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What’s your opinion about the issues discussed.

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[inuit]

online link: http://www.dawn.com/2004/01/09/op.htm#1
The fifth source, popularly known as Qiyas i.e. reasoning by analogy, originated in the days of Hazrat Umar as caliph. The caliph, while instructing Abu Musa Ashaari about the procedure he had to follow while deciding various issues that might be brought before him, directed "when you do not find any judgment or issue in the Quran or traditions and are in doubt about it, ponder over the question and ponder again.

It is to this fact that Imam Jafar al-Sadiq referred when he said once to Abu Hanifah, "Do not apply qiyas (analogy), for if it is applied to the Sharia, it will be obliterated, and the first person to apply qiyas was Eblis when he said, `I am better than him; You created me of fire while creating him of dust’(Holy Qur’an, 7:12 and 38:76)."

His statement that "… if it is applied to the Sharia, it will be obliterated" is the best expression of the invalidity of qiyas. If people follow their own diverse views in the face of available texts, there will be no Sharia at all. “Had the truth followed their own (low) desires, the heavens and the earth and all those therein would then have perished” (Holy Qur’an, 23:71).

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