This article will discuss in brief the early immigration of Muslims into Britian 1 . It traces the contributing factors for such immigration and discusses the problems faced by early immigrants. It an...
[The Prophet, upon whom be peace, praised and glorified Allah, and then said:] 1 O people! Listen to what I say, as I do not know if I shall ever meet you at this place after this year. O people! Your...
An Islamic State is an ideological state. Keeping in view its specific ideology, its citizens can be classified into two categories: 1) Those who become its citizens after accepting its ideological ba...
On the one hand, the Islamic form of government is an aristocracy in that the individuals who comprise the government are elected on the basis of their piety and political acumen and, on the other han...
Religious Parties in or society can be classified into three categories on the basis of their aims and objectives. The first category comprises religious schools of thought which have organised themse...
1. The rulers should be the servants of the citizens of Pakistan and their doors should always remain open to the public; they should live among the masses and with the same standard of living. All th...
The invasion of Kabul by the Taliban has opened a whole new chapter in the life of the Afghan people. The modus operandi adopted by them for the implementation of Islam may be criticised vis-a-vis the...
In the history of human civilisation, there have remained only four ways for a particular ideology or movement to attain the position of political supremacy in a country: Firstly, the exponents of the...
There are only two categories of non-Muslims in an Islamic state: (i) Mu‘āhidīn, that is those who have come under an Islamic state on account of a treaty with it (ii) Dhimmiyyīn that is those who hav...
There are various flaws present in our executive and judiciary but debate on each and every one of them would require a series of articles. We will try to concentrate on a single flaw which is of such...
Investment from foreign sources has become something of a benchmark for evaluating a developing nation’s potential for economic growth and prosperity. Common wisdom holds that the more a country is ab...
It is but natural to entrust our matters to people who are highly qualified and competent in their respective fields. The doctors who cure our illness, the engineers who build our houses, the lawyers...
Anyone who has deeply observed our political system and has knowledge of its working principles and rules knows that its has become a political tradition in our country that when the representatives o...
This paper was presented at Harvard University (Mass., U S) by the writer on 14 January 1993 Context The issue of human rights has emerged as perhaps the most significant in international law over the...
If we reflect on the prevalent system of elections in our country, at least two glaring flaws can be pointed out in it: Firstly, under this system the voters of the country do not get full representat...
Anyone who is familiar with organisational affairs knows that the lesser the burden on a person and the smaller the area under his control the better is his performance. This is the reason that the or...
According to the Holy Quran, the basic principle of running an Islamic State is mutual consultation. Allah says: "Their affairs of state are run by their mutual consultation." (42:38) In accordance wi...
Whenever a state comes into existence in this world it is among its obligations to maintain peace within its territory, to negotiate all foreign threats, to defend its frontiers and to work for the we...
If it has been accepted that the Qur’ān and Sunnah will be the supreme law of the State and that all laws contrary to these will be obliterated, then the question arises that which interpretation of t...
This letter was written by the writer in response to an article in Newsweek on Bosnia: "So Much for the Vaunted `Safe' Areas" (24 July 1995). (Editor) Sir, In Mario Puzo's novel, "The Godfather", the...
