The Impact of Maqāṣid Al-Sharia in Analyzing the Coronavirus Pandemic

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the impact of maqāṣid al-sharīʿa in analyzing the coronavirus pandemic, through the study of maqāṣid al-sharīʿa necessary to analyze the coronavirus pandemic with maqāṣid hajiyat necessary to analyze the coronavirus pandemic. Furthermore, the study aimed to identify the ameliorative maqāṣid to analyze the pandemic. In this study, the researcher relied on the inductive-documentary approach. This approach begins with the specific to reach the general and it depends on verification by organized observation subject to experimentation and control of various variables to highlight the impact of maqāṣid al-sharīʿa in analyzing the pandemic. The study reached a set of different results, which were represented in the primacy of maqāṣid al-sharīʿa in taking precautionary measures against infectious epidemics, and its success in limiting their spread and eliminating them. Among maqāṣid al-sharīʿa in fatwas on epidemics and diseases, such as the coronavirus pandemic, is to consider expected issues and look forward to the future and outcomes related to this issue, and identify the provisions of epidemics and diseases to preserve human life. The study also concluded that the epidemic and the disease represented by the coronavirus pandemic are among the reasons for mitigation that fall under the rule of warding off hardship. The study recommended the importance of maqāṣid al-sharīʿa in preserving human life from diseases and epidemics. The study also emphasized the sanctity of conveying fatwas that contradict the fatwas approved by the Ifta'a authorities, because of the confusion in religious concepts and conflicting fatwas; as all people must adhere to the correct fatwas issued by the competent authorities. The study also recommended the need to explain and clarify Sharia's interest in people's lives and humanitarian aspects.