Course Overview
Course Subject: Incomes of the Islamic System
Instructor: Ayatollah Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā Mudarrisī Yazdī
Day and Time: Wednesdays, 8-9 a.m.
Location: No. 33, 37th Alley, Ṣafāʾiyya St., Qom, Iran
Instructor’s Official Website: qommpth.ir/
Course in Social Media: https://eitaa.com/qommpth
About the Course
The economic system of Islam consists of three main elements:
- The Islamic economic worldview that forms the basics of the Islamic economics.
- The economic school of Islam, which is a systematic explanation of the relations between the economic elements of society – capital, work, labor, means of production. Or in more comprehensive terms: Islam’s comprehensive plan for regulating the main economic activities of society, i.e.: distribution of primary sources of wealth, production, distribution after production, exchange, services, and consumption, in order to achieve the desired goals of Islam.
- Islamic economics, which has two parts:
A- Descriptive explanation of the laws governing the economic relations of the society with the Islamic economic system.
B- A set of descriptive issues explained in Islamic sources that are related to the laws governing the behaviors and economic relations of human society.
Of these three main elements of the economic system of Islam, what is directly related to jurisprudence is the second element. Therefore, the meaning of economic jurisprudence is the logical explanation of the economic school of Islam.
One of the important topics in Islamic economic jurisprudence is the income of the Islamic system. Undoubtedly, every school, whether it is a community administration or not, needs a financing system. In the meantime, a school like Islam, which seeks to systematize and manage society, must clearly explain its financing system. This system needs financial resources for various purposes, including the provision of facilities, infrastructures and services for the people, and it must explain how and from where and under what rules these resources are provided and how they are consumed.
Among the micro-issues that can be discussed under this topic, we can mention khums, zakāt, taxes, anfāl, and the banking system. In his Muqaddamiʾī bar Niẓām-i Māliyātī va Būdja dar Islām (an introduction to the tax and budget system in Islam), published about 40 years ago, Ayatollah Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā Mudarrisī Yazdī has referred to some general points in this regard.
About the Instructor
Ayatollah Sayyid Muḥammad Riḍā Mudarrisī Yazdī was born in 1334 AH (solar) in Yazd, Iran. He joined the Islamic Seminary of Qom in 1351 1334 AH (solar) and participated in the advanced courses of Ayatollah Wahīd Khurāsānī, Ayatollah Tabrīzī, Ayatollah Bahjat, Ayatollah Ḥāʾirī Yazdī, and Ayatollah Mīrzā Hāshim Āmulī. He also studied astronomy and mysticism with ʿAllāma Ḥasanzāda Āmulī, and philosophy with Ayatollah Muṭahharī and Ayatollah Jawādī Āmulī. He is a member of the Guardian Council and the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom.
He started teaching advanced courses of jurisprudence and principles of jurisprudence in 1993. Among his advanced courses on jurisprudence are trading, backbiting, lying, bribery, gambling, and cryptocurrency, and among his advanced courses on the principles of jurisprudence are his discussions on wordings (alfāẓ) and commands (awāmir).
He has also taught comparative philosophy, moral philosophy, economics, and Islamic philosophy in various seminaries and universities.
Publications by the Instructor
- Muqaddamiʾī bar Shinākht-i Imāmān dar Partu-i Riwātāt (an introduction to the recognition of the Imāms in the light of narrations);
- Falsafi-yi Arzish-hā (philosophy of values);
- Muqaddamiʾī bar Niẓām-i Māliyātī va Būdja dar Islām (an introduction to the tax and budget system in Islam);
- Zakāt va Khums dar Islām (Zakāt and Khums in Islam);
- Mabāḥith-i Towlīd, Towzīʿ va Maṣraf (discussions on production, distribution, and consumption);
- Falsafi-yi Akhlāq (philosophy of ethics);
- Maqālāt-i Fiqhī (articles on Jurisprudence), 9 vols.;
- Tashayyuʿ dar Tasannun (Shiism in Sunnism);
- Wilāyat-i Faqīh (guardianship of the jurist);
- Du Farmān-i Bartar-i Ilāhī (Dar Bāb-i Farīḍi-yi Amr bi Maʿrūf va Nahy az Munkar (the two supreme commands of God (regarding the duty of enjoining good and forbidding evil)).
