Counter Implicature Or Mafhoum Al-Mukhalafah As Applied To Quranic Verses Through Tafssir Adwa Al Bayan By Al-Shanqiti

Abstract

This paper focuses on one of the most central concepts in Principles of Jurisprudence from which several legal rules, related to commands and prohibitions, are derived, i.e. the principle of counter implicature or divergent meaning (mafhum al-mukhalafah). This concept may also be subjected to some hindering factors restricting its role as a source of legislation. Jurists only consider it as a source of legislation with the absence of such hindering factors. Relying on Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqiti ‘s Quranic exegesis, Adwa' al-Bayan, this research addresses the following questions: what is counter implicature or mafhum al-mukhalafah? What are the hindering factors nullifying it? What are examples from Adwa' al-Bayan in which the author applied counter implicature to some verses?