The Jurisprudential Principle of Beneficial Knowledge in Teaching and Learning

In the history of Fiqh, the principles or rules (qawa'ed) of fiqh are considered general rules that serve as instruments for derivation of Islamic laws especially with regard to current legal issues. The educational jurisprudence also, as a modern area of jurisprudential studies, stands in need of jurisprudential principles consistent with it not to mention the fact that there is no explicit proof in most issues regarding teaching and learning. The jurisprudential principle of beneficial knowledge in teaching and learning is applicable to most issues concerning teaching and learning. The author is faithfully committed to the Jawaheri method which is an accepted traditional method in the seminaries. He has, from a jurisprudential perspective, studied through critical descriptive analytical method the arguments associated with the famous standpoints concerning desirability of teaching and learning beneficial knowledge and the undesirability of teaching and learning nonbeneficial knowledge. The preference of teaching and learning religious beneficial knowledge over other knowledge, the desirability of teaching and learning beneficial knowledge and the undesirability of learning unbeneficial knowledge and the mere permissibility of teaching unbeneficial knowledge are among the conclusions drawn in this study.