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Their ways, their power  \n2 . All of life Believers and Kafirs  \n3 . Identity: from distinctiveness to assertiveness  \nto aggressiveness  \n4 . ‘Worse than All Creation’  \n5 . Khilafat, independence and after Women and Shariah  \n6 . ‘Mom ki naak, balki raal ki pudiya, balki baarood ki dibiya’  \nShariah and Power 7 . Shariah as power  \nTheir World 8 . Yet it moves not!  \n9 . A closed, self-perpetuating circle  \nQuran and Hadis 10 . A fundamental difficulty  \nOur World  \n11 . To give history a helping hand  \n12 . ‘But who reads the fatwas?’  \nEpilogue  \nEpilogue or reasons for hope, but work to be  \ndone  \nBasic Texts and Index  \nBasic texts which have been referred to frequently  \nIndex About the Author By the same author  \nIntroduction  \nA fatwa is a decree, a ruling. The usual sequence is that a Muslim puts an issue before an authority, and the latter rules on the matter. The authorities that can issue a fatwa are well recognized. They can be individuals, they can be institutions—an institution like the Dar al-Ulum at Deoband has a special department for just this purpose. Of course the authority may take up a matter suo motu also.  \nThe fatwas accumulate. From time to time they are compiled. These compilations become both the high literature of the community as well asthe Islamic version of Supreme Court Reports. They are read by, and readout to the faithful. The conduct, and even more so the mind of the community is set by them—directly in some matters, indirectly in even more. In particular, the local maulvi, to whom the average Muslim is liable to turn when he is in doubt about some point of conduct or when he is entangled in a dispute with another person, will turn to what some authority has decreed in its fatwa on the matter. Problems of life, belief and law which confront the believer are thus answered by the fatwas, explains the twelve-volume collection of fatwas issued by the Dar al-Ulum, Deoband, as there is no question about human life, it explains, for which the Mufti cannot obtain the answer by looking up the Book of Allah, the Sunna of the Prophet and the law books. Moreover, it explains, the fatwas have saved the ordinary Muslim ‘the travails of inquiry’ in regard to the Book, the Sunna and the rulings of the jurists of the schools of Islamic law. Issuing fatwas isan art, it explains, by which answers to day-to-day problems are obtained. One cannot obtain these answers from any other source, it declares. And, as will become apparent when we consider the content and range of the subjects which the fatwas tackle, there can be no doubt that the mufti issuing fatwas has to have encyclopaedic knowledge—for he will be required to pronounce on matters that range from personal hygiene, to  \nmarital relations, to the fine points of the law on inheritance, to whether the earth moves around the sun or the sun moves around the earth, to the way a Muslim should live in and the extent of allegiance he should owe to a country like India.  \nIn the bookshops in the Muslim areas of our cities—for instance in the bookshops around the Jama Masjid in Delhi—the collections of fatwas fill shelves after shelves. They are put together with great care, the sort of care one associates with sacred literature. The pages are well laid out. The calligraphy is often a work of art. The volumes are beautifully bound—ever so often with gilded embossing on the covers.  \nIn a word, fatwas are the shariah in action. Now, we are being continually told that the shariah is sacred, that it cannot be touched, that it is of the essence of Islam, that touching it would be nothing short of an assault on Islam. One would therefore expect that there would be studies upon studies of these volumes of fatwas. At the least one would expect that those who regard continuing separate personal laws for the","cbCaihj4Y7yI6vCw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihj4Y7yI6vCw","pdf",3836494,664,"English","# Introduction\n## Their Sway\n## Shariah and Power\n## Their World\n## Quran and Hadis\n## Our World\n## Epilogue\n## Basic Texts and Index","[{\"question\":\"What is a fatwa, and how is it typically issued?\",\"answer\":\"A fatwa is a decree or ruling. Usually, a Muslim puts an issue before an authority, and the authority rules on the matter.\"},{\"question\":\"How do fatwas influence the community?\",\"answer\":\"Fatwas accumulate into compiled collections that serve as high literature. They set the conduct and mind of the community, directly or indirectly.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author say there are few studies on fatwas?\",\"answer\":\"The author argues that intellectuals have not devoted sufficient time to this vital material, citing reasons connected to broader patterns of scholarly focus in the country.\"}]","The World of Fatwas or the Shariah in Action - Introduction | PDF",1789949479,1673]