Azima

Pojam azima ukazuje na obavezujući karakter nekog šerijatskog pravila bez razmatranja ublažavanja poteškoće koju njegova primjena može prouzrokovati.

(Objašnjenje Ibn Ašura na osnovu sljedećih izvora: Ibn Rushd, The Distinguished Jurists Primer (Bidayat al-Mujtahid), prijevod: Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee (Reading: Garnet Publishing Limited, 2003); Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Islamic Jurisprudence (Islamabad: International Institute of Islamic Thought Islamic Research Institute, 2000); Sano Koutoub Moustapha, Mujam mustalehat usul el-fikh, Arebi-Inkilizi (Concordance of Jurisprudence Fundamentals Terminology), (Sirija, Damask: Dar el-fikr, 2000); Muhammed Revvas Kalandži, Mudžem luga el-fukaha, Arabic-English-French (Bejrut: Dar en-nefais, 1996) I Wael B. Hallaq, A History of Islamic Legal Theories: An Introduction to Sunni Usul al-Fiqh (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997).