Mubāḥ (Arabic: مباح) is an Arabic word roughly meaning "permitted", which has technical uses in Islamic law. "Mubah" is an Islamic jurisprudential term that refers to an action for which a person has no specific obligation. Consequently, performing or abstaining from it is considered equally permissible, and neither action results in reward or punishment from the perspective of God in Islam.
In uṣūl al-fiqh (), mubāḥ is one of the five degrees of approval (ahkam):
- () - compulsory, obligatory
- () - recommended
- () - neutral, not involving God's judgment
- () - disliked, reprehensible
- () - forbidden
Mubah is commonly translated as "neutral" or "permitted" in English., "indifferent" or "(merely) permitted". It refers to an action that is not mandatory, recommended, reprehensible or forbidden, and thus involves no judgement from God.
Categorization
thumb|750px|center|Left diagram: Categorization of the deeds of an obliged person.Right diagram: Quality of the deeds in Islam.
See also
- , a similar concept in Stoicism
- Ahkam
- Baligh
- Batil
- Ghanimah
- Hirabah
- Ibadah
- Khums
- Zakat
- Taqiyya
- Thawab
- Ulu'l-amr
- Wakil
- Makruh
- Haram
- Ghibah
- Gunah
- Islah
- Istighfar
- Qasd
- Taghut
- Tawbah
- Tazkiah
- Wasat
- Maslaha
- Qiyas
- Ijazah
- Ijma
References
External links
- Mubah
- Mubah definition
- Halal, Mustahabb, Mubah, Makrooh & Haram
- The Permissible (Mubah, Also Halal, Ja'iz)