Education

One of the most important activities of the Jurispru-dence Center of Pure Imams (a.s.) is the educational program which includes two stages: higher and post-graduate studies.

In the first stage, the students benefit from open and unrestricted seminary education. The Jurisprud-ence Center selects the best of the students through specific pre-determined criteria. They are taught in 'subordinate' classes by experienced, competent and learned teachers who make sure that the students not only understand the books but also study and carry out research in related areas which normally remain out of the regular syllabus of the Hawzah (Islamic seminary). The aim is to recognize and awaken dormant potentialities and enable students to attend Kharij (postgraduate) lectures with complete preparation. Meanwhile, the students in the first stage are required to write dissertations or treatises as a prerequisite for graduation and promotion to the second stage.

In the second stage, graduate students who have proved their competence and eligibility in the 'subordinate' classes and those of the seminary theologians who have been attending Kharij classes for many succes-sive years are admitted after they have successfully passed an entrance examination and oral interview.

Students who have been admitted for a six year educational term are divided into several groups each with an average of five individuals.

Classes in this stage include learning and researching in such a way that the overall plan and procedures plus their relevant details are introduced by the teachers. The students are required to work and carry out research in those areas as per the direction of the teachers who also help them draw up a conclusion at the end. Finally, the students compile their curricular pamphlets on the basis of accepted and pre-defined standards.

Scientific promotion and progress are gained as a result of taking part in these classes in which this new method is applied. In addition, articles and scientific research works presented annually during summer vacations help students prepare their scientific treatises in the form of theses and dissertations which eventually enable them to enter the Center's research phase successfully.

These efforts have born fruit with dozens of scientific and jurisprudential articles as well as treatises written and accomplished in this section.

Some of the published works are listed as under:

1.   Ahkaam Al-Ezaz fi Ahkam Al-Ejhaz (Islamic Laws on abortion)

2.   Jurisprudential Laws on Drugs

3.   Apostasy in Islam

4.  Defects Leading to Annulment of Marriage Contract

5.  Governmental Laws

6.   Ways of Escaping Usury

7.   Judge's Knowledge from Qur'anic Perspective

8.   Iddah of Divorce for Women Having No Menstrual Period

9.   Renting with the Stipulation of a Loan

10.   The Nature of Ghina (song) and Its Exceptions

11.   The Prohibition of Aiding Others to Sin

12.   The Relation of the 'Principle of No Harm' with Other Primary Laws

13.   The Authoritativeness of Edict Renown

14.   An Inquiry into the Differences in the Beginning of the Lunar Months

15.   Reconciliatory Taqiyah and Its Limit

16.   Causes of the Advent of the Theory of Wilayat-e Faqih in the 13^th Century of the Lunar Calendar

17.   The Place of Animal Sacrifice in Mina

18.   The Authority of a Guardian Who Comes to Power by Force

19.   Custody

20.   Examining the Authoritativeness of the Wise Men's Tradition and Its Difference with the Authoritativeness of the Tradition of the People Living in the Time of Infallibles. 

21.   Analysis of Authentic Tradition Reported by Ali bin Mahziyar on Khums and Bounties

22.   A Study of Jurisprudential Pluralism in View of Jurists' Different Stances

23.   About the Principle of Zeman Al-Yad (Literally translated as "liability of the hand".)

24.    Esalat Al-Lozum fil 'Uqud wa Al-Eqa'at

25.   Combining Two Prayers

26.   Al-Methli wa Al-Qeemi bain Al-Mafhoom wal-Mesdaq

27.   An Inquiry into the Reports about the Legality of Khums

28.   A Critical Look at the "Knowledge"  Criterion

29.   The Responsibility of a Doctor

30.   Al-Sahifa Al-Nateqa fi Jawaz Al-Ejarah wa Muzarebat Al-Noqud Al-Raija

31.   Shartiyat Al-Mina fi Sehhat Al-Zabh

32.   Sport in Islam

33.   An Inquiry into the Marriage Consummated under Compulsion

34.   Compensation of Devalued Money

35.   Derasat fi Fiqh Al-Eqalah

36.   Staring and Divine Limits

37.   Examining the Role of Hadith Origin in the Deduction of Laws

38.   The Relation of Man with the Metaphysical World

39.   The Permissibility of Transplantation of a non-Muslim's Organ

40.   Receiving Payment for Obligatory and Mustahab Acts

41.   A Treatise on the Ritual Impurity of Wine

42.   Offering Short or Full Prayers in the Four Locations

43.   A Jurisprudential Study of the Zakat of the Present Money Notes 

44.   The Wise Men's Custom and Its Jurisprudential Sphere

45.   Transactions with the Intention of Harming the Creditors

46.   The Relation of Mental Power and Puberty

47.   The Points of Preference in Contradictions

48.   Beginning Taqlid from a Deceased Jurist: Its Law

49.   Al-Asl Al-Awwali fi Ta'aruz Al-Aslayn Aw Al-Khabarain

50.   A Study of the Principle of the Meanness of Punishment without Prior Exposition

51.   Thick Dust, an Invalidating Agent

52.   Nejat Al-Shari'ah be-Qaedate Al-Ishterak

53.   Al-Ejarah

54.   The Responsibility of Production and Presentation of Commodity

55.   Credit Cards

56.   The Validity of Vague Wills

57.   Methli wa Qeemi az Mafhoom wa Mesdaq

58.   The Validity or Invalidity of Marriage Contract, in Cases where Man is Unable to Pay the Dowry until the End of His Life

