Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

إِجْتَهَدَ

Root: جهد

Form: 8

Full Definition

إِجْتَهَدَVIII see 1, in five places.
2 اِجْتِهَادٌ as a conventional term means A lawyer's exerting the faculties [of the mind] to the utmost, for the purpose of forming an opinion in a case of law [respecting a doubtful and difficult point]: the seeking to form a right opinion: [investigation of the law, or the working out a solution of any difficulty in the law, by means of reason and comparison: and] the referring a case proposed to the judge, [respecting a doubtful and difficult point,] from the method of analogy, to the Kur-Án and the Sunneh.


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