“Do not argue with the People of the Book, except in a most kindly manner”(Qur’an29:46)hich states that “Matters will be judged by the purposes they fulfil” (Alumuru bi-maqasidiha).

Usul al-Fiqh generates consistent methodologies of interpretation of Islamic sources that regulate the practice of ijtihad (juristic reasoning) used by a jurist (mujtahid)5 or School of Juristic Thought (madhhabs) Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, the Islamic Text Society, Cambridge, 2003, p.1-4