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Futūḥāt Translation Project

12 June 2025

Learn that the basics of the principles of the Law that are agreed upon are three: the Book, the Sunnah transmitted through unbroken chains, and consensus. The scholars disagree about analogical reasoning. Among them some argue that it constitutes evidence and is one of the bases for the principles. And others argue against it; and I so argue.

Book 13, Chapter 88

9 June 2025

Learn, may God give you success and give you understanding, that the Fire may be taken as a remedy for some sicknesses.

Book 13, Chapter 87

4 June 2025

Dependency and incapacity are in this world and the next,
so the utmost proximity is a nearness in which there is distancing.

Book 13, Chapter 86

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