Upholding Honor and Its Position in the Objectives of Shari‘ah from the Viewpoint of Jurisprudents of Islamic Denominations

Objectives of divine law are amongst important issues the foundations of which are mentioned in holy Quran and other sources of jurisprudence, a theory which has found its place in jurisprudential judgment and brought about dynamism and stability into it. Upholding honor of people is counted among objectives of divine law and many have also counted it among necessities and right doing. Adopting an analytical-descriptive method, the current research has dug into the views of jurists and concluded that although some jurists have not explicitly included “upholding peoples’ honor” in the objectives of divine law, they have regarded it as an eminent bone of contention and important in financial and legal issues, religious practices and those related to guardianship. Comparing it with other issues, objectives of divine law have given upholding honor the fourth rank in importance just after saving religion, saving life and saving rationality and before saving property. In other words, the sequence of importance given to these issues in divine law is saving religion, saving life, saving rationality, saving honor and then saving property.