{
 "id": "concept/imtihan",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "imtihan",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الامتهان",
  "en": "Imtihan (use, handling and scorned work)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الامتهان لغة الخدمة واستعمال الشيء وابتذاله، ويستعمل الفقهاء اللفظ بالمعنيين: الاحتراف والابتذال، والابتذال عدم صيانة الشيء وتداوله واستخدامه في العمل. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380} ويفترق عن الاستهانة والاستخفاف، لأن الاستهانة استحقار، والامتهان لا يتضمنه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380} ويطلب في بعض الأحوال كالجمعة والعيدين أن يلبس غير ثياب المهنة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}",
  "en": "Imtihan in the lexical sense is serving another or using and wearing a thing out; the jurists use the word in both senses, as trade and as wear. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380} It differs from contempt or disdain, since contempt is treating a thing as worthless, and imtihan does not imply that. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380} In some cases, such as Friday and the feasts, one is asked to wear something other than work clothes. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "ethics-and-character"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "ethical",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya (Noor copy), headword «امتهان», p.3380 of the scan (ends where «أمر» begins on p.3381). Footnote citations omitted.",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w02-9"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "التعريف",
     "markdown": "الامتهان لغة افتعال من المهنة، أي الخدمة، وامتهنه استخدمه أو ابتذله. والفقهاء يستعملونه بمعنيين: الاحتراف، والابتذال، وهو عدم صيانة الشيء وتداوله واستخدامه في العمل. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}\nويفترق عن الاستهانة والاستخفاف، فالاستهانة استحقار، والامتهان لا معنى فيه للاحتقار. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم الإجمالي",
     "markdown": "يطلب من المسلم في أحوال كالجمعة والعيدين والجماعات أن يلبس غير ثياب المهنة، لحديث: «ما على أحدكم لو اشترى ثوبين ليوم الجمعة سوى ثوب مهنته». {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/imtihan",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Definition",
     "markdown": "Imtihan is, from the root of \"work\" or \"service\", the use of a thing or the wearing of it out. The jurists use it in two senses: trade (ihtiraf) and wear (ibtidhal), the latter being not keeping a thing from use. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}\nIt differs from contempt, which treats a thing as worthless. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Ruling",
     "markdown": "On Friday, the feasts and congregational occasions one is asked to wear clothes other than work clothes, following the hadith that one should buy two garments for Friday besides his working clothes. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/imtihan",
    "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": "امتہان لغت میں خدمت یا کسی چیز کو استعمال میں لا کر خراب کرنا ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکم",
     "markdown": "جمعہ اور عیدوں پر کام کے کپڑوں کے بجائے اچھا لباس پہننا مطلوب ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.3380}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/imtihan",
    "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/ada-al-dayn",
  "concept/ada-al-shahada",
  "concept/adab-hamil-al-quran",
  "concept/add",
  "concept/adha-fiqh",
  "concept/adl-wal-fadl",
  "concept/afw",
  "concept/ahd"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}