Global Intifada

One of the problem with Islamists is that they tend to reduce all of the Ummah’s problem into one of the implementation of certain legal injunctions and ignore that society has a variety of needs that must be fulfilled in order to be functioned or they become fixated on the fetish of fighting some foreign […]

“O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allah , even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for Allah can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or […]

When I say “Islamic” conception of justice, as opposed to Western, I’m referring to the formalized opinions of experts in Islamic theology. For Ahl us Sunnah waal Jam’ah, this would refer to the Atharis, as well as the two schools of Kalam compromised of the Asharis and the Maturidis. For Shiat ul-Ali, this would refer […]

The Prophet (sallahu alayhi wa sallam said “Allah will not snatch away knowledge abruptly from people, but rather He will snatch knowledge by removing scholars. This will happen to the extent that when no scholar remains, people will take ignorant leaders as their guides. These leaders will be asked and they will give opinions […]

“You are all sheperds and all responsible for your herds,” said the Prophet, God bless and grant him salvation. The following poetic depiction of a statesman (in the basit metre) is, therefore, quite apt:
Let your affairs be run by a man
Competent and artful in war,
Unpretentious in good times, unsubdued in adversity,
Who has learned the vicissitudes […]

There are four basic premises:
Firstly, we must scrutinize freedom itself. Even in Western law, freedom has never been construed as being an absolute right or concern of the state. In the presence of a compelling state interest, freedom can be infringed upon. Freedom is not an intrinsic good (i.e. a good in and of itself) […]

For the purposes of this discussion, there are three types of punishment in relation to criminal acts:
1. Qisas and diyat (crimes that require retaliation and blood money)
2. Hudud (crimes with a fixed punishment)
3. Ta’zirat (crimes where a punishment is determined by the discretion of the judge
Qisas and Diyat crimes
The criminal, if proven guilty, is punished […]