Make-up of Missing Worshiping Acts is a Simulation of the Original Acts: Meaning and Conditions

Abstract

This paper addresses the Fiqhi (jurisprudential) rule “Make-up of missing worshiping acts is a simulation of the original acts” in terms of definition and conditions in an attempt to link it with its Fiqhi principle on which it is based.

Scholars of Islamic jurisprudence used to quote this rule as a justification to ask the one who misses an act of worship to simulate what he used to do while performing the original act. Scholars of Fiqhi principles would quote this principle to list the Fiqhi subsections and excluded issues.

The idea of this paper arises owing to the fact that make-up of missing worshiping acts is highly needed to adult Muslims and the precise definition of the rule can be attained by knowing its conditions. Once such conditions are met, the subsections will be subsumed under the major rule, and if not met, the subsections will be excluded. This is because when we figure out the conditions, we will realize the reason of including or excluding subsections. Accordingly, the rule will be conceptualized upon knowing the Fiqhi principle on which it is formulated. Here the relationship between Fiqh and its rules as well as its principles are established.