Batil

{{Short description|Arabic word meaning falsehood or invalid act}}

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Batil ({{langx|ar|باطل }}) is an Arabic word meaning falsehood,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9EUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA32 |title=God of Justice |last=Rahbar |first=Daud |publisher=Brill Archive |year=1960 |pages=32– |id=GGKEY:THEE2Y1P63X |author-link=Daud Rahbar}} and can be used to describe a nullified or invalid act or contract according to the sharia.{{cite book|author1=Frank E. Vogel|author2=Samuel L. Hayes|title=Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4LnlArsnCkEC&pg=PA298|date=1 January 1998|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-411-0547-6|pages=298–}}{{cite book|author=Raj Bhala|title=Understanding Islamic Law: Sharīʻa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Idp6FWByq6oC&pg=PT296|year=2011|publisher=LexisNexis|isbn=978-1-4224-1748-5|pages=296–}}

In contract law, the opposite of batil is sahih.{{cite book|author=Muhammad Ayub|title=Understanding Islamic Finance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-3eZcL_kAkMC&pg=PT205|date=18 August 2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-68771-0|pages=205–}} Batil can be distinguished from fasid ("defective") in that a fasid contract might go through completion, whereas a batil contract would not.{{cite book|title=The Calcutta Law Journal: Reports of Cases Decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Appeals from India and by the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEIbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA300|year=1905|publisher=Calcutta law journal office|pages=300–}}