مقاربة مقاصدية لشعيرة الصوم في إطار فلسفة الدين

Abstract EN

This research is a preliminary introduction to approach fasting as worship act within its own ethics according to the normative purposes and intents of Islam.

It is an attempt to have a deep investigation of the rational purposes of the sensual and spiritual objectives of fasting, within a framework of philosophy of Religion.

It assumes an initial recognition of the possibility of cases were fasting does not achieve the normative maqasid.

The researcher employed a descriptive-analytical methodology, in looking at fasting in its entirety, in accordance with the ideas of al-Shatbi, who made the purposes the basic foundation of the religion, which requires the value of Ihsan in bringing benefits and preventing harms in preserving the five maqasid: religion, life, intellect, property and procreation.

This methodology is open up to a multi-disciplinary approach that employs various interrelated disciplines, especially those framed by the philosophy of religion.