The Role of Expediency in Realizing the Abolute Guardianship (authority) of the Muslim Jurist

Expediency can be defined as doing any task which is to the material and spiritual interests of individuls and groups in society. Religious denominations hold the belif that expedincy plays a significant role in law making. However, there are disagreements on the scope of it and the divine judgements have been established on the basis of common interests and harms. Since the Muslim guardian jurist cannot solve all governmental problems only by means of primary rules, hence giving him more power and authority and taking him in position and status as identical with the Prophet and Infallible Imams, he can be granted actually an authority and rule as well as the right to benefit from the primary and secondary rules in such a way that he can find solutions to many new matters (masÁÝil mustahditha) in the modern word by making claims regarding the eternal and all-embracing aspects of religion. This research work seeks to provide an answer to the question 'what role expediency plays in realizing the absolute guardinship (of the Muslim jurist)'. Since so many researches have been made on the idea of the guardinship of the Muslim jurist and expediency separately, there has been no mention of the studies about the relation between these two concepts. Thus, it seems necessary to conduct a research on this issue.