A Glance over The Constituents of the Authority of General Policies Based on Shahid Sayyed Muhammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr's Viewpoints

Various states have always found solutions to the questions faced by taking policies which determine the confident ways in which the political system encounter the perceived problems. The attribution of a state to a school of thought expresses itself in the two elements of ‘political structure’ and ‘decision-making system’. Accordingly, Islamic states, claiming to attribute themselves to the foundation of primordial religion of Islam, have to organize their political structure, decision-making system as well as their policies according to the wills of the divine Legislator. The present research work, focusing its attention on the concept of the authority of the Islamic state’s policies, seek to find an answer to the question that what constituents an Islamic government should have in order to be considered as authority in view of the Islamic Law and the Twelver (Imamiyyah) jurisprudential foundations and principles. To arrive at the answer, Shahid Sayyed Muhammad BÁqir al-Ñadr’s views and opinions have been explored, drawing upon the library research method in collecting data and offering jurisprudential arguments for their analysis. The findings of the research provide us with the three constituents: citing documentary evidence in support of religious doctrines based on independent reasoning (judgements), internal cohesion of general policies, and efficiency of general policies, to ensure the authority of the policies of the state in question.