Precaution in Distinguishing the Overlap Between Sabr wa Taqsim (Elimination) and Tanqih al-Manat (Refinement of the Cause)

Abstract

This research deals with the overlap between three terms related to the paths of the cause, in that each of them contains the deletion and cancellation of descriptions mixed with the cause, which is supposed to be the only description influencing the rule. This overlap and confusion resulted in these terms, which are: isolating the effective cause, refining the cause, and canceling the difference between the Origin and the branch. Because fundamentalists differ in their definition, and because of the similar examples they represent; Therefore, the research needed to consider and scrutinize these definitions, and determine their truth and examples, and the extent of the validity of their being one of the paths of the cause, then how to attach the branch to the original in it after the process of conducting each one of them, and finally to compare them on this basis. The research concluded that both isolating the effective cause, refining the cause is considered one of the paths of the cause, and there is no similarity between them except in eliminating some of the descriptions mixed with the cause, with each one being distinguished from the other in the way these descriptions are limited, how the cause is determined, and the method of attaching the branch to the original. As for canceling the difference between the Origin and the branch, it is a process of appending like the process of analogy. However, there is no mention of the reason in it, and this appending results and is necessary from refining the cause of the ruling, so the deletion in it is the same as the deletion in refining the cause from which it is resulted, and therefore canceling the difference between the Origin and the branch is not one of the paths of the reason