Mubah
Sign in to saveMubāḥ (Arabic: مباح) is an Arabic word roughly meaning "permitted", which has technical uses in Islamic law. "Mubah" is an Islamic jurisprudential term that refers to an action for which a person has no specific obligation. Consequently, performing or abstaining from it is considered equally permissible, and neither action results in reward or punishment from the perspective of God in Islam.
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- specialized term
- Subclass of
- Ahkam
- Part of
- sharia
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- different from
- haram
- described by source
- National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan
- facet of
- Usul al-fiqh
- language of work or name
- Arabic
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- mubāḥ
- native label
- مباح
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Mubāḥ (Arabic: مباح) is an Arabic word roughly meaning "permitted", which has technical uses in Islamic law. "Mubah" is an Islamic jurisprudential term that refers to an action for which a person has no specific obligation. Consequently, performing or abstaining from it is considered equally permissible, and neither action results in reward or punishment from the perspective of God in Islam.
In uṣūl al-fiqh (), mubāḥ is one of the five degrees of approval (ahkam): () - compulsory, obligatory () - recommended () - neutral, not involving God's judgment () - disliked, reprehensible () - forbidden
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