مقاصد الشريعة المتعلقة بالأوبئة

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The research aims to highlight the importance of the purposes of Sharia and their impact when dealing with epidemics and infectious diseases.

The research consists of an introduction, four sections, and a conclusion.

The introduction includes the subject of the research topic, problem, importance, goal, methodology, procedures, plan, and the previous studies.

Research Methodology: It is based on the inductive approach for depicting the purposes of Sharia having an impact on epidemics and infectious diseases, and on the applied approach for finding out how to link Juristic judgments to the purposes of Islamic law.

The most important results of the research: The purposes are divided into two parts.

The first section deals with the general epidemics-related purposes of Sharia.

It consists of five elements that include those purposes and their jurisprudential applications in the Corona pandemic (namely, the purposes related to: lifting the embarrassment in Islamic law, preserving the self, avoiding harm, prohibiting harmful pretexts).

Some of the measures built on these purposes are: the suspension of visits to mosques at the time of the epidemic, medication, performing Friday prayers at homes, etc.

The second section deals with the special epidemics-related purposes of Sharia.

It covers several elements that include those purposes and their jurisprudential applications in the Corona pandemic (namely, the purposes related to: giving priority to the public interest over the private interest, health preservation, the purpose of hygiene).

Some of the jurisprudence rules built on these purposes are those related to: vaccinations for preventive aims, the use of sterilizers containing forbidden materials, quarantine, etc.