The Derivation of Ussol Al-fiqh from Arabic language: Its Methods and Constraints

Abstract

The study intended to reveal a methodological fundamental issue, that is considered one of the useful topics to explain to learners before embarking on Ussol Al-Fiqh (fundamentals of Islamic jurisprudence), which is the issue of “deriving and relying”; That is, some of it extends knowledge and is based on it.  We examined in this study the relationship of Ussol Al-Fiqh to the Arabic language by monitoring the areas of its use and its limits, explaining the methodology of deriving from it and supplying it, deducing the controls that were taken into account in this derivation, and discussing the defects that accompanied it and trying to justify them. One of the most prominent conclusions of the study is that the fundamentalists, in deriving from Arabic, demonstrated a great methodological awareness of the specificity of the fundamentalist field. They used methodological procedures that provided it with the means of production and prevented the waste and weakening of its scientific structure. They were not a burden on the linguists, merely a transfer of imitators. Rather, they showed distinction in being the first in having linguistic opinions, resolving doubts, clarifying ambiguous matters, and combining and weighing contradictions.