Author Archives: Bilal Ali

Reviewed by Shaykh Musa Furber I highly recommend this to those interested in the renewal, expansion, and application of fiqh. The first part gives a summary introduction to legal sources (Quran, sunnah, legal analogy, scholarly consensus, presumption of continuation, blocking & opening the means, juristic preference, etc…); the development and use of maxims; and theContinueContinue reading “Review: Al-Maharah al-Usuliyyah wa Atharuha fi Indaj al-Fiqh wa Tajdidihi”

On a blessed day, I was blessed with a wonderful gift from Mawlana Muhammad Chothia. This book was used for many years by ifta’ students at Dar al-‘Ulum Karachi in handwritten form. Basically a collection of lecture notes from Hadrat’s past lectures on the principles of ifta’, the notes were finally reviewed, edited, and approvedContinueContinue reading “Usul al-Ifta’ wa Adabuhu by Mufti Muhammad Taqi al-‘Uthmani”