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Musa Kazım Efendi is a scholar who served as Sheikh al-Islam in the last periods of Ottoman Empire, made a great effort in subjects about his fields to stop the collapse of empire; experienced even exile days after prosperous times. In this article, we published the text of a lecture that Musa Kazım Efendi gave in the class of Islamic Jurisprudence (usul al-fıqh) in the second-grade, Department of Theology, Dâr al-Fünûn. This text was named as “Islamic Jurisprudence Lessons Given in the Second-Grade of the Department of Theology” (İlahiyat Şubesi İkinci Sınıfında Tedris Olunan Usûl-i Fıkıh). Mentioned text is about the subject of reality (al-haqiqa) and methapor (al-majaz) in Islamıc jurisprudence. At first, we dealt with the life of Musa Kazım Efendi and his works in this study. After that we latinised authentically the mentioned text of him