Pengaruh Bahasa Terhadap Perbedaan Pendapat Para Imam Mujtahid dalam Menafsirkan Ayat-ayat Hukum

Abstract

The article discusses the linguistic influence on the divergence of jurisprudents opinion in interpreting Qur’anic legal verses. At certain level, the jurisprudents disputed and disagreed on a number of legal issues. Such disagreement stems from various aspects, one of which is linguistic problem. This article studies how the jurisprudents are different in interpreting legal verses, which according to the author consists of six aspects, namely identifying hurûf jâr (preposition) and hurûf ‘athf (conjuntion); determining the meaning of fi‘il (verb) and ism (noun); deciding the object to which ism isyârah and pronoun refers to; deciding quantity and quality of the meaning of a word and sentence; and identifying ma’na haqîqy (definite or real meaning) of a word and sentence and its ma‘na majâzy (metaphor). The author argues that as a consequence of these differences, Muslim scholars have different understanding of Islamic legal verses, which in turn lead to divergence of implementation of Islamic laws within the Muslim community both in the ritual and social dealings.