{"id":15160,"date":"2025-05-28T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15160"},"modified":"2025-05-28T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:37:20","slug":"what-is-fiqh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/what-is-fiqh\/","title":{"rendered":"What is fiqh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"radix-:r1q:\" class=\"overflow-hidden text-sm data-[state=closed]:animate-accordion-up data-[state=open]:animate-accordion-down\" role=\"region\" data-state=\"open\" aria-labelledby=\"radix-:r1p:\" data-orientation=\"vertical\">\n<div class=\"pb-4 pt-0 prose prose-sm prose-a:font-semibold prose-a:underline prose-a:decoration-carrot-500\">\n<p>Fiqh is the process of deriving and interpreting Islamic law (Sharia).<\/p>\n<p>Linguistically, the Arabic word \u201cfiqh\u201d bears the meaning of \u201cdeep understanding or comprehension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the technical sense, fiqh refers to the process of deriving and interpreting Islamic law, as well as the body of rulings that emerge from this process. It is through fiqh that we come to know the Sharia and how to apply it in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Say you are reading the Qur\u2019an and come across dozens of verses emphasizing the importance of giving something called zakat (obligatory charity). Clearly, zakat is a big deal. But what next?<br \/>\nWhat is zakat in the first place? To whom is it given? What do I take into account when calculating zakat? Do I have to pay zakat solely on the money in my bank account? How about stocks and cryptocurrency?<\/p>\n<p>All of these questions are the domain of fiqh. The job of one who does fiqh \u2013 the Muslim jurist (faqih) \u2013 is to sift through the \u201csacred data\u201d (the Qur\u2019an, the Sunnah, etc.) and to identify and clarify the details of what God wants of us and how to live in conformity with His will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiqh is the process of deriving and interpreting Islamic law (Sharia). Linguistically, the Arabic word \u201cfiqh\u201d bears the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15160\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}