The Ways of Utilizing Ethics in Ijtihad (Independent Reasoning)

Investigating the mutual effect and utilization of scientific disciplines is one of the important axes in the philosophies related to sciences. In the meantime, utilizing ethics and moral values in different sciences is an important axis. The present paper examines the issue of utilizing ethics and moral values in fiqh (jurisprudence) and Ijtihad. The principle of utilization is altogether presupposed and not discussed in this paper. This paper elaborates on the ways and methods by which ethics is utilized in Ijtihad, the most important of which are as follows: utilizing in the reinforcement or weakening the procession of a narration; utilizing to explain legal injunction not injunction based on concealment; utilizing to explain permanent injunction of Shariah (Divine Law); utilizing in public usage; utilizing to understand obligation or non-obligation; utilizing to prove the continuation of an injunction; utilizing to prove relinquishment; utilizing by the way of interpreting and determining a meaning among several probable meanings; utilizing in predication against apparent; utilizing in specification and determination; utilizing in allocation to a certain time or event; utilizing in predication on corrective injunction; utilizing by the way of conflict; utilizing by the way of interference, utilizing by the way of issuing fatwa.