102قَد سَأَلَها قَومٌ مِن قَبلِكُم ثُمَّ أَصبَحوا بِها كافِرينَMuhammad AsadPeople before your time have indeed asked such questions - and in result thereof have come to deny the truth.1Following -Ibn Hazm's principles of jurisprudence, Rashid Rida thus explains the above verse: "Many of our jurists (fugaha) have, by their subjective deductions, unduly widened the range of man's religious obligations (takalif), thus giving rise to the very difficulties and complications which the clear wording (of the Qur'an] had put an end to; and this has led to the abandonment, by many individual Muslims as well as by their governments, of Islamic Law in its entirety" (Manor VII, 138).