Necessity Is a Rare Exception, Not a Door to Expansion
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Formulation of the claim
Shahrur understands the permissibility of the forbidden in cases of necessity as addressing a very rare situation, not as a normal mechanism for producing new rulings.
Explanation
He gives as an example the rarity of people today being forced to eat forbidden meat. He compares this with matters that all human beings need, and therefore cannot have been forbidden in the first place only to then be permitted by necessity. For him, the exception confirms the narrow scope of the forbidden.
Its place in the episode’s argument
This atom prevents the use of necessity to normalize the forbidden or to expand the list of prohibited things.
Limits of the claim
It does not deny the existence of genuine cases of necessity, nor does it provide a medical or judicial standard for assessing every case.
Brief witness
A very rare matter.
Related concepts
- necessity
- compulsion
- the forbidden
- exception