Argument from Islamic Jurisprudence

INTERPRETATION OF THE ISLAMIC MISSION but rather a conditioned ruling from Shariah. The requirement of Shariah is that if a Muslim possesses the Nisab and it remains with him for a year, then the obligation to fulfill the ruling applies only when the means and conditions are present.” An example of the second condition is the prayer times, which serve as means for prayer but are not obligatory for anyone to acquire, as they are beyond a person’s control. The meaning of this excerpt is not that the editor of “Zindagi” disagrees with the aforementioned writer or that he agrees with my opinion in this discussion. He accepts the classification of the aforementioned rulings, but he believes that the obligation of “cutting off the hand of a thief” and “punishing the adulterer” given to Muslims is a “general obligation.” Its existence or validity depends on the existence of a government. Therefore, the acquisition of this condition is indeed obligatory. He further writes: “The Muslim Ulama are agreed that appointing an Imam, or establishing an Islamic government, is a necessary condition for carrying out these injunctions. That is to say, the obligation of these injunctions does not mean that if a caliph exists and a government is established, then you should act upon them. Rather, it means that these