Manẓūmat al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyyah by al-Saʿdī

The Author

The Poem – click on a line to see explanation (still being updated as of Dhul-Hijjah 1443):

01 Praise of Allāh

02 Possessor of Blessings and Wisdoms

03 Praise and Protection on the Messenger

04 And His Followers

05 Greatest Blessing: Beneficial Knowledge

06 Benefits of Beneficial Knowledge

07 Understand these Maxims

08 Following the Successful Ones

09 Source of Poem

10 Supplication for Predecessors

11 The Intention (al-Niyyah)

12 Public Interests

13 When Public Interests Coincide

14 When Corrupting Matters Coincide

15 The Sharīʿah is Ease

16 No Obligation Without Ability

17 Dire Necessity Makes the Prohibited Permissible

18 Certainty is Not Removed by Doubt

19 Water, Earth, Clothing and Stones are Pure

20 Matters Prohibited by Default

21 Unless Evidence of Permissibility Exists