This course is devoted to study the objectives of Islamic legislation, as knowing these objectives is an important requirement for understanding the religious texts and deriving rulings from them. However, the main objective of Islamic legislation is to satisfy the interests of the people and to protect them from the evils. Besides, there are other objectives of Islamic legislation, such as meeting mercy and justice, the restricted interest, and justifying the legal rulings by interest. Moreover, it covers the interests of the servants which are divided into three categories. 1. Al-Dharuriyyat, the necessities or the necessary interests. 2. Al-Hajiyyat, the utilitarian interests. 3. Al-Tahsiniyyat, the embellished or secondary interests. Thus, it studies the concept of these three types of interests, some of their examples, and the rulings legislated for meeting them. Besides, it concentrates on assessing the five issues the protection of which is considered as being the foundation of the interests of the people i.e. religion, human soul (life), mind, progeny and property. It sheds light also on several relevant subjects, such as the order of the legal rulings according to their objectives, commanding in Islamic Shari‘a comes only with the possible rulings, and the prohibition level differentiates according to the variety of the level of the harm which the unlawful deed causes.