Tag: "Jurisprudence"

tag name	Jurisprudence	type:	Miscellaneous; Religion, general
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Jurisprudence
related tags	– Universal House of Justice (UHJ general); Law
referring tags	Deduction; Su'al va Javab (Questions and Answers, Kitáb-i-Aqdas)
Inventory subject	Islamic laws and jurisprudence
notes	Theoretical study of law. "... Briefly, this is the wisdom of referring the laws of society to the House of Justice. In the religion of Islám, similarly, not every ordinance was explicitly revealed; nay not a tenth part of a tenth part was included in the Text; although all matters of major importance were specifically referred to, there were undoubtedly thousands of laws which were unspecified. These were devised by the divines of a later age according to the laws of Islamic jurisprudence, and individual divines made conflicting deductions from the original revealed ordinances. All these were enforced. Today this process of deduction is the right of the body of the House of Justice, and the deductions and conclusions of individual learned men have no authority, unless they are endorsed by the House of Justice. The difference is precisely this, that from the conclusions and endorsements of the body of the House of Justice whose members are elected by and known to the worldwide Bahá’í community, no differences will arise; whereas the conclusions of individual divines and scholars would definitely lead to differences, and result in schism, division, and dispersion. The oneness of the Word would be destroyed, the unity of the Faith would disappear, and the edifice of the Faith of God would be shaken." – 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Universal House of Justice and the Principles of Jurisprudence (AB00151)
references	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence

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