ET02: Usūl al Maqāsid (January 2024)

Critical Loyalty’s Usūl al-Maqāsid course is a comprehensive one-year online program that combines theory, practice, and research. It is designed to achieve both breadth and depth. These are online courses offered through Zoom virtual classroom.

To build a solid foundation in Maqāsid theory, students will cover selected topics from Shāh WaliAllāh’s Hujjat Allah al-Bālighah.

Below are the topics per month:

January– An Introduction to Kateb Chelebi, Uṣūl al-Fiqh vs. Maqāsid,
February- Usūl: Ḥukm and Aḥkām, Case Study: Music
March- Usūl: Illah and Finding Underlying Reasons of Rulings, Case Study: Smoking, Smoke, and Drugs
April- Usūl: Settling Farḍ vs. Mustaḥabb, Case Study: Coffee
May- Usūl: Settling the Timings and Numbers of Actions, Case Study: Sexuality
June- Usūl: Qadā’, Rukhṣah, and the Creation of Rulings, Case Study: Medicine
July- Usūl: Maṣlaḥah and Mafsadah, Case Study: Gambling, Women,
August- Usūl: Extracting the Sharī’ah from the Prophet, Case Study: Currency, and Mortgages
September- Usūl: How to Understand Speech and Understand the Sharī’ah, Case Study: Takfīr and Contemporary Fatawa
October- Usūl: Reasons for the Ikhtilāf of the Ṣahābah and Fuqahā’, Case Study: Requirements of a Mufti across time
November- Usūl: Pre-codification and Post-codification Extraction of Rulings, Case Study: Converts to Islam
December- Conclusion: 7 Uṣul of Fiqh and Taqlīd, Kateb Chelebi’s Conclusion

This course is not a course on Fiqh but instead on Maqāsid and the objectives of Shari’ah.
Shaykh Uthman, who is a critic of the science of Fiqh, decided to teach this course complementing the Ijāzah in Hadīth, and Tafsīr, to graduate Islamic scholars who can think like the visionaries of Maqāsid in the past such as Shatibi and others. The course will cover comparative Usūl al fiqh of various schools including the maqāsid approach.

Going above and beyond traditional seminaries, Critical Loyalty incorporates a strong focus on critical thinking and depth through research.

Upon successful completion of the written exam the student will receive an ijāzāh in the Maqāsid.

Registration for the next session is NOW OPEN

January 2024 to December 2024

Timings: Sundays from 12 am-1 pm Mountain Standard Time

The first class is on January 7, 2024