⚖️ fiqhboard  _{الفقه المقارن}

Comparative fiqh of the four Sunni schools
_{Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Hanbali side by side — every ruling in its school's own words, with its source and its evidence}

Why • How • Install • Command line • Roadmap • License

Planning (0.0.1). This first release reserves the name and opens a welcome window. The comparison matrices, the evidence drawer, the glossary and the diagrams follow, release by release.

💡 Why fiqhboard

Comparing the four schools usually means reading four books, each in its own vocabulary. fiqhboard puts them in one table — without flattening them into one vocabulary:

• One question per row. A row does not ask "is it fard?"; it asks something every school can answer, such as "Is wudu valid without an intention?" The colours and the agree/disagree filter come from that answer.
• Each school in its own terms. The Hanafi wajib is not the Shafi'i wajib; a Hanbali shart is not a fard. Every cell shows the school's own term, in Arabic and in transliteration, and no term is mapped onto another school's.
• The relied-upon view, and the others. A cell shows the school's relied-upon position (mu'tamad, mufta bihi, mashhur, asahh) and says so; other views within the school stay one click away.
• Nothing without a source. Every position names the book, volume and page it comes from; every piece of evidence — verse, hadith, principle — is cited.
• Agreement of the four is not ijma'. When the four schools agree, fiqhboard says the four schools agree. Ijma' is shown only where a source claims it, attributed to that source.
• For learning, not fatwa. The decision diagrams teach how each school reasons; for your own situation, ask a qualified scholar.

🧩 How a comparison is built

topic        wudu › its obligatory acts
question     Is wudu valid without an intention?
answers      valid · invalid
             ┌──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┐
             │ Hanafi       │ Maliki       │ Shafi'i      │ Hanbali      │
             ├──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┤
answer       │ valid        │ invalid      │ invalid      │ invalid      │
own term     │ sunna  سنة   │ fard  فرض    │ fard  فرض    │ shart  شرط   │
source       │ book, vol, p │ book, vol, p │ book, vol, p │ book, vol, p │
             └──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┘
evidence     hadith  bukhari:1  ·  Qur'an 5:6

The data lives as JSON in a separate repository, is checked by a validator (no source, no publication), and is read into SQLite so the application works offline. Hadith evidence uses the same references as isnady and its data.

📦 Install

pip install fiqhboard

On Linux distributions that protect the system Python (Arch, CachyOS, Debian, Ubuntu), use pipx install fiqhboard, a virtual environment, or add --break-system-packages.

Portable applications (Windows exe, Linux AppImage, macOS) join the GitHub Releases in a coming version.

⌨️ Command line

The command line never loads Qt, so it runs over SSH and in scripts. Every feature of the window will also be on the command line.

🗺️ Roadmap

• 0.0.1 — the name, the package, a welcome window
• The application skeleton: settings, themes, interface languages (English, Turkish, Arabic first), portable applications
• The data format and its validator; the data repository
• The first topic end to end: the obligatory acts of wudu, every cell sourced
• The comparison matrix and the evidence drawer
• The glossary, with a definition under every term
• Decision diagrams, one per school (the prostration of forgetfulness first)
• Export to PDF, PNG and Markdown
• Purity (taharah) and prayer (salat) in full

📄 License

The application is released under the MIT License. Quoted works keep their own licences; modern works under copyright are cited, never reproduced.