What does Hall mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Hall (حل) in Islamic vocabulary.

Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM

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Definition Hall

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

With fatha: famous tongue. Hall touching poetic plagiarisms: scattering composition. Hall in disputatio: specifying words’ place; disputants limiting the question three: barring, general negation, opposition, their establishing hall voids that limitation. We say: hall enters barring by a fitness: exposing a determined premise, as in barring, occurs hall, hall’s aim specifying error’s place by poor understanding, not seeking the argument, unlike barring whose aim exposing a determined premise seeking its argument. Hall sometimes mentioned facing barring by this difference, sometimes employed synonym. With kasra: the lawful, what is beyond the sanctuary-land.

Hall according to Mu'jam al-Mustalahat al-Fiqhiyya

Lexically: taken of opening and absolving’s sense; hall’s root: untying the knot, the knot’s contrary; hence His word informing of Moussa: « and untie a knot of my tongue: they understand my speech ».

Hall according to Al-Qamus al-Fiqhi

Of the thing, halal: becoming permitted, it hall, halal. Of the woman: being lawful marrying; in the noble Quran: « if he repudiates her, she is licit him no more till she marries another husband » (al-Baqara 230). Of the woman: leaving her waiting-term. The consecrated: leaving consecration, lawful him what was forbidden. So-and-so: passing the sanctuary; in the mighty Quran: « when unsanctified, hunt » (al-Ma’ida 2). The debt hall: due paying, it hal. Allah’s anger on people: descending; in the mighty Revelation: « eat of the good things We provided you, transgress not therein, else My anger falls you: whom My anger falls has fallen » (Taha 81). The offering houlla, houloulan: reaching the place its slaughter lawful. The knot halla: untying, undoing. The place, halloulan: alighting. The house: dwelling, he hal; plural houloulan, halal, hullal. Ahalla: leaving consecration, lawful him what forbidden. So-and-so: passing the sanctuary. Exiting charge or covenant. Of the thing: permitting; noble Quran: « Allah permitted selling, forbidden usury » (al-Baqara 275). Ahlala: casting into; noble Quran: « O Prophet, We make lawful thee thy wives given their dowers, and thy slaves » (al-Ahzab 50). Each rivals: asking freeing him toward him clearing his debt; noble hadith: « go, share, then seek equity, then estimate, then each frees his companion ».

Hall according to Maqalid al-'Ulum (As-Suyuti)

Scattering the composition.

Hall according to At-Ta'rifat al-Fiqhiyya (Al-Barkati)

With fatha, the knot’s contrary; kasra, what passes Mecca’s sanctuary, opposed the sanctuary; also the unlawful’s contrary.

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