The method of determining expediency in Islamic government

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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Recognizing expediency and acting based on it is one of the inherent duties of all governments throughout the history of mankind, and the Islamic government, as a government arising from the Islamic Sharia, is not exempt from this general ruling, and recognizing public interests based on religious teachings is one of the duties of public officials. It is considered in the Islamic government. At the same time, the general and non-transparent nature of public interests and the ways to identify them in the Islamic government is considered the most important challenge to the fulfillment of the obligation to comply with expediency.Based on this, the main question of the current research is devoted to the investigation of the methods of identifying public interests in the Islamic government. The method of the present research is a descriptive analysis, which seems that since the Sharia rulings are based on the real interests and corruptions of affairs, the solution to realizing the public interests in the Islamic government is the implementation of the Sharia rulings.However, due to the convergence of issues of Sharia rulings in the field of practice, it is possible to design a process for public officials based on rational and Sharia priorities and external priorities, the result of which is the priority of the most important issues and the objective indicators in the field of determining expediency which are below The two main headings of the rule are important and important, for example, the preservation of Islam and the Islamic system

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