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3. The Islamic ideology has all the elements and forces
that make it comprehensive and practicable, moderate and
flexible. Its Divine origin reveals only the fundamental and
inviolable principles, leaving a due scope for the human in-
telligence to work out details and make the necessary adap-
tation. In whatever way one looks at it, one can see that the
Islamic ideology i s composed of comprehensive practicable
and resourcefulprinciples.They are comprehensive because
they deal with all the major aspects of life; practicable be-
cause they have been put into practice and translated into re-
ality at one time or another; moderate because they do not
favor the individual capitalist or the proletariat; they are not
exclusively concerned with the mundane or with the spiritu-
al; they are confined neither to this world nor to the Future
life. They mark a middle way between all extremes and are a
guide to a moderate and stable life. Apart from these esta-
blished principles, there is a great deal of flexibility for
working out details suitable to various regions and ages.
This flexibility is a matter of fact, a necessity, because the
ideology is the work of God and in it, as in all of His work,
there i s a wide scope for the human mind and human trial.
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