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 "id": "concept/dhari-a-fiqh",
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 "slug": "dhari-a-fiqh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الذريعة",
  "en": "Dhari'a (the means that lead to an end; see blocking the means)",
  "ur": "ذریعہ (وسیلہ جو مقصد تک پہنچائے)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الذريعة لغة الوسيلة المفضية إلى الشيء، واصطلاحا ما يتوصل به إلى الشيء، وتكون إلى المفاسد المحرمة وإلى المصالح. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8421} وحكمها يتعلق بها من جهتين: سدها وفتحها، وتفصيل ذلك في مادة سد الذرائع. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8422}",
  "en": "Dhari'a in the lexicon is the means that leads to a thing; as a term it is whatever leads to a further end. It may lead to forbidden harms or to goods; the ruling on it has two sides, blocking and opening, treated under the entry on blocking the means. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8421} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8422}",
  "ur": "ذریعہ لغت میں اس وسیلے کو کہتے ہیں جو کسی چیز تک پہنچائے۔ اس کا حکم دو پہلوؤں سے ہے: سد اور فتح، جس کی تفصیل سد الذرائع کے باب میں ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8422}"
 },
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  "global"
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  "period/abbasid-early"
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 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "law-and-courts"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «ذريعة»، ص 8421-8422 من المسح (الأرقام المطبوعة للمجلد ص 213-214)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w05-batch14"
  },
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   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; short headword on scan pp.8421-8422 (the next heading ذقن is on p.8422). The entry gives the definition and points to the entry on blocking the means, as printed; completeness 1 because the detail lies in that other entry. Urdu is a short draft only."
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الذريعة لغة الوسيلة المفضية إلى الشيء، واصطلاحا ما يتوصل به إلى الشيء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8421}\nوتكون الذريعة إلى المفاسد المحرمة كما تكون إلى المصالح، فالسفر وسيلة إلى الحج، والبيوع الآجلة ذريعة إلى الربا. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8421}\nوحكم الذريعة يتعلق بها من جهتين: سدها وفتحها، وتفصيله في مادة سد الذرائع. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8422}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/dhari-a-fiqh",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Dhari'a in the lexicon is the means that leads to a thing; as a term it is whatever leads to a further end. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8421}\nA means may lead to forbidden harms or to goods: travel is a means to pilgrimage, and deferred sales are a means to usury. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8421}\nThe ruling on a means has two sides, blocking it and opening it; the detail is under the entry on blocking the means. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8422}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/dhari-a-fiqh",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ذریعہ وہ وسیلہ ہے جو کسی چیز تک پہنچائے، اور اس کا حکم سد اور فتح دونوں سے متعلق ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8422}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/dhari-a-fiqh",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/ahliyya",
  "concept/al-dimuqratiyya-wal-sharia",
  "concept/al-fatwa-ala-al-fadaiyyat",
  "concept/al-ilmaniyya-wal-islam",
  "concept/al-rajm",
  "concept/allusion-to-proposal-in-iddah",
  "concept/aman",
  "concept/amana"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}