The New Developments (Nawazil) Of Charitable Work in Light of Jurisprudential Rules

Abstract

The present study aims at clarifying the concept of new developments (nawazil) of charitable work and the related jurisprudential rules. It also shows the applications of the jurisprudential rules in the development of provisions related to the new developments of charitable work in Islam. The research is based on an inductive approach to answer the research questions. In this context, it adopts a follow-up study to collect data related to the objectives of the study. The study comes out with a number of findings, the most important of which are as follows: .The charitable work is usually associated with its goals and the person who is in charge of charity work is usually honest in his oath provided that he is a good person in general.The work of charity depends on the ability of doing it. If the charity work is common among people and was not contrary to the teachings of Shari'ah (Islamic Law), this work is permissible, because the tradition reigns in the event of dispute. In charitable works, the jurisprudence (ijtihad) may be overturned by another jurisprudence as long as this is associated with the interest of the nation. The study recommends that individuals should be made aware of the provisions of new developments of charity, and inform the concerned bodies about how to benefit from the jurisprudential rules in devising judgments regarding the developments of charitable work.