What does Qudrat al-maysara mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Qudrat al-maysara (قدرة الميسرة) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Qudrat al-maysara

Qudrat al-maysara according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

What makes ease binding upon performance; it exceeds the possible capacity by one degree in strength: by it possibility is established then ease, unlike the first by which possibility is not established. This capacity was conditioned for monetary obligations and not bodily ones, their performance being harder on the soul than the bodily: wealth is the soul’s kin. The difference between the two capacities is in the ruling: the possible is a pure condition, the very origin of the charge depending on it, its permanence not required for the obligation’s continuance.

Qudrat al-maysara according to Dustur al-'Ulama (Al-Ahmadnagari)

That is, for performance; the author of Manar al-Usoul rendered the second part complete, explaining it by the capacity of ease, what makes ease binding upon performance; it exceeds the possible capacity by one degree in strength: by it possibility is established then ease, unlike the first. This capacity was conditioned for monetary obligations, not bodily, their performance harder on the soul: wealth is the soul’s kin.

Qudrat al-maysara according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

What makes ease binding upon the performer; it exceeds the possible by one degree in strength, for by it possibility is established then ease, unlike the first. Ease compares the act among the Ash’arites, contrary to the mu’azilites.

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

That is, the complete: what makes ease binding upon performance, exceeding the enabling capacity by one degree in strength, for by it possibility is established then ease, unlike the first by which only possibility is established.

Qudrat al-maysara according to Al-Qamus al-Fiqhi

Among the Hanafis: what makes ease binding upon performance; it exceeds the possible capacity by one degree in strength, by it possibility then ease being established. This capacity was conditioned for monetary obligations, not bodily. It compares the act among the people of the Sounna and the Ash’arites, contrary to the mu’azilites. Its permanence conditions the obligation’s continuance: the Hanafis conclude zakat falls by loss of the threshold, and the tithe by loss of the harvest, contrary to the Shafi’ites for whom, able to perform without performing, one is held liable. Al-miqdar: the quantity of a thing; plural maqadir; that by which a thing’s measure is known, counted, measured or weighed.

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