From Inheritance to Continuity: A Structural Reading Through Qur’anic Linguistic Jurisprudence Condensed Conceptual Summary for the International Reader Foreword: Why This Book Matters For centuries, Islamic inheritance law ( *‘ilm al-farā’iḍ* ) has be
Author: Nasser Ibn Dawood
From Inheritance to
Continuity: A Structural Reading Through Qur’anic Linguistic Jurisprudence
Condensed
Conceptual Summary for the International Reader
Foreword:
Why This Book Matters
For
centuries, Islamic inheritance law ( *‘ilm al-farā’iḍ* ) has been treated as a
precise mathematical calculator—a set of rigid fractions to divide a deceased
person’s material wealth. Yet, despite this “accurate application,” we witness
family disintegration, bitter disputes, and the marginalization of the weak.
This book argues that the problem lies not in the divine text but in our
reading tools. The Qur’an does not speak in ordinary “language” (a human,
evolving social construct); it speaks in a cosmic “Lisān” —a coded, structural
operating system. When we confuse the two, we turn a protocol for continuity
into a machine for liquidation .
1 Part I: The Method – Qur’anic
Linguistic Jurisprudence
1.1 Language vs.
Lisān
- Language (lughah) A human product, changing over time,
derived from poetry and everyday speech .
- Lisān The divinely fixed, structural code of the
Qur’an. Every letter and root carries a functional, engineering meaning
independent of social customs .
1.2 Two
Analytical Tools
1. Large Derivation (ishtiqāq kabīr) By permuting the
letters of a root, we discover its living semantic field. For example, *t ‑ r ‑ k*
(to leave) rotates with *r ‑ k ‑ t* and *k ‑ r ‑ t*,
all revolving a