Denying the Necessity of Maintaining the Political System with Its Legitimacy

Document Type : Original Article

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Associate Professor at Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy, Qom, Iran.

Abstract

One of the certain obligations that jurists has always considered and cited in jurisprudence at the level of a general rule and in different aspects, is the obligation to maintain the common social system. Maintaining the political system, in addition to the special arguments it has, is subject to its arguments as far as the preservation of the social system is concerned. In discussing the ruling on maintaining the political system, one of the key and important issues is to examine the relationship between the necessity of its maintenance and the principle of legitimacy and its extent. The first question in this paper which is conducted by an Ijtihadi method based on jurisprudential arguments and resources, is "Is the necessity of maintaining the political system based on its own arguments limited to the legitimacy of the system or not?" Another question is whether, given the definition of legitimacy in the political system from a jurisprudential point of view, this legitimacy is a developed and absolute element that is realized only in one situation or is it relative, and in that case, will the ruling on maintaining the political system be different, depending on different circumstances? How to answer these two important questions plays a decisive role in determining the type of relationship between Muslims and political systems in Islamic societies. What is dealt with in this article is in line with the answer to these two general questions, which, after identifying some of the key concepts of the topic, are organized in two main areas.

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  • Receive Date: 09 February 2020
  • Revise Date: 31 May 2020
  • Accept Date: 17 May 2020

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