Analysis of the scope of human genetic engineering (medical and non - medical) from the perspective of Imami jurisprudence

The phenomenon of human genetic biotechnolo gy, which is done with the aim of repelling human evil, building a desirable society, and achieving important advances in human knowledge, is not prohibited in the basic jurisprudential propositions. But due to the tension of this human knowledge with huma n ethics and manners, its scope is not very clear and no integrated research has been conducted. Therefore, the question of the scope of the license to use this human knowledge needs to be explored until obtaining a proper answer. The present study aims to identify and study the permissible scope of human genome engineering.

The present article has been written in a descriptive - analytical method using library data, both real and virtual. In this way, first the views on the acceptance and non - acceptance of genetic engineering, as one of the emerging issues and secondary topics of dynamic Islamic jurisprudence are Planned and then analytically the possibility of accepting the view of doing it in the light of jurisprudential and rational arguments is reviewed and the scope of acceptance’s license of this knowledge is assessed based on the mentioned arguments.

Jurists and religious thinkers do not have the same approach to the phenomenon of human genetic biotechnology. But from the analysis of their documents in the framework of jurisprudential and rational arguments, it seems that the reasons for the followers of this human knowledge are more solid. Provided that in addition to not approaching the jurisprudential and rational bo undaries of loss, damage, reduction, etc., it occurs only in the sphere of productivity and conquest of the phenomena of existence and it is a role - playing tool for the creation to create the social welfare and comfort of human life and the liberation of d ivine creatures from the bottlenecks in the evolutionary path.