Content Analysis, Validation and Applications of the Rule of Need in Jurisprudence of Islamic Denominations

Pay attention to Need in the process of solving various jurisprudential issues, is widely seen in the jurisprudential texts of Islamic denominations. This has led some jurists to regard Need as a legal principle. The present study, which has been done through descriptive-analytic method and based on library resources, in addition to analyzing the content of the rule, intends to examine its validity from the perspective of Islamic jurists and check the validity of referring to it in the two areas of worships and transactions. The findings of the present study show that Specific Need (Personal Need) is often mentioned in worship matters, and its existence is not a permission for Inherent Sins (Deadly Sins), even though it can lead to hardship. However, the application of Public Need (Typical Need), is mostly in transaction matters. Need, in this concept, besides principles such as the principle of permission and the principle of liberty of contracts, legitimizes actions and contracts and it can be a reason to limit the general principles of contracts. Public Need is of the public interests and by that we can limit general principles of contracts.