Provisions of use of security equipment during demonstrations in Islamic law

Abstract

This research paper presents the security equipments used by security forces during the demonstrations in order to know; whether these equipments are lethal on nonlethal, the types of the equipments as they are handled in current era, and whether they are permitted by Islamic regulations. The present researcher has used the inductive approach when he gathered the parts of the security equipments to be placed in a scientific material. Moreover, he has used the analytic approach when he explained the security equipments and analysed the texts to reach the results that the present researcher aims to achieve. It was concluded that using the security equipments is illegal unless they are used in specific situations or under certain conditions such as to prevent damage which will certainly happen. Two points have been recommended. Firstly, we have to increase the awareness of the security equipments used during the demonstrations and follow up the technologies happening to these equipments throughout academic conferences and workshops. Secondly, there should be a jurisprudence regarding security equipments and put their own legitimacy through scholars specializing in religion.