Context significance for non-linguists

Abstract

This study aims to determine the significance of the context for non-linguists, and the way they use it in Islamic legal texts. The researcher chose the inductive analytical method in conducting this study. And it has been concluded from the research the following results: First: The jurists used the context indication in various places to derive legal rulings. Second: The significance of context is one of the most important basic units for fundamentalists in understanding the meanings of Islamic legal texts. Third: It is difficult to understand the meanings of the Qur’anic verses without resorting to the significance of the context, and it may be impossible at times, due to the surrounding circumstances and external circumstances. Fourth: The doctrinal issues in which the sects differ, the main reason may be the disability of some of them to understand the significance of the context in which the prophetic hadiths were mentioned, and the situation in which the hadith is being studied. Fifth: The readers used the context indication in directing the meanings of the readings, and quoting the appropriate meanings of the word that is inherited from the different readings.