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What are the legal bases of various categories of rulings such as actual, outer, mawlawi, advisory, defining and declaratory law?

6438 2014/02/27 General Terms

Based on the way one looks at the rulings and laws, it is possible to divide the rules in a number of ways some of which, albeit, can be merged into one another. In this study, we have tried, as far a

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Does showering after wudu, invalidate the wudu?

18393 Laws and Jurisprudence 2010/11/21

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How is Prophet Adam’s (A.S.) creation (about 5,764 years ago) make sense when fossils found from human beings are almost 25 million years old?

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Is lobster, clam, oyster and octopus halal?

108578 Laws and Jurisprudence 2012/02/18

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Why hasn’t Imam Ali (a.s.) been mentioned in the Holy Quran?

87742 Exegesis 2008/05/11

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79290 Laws and Jurisprudence 2010/08/14

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