The Purposes of Financial Fines in Maintaining Morals and Civic Behavior

Abstract

This study deals with financial tribulations as a punishable or specially mixed punishment of discipline and compensation which relates to reinforcing the punishments. This research focused on many areas related to financial tribulations in terms of determining what they are, and explaining their purposes through the angle (cause and effect), as a punishment for sin, without regard to the relationship between the money in which the tribulations is committed by the felony in terms of its attachment to it and not related to it. Regardless of whether it was intended by destroying what happened to the felony or intended to discipline the offender. Thus, it highlights the relationship of financial fines in the maintenance of ethics and public morals, and thus aimed at preventing the spread of corruption in society which leads to the preservation of the purposes of Shariah from the necessities, needs or improvements. The study aims at the purpose of Shariah legislation to punish wrongdoers to determine the intended meaning of the particulars and texts received by the Sunnis in this area so as not to invalidate the apparent meanings of these texts that view contributes to address the issue of the fine legitimacy and non-conformity with the principles of Sharia. Therefore, it constitutes an entry into the harmony of the fine in its characteristics with other punitive penalties.