Concept of Moderation in Context of Jurists’ Discourses

Abstract

Moderation is a middle way in Islam Since it is a religion of peace and harmony, it does not like extravagance and miserliness but encourages people to adopt the path of moderation for the sake of the survival of humanity. Both contemporary and classical scholars highlighted this concept in their writings. Scholarly efforts are aimed at reviving the Wasatiyyah discourse, which is highly important in balancing the idea by discussing jurists' disagreements and finding moderate solutions. Hence, the objective of this study is to determine the scholars’ views about concept of moderation; and secondly, to analyze how this concept is applied in solving jurists’ issues and why we need the concept of moderation in today world. Because the situation of the present society is changing radically. Today's man has forgotten the Islamic teachings due to which many immoralities are being created in the society. This qualitative research applied a descriptive design using the content analysis method. Content analysis was carried out by means of library research. The sources were used Quran, Sunnah, Classical/contemporary jurist’s books and journals. Hopefully this article will be very useful because of its specific field.