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Arabic term referring to someone who violates Islamic law
Fasiq
(
Arabic
:
????
f?siq
) is an
Arabic
term referring to someone who violates
Islamic law
. As a fasiq is considered unreliable, his testimony is not accepted in Islamic courts.
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The terms
fasiq
and
fisq
are sometime rendered as "impious",
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"venial sinner",
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or "depraved".
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Constant committing of minor sins or the major sins that do not require greater punishment, which are described as wickedness in fiqh terminology, are punished by the judge's discretion, without a certain limit and measure.
In
tazir
punishments, there is no obligation to prove the crime by witnessing or similar mechanisms.
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Origin
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Fasiq
is derived from the term
fisq
(
Arabic
:
???
), "breaking the agreement"
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or "to leave or go out of."
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In its original Quranic usage, the term did not have the specific meaning of a violator of laws, and was more broadly associated with
kufr
(disbelief).
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Some theologians have associated fasiq-related behaviour to
ahl al-hawa
(people of caprice).
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Theological debate
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- The jurist
Wasil ibn Ata
(700?748 CE) submitted that a
fasiq
remained a member of Muslim society, so retained rights to life and property though he could not hold a religious position. This opinion set him at odds with
Murji'ah
jurists who considered a
fasiq
to be a
munafiq
(hypocrite), and the
Kharijites
who considered the
fasiq
a
kafir
.
- To the Kharijites "faith without works" was worthless, so one who professed Islam yet sinned was
fasiq
, and thus a
kafir
.
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Applications
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In the period leading up to the
1979 Iranian Revolution
,
Ayatollah Khomeini
described
the Shah of Iran
as
fasiq
.
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See also
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References
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External links
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- ? ? ?
at The Quranic Arabic Corpus