السلام عليكم ورحمة الله
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله
I have translated a small paragraph from a fiqh book called تسهيل الوصول إلى فهم علم الأصول into English. I have purposely translated directly and not made the text sound good in English. My goal here is not to write English but to see if I have understood everything right. So if you have the time to check it and point out if I made any mistakes:
فقد كان الناس في صدر الإسلام يعيشون في ظل التشريع, و ما قبض رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم حتى أرسى الله بالقرآن قواعد الدين: وفصلت السنة فروعه وأبانت معالمه وفقه الناس دينهم, ثم جاء الخلفاء الراشدون فاقتفى الناس آثارهم و ترسموا خطاهم.
There was a time – فقد- when people were living in the midst of Islaam under the legislation, and that which had seized the Messenger of Allaah - may Allaah’s mercy and peace be upon him – until the founding by Allaah with the Quran of rules of the religion: explaining the branches of the sunnah and clarifying – أبانت - its (sunnah) directions – معالمه - and the juriprudence of people - فقه الناس - in their religion, then came the rightly guided califs who made people follow up – فاقتفى (source word: قفا , meaning follow up) on their traditions (the sunnah they had just acquired) and designed their steps (that people should take so they would not make wrong steps in the religion).
