In fact many groups of people have been tried during the...

In fact many groups of people have been tried during the abundant mental activities since the day of the battle of al-Jamal (the day of the perfidious) and the day of the Kharijites (the apostates) until the golden Abbasid age in the Middle Ages. The importance of this research is not limited to the historical method but it exceeds it to include the methods of knowledge and action, which are connected with our basic system, which is Islam.

The nass and defining the situation of ijtihad due to it are not from the ordinary heritage or from the extinct languages but they are bases, on which the reality of millions and millions of Muslims depends and around whose axis their lives turn in their wide horizons. The nass is the existence of the Islamic jurisprudence and the ijtihad , armed with its mental bases, stands instead of the law of “mutability” if we do not say that it is…