The Semantics’ Purposes of the Multi – Meaning Verb and its Flexibility According to the Osul Scholars

Abstract

This research aims to clarify the semantics’ purposes of the verbal subscriber and the reasons for its existence in the legislative provisions, whether from The Holy Quran or at The Sunnah. The first topic was assigned to clarify the main search terms, while the second topic was assigned to study the verbal subscriber ruling and the role of presumptions of evidence in preponderant the intended meaning. The study is then concluded with the third topic that serves the basic idea of research, i.e., the relationship of semantics’ purposes of the verbal subscriber with the independent reasoning (Ijtihad) on the one hand and its impact on finding legislative flexibility that suits every time, place, and individual, where the semantic of the verbal subscriber contributes to widely achieving flexibility. This is what distinguishes this research from others in the concept of the verbal subscriber. This research revealed several results, the most important of which is that the preference for one of the meanings of the multi-meanings does not cancel the other meanings and that they may be more likely in another legislative context. Evidence also plays an important role in weighing the meanings of the multi-meaning, The legislator’s use of the multi-meaning is not in vain, but rather for great and most important purposes, mainly the flexibility of legislative texts in semantic meanings, the intersection of the multi-meaning with both ijtihad and legislative flexibility, as ijtihad is a tool used to understand the meaning of the multi-meaning.