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Fasiq ( Arabic: فاسق fāsiq) 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. [1] The terms fasiq and fisq are sometime rendered as "impious", [1] "venial sinner", [1] or "depraved". [2]
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. [3]
Fasiq is derived from the term fisq ( Arabic: فسق), "breaking the agreement" [4] or "to leave or go out of." [2]
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). [5] Some theologians have associated fasiq-related behaviour to ahl al-hawa (people of caprice). [6]
In the period leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini described the Shah of Iran as fasiq. [5]
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Fasiq ( Arabic: فاسق fāsiq) 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. [1] The terms fasiq and fisq are sometime rendered as "impious", [1] "venial sinner", [1] or "depraved". [2]
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. [3]
Fasiq is derived from the term fisq ( Arabic: فسق), "breaking the agreement" [4] or "to leave or go out of." [2]
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). [5] Some theologians have associated fasiq-related behaviour to ahl al-hawa (people of caprice). [6]
In the period leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini described the Shah of Iran as fasiq. [5]