Discover the meaning of the term Mani' (مانع) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readWhat renders the ruling nonexistent despite its cause’s presence; its detail in at-tawaqqouf.
Lexically: the barrier; said: the detaining debtor; plural mana’a. Al-mana’: what bars the thing’s gain, contrary of the requisite. In the Law: Ibn ’Arfa said: mana’ is what an argument establishes existing, raising what is established of the requisite. Meant here: the testimony-barrier in him filling its conditions, his penalty valid for the ruling-barrier absolutely. In Ghayat al-Woussoul: an existential description, not nonexistent, apparent not hidden, determined not perturbed, known contrary of the ruling: the cause’s ruling as killing in inheritance’s chapter. Sheikh Zakariya al-Ansari said: mana’ is whose existence demands nonexistence, whose nonexistence demands neither existence nor nonexistence. The apparent, determined description whose existence demands the ruling’s nonexistence, whose nonexistence demands neither ruling’s existence nor nonexistence; as the heir’s killing his decedent: from the killing is demanded the barring…
Whose existence demands the ruling’s nonexistence.
Among the usul people: the existential, apparent, determined description known contrary of the ruling, as fatherhood in talion.
What renders the ruling nonexistent despite the cause’s presence.