المعنى الاصطلاحي

Persistence and effectiveness of a contract and impossibility of annulling it except with a legitimate reason.

الشرح المختصر

"Luzoom" (bindingness): Valid contracts are of two types: 1. "‘Aqd lāzim" (binding contract) is a concluded contract that is imperatively enforceable, in the sense that the two contracting parties must proceed with it and conclude it. None of the parties has the right to cancel such a contract, except with a legal justification, such as the emergence of a deficiency or if the two parties mutually consent to cancel the contract. Examples of this are the marriage contract and the sale contract. 2. "‘Aqd jā’iz" (non-binding contract) is a contract that is permissible for one of the two parties to annul, such as a power of attorney, a loan, or an "‘āriyah" (gratuitous loan of some object—e.g., a utensil, a tool, or a work animal—to another person for a specific period of time, after which the object is returned to the lender), and the like. "Luzoom" (bindingness) in contracts is of two categories: 1. "Luzoom" that entails compensation, meaning the sale contract and similar transactions. 2. "Luzoom" that is not for compensation, such as "ihrām" (state of ritual consecration) for Hajj, marriage, divorce by "khul‘" (divorce requested by the wife wherein she returns the dowry to the husband), and the like.

التعريف اللغوي المختصر

"Luzoom": continuance and fixedness. Original meaning: unceasing association of one thing with another. Opposite: "mufāraqah" (separation) and "infikāk" (detachment).