ABSTRACT

This research aims to study the intent of keeping the family and its methods and explain that through the family provisions, relating to the premarital life which urges the building of the family, and the provisions relating to the family after the marriage, which urges to keep the family.

The research is divided into an introduction, the pavement, and three main chapters, a conclusion and indexes. The Introduction explains the importance of the research, its problems, and objectives, structure of the research and the previous studies as well as the approach it has adopted. Since the research topic has to do with the purposes of Islamic law, its objectives and targets that the Sharia has to achieve, the researcher found that it's appropriate to put forward a preface in which she explains the definition of the intent of sharia (Islamic Studies), the definition of family and the definition of means. The researcher dealt with the evidence to prove that the construction of the family is one the intents of the Islamic law.

In the first chapter, the researcher talk about the intent of keeping family through the means which urge the building of family and marriage, and in Chapter two and three, there is explanation of the intent of keeping family through the means which urge achieving this intent, with explanation that the intent of keeping the family in chapter two will be through the family provisions relating to husband and wife. As for the chapter three, it will be through the provisions relating to the rights of parents and children.

The conclusion contains the most important results and recommendations and the researcher in this study, had relied on the inductive, analytical and deductive approaches and that by keeping track of family provisions, collecting them for study and then analyze those means to reach the objectives of the research.