59.   The Economical Value of Woman's Activity in Husband's House

60.   A Jurisprudential Inquiry into Gains and Losses in the Competitions

61.   Sahl bin Ziad in the Mirror of Ilm-e Rijal

62.   Cases Where It is Necessary to Guide an Ignorant Individual

63.   Narrated Consensus as Seen by Sheikh Ansari in Rasail and Makasib

64.   Shar'eiyat Al-Hokm wa Al-Entekhab

65.   Purity of Kurr Water from Addition

66.   Looking at the Face and Hands of a non-Mahram as Seen by Quran and Ahlalbayt

67.   The Criterion of Usuli Rule

68.   Sex Change: Its Jurisprudential and Legal Impacts

69.   The Law of Resemblance to the Disbelievers

70.   The Guardianship of the Just Believers

71.   Change in a Mujtahid's Verdict

72.   The 'Food Verse' Implying the Purity of Ahl-e Kitab

73.   The Role of the Alikeness of  Currency in the Occurrence of Interest

74.   An Answer to Question Concerning Shortening of Prayer in Quality not in Quantity

75.   Resalat Al-Bayan fi Hokm Shorb Al-Dukhan

76.   Fi Anna Ezalat Ain Al-Nijasah Motahherun am Laa?

77.   A Jurisprudential Examination of the Condition of Maleness in Taqlid

78.   Examining the Arguments Concerning the Purity and Impurity of the People of the Book

79.   Hijab of Ahl-e KitabWomen in the Islamic Society

80.   Answer the Spurious Argument Concerning the Unnecessariness of Taqlid in the Present Time

81.   Purity of the People of the Book in the Quran

82.   Nazariyat Al-Imam Al-Khomeini fi al-Khitabat Al-Qanuniyah

83.   Fine of Delayed Payment in the  Form of Comm-itment Due

84.   Law of a Traveler's Prayers in the Journeys made in the Present Time

85.   A Research in Purified Sewage Water

86.   Woman and Marja'eyah (Religious Authority)

87.   Interest (Usury) in Currency

88.   Shari'ah and Women's Judgment

89.   Council based Ijtehad

90.    The Portion of Sayyids in the Period of Occultation

91.   The Inconsistency of the Impurity of the People of the Book with the Necessity of Dealing with other Religions

92.   Al-Athar Al-Saer fi Qira'at Jadidah min Salat Al-Musafir

93.   The Islamic Law of Cloning

94.   The Law of Qasr (shortened) Prayers in Journeys by Air

95.   An Inquiry into the Validity of Madraki (docu-mented) Consensus

96.   Artificial Insemination in Humans

97.   The Meaning of the Verse "Surely the polytheists are ritually impure" with regard the Impurity of the Disbelievers

98.   A Study of the Law of the Money Paid for Breastfeeding

99.   Al-Jam'a  bain Al-Hokm al-Waqe'ei wa Al-Zaheri

100.  Transplantation

101.   A Study of the Cases where Ejara Contract is Nullified

102.  Serayat Al-Nijasah bil-Molaqat

103.  Eshterat Al-Zeman fi Al-Ain Al-Mosta'jarah

104.  Al-Dorar Al-Maknoonah fi Ba'az Ahkaam Erth Al-Zawjah

105.  Analysis of the Limitedness of a Will to one third

106.  The Intrinsic Purity of the Children of non-Believers

107.  The Ritual Impurity of non-Believers' Children

108.  A Research into the  Ritual Purity and Impurity of the Followers of the Different Sects of Islam

109.  Custom and Its Role in Islamic Laws

110.  Taghdim Al-Tawaf wa Al-Sa'y alaa Al-Woqufain

111.  Had Al-Safar Al-Shar'ei fi Al-Asr Al-Hazer

112.  Salat Al-Tawaf Al-Farizah 'Enda Al-Zeham

It is worth noting that most of the foregoing subjects have gone through the final stages and are ready to be made available. Some of them have been compiled and researched time after time by many researchers while others have been written by one researcher. 

Attempts have been made to acquaint the students with basic clues of gaining Ijtehad^* (jurisprudence) and dealing with sophisticated jurisprudential prob-lems and current issues prevailing in the society.  Likewise, a comprehensive plan has been made with regard learning and comprehending Ayat Al-Akaam or the law verses of the Holy Quran as well as the principles of jurisprudence.