{
 "id": "concept/jawab",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "jawab",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجواب",
  "en": "Jawab (the answer, and its legal effect)",
  "ur": "جواب"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الجواب في الأصول والفقه ما يُرد به على السؤال، ويتبع السؤال في عمومه وخصوصه إن لم يستقل بنفسه، كقول نعم. وإن استقل كان له حكم مستقل، كالإقرار بالجواب، وقد يحدد الجواب بالنية، كجواب تفويض الطلاق. ويأثم من امتنع عن الجواب الواجب، كالمفتي والشاهد. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6671} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6672} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6673} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6674} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6675}",
  "en": "In the usul and fiqh, a jawab is a reply to a question. If it cannot stand alone, such as yes, it takes the scope of the question; if it can stand alone, it has its own effect, as in an acknowledgement given in reply. An answer may also be read by the speaker's intention, as with a reply to a delegated divorce. A person who refuses a required answer, such as a mufti or a witness, is sinful. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6671} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6672} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6673} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6674} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6675}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "scripture-and-its-sciences"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «جواب»، ص 6671-6675 من المسح",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w04-batch-5"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 0,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; summary of scan pp.6671-6675 read at summary level, next headword جوار at p.6676. Footnotes not checked."
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الجواب ما يُرد به على السؤال، فإن لم يستقل بنفسه تبع السؤال في عمومه وخصوصه، وإن استقل كان له حكم مستقل. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6671} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6672}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أثر الجواب",
     "markdown": "قد يُعد الجواب إقرارا أو طلاقا أو رفضا بحسب اللفظ والقصد، ويرجع بعض المذاهب إلى نية القائل في عدد الطلقات. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6673} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6674}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الامتناع عن الجواب الواجب",
     "markdown": "يأثم من امتنع عن الجواب الواجب كالمفتي والشاهد. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6675}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jawab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A jawab is a reply to a question. If it cannot stand alone it follows the question's scope; if it can, it has its own effect. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6671} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6672}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Effect of a reply",
     "markdown": "A reply may count as an acknowledgement, a divorce or a refusal, depending on wording and intention; some schools return to the speaker's intention to count the divorces. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6673} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6674}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Refusing a required reply",
     "markdown": "A person who refuses a required answer, such as a mufti or a witness, is sinful. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6675}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jawab",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5, draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "جواب سوال کے جواب میں دیا گیا کلام ہے۔ اگر وہ خود مستقل نہ ہو تو سوال کی عمومیت اور خصوصیت کا تابع ہوتا ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6671} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6672}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جواب کا اثر",
     "markdown": "جواب اقرار، طلاق یا انکار شمار ہو سکتا ہے، جس کا انحصار الفاظ اور نیت پر ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6673} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6674}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "واجب جواب سے انکار",
     "markdown": "واجب جواب سے انکار کرنے والا، جیسے مفتی یا گواہ، گناہ گار ہوتا ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6675}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jawab",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5, draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/al-ahruf-al-sabaa",
  "concept/al-hadith-al-nabawi",
  "concept/al-shamail-al-muhammadiyya",
  "concept/al-sira-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/al-sunna-al-nabawiyya",
  "concept/amr-nahy",
  "concept/bayan-al-sunna-lil-quran",
  "concept/bida"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}