Effects and Applications of Context in Jurisprudence

Context in jurisprudence is one of the topics of debate. In this paper, an attempt has been made to investigate the effects and applications of context (Siyaq) in jurisprudence.

This paper applies a descriptive-analytical design using the library method.

Ethical considerations:

 In this article, the texts’ originality of, honesty and trustworthiness have been observed.

The Findings indicate that context is one of the important methods to discover the meanings of words, especially in the verses of the Qur'an. The words of the Qur'an alone and separately from the sentences and verses have a special meaning, but a same word gets a special meaning when it is placed in the form of sentences. Lack of attention to the meaning of a word in preceding and following phrases and sentences is like removing one of the letters of the word, which distorts the meaning. And it can be used as one of the important rules in the development of the inference of Sharia rulings.

Paying attention to context leads us to understand other meanings beyond words and phrases because context is to take help from all the evidence surrounded by the text to discover the purpose of the speaker. It is for this reason that the jurists have always paid attention to it in their understanding and inference, and have sought help from it in their jurisprudential perceptions in an affirmative or privative manner.