Darurah

Necessity: the state in which something forbidden becomes permitted in order to preserve life.

Also written · Darura · Dharurah · Zarurah · Darurat · Dharura · Zarurat · Zaruriyat · Idtirar · necessity · emergency · dire need · compulsion

The meaning

What Darurah means in Islam

The Qur'an allows a starving person to eat forbidden meat without sin, provided he is not seeking to transgress. Jurists built a maxim on it, that necessity makes the forbidden permitted, and bounded it with a second, that necessity is measured strictly by its extent. Hardship and inconvenience are not darurah; the classical threshold is real danger to life, limb, mind, lineage or property.

Evidence · Qur’an · Stated directly in the Qur’an

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Words that sit beside it

RukhsahA concession: permission to do the easier thing when a recognised excuse applies.رُخْصة
MaslahahPublic benefit, weighed as a legal consideration where no specific text settles the matter.مَصْلَحة
Qawa'id FiqhiyyahLegal maxims: short principles that gather the pattern behind thousands of separate rulings.القَواعِدُ الفِقْهِيَّة
HaramForbidden. Leaving it is rewarded, and doing it deliberately is a sin.حَرام