Six Fundamental Rules Related to Nawāfil: Applied Etymological Study

Abstract

This research aims to clarify the relationship of the supererogatory with the obligatory acts and their importance, and to identify some of the fundamental rules affecting the supererogatory acts. It was divided into an introduction and three sections. The first section dealt with the definition of fundamental rules. The second section dealt with the definition of the supererogatory and the statement of the insight of its legitimacy and its equivalent terminology. The third section was concerned with the fundamental rules related to the supererogatory and their jurisprudential applications. The research concluded that the term "nafl" in jurisprudence is applied to several jurisprudential sections. Some supererogatory rules are common to jurisprudence and fundamental rules. Among the fundamental rules related to the supererogatory prayers are those that are agreed upon among scholars, and some of them differ. The broad use of the term nawāfil is sometimes equated with mandūb, mustahab, and tatawa, but nawāfil is most commonly used for its comprehensiveness.