The Legal Maxim of Impossibility (Istihala) and Its Juristic Implications (Qaidat al-Istihala wa Atharuha)

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the rule impossibility and its influence on the legal rulings. This concept has been studied by many scholars; however, they did not deviate it from its effect on physical things, such as the purity of the skin if it was tanned, the purity of wine if it was purified, and so on. This study also includes the intangible aspects, such as converting from disbelief to faith and vice versa, the exchange of some transactions from one transaction to another, and the whatever consequences that follow. The concludes with the comprehensiveness that this rule may have and control whatever branches go under each category.