Read this before the deep shelves

Method & how to read this

No prior training assumed. In plain terms: the Qurʾān talks a lot about promises, trusts, and solemn bonds. This site reads that language as one lens on faith and ordinary life — keep vs break — and draws diagrams for it.

Technically: covenant is treated as a structural category, not a niche topic. ʿahd and mīthāq organise much of what is usually read piecemeal — and seeing the structure changes how the parts read.

Source hierarchy

We rank claims in this order (so you always know what is carrying the weight): Qurʾān first; then authentic Sunnah; then classical tafsīr; then kalām, taṣawwuf and fiqh positions (tagged to their schools, not as “the” answer); then modern scholarship. Where the tradition disagrees, we show a fork — we do not paper over it.

The six axes

Each diagram is coloured by the covenantal relation it turns on. This is the colour key used throughout:

The diagram templates

Ten recurring shapes, each chosen because the idea is genuinely that shape — a duty running between two parties, a breach set against a fulfilment, a process, a hub of obligations, a weighing, a trust held in a vessel, a foundation stack, a decision gate, a cycle of renewal, a grid of parallel claims.

Limits

Every applied diagram is an ijtihādī application, not a fatwā. A citation shows where the principle is grounded; it does not certify that this application is the only defensible reading of it. For anything consequential, ask someone qualified who knows your circumstances.

The applications skew heavily interpersonal — most of ordinary life is — so the prophetic and scripture-community axes appear far less often here than they do in the underlying corpus.

Typography

Urdu is set in Noto Nastaliq Urdu. Qurʾānic Arabic is deliberately set in Naskh, not Nastaliq, following convention. Citations stay in Latin numerals, the form scholars cite by.