The etiquette (adab) prescribed by the sharia (the sacred law) regarding a given existent is according to the state (ḥāl) in which that being is found. For example: minerals, plants, animals, humans, accidents (aʿrāḍ), things that are susceptible to change and corruption (fasād, i.e., deterioration), and those that are not... The ruling of the sharia concerning all these is known, and according to this knowledge, that ruling is applied to each of them.
Regarding accidents (aʿrāḍ), the etiquette (adab) of the sharia, such as obligatoriness (farḍ), prohibition (ḥarām), recommendation (mandūb), and reprehensibility (makrūh), and