A Jurisprudential Comparison of the Principle of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil and the Principle of System Disruption: From Conformity to Conflict
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Professor of Khorasan Seminary Administration of Jafariyeh School, Mashhad
Abstract
The two principles of enjoining good and the principle of the obligation to maintain the [Islamic] System are widely used jurisprudential principles in ShiÝa sources, each of which furthers a set of rules in new issues. Within the ShiÝa jurisprudential system, each principle has a distinct place, but due to the dynamic nature of temporal conditions, jurisprudential principles sometimes face each other in a relationship of conflict and sometimes in a position of overlap and conformity. These two principles are no exception to this trend. Therefore, understanding the relationship between these two principles guides thinkers in relation to ShiÝa political thought. Enjoining good is one of the jurisprudential principles that has been proven by the evidence given by the QurÞÁn, traditions, consensus, and reason. In this principle, four conditions have been taken into consideration: the legally competent’s knowledge of good and evil, the possibility of impact of enjoining good and forbidding evil on the person being addressed, the persistence of the sinner, and the negation of harm and corruption. In contrast, system disruption is one of the rational principles that is supported less by judicial decrees (fatwas) and narrative than enjoining good. In general, these two principles have two approaches to each other: the position of conformity, which shows the overlap and harmony of these two principles, and the position of conflict, which in the stage of compliance forces the legally compeent to choose between two impediments, and the legally competent, by evaluating the situation, is forced to prioritize one of the principles over the other.
Shakeri,M , Zarei,A H and Pangtanian,S J . (2025). A Jurisprudential Comparison of the Principle of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil and the Principle of System Disruption: From Conformity to Conflict. Islamic Government, 30(2), 5-30.
MLA
Shakeri,M , , Zarei,A H , and Pangtanian,S J . "A Jurisprudential Comparison of the Principle of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil and the Principle of System Disruption: From Conformity to Conflict", Islamic Government, 30, 2, 2025, 5-30.
HARVARD
Shakeri M, Zarei A H, Pangtanian S J. (2025). 'A Jurisprudential Comparison of the Principle of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil and the Principle of System Disruption: From Conformity to Conflict', Islamic Government, 30(2), pp. 5-30.
CHICAGO
M Shakeri, A H Zarei and S J Pangtanian, "A Jurisprudential Comparison of the Principle of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil and the Principle of System Disruption: From Conformity to Conflict," Islamic Government, 30 2 (2025): 5-30,
VANCOUVER
Shakeri M, Zarei A H, Pangtanian S J. A Jurisprudential Comparison of the Principle of Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil and the Principle of System Disruption: From Conformity to Conflict. Islamic Government. 2025;30(2):5-30 (In Persian).
