Fundamentals of understanding legal texts

Author's name: Khaled Abdullah Abdul Rahman Al-Khudair Publisher: Dar Al-Hadatha - Riyadh Book format: Artistic binding, glossy paper Publication date: 1444-2023 AD Book size: 17×24 Number of pages: 720 This book deals with the rules of deriving judicial rulings from systematic evidence; through an introduction that includes defining the science that leads to understanding the systematic evidence, its relation to Islamic sciences represented by fiqh and its roots, and its relation to legal sciences represented by the interpretation of legal texts and legal formulation rules. Then the book begins with the first chapter, which discusses general rulings as the fruit derived from systematic evidence. These rulings are either rulings that create an obligation to act or refrain, or they declare the permissibility of a action, which are the speech rulings. Or the systematic evidence may contain a ruling that explains a cause, a condition, a preventer, grants a concession, or decrees the invalidity of an action. These are the substantive rulings. We also added a third section called the declarative rulings, which are those that declare general policies, or mention specific definitions, or refer to systematic materials, and others. After clarifying the general rulings, the book proceeds to detail the judicial systematic evidence, as it is the raw material from which rulings are produced. The second chapter discusses these evidences with an explanation of their levels, ending with the rules of their application. The third and fourth chapters include methods of processing evidence to reach a ruling. They serve as the link between the first chapter, which contains the details of rulings, and the second chapter, which explains the systematic evidence. The third and fourth chapters are the pathway to understanding the evidence and reaching the correct systematic ruling through the evidence. The third chapter explains verbal indications, while the fourth is dedicated to rational indications that go beyond direct investment of systematic texts. The book concludes with a chapter on the rulings of ijtihad and conflicting evidence, to clarify the conditions required for those who undertake deriving systematic rulings, and what may occur when evidence conflicts, along with ways to resolve such conflicts.