This course is a key component of the Seekers curriculum. It is for serious students of knowledge who want to go beyond merely understanding what they need to implement in their own lives to being able to answer other people’s religious questions related to Islamic Law.
Beyond just learning the basics of financial transactions and inheritance (which could just be attained from the Inheritance and Finace courses) this course gives you the principles and structure of the understanding of the Shafi Madhhab, the madhab of many of the greatest Hadith scholars, Tafsir specialists, jurists, usulis, grammarians and Sufis of this Umma: These topic-specific courses can give you the upshot but learning a topic from a madhhab gives something to build on.
The details of the two main topic of this course include:
Fiqh of Trade
The integrals of the sale contract; options to cancel; what is permissible to buy and sell; distinction between a contract forbidden and invalid and that which is forbidden but not invalid; Riba in sales contract; returning defected goods; selling fruits and crops; the concept of possession; dealing with disputes over transactions; buying in advance (salam); loans; collateral; bankruptcy (taflis); suspension of contractors; debt transfer; guaranteeing payments; partnerships (sharika); Wakala; making deposits; Borrowing; returning stolen goods; Shuf’a; Qirad; Musaqah; Muzara’a; renting and hiring; Ja’ala; lost and found; finding lost child (luqta); games and competitions; endowments (awqf); gifts; manumission.
Fiqh of Inheritance
Bequests; inheritors; conditions of inheritance; inheritance shares; blocking inheritors; adjusting shares.
