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The Difference Between Abrogation And Restriction, Mahmoud Abboud, Fathi Bikai

Al Jinan الجنان

It is known in the science of jurisprudence that abrogating is a symptom of judgment, and specification/restriction is a symptom of verbal words, but abrogating and restriction share in lifting the injunction, so if the lifting is complete then it is abrogating, and if it is partial it is the specification/restriction. This sharing prompts us to search for differences between them - as there is a need to do so - in order to avoid confusion/mis-interpretation. With the similarities between abrogating and restriction there are, however, fundamental differences between them, and this research presents these differences.

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