سفارش کے آداب : اسلامی شریعت کی روشنی

The Etiquette of Recommendation: in Islamic perspective

Abstract

This research article clarifies the stance of Islamic Sharia with the rationale of observing certain admissible bounds and limitations, in matters which need arbitration, intercession or seeking favorable recommendations of a person or a specific party for achieving desirable ends in routine matters of social adjudication. An exclusive effort is made to ascertain whether seeking someone’s recommendations for the desirable resolution of matters in day today social adjudication has any validation through any supportive argument or section of any reference in the Islamic Sharia or not. Moreover, certain bounds and boundaries have been identified to rectify the stance of Islamic Sharia that if limitations are not observed, there would not be any validation for seeking any kind of recommendations. Referring to diverse inferences, the Islamic Sharia clearly states that seeking someone’s recommendations or compelling someone to decide matters desirably in mad pursuit of desirable ends, in matters of social arbitration or personal adjudication which the Sharia does not validate in any case, have utterly been declared void and invalidated. Hence it is needed that matters and approaches are to be scrutinized while soliciting someone’s unlawful recommendations because such recommendations may be at the personal risk of certain individuals, due to which the personal safety, belongings or personal ego of others may likely be ventured or the basic human and fundamental rights may likely to be infringed. So, any act of seeking such kind of recommendations for the purpose of serving immediate vested interest becomes not only un-Islamic but un-ethical too.