What does Al-sharṭ mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-sharṭ (شَّرط) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-sharṭ

Al-sharṭ according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

Suspending a thing upon a thing, such that if the first exists the second exists; it is said: the shart is what the thing's existence depends on, being outside its quiddity and not effecting its existence; and it is said: the shart is what the ruling's establishment depends on.

Al-sharṭ according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

In al-Qamus: it is binding a thing. In usage it shifted to suspending the occurrence of a set upon the occurrence of a set ensured by another set; the common usage is applying it to what the thing depends on while being external to it. Of it is the shart of prayer, unlike the quality of prayer, for the quality, while sharing with the shart in dependence, is internal to it and one of its pillars.

Al-sharṭ according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

In language: Ibn Faris said: the shin, the ra and the ta are a root indicating knowledge, a sign, and the like of that from knowing; of that is the shart, meaning the sign, and the portents of the Hour: its signs. The shart was so named because they made for themselves a mark by which they were known, and one says: 'so-and-so ashrata nafsa-hu li-l-mahlika' (devoted himself to destruction): when he made it a mark

Al-sharṭ according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

In language: it denotes the sign, hence the portents of the Hour, and the shurut (conditions).

Al-sharṭ according to Al-Kulliyat (Al-Kafawi)

What the thing depends on without being of it, as purity for prayer. In al-Durr: the shart is what the thing's existence depends on and does not enter it. It is said: the shurut are of three kinds.

Al-sharṭ according to Al-Qamus al-Fiqhi

Of skin or the like: 'sharata-hu shartan': he slit it a light slitting. : 'Sharata la-hu amran': he undertook a matter. : 'Sharata 'alay-hi amran': he imposed it on him. So-and-so, 'sharatan': he fell into a great matter.

Al-sharṭ according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

What the thing's soundness depends on only: what it depends on by the effect of the effector, the ruling existing by its existence.

Al-sharṭ according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

Suspending a thing upon a thing such that if the first exists the second exists; thus defined Ibn Kamal (and al-Ta'rifat, p. 131). Al-Raghib said (al-Mufradat, p. 258): 'every ruling attached to a matter occurring for its occurrence, that matter being to it as a sign.'

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