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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Kashaf-ul-haqaiq CHAPTER 6: QIYAS (ANALOGY) In religion the meaning of Qiyas is the application of a command in one matter to another matter based on a common ground. This then demands that the order should be the same for the two matters. (Commentary of Sahifa Kamila by Mufti Ja’far Husayn). You may now be getting tired of all this technical discussions, let me therefore relate to you a light heated story so that you can relax your mind a little.

This is a well known story of Sheykh Chilli. One day, in the midst of the summer heat, he decided to do some gardening. So he went to get his gardening tool which had become quite hot due to the summer heat. As soon as he grabbed hold of the tool his hand got scalded from it. So he asked for advice from someone to take a look at the gardening tool and see what the problem was. So the advisor said mockingly: ‘Your gardening tool has got high fever.

The solution is to tie a rope round it and immerse it into the water well so that its fever can come down’. So Sheykh Chilli followed the instructions and lo, the tool cooled down. By coincidence, after a few days his mother fell ill with high fever. So Sheykh Chilli then started thinking that surely there is a similarity here between the two cases. Therefore the same order should be applicable on both the cases. He then tied a rope around his mother’s neck and flung her into the water well.

After a few dips when he took her out, the fever was gone, but then so was his mother. I don’t think Sheykh Chilli should be totally blamed for doing what he did as his error can be classified as an ‘error of Ijtihad’. TYPES OF QAYAS The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) said: ‘Every innovation is a sin and the punishment of every innovator is Hell’. When our elder brothers (Sunnis) looked at this Hadeeth they thought: ‘We are in trouble.

Now where are we going to place innovations like the forbidding of Mutah, Nabeedh, As Salaat Khairun Min An Nawm etc.’ Now, their Mujtahids were not going to be left behind anyone, so they put on their inventor’s garb and subdivided Innovation into two types, namely good and bad. And so they classified the above innovations as good innovations as the one who issued this order was also a ‘good’ person.

But the Holy Prophet (s.a.w.) had forbidden innovations in its entirety and not only certain kinds of it.