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The Shari’ah is mainly revealed to achieve the best interests of the society and individuals as well in a balanced manner that equally guarantees the rights of everyone without discrimination. In the Shari’ah, the rights of individuals are accordingly subject to achieving public welfare and warding off harm. Consequently, it is impermissible for a Muslim to engage in a permissible action if it leads to harming others or causes public mischief. This is because the public interest takes precedence over the individual interest in the Shari’ah. This research paper, which falls into an introduction, foreword, four chapters and conclusion, presents the relationship between the general and specific rulings in application to different cases based on the legal maxim that states, “The application of Shari’ah rulings differ according to general and specific cases”. This is an essential maxim that a jurist should consider in performing Ijtihad in current contemporary issues. This maxim establishes the fact that rulings differ from individual to collective cases. Each of the paper’s chapters is specifically dedicated to introduce the difference in applying general and specific cases to the obligatory, recommended, prohibited, undesirable and permissible rulings and how to apply them.
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