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**enfoires** · 07-09-2011, 01:26 PM

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1) Brother, Islam consists of its OWN RULING SYSTEM.
do you believe this?

By this do you mean that Islam has certain legal rulings which Muslims and their leaders are obligated to implement or that Islam advocates a specific governance system such as an absolute monarchy or a constitutional republic? Yes, I believe that there are certain legal rulings which Muslims are obligated to implement. I also believe that rulers have the ability to temporarily suspend certain hudood punishments if enforcing them would be a grave hardship on the community--something which has always been recognized as Islamically permissible (see Caliph Umar suspending the hudood of taking the hand of a thief when there was severe drought).

No, I don't believe that an absolute monarchy is inherently more Islamic than a constitutional republic that has a legislative branch that enforces the shariah.

2) Or do you believe that: 'Islam does NOT have its own ruling system'?
In which case Muslims can incorporate various systems which serve whichever purposes.

Muslims have incorporated various ruling systems throughout history and if you believe otherwise, you're living in a fairly tale land. Sultanates were different from caliphates; caliphates themselves often varied--from an absolute monarch to a constitutional monarch with an active parliament. And nowadays you have countries like Iran and Aceh province in Indonesia, both of which enforce the shariah while operating within the framework of a constitutional republic. From my own knowledge, the only consistent factor in all of them was that they had qadis oversee the judicial system.

And Allah

knows best.

07-09-2011, 01:26 PM	#24
enfoires Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 527 Senior Member	[QUOTE=Usama2;632942] 1) Brother, Islam consists of its OWN RULING SYSTEM. do you believe this? By this do you mean that Islam has certain legal rulings which Muslims and their leaders are obligated to implement or that Islam advocates a specific governance system such as an absolute monarchy or a constitutional republic? Yes, I believe that there are certain legal rulings which Muslims are obligated to implement. I also believe that rulers have the ability to temporarily suspend certain hudood punishments if enforcing them would be a grave hardship on the community--something which has always been recognized as Islamically permissible (see Caliph Umar suspending the hudood of taking the hand of a thief when there was severe drought). No, I don't believe that an absolute monarchy is inherently more Islamic than a constitutional republic that has a legislative branch that enforces the shariah. 2) Or do you believe that: 'Islam does NOT have its own ruling system'? In which case Muslims can incorporate various systems which serve whichever purposes. Muslims have incorporated various ruling systems throughout history and if you believe otherwise, you're living in a fairly tale land. Sultanates were different from caliphates; caliphates themselves often varied--from an absolute monarch to a constitutional monarch with an active parliament. And nowadays you have countries like Iran and Aceh province in Indonesia, both of which enforce the shariah while operating within the framework of a constitutional republic. From my own knowledge, the only consistent factor in all of them was that they had qadis oversee the judicial system. And Allah knows best.
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