The Executive Expediency of Governmental Decrees in the Qur an

The executive expediency and its role in issuing government decrees by the Islamic ruling system has traditionally attracted the attention of the Muslim scholars concerned with political fiqh, political thought and political philosophy. As far as the Islamic government is concerned, the element ‘executive expediency’ plays a crucial role in legislation and law enforcement and the Islamic rule has to take notice of it.This article seeks to provide answers to the following questions: Does the executive expediency in the Islamic government have its roots in the Qur’an? In other words, does the holy Qur’an pay any attention to executive expediency and government decrees? And if the Qur’an has dealt with the governmental executive expediency, what are the Qur’anic texts and significations? In answering to the above questions, it should be noted that the executive expediency, though it has been designated as secondary in the political fiqh, political thought, and political philosophy in Islam, and the Quran has made no explicit mention of executive expediency, one can infer the authority of executive expediencies from the Qur’anic contexts. For the Qur’an in various verses has granted the leaders of Islamic society, who are appointed by God, permission to issue governmental decrees to the interests of the Islamic society.