Abstract:
The article at hand examines the extraction of the jurisprudential decree on the “Acceptance of guardianship from tyrant ruler” based on the Anecdote Verses of the Qur’ān, especially the noble verse “(Joseph) said: ‘Set me over the store-houses of the land: I will indeed guard them, as one that knows (their importance).’” The Shī‘a political thought, which deems ruling exclusive to God, His Prophet (s), and the Infallible vicegerents of the Prophet (s), has introduced the concept of “guardianship from tyrant ruler” into its political jurisprudence literature from the Major Occultation era and has the biggest share in this discussion. Although the inherent prohibition of cooperation with the tyrant ruler is for sure, the existence of many problems and difficulties in the society and the licenses given by the Pure Imāms (a) to assume certain vacancies in the tyrant governments have led the Shī‘a and Sunnī jurisprudents to deem this type of guardianship as permissible in order to restore the right, promote justice, and execute the Divine Decrees.
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Professor, Department of the Qur’ānic and Ḥadīth sciences, University of Qom, Qom,Iran (Recived: June 18, 2019; Revised: December 5, 2019; Accepted: December 15, 2019) Abstract The article at hand examines the extraction of the jurisprudential decree on the “Acceptance of guardianship from tyrant ruler” based on the Anecdote Verses of the Qur’ān, especially the noble verse “(Joseph) said: ‘Set me over the store-houses of the land: I will indeed guard them, as one that knows (their importance).
Although the inherent prohibition of cooperation with the tyrant ruler is for sure, the existence of many problems and difficulties in the society and the licenses given by the Pure Imāms (a) to assume certain vacancies in the tyrant governments have led the Shī‘a and Sunnī jurisprudents to deem this type of guardianship as permissible in order to restore the right, promote justice, and execute the Divine Decrees.
The viewpoints of the Shī‘a jurisprudents and exegetes In his interpretation of the noble verse “(Joseph) said: ‘Set me over the store- houses of the land: I will indeed guard them, as one that knows (their importance)’”, Ṭabrisī says, “… Based on the content of the verse, the acceptance of guardianship from a tyrant ruler is permissible provided that it is used to restore the right of a rightful” (Ṭabrisī, 1983, vol.
It has been narrated from Imām Ṣādiq (a) in ‘Ilal al-sharāyi‘ and from Imām Riḍā (a) in ‘Uyūn and ‘Ayyāshī about the meaning of this verse: ‘I am the guardian of the property under my supervision and I know every language; the acceptance of guardianship is to sign the divine decrees, promote the right, and enforce the rights’” (Fayḍ Kāshānī, 1994, vol.