Requiring citizens to observe religious law by the Islamic State And the Evidence of the necessity of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil

Abdollahpour, Mohammad Reza; Arasta, MohammadJavad; Kalantari, Ebrahim; Soleimani, Gholamali; Haghgoo, Javad

Requiring citizens to observe religious law by the Islamic State And the Evidence of the necessity of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Reza Abdollahpour ¹

MohammadJavad Arasta ²

Ebrahim Kalantari ³

gholamali soleimani ⁴

javad Haghgoo ⁵

¹ Empty

² University Of Tehran

³ Tehran University

⁴ university of tehran

⁵ UT

Abstract

One of the important issues in religious governance is the issue of obliging citizens to observe religious law by the Islamic State. As a result, there are many different perspectives on this issue. Among them is a view that considers the obligation of citizens to religious law to be the duty of the Islamic State. This view, just as it considers the Islamic government responsible for the welfare of the citizens, and its duty to ensure the welfare of the citizens, also considers the Islamic government responsible for the religious law of the citizens, and considers its efforts to implement the religious law in society in the best possible way. In order to prove that the Islamic government is responsible for the religious law of the citizens, many arguments have been presented, among which, citing the arguments of the necessity of enjoining what is good and forbidding what is evil. In this article, based on Shiite epistemological sources, this citation, and the drawbacks proposed about it, have been examined, and according to the evidence of the command to the good and the prohibition of the bad, the scope of the Islamic government's intervention in obliging citizens to religious law has been explained. Is.

Keywords

Enjoining the good and forbidding the evil

Requirement

Citizen

religious law

Islamic government

Subjects

Theoretical foundations of the Islamic Revolution

The Holy Quran.
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