On the limits of the necessity argument
AMJA — Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America
What this source says
The maxim of necessity (ḍarūrah) does not transform the prohibited into the permissible at the level of preference. A house to own is not a necessity in the fiqh-technical sense; shelter is. Renting, downsizing, relocating, and pooling capital with family are all to be exhausted before any appeal to necessity is even theologically coherent.
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Provenance
- Source
- AMJA Resolutions on Conventional Mortgages
- School / basis
- Comparative
- Original
- https://www.amjaonline.org
- Added
- 2026-05-22
- Trust
- Quote read in full context and checked against the original source by hand.
Topics
necessitydarurahmortgagefiqh
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