Explaining the importance of distinguishing between the meaning of a term in the Shari'ah and the meaning of a term in technical usage.

The Shaykh : This distinction between the meaning of a term in the Shari'ah and its meaning in technical usage is extremely important with regard to the texts of the Shari'ah. This is because, in many cases, the texts of the Shari'ah are interpreted using later jurisprudential terms, which leads to departing from the meaning intended by Allah (Mighty and Majestic) or His Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). There are not a few examples of this, but I will suffice for now with mentioning one example. It is one of the matters in which disagreement has occurred—regrettably—between some schools of jurisprudence due to negligence regarding the fact that the intended meaning in a term found in the following hadith is the Shari'ah meaning, whereas some understood or interpreted it with the technical meaning.