An Examination of the Semantic Range of the Verse “Speak Fair to the People” via a Jurisprudential Approach From the Shī‘a and Sunnī Exegetes’ Viewpoints

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic studies, Faculty of Theology, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj, Iran

2 Full Professor, Department of the Qur’ān and Ḥadīth Sciences, Faculty of, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

Abstract

Ethics is the basis of social relations, in a way that when it is absent, the society gets afflicted with spiritual and psychological breaches and downfalls. We cannot separate jurisprudence from ethics. The judicial decree is the legislation by God to regulate the human life, including his acts and essence as well as the other things and matters in his life. The ethical issues are bound to the judicial decree and have jurisprudential burden. God has emphasized amiability in the verses of the noble Qur’ān in various ways. Using imperative structure, He has put it at the same level as important issues such as the prohibition of worshipping non-God, benevolence toward parents, saying prayers, and paying Alms tax. One of the important points in ethical issues is specifying if an act is obligatory, recommended, prohibited, or detestable. This article aims at extracting the judicial decree of the obligation of amiability with others using jurisprudential criteria such as the refinement of the basis of the ruling, the annulment of ineffective attributes, and analogy, as well as the Shī‘a and Sunnī narrations and commentaries.

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Journal of Contemporary Islamic Studies
Volume 3, Issue 1
Winter & Spring
January 2021
Pages 99-110

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