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2 Political System of Islam (A Micro Analysis)
including the government are derived from religion. 1 But
the government wa in no way superior to the other
institutions derived from the doctrines, nor was it in any
sense more secular. 2 The point is that Islamic theology
cannot accept the idea of tension between religion and
politics. Islam is at once a religion and a nation. 3 Thus,
Islam is a blending of various elements into one
harmonious whole; no one aspect of it can be isolated or
considered without reference to others.
The resurgence of Islam as a political force in world
affairs can be best explained by the fact that Islam
embraces within its legitimate sphere not only those acts
and performances to which the followers of many other
religions confine the application of the word “worship” but
also all aspects of lays down and prescribes the underlying
principles of international relationship, of the laws of war
and peace, of statecraft of social relationship and so on.
According to Islam the regulations of all aspects of
one’s ;ife in accordance with these principles is continuous
worship of God. As Professor C, Smith of Harvard
University put it: “Islam is a religion, and like other
religions, is transcendent, ineffable: no form can continue
or exhaust it, Like other religions it has been expressed in
many forms artistic, intellectual mystic, but more than
some others, social. In fact, Islam is characterized among
thr religions by the particular emphasis which it has from
the beginning given to the social order. The Prophet
Muhammad(P.B.U.H.) not only preached ethics, he also
organized a state. Indeed, Islamic history is calculated to
1. Henry Stegmen, “The State and the individual in Sunni Islam”,
Muslim World, vol 54 (1964), p. 14.
2. Ibid
3. Leornard Binder, The Ideological Revulution in the Middle East.
(New York: John WIlley and Sons. Inc., 1964), p. 51.