Critique and Study of the Reasons for the Widely Known Viewpoint on the Ritual Impurity of the Unbelievers’ Underage Children
Journal Title: فقه و اصول - Year 2017, Vol 49, Issue 108
Abstract
One of the issues that has been more or less discussed among jurists and has followed by some discourses has been the innate impurity of the unbelievers’ underage children. The Sunni jurists believe in the cleanliness (ṭahārat) of human beings despite their type of tendencies and beliefs, which naturally includes the unbelievers’ children, too. In contrast, however, most of the Shī‘as believe that the unbelievers’ underage children follow their fathers and, like them, are considered as impure. In support to their viewpoints, these jurists have provided reasons that are all of them, as well as their evidences, critically reviewed and their feeble arguments are shown from different aspects and finally the theory of physical purity of the unbelievers’ children, whether in the field of the people of Scripture or the polytheists, is approved and some evidences have also been provided in this respect.
Authors and Affiliations
Akbar Ahmadpour
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP191164
- DOI 10.22067/fiqh.v0i0.51608
- Views 104
- Downloads 0
The Theory of the Permissibility and Soundness of Buying and Selling Human Organs in Imāmī Jurisprudence
Buying and selling human organs is among the newly-arisen jurisprudential issues, about which the Imāmī jurists have opted two theories in response to this issue. Some of them have regarded the situational decree of buyi...
Reappraisal of the Nature and Evidences of Waging War (Muḥāriba) in Crimes against Public Order
In Islamic penal law, most of the crimes against national and social security are gathered under the title muḥāriba (waging war); whereas, in jurisprudence, there is disagreement about the nature and criteria of muḥāriba...
A Critical Review of the Theories on the Definition of Real Estate in Islamic Law
Jurists have presented various theories on the definition of real estate. The numerousness of these theories has led to the ambiguity of the legal concept of real estate; for, all these theories cannot be conformed to th...
Enumeration of Legal Punishments Crimes in Imāmiyya Criminal Law: Causes for Multiplicity of Opinions and the Necessity of Reckoning (Iḥsā’)
Studying the nature of legal punishments (ḥudūd) and legal misdemeanors deserving these kinds of punishment – which along with discretionary punishments (ta‘zīrāt) are regarded as the most important criminal reactions to...
Examining the Relation between Ladies' Covering and Family Consolidation in Religious Doctrines
Men and women keeping company and formation of a family take place with different motives, one of which is fulfillment of sexual needs; however, using the term sukūn (tranquility), the Holy Qur’ān while promoting the fam...