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 "id": "concept/awliyya",
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 "label": {
  "ar": "الأولوية",
  "en": "Awliyya (priority: the better course and the reasoning from the more fitting case, in usul and fiqh)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الأولوية لغة كون الشيء أولى من غيره، أي أحرى وأجدر وأحق. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690} واستعمل الأصوليون والفقهاء الأولى بمعنى الأحرى والأفضل، وبمعنى المستحق دون غيره. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691} ويعبرون عن الندب الخفيف بالأولى، وعن ترك المندوب بخلاف الأولى، وعند الحنفية من ارتكب خلاف الأولى فقد أساء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691} ومن أنواع الدلالة فحوى الخطاب، كثبوت تحريم الضرب من نهي التأفيف، لفهم مناط الحكم، وقياس الأولى أحد أنواع القياس الجلي. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692} وتستعمل كلمة «لا بأس» عند الحنفية غالبا فيما تركه أولى. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692}",
  "en": "Awliyya in lexical sense is the state of one thing being more fitting than another, that is more deserving and nearer. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690} The usulis and jurists use awla in the sense of more fitting and better, and in the sense of having a right to a thing over others. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691} They call a light recommendation awla, and call the leaving of a recommended act khilaf al-awla; the Hanafis hold that whoever does what is contrary to the better course has done ill. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691} Among the kinds of verbal indication is the fahwa al-khitab, where a ruling is extended to an unmentioned case by the understood cause, as the prohibition of a word of contempt implies the prohibition of beating, and qiyas al-awla is a kind of clear analogy. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692} For the Hanafis the phrase ‘there is no harm’ usually signals that the leaving of an act is the better course. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692}"
 },
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  "ideas"
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 "regions": [
  "global"
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 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
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 "data": {
  "kind": "term",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya (Noor copy), headword «أولوية», pp.3690-3692 of the scan (ends where «إياس» begins on p.3692). Technical term in usul and fiqh; summarised at the level of definition and the kinds of reasoning by priority.",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w02-9"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  }
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "التعريف",
     "markdown": "الأولوية لغة كون الشيء أولى من غيره، أي أحرى به وأجدر وأقرب وأحق، مشتقة من الولي وهو القرب. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الاستعمال",
     "markdown": "- الأصوليون والفقهاء يستعملون الأولى بمعنى الأحرى والأفضل، على غير باب أفعل التفضيل، لأن مقابله خلاف الأولى، وفيه كراهة خفيفة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}\n- ويستعملون الأولى بمعنى الأحق، أي المستحق للشيء دون غيره. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}\n- يعبرون عن الندب الخفيف بالأولى، وعن ترك المندوب بخلاف الأولى. وعند الحنفية من ارتكب خلاف الأولى فقد أساء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أنواع الدلالة والقياس",
     "markdown": "- فحوى الخطاب: ثبوت حكم المنطوق للمسكوت لفهم مناط الحكم باللغة، كالنهي عن التأفيف يفيد النهي عن الضرب. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}\n- قياس الأولى: من أنواع القياس الجلي عند من يقول به، وهو أن يكون الفرع أولى بالحكم من الأصل. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "لفظ لا بأس",
     "markdown": "عند الحنفية يستعمل لفظ لا بأس غالبا فيما تركه أولى، وقد يستعمل في المندوب أحيانا. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/awliyya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "Awliyya is lexically the state of one thing being more fitting than another: more deserving, nearer and more apt. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Usage",
     "markdown": "- The usulis and jurists use awla in the sense of better or more fitting, without the comparative form, since its opposite, khilaf al-awla, carries a slight dislike. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}\n- They use it in the sense of having the right to a thing over others. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}\n- They call a light recommendation awla, and the leaving of a recommended act contrary to the better course; the Hanafis hold that whoever does so has done ill. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Kinds of indication and analogy",
     "markdown": "- Fahwa al-khitab: a ruling of what is stated extended to what is not stated, through the cause understood from the language; the prohibition of a word of contempt implies the prohibition of beating. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}\n- Qiyas al-awla: the analogy in which the new case has a stronger claim to the ruling than the original; it is a kind of clear analogy for those who hold it. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The phrase \"there is no harm\"",
     "markdown": "For the Hanafis the phrase \"there is no harm\" usually signals that the leaving of the act is the better course, though it may be used of a recommended act. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/awliyya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "تعریف",
     "markdown": "اولویت لغت میں کسی چیز کے دوسری سے زیادہ مناسب اور حق دار ہونے کو کہتے ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکم",
     "markdown": "- اصولیین اور فقہاء \"اولیٰ\" کو زیادہ مناسب اور بہتر کے معنی میں استعمال کرتے ہیں، اور خلاف اولیٰ وہ ہے جس میں ہلکی کراہت ہو۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3690}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}\n- فحوی الخطاب اور قیاس الاولیٰ دلالت اور قیاس کی قسمیں ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3691}{cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3692}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/awliyya",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/al-sunna-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/bayan-al-sunna-lil-quran",
  "concept/bida"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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