Comments on: Islam on good governance

By: abu-uzhur

abu-uzhur — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Aren’t you aware of the great welfare state created by Mahmud Ghaznavi ?

By: Mukesh

Mukesh — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:35:37 +0000

Too far from ground realities! Pure theory!

By: Aj

Aj — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:15:01 +0000

None has one because none follow the true sharia. Governance is bad due to rulers of Muslim countries ,it has nothing to do with ISLAM

By: Aj

Aj — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:13:05 +0000

Practice has been given by the example of Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH)

By: abbastoronto

abbastoronto — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:21:15 +0000

There are many models of governance in the world, but two have been the most popular since antiquity – Democracy, and the Republic.

Democracy is the rule of the few led by the most moneyed, the Demos, the 5% males over the 95% rest (women, plebs, helots, slaves). It stands for Law and Order, Laws made by the powerful.

The Republic is the rule of the Public, a government of the people, for the people, by the people, led by the most learned.

Both Athens and Mecca were ruled by the Demos. Where Socrates, the reformer of the West was mauled by his Demos, Mohammed AS, remains the first and only one in history to have trumped his Demos, the combined force of Big Business Umayyads, Bankers Banu Abbas, trade monopolist infidels, and Judahists and found the Secular Medinan Republic. Its constitution was the secular Covenant of Medina, that respected the rights of all irrespective of race, origin, social status.

The system Mohammed AS preached and then implemented in Medina was:

- Universality of God and man
- Individual Rights and Justice
- Emancipation of women from Housework and Childrearing
- Knowledge based Free Enterprise
- Meritocracy
- Peace
- Free Trade

Alas, within 25 years of his passing away all these gains had been lost with the inception of the theocratic Kaliphate and its morphing into Monarchy. Maudoodi has written a marvelous text on it. The Demos was back in power. It has not changed since.

By: abbastoronto

abbastoronto — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:53:29 +0000

Much of Islamic experience of the last 14 centuries is pretty well useless as Islam was trying to adapt itself desperately to societies with socio-economics more backward than what Islam had come for – the global border-less trading society.
The Kaliphate and the Monarchies were a step backward because of needless expansionist tendencies in Islam. Our Prophet had come to conquer hearts, not lands, and so with Islamic conquests Islam became a regressive force in history, impeding progress.

By: Adil Jadoon

Adil Jadoon — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:24:40 +0000

Are we going to wait for the politicians to realize their mortality or shall we take them to account at every opportunity?

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:09:38 +0000

If a nation teaches itself and the next generation about these basic concepts, if a nation really believes in Allah, His Messenger, and the Last Day, and if the nation is constant and perserveres, then you will see the RESULTS of the practice, inshAllah — which is the rise of fit rulers suitable for that nation.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:07:10 +0000

Assalamu alaikum
JazakAllah khayran (May Allah reward you) for this wonderful article. I really needed this reminder to myself. Allah allowed you to use many of the verses and basic concepts in an integrated manner, mashAllah.

By: studentessaysanddissertations

studentessaysanddissertations — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:58:44 +0000

The moment I read ‘the Holy Prophet (PBUH)’ I know that all objectivity and most sanity have been negated. Not everything was fine in the lifetime of Muhammad, and subsequent attempts to put this theory of good governance into practice have left the Islamic world in greater and greater trouble. Muslim countries are at the bottom of every heap. Please don’t pretend, like the Salafis, that all we have to do is go back to the glorious days of Muhammad and the salaf: you’ve had over 1400 years to show it works, and it’s worse now than it was at the beginning.