The Method of Discovering Development Policies with Emphasis on Martyr Sadr's Views

Development policies are among the most important means of the management and development of a social system. Using the analytical method, this paper deals with the question as to how these development policies can be discovered. According to the paper’s hypothesis, the discovery of these policies requires considering the principles, goals and rules and expanding martyr Sadr's discovery methodology. The findings show that development policies which represent the rules of a certain school, principles and general, practical and comprehensive rules based on a specific axiological and doctrinal system, contribute to developing a social system with the aim of achieving the hierarchical objectives. In fact, these policies are considered as intermediary between the objectives of social system and the detailed rules of the social system. The principles, objectives and rules are the three main sources for inferring development policies. Discovering, interpreting, explaining and aggregating the objectives, interpreting the concepts of rules, and analyzing the objectives are the stages through which of inferring development policies passes. Elaborating on the development policies requires the aggregation and analysis of the rules of Islamic law. In order to solve the problem of harmony and authority of Martyr Sadr's discovery method, one can, instead of referring to rules directly use legislative texts as a source for inferring development policies. Thus, the authenticity of the discovered rules is affirmed by the undifferentiated successive hadith transmission.