Islamic Laws

Fundamental Difference in the Approach to Law between Islam and the West

By: Ayatullah Professor Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Law is not supposed to endanger the interests of society—material or spiritual, worldly or otherworldly. Once a law is detrimental to any of these interests, it is not ideal and cannot meet the…

Confrontation of Western Ideas and Beliefs’ with Islamic Laws

By: Ayatullah Professor Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi The Constitutional Movement and propagation of Western values In the sketched discussions on Islamic political theory we mentioned some of the influences of Western atheistic culture in our society and dwelt on the…

Opposition to the Penal and Criminal laws of Islam

By: Ayatullah Professor Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Some writers express their protest to us, arguing that Islam has issued orders in relation to the faithless that one should deal with them strictly and harshly, and not with the Islamic state’s…

Superiority of Islamic Laws

By: Ayatullah Professor Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi Undoubtedly, the above two interpretations of justice—which are cited as an example—are in total conflict and disharmony with each other in practice. They seem to be intolerant, inconsistent and discordant with the divine…

Criterion of Credibility of Law

By: Ayatullah Professor Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi In elucidating the Islamic political theory, we have made some discussions during the previous sessions and pointed out that the subject can be approached in two ways. One approach is argumentative [jadali], in…

Law and the Difference in Outlook and Origin

By: Ayatullah Professor Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi As explained in the last session, the above theory is based on an array of statutory principles. The first principle is the exigency of law for society while the second principle is that…

Meaning of Islamic nature of laws

By: Ayatullah Professor Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi In explaining the meaning of the Islamic nature of laws and orders, it is important to pay attention to the process of enacting common laws. For example, in codifying and approving bylaws and…

Rules Regarding Surgery

By: Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei’i Question 58: A doctor has certainty that performing surgery on a certain patient will not make him live longer. He knows that if the patient has surgery or not he will not live for more…

Rules Regarding Looking, Touching and Examining

By: Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei’i Question 40: Is one able to refer to a doctor of the opposite sex for something that a doctor of the same gender is able to do? Answer: If the doctor of the same gender…

The Rules of Selling and Buying – 2

Obligatory and Recommended Business Transactions · Issue 722: It is obligatory upon every Muslim to learn the rules of business transactions to the extent of his need. It is obligatory upon the scholars (‘Ulamaa`) to teach these rules to the…