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4 Political System of Islam (A Micro Analysis)
But, at the risk of repeating a well know dictum, it may be
stated that Islam is not so much a set of dogmas and
rituals as a way of life, with its own distinctive social and
cultural order.
According to Islam, as “God is one and indivisible, so
is life and human personality. Each aspect of life is
inseparable from the other. Religions ans scholar are not
two autonomous categories: they represent two sides of
the same coin. Each and every act becomes related to
God and His Guidance. Every human activity is given a
transcendent dimension; it becomes sacred and
meaningful and goal oriented”. 1
The prophet Muhammad(P.B.U.H.) was not only a
spiritual guide but aso a heat of State, organized for the
first time in history of Islam in seventh century Arabia, He
was the organizer of a new socio-political order with all
that such a role implies. This type of figure who is, at once,
a spiritual being and leader of men has always been,
relatively speaking, rare in Christian West, especially in
modern times. Political life has become so divorced from
spiritual principles that to many people such a function
appears as an impossibility, in proof of which westerners
often point out the purely spiritual life of Christ, who said,
“my kingdom is not of this world”. 2
In Islam there is nthing comparable to the concept of
the western Christian world in relation to the doctrine of
“Two Swords”, the separation of politics and religion:
“Give unto Ceaser the things that are Ceaser’s and unto
God the things that are God’s”. Islam leaves no scope for
the compartmentalization or separation of human life
1. See Khurshid Admad’s Introduction to Abu Ala Maududi,
Towards Understanding to Islam.
(Leicester: The Islamic Foundation, 1970), p. 10.
2. Sayyed Hossein Nasr, Ideas and Realities of Islam.
(London: George Allen and Unwin, 198), p. 69.