Fasiq
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Fasiq (
Arabic term referring to someone who violates Islamic law. As a fasiq is considered unreliable, his testimony is not accepted in Islamic courts.[1] The terms fasiq and fisq are sometime rendered as "impious",[1] "venial sinner",[1] or "depraved".[2]
Constant committing of minor sins or the major sins that do not require greater punishment, which are described as wickedness in fiqh terminology, are punished by the judge's discretion, without a certain limit and measure.
In tazir punishments, there is no obligation to prove the crime by witnessing or similar mechanisms.[3]
Origin
Fasiq is derived from the term fisq (
In its original Quranic usage, the term did not have the specific meaning of a violator of laws, and was more broadly associated with
Theological debate
- The jurist Wasil ibn Ata (700–748 CE) submitted that a fasiq remained a member of Muslim society, so retained rights to life and property though he could not hold a religious position. This opinion set him at odds with Murji'ah jurists who considered a fasiq to be a munafiq (hypocrite), and the Kharijites who considered the fasiq a kafir.
- To the Kharijites "faith without works" was worthless, so one who professed Islam yet sinned was fasiq, and thus a kafir.[7]
Applications
In the period leading up to the
the Shah of Iran as fasiq.[5]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8018-6974-7. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-983-9154-88-7. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ Ertuğrul Gazi Tuncay (2017). "İslam Hukukunda Sınırı Belirlenmemiş Cezalar" (PDF). İslam Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi (in Turkish) (3): 82–99.
- ISBN 978-0-911119-34-3. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-86064-407-8. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ Kamali, Mohammad Hashim. "The Approved and Disapproved Varieties of" Ra'y"(Personal Opinion in Islam)." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 7.1 (1990): 39.
- ISBN 978-0-521-53906-7. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
External links
- ف س ق at The Quranic Arabic Corpus
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