Validation of the condition of influence in the establishment of the obligation of enjoining good and forbidding evil by relying on the goals of this duty

فقه و اصول (Fiqh va uṣūl)

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 26 February 2025   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.22067/jfiqh.2025.90651.1868

Authors

alborz mohaghegh garfami^{* 1}; FATEME ansari²

¹Master's degree in the Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

²Assistant Professor, Department of Fiqh and Basics of Islamic Law, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

Abstract

One of the branches of the topic of enjoining good and forbidding evil is the conditions related to the establishment of its obligation. One of these conditions that is mentioned in the writings of some jurists is the condition known as the influence. Scholars have spoken about the possibility of influence as a condition for the establishment of obligation. A number of others have considered the suspicion of lack of effect or knowledge of it to be the cause of nullifying the obligation. This research is based on a descriptive-analytical method and with the use of documentary sources in order to validate this condition in establishing the obligation. In order to achieve this goal, the alleged and possible reasons of the conditionality point of view were examined in three categories of verbal evidence, the ruling of reason, and the evidence of consensus, and based on accepted criticisms, it was found that this condition cannot be considered valid for the establishment of obligation. In the last step, the types of goals and the types of effects of actions based on command and prohibition are explained as follows: changing the behaviors of the command and the negative, the necessity of explaining individual positions, social goals and also preserving the foundation of religion and its teachings. The evaluation of the writing is that influencing people is only one of the purposes of establishing the duty of enjoining good and forbidding evil, and considering the other purposes.

Keywords

Enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil; the condition of effect; hadith; the purposes of establishing the duty of enjoining what is good

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