I ‘When there are three on a journey they should appoint one of them their commander 1 .’ This tradition of the Holy Prophet spotlights the importance that Islam attaches to organized activity in huma...
Let us next analyze our political system 1 . The intellectuals of our society generally regard democracy as the ideal political system. A vast majority of our religious and political leaders, scholars...
Caliph Ali is one of the most famous sages of Islam. His turbulent era made it difficult for him to pay full attention to the affairs of State and administration. But his exceptionally discreet and sc...
Rights of A Citizen While explaining the implications of the verse ‘the affairs of state of the believers are run by their mutual consultation’ (42:35), we have already stated that only those who acce...
The Qualities of ool-Ul-Amr 1. Qur’ān has used the term ool-ul-amr for all those who are part of an Islamic Political System, whether they are the representatives of the Muslims in the parliament or t...
We continue our inquest 1 and next examine the shadows of influence cast by our religious parties. They can be classified into three categories on the basis of their aims and objectives. The first cat...
In several Muslim countries today, there is being witnessed, in one form or other, the phenomenon of Islamic Renaissance. Of the many features of this phenomenon there is one which may be called its h...
Majlis-i-Shūrā (The Rarliament) According to the Qur’ānic injunction amruhum shūrā bainahum (their affairs of state are run by their mutual consolation), the manner in which the Muslim public shall pa...
Principles of Consultation The word shuraa is nomen verbum (masdar) of the pattern fu’alaa and means ‘to consult.’ Due to the fact that it occurs as an inchoative (khabr) in the given verse 1 and is a...
The doctrine of vicegerency of man has, over the years, remained the basis of Muslim political thought. In this regard, some of our scholars have also coined the term of ‘popular vicegerency’ as again...
In the recent past a lot has been said about the Islamic political law as enunciated in the Qur’ān and Sunnah. Since our view about some of its clauses is different from the general view, we present h...
On July 3rd, the Italian translator of the infamous book ‘The Satanic Verses’, Ettore Capriol was stabbed in Milan. On July 11th, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the same work, was murder...
The Qur’ānic directive `The affairs of state of the believers should be run by their mutual consultation' has a very important corollory: In an Islamic state the task of interpreting the Qur’ān and Su...
In recent times, the law of Diyat as stated in our Fiqh has remained a subject of debate and discussion. One group of scholars insisted that a woman's Diyat is half a man's Diyat, while another group...
Most people would probably agree with us, that a revolution is the only way by which the supremacy of Islam can be achieved in our country. Unfortunately, its methodology has always remained a controv...
The efforts for the enforcement of Islam in our country, which have been continuing even before its creation, had two phases. In the first phase, the aim was to achieve the supremacy of the Shariah in...
