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Summary of Sunni concepts | Concept (428) | The jurisprudence of budgets and priorities is a legal reality
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A summary of the concepts of Ahl al-Sunnah:
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The jurisprudence of weighing priorities and competing considerations is an established legal reality.
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Even people of this worldly life, in their transactions and institutions,
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base their plans, management, and interests upon weighing options and setting priorities.
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For weighing benefits against harms is something deeply ingrained in innate human nature,
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as well as an intuitive, rational certainty;
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and, all the more so, it is likewise an established legal reality in the Sharia.
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Therefore, scholars and practitioners of ijtihad must master this fiqh of weighing considerations when faced with disagreement,
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discerning what is closest to the truth in order to champion and give precedence to it.
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For in the hadith qudsi, Allah states:
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"And My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more beloved to Me than that which I have made obligatory upon him."
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It was recorded by al-Bukhari.
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Thus, obligatory acts take precedence over supererogatory ones in drawing closer to Allah,
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and the same principle applies across all other matters.