Discover the meaning of the term Mulazama (ملازمة) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readLexically: a thing’s impossibility of detaching from another; al-lazoum and at-talazoum its sense. As a term: the ruling requiring the other, the ruling such that, occurring, it necessarily requires another ruling’s occurrence, as smoke for fire by day, fire for smoke by night.
And al-lazoum and at-talazoum lexically: a thing’s impossibility detaching from another. As a term: a matter requiring another in that, occurring, it requires another matter’s occurring, as the sun’s rising for day, day for sun’s rising; as smoke for fire night and day, fire for smoke likewise, though smoke visible by day and invisible by night.
Al-lazoum and at-talazoum lexically: a thing’s impossibility parting from another (non-separation). Terminologically: in Dastour al-’Oulama: a matter requiring another in that, occurring, it requires another matter’s occurring, as sun’s rising for day, day for its rising, smoke for fire night and day, fire for smoke likewise, smoke visible by day invisible by night. In al-Houdoud al-Aniqa: the ruling requiring the other: the first the moulzam, second the lazim. In the economic terms lexicon: the term on the jurists’ tongues of the wrongfully stalling debtor, and the legal supports forcing his performance.
It is the ruling requiring the other.
Lexically: a thing’s impossibility detaching from a thing.