A Jurisprudential and Legal Study of Exposing Officials’ Economic Corruption in the Islamic Government

A major issue in seeking justice is people’s duty of standing against the officials’ corruptions in the Islamic Government discussed in Fiqh books under the category of ‘enjoining what is right and forbidding what is evil’. In regard to the development and complexity of modern governments, this religious duty cannot be effective individually especially as it concerns the corruptions that widely affect the societies. It is therefore incumbent upon the general public to come into action while abiding by sharia. Nowadays, the expansion of virtual and social media could be the best means for achieving the goal and has to be taken into consideration in Islamic societies. Here, after a brief look at the corruption exposure concept, and the sharia decree against corruption that could extend to acts such as backbiting, libeling the believers and propagation of corruption, and the status of the act as an instance of ‘enjoining what is right and forbidding what is evil’, we have reached the conclusion that if fiqh principles are observed carefully, the act of exposure is totally permitted.