Quality of validity of divine intention in the devotional obligations

Document Type : Research Paper

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Assistant Professor, University of Semnan, Iran

Abstract

According to the celebrated definition of devotional obligation that divine intention is regarded as a distinction aspect of such obligation from its other kinds, the way of validity of divine intention and considering it in the someone was appointed, has always  become one of the important origins of disagreements among the great scholars of Usul (Principles of Jurisprudence) and different Usuli views and thoughts in this regard; so that some have believed in natural transformation of taking divine intention in the attachment of affair, and some in accidental transformation. In this paper, along with setting forth of views of Usuli thinkers and its correspondence to the Usuli view of Imam Khomeini, as one of the Usuli scholars that presented the greatest and the most strict discussions in this regard, we have regarded the view of some believed in natural transformation as incomplete, and concluded that contrary to views of the most of Usuli scholars including author of Kifayah and Sheikh Ansari, transformation of taking divine intention in attachment of affair is possible. Presenting a distinctive basis as inference of decree in order to more exact recognition of applicability of devotional obligation from junction obligation, clarifies necessity of this paper as much as possible.

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