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The first edition of this book was entitled “Reviewer in Islamic Procedure and Evidence.” My decision to name the work as such was due to the fact that one of the tests in the Philippine Shari’a bar is called “Islamic Procedure and Evidence.”
Because the citations in this work are not entirely of Islamic origin but partly of Philippine procedural law, I have decided to change the title for fear that we might do a grave disservice to the Islamic faith. I am afraid we have attributed unto Islamic law what it is not. Thus, I seek refuge to the Almighty God and seek His forgiveness for the mistakes that I have committed in the first edition, and for those that I may commit in the present one.
It is because of that grievous fear that I had foregone the reprinting of this work since it went out of circulation. But recently we have realized that this work may still be needed by candidates to the special Shari’a bar examinations as well as Shari’a students. In order to overcome that fear, I felt that a renaming of the work is appropriate.
In coming out with this revised edition, I have considered the few decisions of the Supreme Court involving the Shari’a courts as well as the issuances of the Supreme Court on the Judicial Affidavit Rule and the Efficient Use of Paper Rule. The appendices in the original edition were discarded in view of the facility by which readers can access local legislations through the web.
