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8 Political System of Islam (A Micro Analysis)
Manifested in spiritual and ethical contention. As a sociopolitical
religious system, Islam incorporates both
temporal and spiritual affairs.
The nature of the political state and the spiritual state, of
political legitimacy, of ideology and doctrine, are not
conceptualized and analyzed distinctly, but are highly
interrelated in Islamic thought. TIn this book: “Political
System of Islam (A micro Analysis)”, the study id
divided into ten chapters. In the first chapter we shall
analyzes the legitimacy of the state of Islam. This starts
with an explanation that although the term of the state is
not found in the Qur’an and in Sunnah of the Prophet,
however, if we keep the modern concept of the state in
mind, we find that the Islamic state during the Rightly
Guided Caliphs and Omayyad periods carried the modern
concept of the state to its full meaning, both in political
theory and in mark of statehood according to modern
international law.
In the second chapter, our discussion will be focused
on the objectives of the state in Islam. The main
objectives of the state in Islam are to provide the political
framework for Muslims unity and cooperation as well as
evolving and developing that well-balanced system of
social justice as Iqbal said, the purpose of the state of
Islam is to take Islamic principles and endeavour to
realize them in a definite human organization in history.
The third chapter will discuss the legitimacy of
political authority in Islam. The focus of our discussion
here is that the source of political authority in Islam rests
on the Ummah. The Muslims as the vicegerent of God
have to elect some trustworthy man from among
themselves to administer the polity. The ruler is thus not
only responsible to God for his acts but also to the
members of the Ummah as well. This also makes it clear
that rule in Islam is hereditary.