This commentary explores the scholarly discussion on Rafʿ al-Yadayn—raising the hands during prayer. Drawing from Maẓāhir al-Ḥaqq Sharḥ Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ, it presents the differing views of the Ḥanafī and Shāfiʿī schools, the evidences of the Ṣaḥābah, and Imām Abū Ḥanīfah’s ʳʰ juristic reasoning behind limiting the gesture to the opening takbīr taḥrīmah.
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This study examines gelatin extracted from animal bone through the lens of Ḥanafī jurisprudence. It concludes that bone, lacking life, remains ṭāhir upon death; hence gelatin from ḥalāl animals is ḥalāl-suitable, from non-maʾkūl species is externally permissible, while pig-derived gelatin is intrinsically impure (najis al-ʿayn) and strictly ḥarām.
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