ca hn idl dwbhoartnt on ac ko evde ri sd si fof oe rn, tbhuet rtehaef tue nr icvl eort shaeldv. aTl hu ee coof nc ov ev ne rt ii on ng st ho ef hboowd yt oe xcios vt se. rA final example mentioned by Shāh Walī-Allah ◌ؒ ◌ is the need for humans to hmaevreelhyousing and cooked food. The presence of such universal values is not mental —as some ancient, modern and contemporary philosophers have argued—but is lived and practiced in the world. For the Muslim, the convention of shared universal civilizational values comes from the Sharīʿah . Hence, every rule of Sharīʿah is natural ( fiṭri ) in that ihtef owl loouwl ds na ahtuumr aal lny lci no emoef ttoh ianckoi nmgp, as ur ac bh l et hcaot ni fc lau ps ieorns ot on ww he ri ceht ot hbee l e f t a l o n e , Sharīʿah has pwraeyscorfibShedāhfoWr ahliīm-A. lMlaahn, ysuccohnatesmQpāorīraṬrayyyscibholarly luminaries thought in the ◌ؒ ◌ 3 , Shaykh Muḥammad Meerān ◌ؒ ◌ 4 and ʿ Allāmah Khālid Maḥmūd ◌ؒ ◌ . 5 Like Shāh Walī-Allah, the aforementioned Ḥanafī ʿulamāʾ were always thinking, analyzing, and re- analyzing.
Islam’s legal coherence is the intellectual gift of the greatest of legal scholars, Imām Abū Ḥanīfah. His genius brought out the coherence of the Sharīʿah . If ever an apparent inconsistency was present, he would comb 3 My mentor at Deoband and arguably the most intelligent Muslim scholar I have ever met 4 My guide and mentor in ṣūfī matters. An incredible mentor, an exceptional guide 5 My mentor in Ḥanafī Law and the Islamic legal theory. He served as a judge at the Pakistan Sharīʿah Court and was a natural genius 6 A tradition from the Prophet Muhammad g narrated by a Successor ◌ؒ ◌ of the Companions j .
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