Nafy-e-Sabil Rule (Non-Dependency Rule) and the Accession of Iran to the International Convention on the Suppression of Financing Terrorism

Abstract

Maintenance of independency and honor of the Muslim state in international relationships, obligations and relations is one of the requirements of Nafy-e-Sabil Rule (Non-Dependency Rule); a jurisprudential rule which in accordance with logical and traditional proofs is based on the principle of negation of ascendency of non-Muslims over Muslims. It predicates the legal acceptance of relation with other states and conclusion of any contract or treaty to non-domination of aliens over Muslim countries. Giving the necessity of the economic development of the country and its implication to the principle of negation of submissiveness, the issue of accession of Iran to the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) as an example of international treaties, is dealt with in this research. Although according to most of the Islamic jurists this principle is applied as a primary rule and negates any sort of submissiveness even in international contracts, this study has reached to a conclusion based on which in case of conflict of the rule with more important interests, the principle is allocable; specifically in international relations that is the sphere of reason and rationality where the expedient reason should take into account the interests and goods of the country and its possible defects and advance on its basis. The authority to determine the interest or defect is the organization or the institution responsible for signing the contract.