by Musa Furber

This article describing a pork-free “pork” mentions that the product is …gluten-free and designed for kosher and halal certification, looks strikingly similar to real pork, with its light pink hue …

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Abusing the middle position

January 2, 2020 by Musa Furber

The frequency that canned oversimplifications like “Islam always takes the middle position” “Truth always lies in the middle position” are now given as foundations or integral supports for arguments related …

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Comment: “One act of zina is less sinful than watching ten seconds of porn”

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 by Musa Furber

Someone asked me about the following statement: “One act of zina is less sinful than watching ten seconds of porn” Here are just four cars involved in this trainwreck: Punishments …

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Dismissing blocking-the-means just for lack of certainty

January 1, 2020January 1, 2020 by Musa Furber

Dismissing an argument that follows the form X leads to haram-Y what leads to the haram is haram therefor X is haram for no reason other than “X doesn’t always …

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Advice for benefiting from “Infamies of the Soul”

December 19, 2019 by Musa Furber

A friend who is teaching Infamies of the Soul asked for additional resources and general advice on teaching the book. I don’t have a lot of advice, but here goes: …

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Dismissing specific claims of consensus on the grounds that “Consensus is a weak argument”

December 14, 2019 by Musa Furber

Someone recently asked me to review a piece where a contemporary figure dismisses one of Imam al-Nawawi’s opinions simply because the Imam’s argument includes mention of consensus, and that consensus …

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Temporal Fixity & Flexibility in Legal Rulings

December 10, 2019December 10, 2019 by Musa Furber

(n.b. The content for this article comes from a short class on legal maxims, presented in 2014. It provides more information than the earlier article on the abuse of customs.) …

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First mention: “Means having the status of ends”

December 6, 2019 by Musa Furber

One of the patterns you’ll see later legal scholars use in arguments is that “means having the legal status of ends” (للوسائل حكم المقاصد). It’s especially common when objectives of …

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Stylistic changes in foundational evidence

December 6, 2019 by Musa Furber

One of the patterns you’ll see in later Shafiʿis books is that when introducing a topic’s foundation evidence, the author will say “The foundation for it, prior to consensus is …

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🎶 ‘Tis the season to abuse custom

December 6, 2019 by Musa Furber

🎶 fa la la la la, la la la la Since it’s trendy to throw around contemporary customs (ʿurf) to override and abandon what we find in fiqh books, it seems …

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