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| | SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Towards a Contextually Relevant Fiqh for India |
 | | Thus, a madrasa student might be well-versed with the intricacies of manumitting slaves or the details of bathing and toilet-training, but, at the same time, may be blissfully ignorant of what guidance Islam might have to give on modern commercial transactions or birth control methods, for instance. |
 | | This stress on the furu’, in place of the ‘usul, is also reflected, he observes, in the way in which the Qur’an and the Hadith are often taught in many madrasas, by focusing on fiqhi issues instead of on the foundational values of the primary sources of Islam. |
 | | He wryly adds, ‘They know that if people come to realize that Islam has no place for this sort of thing, and that the concept of knowledge in Islam is comprehensive, covering ritual and belief as well as this-worldly social issues, their own claims to authority will be radically challenged’. |
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