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 "slug": "rukhsa-usul",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الرخصة",
  "en": "Rukhsa (the concession: a ruling eased for a reason, set against the strict ruling 'azima)",
  "ur": "رخصت"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الرخصة في اللغة اليسر والإذن بعد النهي، وفي الاصطلاح ما وُسّع للمكلف في فعله لعذر عجز عنه مع قيام السبب المحرم، وهي تقابل العزيمة، وتتقارب مع الإباحة ورفع الحرج. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8675} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8677} وتتعدد أسبابها من ضرورة وحاجة وسفر ومرض ونسيان وإكراه، وتتنوع إلى واجبة ومندوبة ومباحة وخلاف الأولى عند الشافعية، وإلى حقيقية ومجازية عند الحنفية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8678} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8679} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8680} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} وأخذ بعض الفقهاء العزيمة أولى في بعض الصور، كالإكراه على الكفر إذا كان الامتناع يُفضي إلى القتل، ومن يصوم في السفر. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8682} ويجوز القياس على الرخص عند الجمهور، ويمنع أبو حنيفة إلا عند أبي يوسف. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8687} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} وتتبع الرخص لغير سبب شرعي محرّم، والأخذ بها عند سبب شرعي جائز. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8689}",
  "en": "Rukhsa in the lexicon is ease and permission after a prohibition; in usage it is what is made lighter for the person in doing something, for a cause that prevents him from the strict ruling while the forbidding cause remains. It is set against 'azima, and is close to permission and to lifting hardship. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8675} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8677} Its causes are necessity, need, travel, illness, forgetting and compulsion; its kinds are obligatory, recommended, permitted and against the better course for the Shafi'is, and real and figurative for the Hanafis. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8678} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8679} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8680} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} Some jurists hold that the strict ruling is better in some cases, such as compelled unbelief when refusing would mean death, and fasting on a journey. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8682} Analogy from a concession is allowed by the majority and refused by the Hanafis, except Abu Yusuf. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8687} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} Taking up concessions merely to escape duty is condemned; taking them for a lawful cause is permitted. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8689}",
  "ur": "رخصت وہ آسانی ہے جو عذر کی بنا پر مکلف کو دی گئی ہو، جبکہ عزیمت اصل سخت حکم ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8675} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} اسباب میں ضرورت، حاجت، سفر اور بیماری شامل ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8686} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8687}"
 },
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  "global"
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 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
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 "themes": [
  "worship-and-the-pillars",
  "law-and-courts"
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 "data": {
  "kind": "doctrine",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «رخصة»، ص 8675-8689 من المسح (الأرقام المطبوعة ص 151-165)",
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  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; long usul headword read on scan pp.8675-8689 (next heading رِدْء on p.8689, after the cross-reference رخم, skipped). Qur'anic verses and hadiths named, not typed; the long lists of examples and the scholars' views are summarised; footnote citations omitted; the cross-reference عزيمة (azima) and the existing concept/azima (other lane) are related and not edited. Urdu is a short draft."
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الرخصة في اللغة اليسر والإذن بعد النهي، وفي الاصطلاح ما وُسّع للمكلف في فعله لعذر عجز عنه مع قيام السبب المحرم، وهي تقابل العزيمة، وتتقارب مع الإباحة ورفع الحرج. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8675} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8677} وتتعدد أسبابها من ضرورة وحاجة وسفر ومرض ونسيان وإكراه، وتتنوع إلى واجبة ومندوبة ومباحة وخلاف الأولى عند الشافعية، وإلى حقيقية ومجازية عند الحنفية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8678} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8679} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8680} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} وأخذ بعض الفقهاء العزيمة أولى في بعض الصور، كالإكراه على الكفر إذا كان الامتناع يُفضي إلى القتل، ومن يصوم في السفر. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8682} ويجوز القياس على الرخص عند الجمهور، ويمنع أبو حنيفة إلا عند أبي يوسف. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8687} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} وتتبع الرخص لغير سبب شرعي محرّم، والأخذ بها عند سبب شرعي جائز. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8689}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مواطن البحث",
     "markdown": "تُذكر العزيمة والإباحة ورفع الحرج في مواضعها، وتُذكر أحكام الإكراه والسفر في موضعها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8677}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/rukhsa-usul",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Rukhsa in the lexicon is ease and permission after a prohibition; in usage it is what is made lighter for the person in doing something, for a cause that prevents him from the strict ruling while the forbidding cause remains. It is set against 'azima, and is close to permission and to lifting hardship. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8675} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8677} Its causes are necessity, need, travel, illness, forgetting and compulsion; its kinds are obligatory, recommended, permitted and against the better course for the Shafi'is, and real and figurative for the Hanafis. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8678} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8679} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8680} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} Some jurists hold that the strict ruling is better in some cases, such as compelled unbelief when refusing would mean death, and fasting on a journey. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8681} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8682} Analogy from a concession is allowed by the majority and refused by the Hanafis, except Abu Yusuf. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8687} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} Taking up concessions merely to escape duty is condemned; taking them for a lawful cause is permitted. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8688} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8689}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Where to look further",
     "markdown": "The strict ruling ('azima), permission and the lifting of hardship are treated in their own entries. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8677}"
    }
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   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "رخصت وہ آسانی ہے جو عذر کی بنا پر مکلف کو دی گئی ہو، جبکہ عزیمت اصل سخت حکم ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8675} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8676} اسباب میں ضرورت، حاجت، سفر اور بیماری شامل ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8686} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8687}"
    }
   ],
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  "concept/dayn-allah",
  "concept/dhabaih-fiqh",
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  "concept/dhawq-fiqh",
  "concept/halak-fiqh",
  "concept/hay-a-fiqh",
  "concept/la-darar",
  "work/charge-to-amr-ibn-hazm"
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