The prohibition of disagreeing with governmental verdict in Shiite political jurisprudence

Governmental verdict is one of the strategies at the disposal of Shiite jurisprudence to answer various important needs of Islamic society, on the basis of which many social and political problems of the Islamic government have been solved after the Islamic revolution. The problem this paper addresses is whether the act of disagreeing with a governmental verdict is discredited or rewarded in the afterlife. Rational and narrational arguments are put forward in line with the jurisprudential method of inference. As the results show both jurisprudential approaches insist on obeying from governmental verdicts to maintain order in the Islamic society. However, the approach which views obeying the commands of a jurist from a patron-client perspective, believes that disagreeing results in punishment and obeying in reward in the afterlife. But the approach which considers such verdicts as just recommendations, maintains that disagreement results in only legal punishments and is not considered as a sin.