An-nass Wel-ijtihad Text and Interpretation

An-nass Wel-ijtihad Text and Interpretation

An extensive research on jurisprudence and history; Nass and ijtihad are two idioms from among the idioms of the Islamic jurisprudence. They both are two bases, on which legal verdicts, whether traditional or derivational, depend. Nass, which includes the evidences of the Qur'an and the Sunna, is a main base that cannot be violated because it has offered many verdicts and solutions to many events and cases whether concerning the belief or the obligations and whether concerning the social and economical cases or any other human activity. Ijtihad moves from the main base that comprehends the postulates and rules that lead to conclude a verdict on a case that the nass has generalized or ignored. This means that ijtihad acts after being armed with its scientific tools and means in accordance with the nass and walking in its (nass’s) circle- as the jurisprudents say-otherwise it will be a heresy...