Sabaq and Ramāyeh Legitimacy Theory in Modern Military Weapons

One of the important objectives in legislation of the Islamic laws is protecting the Islam foundation and defending sovereignty of the Islamic state. Many Islamic laws have been legislated in this regard. One of these regulations is the legitimacy of sabaq (racing) and ramayeh (arrow-throwing) contract. The legitimacy of this contract has been emphasized in many Islamic narrations, and jurists agree on its permissibility. However, what is important in this research is to know whether sabaq and ramayeh legitimacy belongs to the mentioned cases in the narrations as the previous jurists said or the permissibility of this contract can be used in the modern military weapons or not. This research studied the above issue by the analytical-inferential method. It is concluded in this research after reviewing and studying the jurists’ statement that sabaq and ramayeh contract is not only permitted in the modern military weapons, but also permitted in the legal statements as far as those weapons have military application.