A summary of the core concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah:
The overlapping of benefits and harms.
Benefits and harms are rarely unmixed;
rather, they are most often intertwined or competing with one another.
In such cases, a Muslim acts upon the general legal maxims governing them,
namely: averting harm takes precedence over procuring benefit;
prioritizing the greater of two benefits over the lesser;
and choosing the lesser of two harms.
A summary of the core concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah: