Rules and Regulations for Making Obligatory Governmental Judgements

Jurisdictions are necessary for running the affairs of Islamic society. One of these jurisdictions is the making of governmental judgements.The key question which arises about the Islamic system is: What are the rules and regulations for making governmental judgements?Govermental judgements, often termed Walā’i judgements, are separate from Shar‘i injunctions in as far as the side or authority which issues them is concerned, but in as far as their contents are concerned, different relationships are detectable between them.Governmental or Walā’i judgements, like Shar‘i injunctions, are of two types. Some fall in the province of obligatory judgements and some fall in the province of positive obligations.This article is concerned with the rules and regulations for making obligatory governmental judgements by a ruler. Making a distinction between “common rules” and “the rules for urgent judgements”, the author observes that six components are connected to common judgements and three rules are connected to urgent judgements