{
 "id": "concept/amal",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "amal",
 "label": {
  "ar": "العَمَل",
  "en": "Action (amal) and the five rulings that govern it",
  "ur": "عمل (فعل)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "العمل في اللغة المهنة والفعل، ويعم عند الكليات أفعال الجوارح والقلوب، وقيل هو إحداث أمر قولاً كان أو فعلاً {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. وتعتريه الأحكام الخمسة: فما طلبه الشارع طلب إلزام فواجب، وما طلبه دون إلزام فمندوب، وما نهى عنه نهي إلزام فحرام، وما نهى عنه دون إلزام فمكروه، وما خيّر فيه بين فعله وتركه فمباح {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. ويثاب العبد على الطاعات ويعاقب على المعاصي إلا أن يعفو الله {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}.",
  "en": "In the lexicon, 'amal is a trade and an act; in the scholars' general usage it covers the acts of the limbs and of the heart, and some define it as bringing a thing about by speech or by deed {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. The five rulings govern it: what the Lawgiver requires as binding is obligatory, what he requires without binding is recommended, what he forbids bindingly is forbidden, what he discourages without binding is disliked, and what he leaves to choice is permitted {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. The servant is rewarded for obedience and punished for disobedience, unless God pardons him {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "development-of-law-theology-institutions",
  "ethics-and-character"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «عَمَل، ص 11839»، من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w07-batch43"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword complete on scan p.11839 (short headword). عَمَلُ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ begins on scan p.11840 and is a separate headword. Footnote citations omitted"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "العمل في اللغة المهنة والفعل، ويعم عند الكليات أفعال الجوارح والقلوب، وقيل هو إحداث أمر قولاً كان أو فعلاً {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. وتعتريه الأحكام الخمسة: فما طلبه الشارع طلب إلزام فواجب، وما طلبه دون إلزام فمندوب، وما نهى عنه نهي إلزام فحرام، وما نهى عنه دون إلزام فمكروه، وما خيّر فيه بين فعله وتركه فمباح {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. ويثاب العبد على الطاعات ويعاقب على المعاصي إلا أن يعفو الله {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/amal",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "In the lexicon, 'amal is a trade and an act; in the scholars' general usage it covers the acts of the limbs and of the heart, and some define it as bringing a thing about by speech or by deed {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. The five rulings govern it: what the Lawgiver requires as binding is obligatory, what he requires without binding is recommended, what he forbids bindingly is forbidden, what he discourages without binding is disliked, and what he leaves to choice is permitted {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}. The servant is rewarded for obedience and punished for disobedience, unless God pardons him {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/amal",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "لغت میں عمل پیشے اور فعل کو کہتے ہیں {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}۔ اس پر پانچوں احکام جاری ہوتے ہیں، یعنی واجب، مستحب، حرام، مکروہ اور مباح {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.11839}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/amal",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/add",
  "concept/afw",
  "concept/ahd",
  "concept/amal-ahl-madina",
  "concept/uhda",
  "concept/ada-al-dayn",
  "concept/ada-al-shahada",
  "concept/adab-hamil-al-quran"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}