A sociological investigation of the Act of Supporting Those Who Commanding to Good Deeds and Prohibiting from Wrong Deeds

Recently, the Act of “supporting those who commanding to good deeds and prohibiting from wrong deeds” has been adopted by the Islamic Parliament in Iran and has been imparted in the official newspapers. However, due to some problems the president requested the supreme leader to stop its running, but finally the Resolving Disputes Council decided to run and to fix its defects. Since this plan is now under review, from a sociological approach, this study tried to investigate “commanding to good deeds and prohibiting from wrong deeds” in general, and this Act in particular. This Act has been investigated due to the necessity of proactive and structural-based elements, ethical and legal suitability in relations between the individual, public surveillance and individualistic jurisprudence dominance. While underlining the Islamic value-bound system’s differentiation is that individual responsibility cannot be neglected, legislation of an Act that highlights both social infrastructures and structures and functional actions simultaneously has been emphasized