Document Type : Original Article
Author
PhD student, Higher Institute of Islamic Humanities, Al-Mustafa University,
Abstract
Context: Some people prefer to quit a vice or a forbidden behavior gradually instead of quitting all at once. The question now is how, from a jurisprudential perspective, gradual abandonment can be substituted for repulsive abandonment. The purpose of the present study is to examine the jurisprudential permissibility of gradual abandonment of moral vices. Using a descriptive-analytical method and referring to the rules of laharj, laharr and attar, an attempt has been made to examine the permissibility of this issue. According to the findings and results, it seems that gradual abandonment can be considered permissible in very rare cases. These cases are if 1- repulsive abandonment creates an unbearable situation, 2- the permissibility of gradually reducing the forbidden does not conflict with a more important criterion, 3- there is no way to get rid of this situation except by committing some forbidden act, and 4- gradual abandonment does not cause harm to others. In addition, if in some cases, moral or psychological counselors are to recommend gradual abandonment of vice, it would be better to emphasize "increasing the rate of abandonment" instead of recommending "gradual reduction of vice"; advising to abandon undesirable behavior is more consistent wth the spirit of religious teachings than advising to do it.
Keywords
- Moral education
- educational jurisprudence
- abandonment
- moral vices
- the rule of non-harm and the rule of necessity
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