Category: Family Laws
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Kinds of Muslim Marriages
In the last article, we have seen meaning of Nikah, Mahr, and iddat. In this article, we shall study different kinds of Muslim marriages. There are two sects of Muslims all over the world divided by their beliefs and traditions, viz. Sunni Muslims and Shia Muslims. Marriages in both the sects are conducted in different…
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Nikah: A Muslim Marriage
In this article, we shall study about Nikah, a Muslim Marriage, its procedure, requirements, etc. A marriage, as an institution, promotes man’s advancement and ensures the survival of the human race. The primary goal of marriage is to protect society from immorality and unchastity. Nikah (Marriage in Muslims): In Islam, the marriage between a bride…
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Secondary Sources of Muslim Law
Shariah law is a religious law that lays down governing principles for spiritual, mental, and physical behaviour that must be followed by Muslims. Regarded as God’s command for Muslims, Sharia law is essentially Islam’s legal system. Muslims believe sharia refers to the perfect, immutable values understood only by God, while Islamic laws are those based…
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Qiyas: The Fourth Primary Source of Muslim Law
The fourth important source of Muhammadan law is the Qiyas, i.e., a collection of rules or principles by the methods of analogy and interpretation from the first three sources. All the three sources the Quran, The Sunnah, and Ijmaa could not suffice the growing needs of a community which had their ideas expanded by the…
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Ijmaa: The Third Source of Muslim Law
This source of law active when the Quran and traditions (Sunnah) could not supply any rule of law for a new problem. Persons having knowledge of the law were called Mujtahids (Jurists). The Jurists used to agree unanimously and gave their common opinion over that point and their unanimous opinion is known as Ijma. It…
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The Sunnah: The Second Source of Muslim Law
Traditions are narrations of law and religion which were communicated from one generation to another and thus became the practices in the society. They were for a long time neither written nor systematically arranged. The preaching and precepts could become an authoritative source of law when some competent and qualified person called Narrator, had narrated…
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The Holy Quran: The First Source of Muslim Law
The Shariah prescribes both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties for lawbreaking. By sources of any law means the original materials where the contents of that law are to be found and are made available to us. Study of these sources is necessary because without having any knowledge of the origin of a…
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Sources of Muslim Law
Shariah law is a religious law that lays down governing principles for spiritual, mental, and physical behaviour that must be followed by Muslims. Regarded as God’s command for Muslims, Sharia law is essentially Islam’s legal system. Muslims believe sharia refers to the perfect, immutable values understood only by God, while Islamic laws are those based…
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Succession Certificate
The term “succession” ordinarily means the transmission of the property and the transmissible rights and obligations of the deceased. The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolves in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession…
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Letter of Administration
The property may be ancestral or self-acquired property may devolve in two ways i.e., a) By testamentary succession i.e., the deceased died by executing will bequeathing his properties to specific heirs and b) By intestate succession when the deceased died intestate without executing Will or any deeds. The transmission could either be by way of…