Gradualness of the Concept of Puberty and Different Responsibilities Arising from it in ‎‎Jurisprudence of Islamic Denominations

Determining the age of puberty and, therefore the‎ age of religious obligations is one of ‎the issues that has been ‎‎considered by Muslim Jurists from a long time ago. ‎However, ‎‎according to the well-known view of jurists, there is no ‎‎difference between ‎the age of religious obligations and various ‎‎responsibilities arising from it, but the ‎declaration of three ‎‎types of responsibility in Jurisprudential sources of some Islamic denominations caused that the authors study, not only the ‎jurisprudential-legal ‎foundations of ‎different responsibilities, but also the accuracy and efficiency of this view in Islamic legal ‎system.‎ This study states that, ‎although, the physical signs or criterion of age can be used ‎to determine the puberty, but the disagreement of Islamic denominations about the age of puberty shows that puberty ‎has a variable concept whether applied in the worship issues or ‎civil affairs or criminal matters.‎ In normal conditions, criminal puberty becomes ‎after worship puberty; ‎because understanding of the concept of crime and punishment can be created in most of the people after understanding the concept of ‎respect to the creator and financial gains and losses. ‎Consequently the responsibility arising ‎from the adults behavior is different in these three areas and the responsibility ‎arising from crime, forms after worship responsibility and financial responsibility in civil matters.