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 "id": "concept/jiha",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "jiha",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الجهة",
  "en": "Jiha (direction, purpose or head in fiqh)",
  "ur": "جہت"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الجهة في اللغة الموضع الذي يُتوجَّه إليه، وفي الفقه تُستعمل في إضافة المال إلى جهة، كالوقف على جهة لا تنقطع كالفقراء، وفي التبرع المعين بجهة. وتُبيّن الموسوعة اختلاف القابض والدافع في الجهة، ومنها الزوجان في الهبة والمهر، وجهات التبعية في الإسلام بإسلام أحد الأبوين أو الالتقاط. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6667} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6668} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6669} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6670}",
  "en": "Jiha in the language is the place one faces or aims at. In fiqh the word is used for a purpose to which property is assigned, such as an endowment for a perpetual purpose like the poor. The encyclopedia records disputes between giver and receiver over the purpose, such as a dispute over whether a payment was a gift or part of the dower, and the two ways in Islam by which a child belongs to the faith: a parent's conversion, or being found in Muslim territory. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6667} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6668} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6669} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6670}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «جهة»، ص 6667-6670 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.6667-6670 read at summary level, next headword جواب at p.6671. Footnotes not checked."
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الجهة في اللغة الموضع الذي يُتوجَّه إليه، وفي الفقه المقصد الذي يُضاف إليه المال. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6667}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوقف على جهة",
     "markdown": "يجوز الوقف على جهة لا تنقطع، كالفقراء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6669}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اختلاف القابض والدافع",
     "markdown": "إذا ادعى الدافع أنه أعطى هبة وادعى القابض أنه من المهر، فالقول قول المنكر للعقد بيمينه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6669}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جهات التبعية في الإسلام",
     "markdown": "يتبع الصغير الإسلام إذا أسلم أحد أبويه، أو كان لقيطا في دار الإسلام. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6670}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jiha",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Jiha in the language is the place one faces or aims at. In fiqh it names the purpose to which property is assigned. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6667}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Endowment for a perpetual purpose",
     "markdown": "An endowment for a purpose that never ends, such as the poor, is allowed. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6669}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Disputes over the purpose",
     "markdown": "If the giver says the payment was a gift and the receiver says it was part of the dower, the one who denies the contract is believed on oath. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6669}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "How a child follows Islam",
     "markdown": "A child follows Islam when one of its parents converts, or when it is a foundling in Muslim territory. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6670}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jiha",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5, draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "لغت میں جہت وہ جگہ ہے جس کی طرف رخ کیا جائے۔ فقہ میں یہ اس مقصد کو کہتے ہیں جس کے لیے مال مختص کیا جائے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6667}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جہت پر وقف",
     "markdown": "ایسی جہت پر وقف جائز ہے جو ختم نہ ہو، جیسے فقراء۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6669}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تبعیتِ اسلام",
     "markdown": "بچہ اسلام کا تابع ہو جاتا ہے جب اس کے والدین میں سے کوئی مسلمان ہو جائے، یا وہ دار الاسلام میں لقیط ہو۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.6670}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/jiha",
    "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/abjad-kings-etymology",
  "concept/al-ghazw-al-fikri",
  "concept/al-idara-al-islamiyya",
  "concept/al-ilam-wal-mas-uliyya",
  "concept/anwa",
  "concept/asma-al-ayyam-wal-shuhur-jahiliyya",
  "concept/ayyam-al-nuhsat",
  "concept/azlam"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}