To fully understand what a Muslim means when he says that the Bible is corrupted, we must first understand what in his mind is the concept of uncorrupted revealed literature. Briefly stated, Muslims h...
Drawbacks in the Method of Teaching The method of teaching adopted in our religious institutions is the one in which students read the prescribed texts while the teacher listens. During the course of...
Today we hardly find schools of religious education of the calibre which we encounter in history. The high character which was the trade mark of our scholars has become a story of the past now. The in...
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...
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...
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...
Every society has an established set of virtues and vices and it takes conscious and unconscious measures at various levels to promote the virtues and eliminate the vices. Sometimes a society may face...
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...
At the moment the Muslim world, that stretches from Morocco to Indonesia, has two parallel systems of education. We have a system of religious education and a network of secular institutions besides i...
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...
They say that a Saljuq monarch one day assembled his royal aids and remarked: `We have an expanding domain. We are doing whatever is possible for the welfare of our subjects. But, we are aware that 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...
In order to regulate the working of a state, it is imperative that there be a set of rules and laws which its citizens must follow. Countries all over the world enact laws for the betterment of its pe...
The Need for Revelation Before explaining the relationship between Reason and Revelation, a logical starting point would be to affirm at the outset whether or not Revelation is an established need for...
If man is to be held accountable for his deeds, it is essential that he be free to do right and wrong, if all his actions are predestined then he should not be held responsible for any of them. The Qu...
