A Study on the Precept of Accepting the Oppressor's Rule with the Purpose of Enjoining the Right and Forbidding the Wrong

Accepting the oppressor's rule, in spite of the emphasis of religious texts on its prohibition, has been permitted in some cases and such permissibility is either based on religious texts or in accordance with certain rules admitted by Islamic jurists. In the present paper, through referring to jurisprudential texts, it has been concluded that cases of permitting the oppressor's rule  are wider than the cases mentioned in the texts or which have been considered as instances of the general rules. Accepting the oppressor's rule  with the purpose of enjoining the right and forbidding the wrong, provided that without accepting the authority proposed by the oppressor, complying with these two divine obligations won’t be possible, is one of the most important cases which, although not mentioned in religious texts and not being in accordance with the general rules established in jurisprudential texts, is regarded as a cause of the admissibility of accepting the oppressor's rule and has been admitted by the vast majority of famous Islamic  jurists. The present paper has dealt with the criteria relied upon by Islamic jurists in authorizing the acceptance of the oppressor's rule in the above said case and by criticizing and reviewing it and the arguments of opponents, has achieved another way to solve this problem.