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| Retrospective : The Prophet and Power | |
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| "Full sails ahead" By Nadia Yassine
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| The Prophet (grace and peace upon him) died on June 8, 632 of the Christian era, shortly after the Pilgrimage of Farewell, during which he gave his last counsels to the community of the faithful. His ultimate prescriptions came to crown a long path that established a system of shûra (consultation). The Prophet (grace and peace upon him) instituted a new world order by going against the models of power known until then. The community was sovereign, and consultation was its mode of government under the auspices of Islamic Law. |
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| This Law is based on few main principles including faith in God, the achievement of equity on earth and continuous ijtihad in order to deal with contingencies in the absolute without ever failing to remember that God is the source of both. |
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| Spirituality for islam has always gone hand in hand with the struggle for human rights. A society based on laws that secured the rights of everyone was being born under the stupefied eyes of the Arabs, who could not manage to organize themselves in a community and who, over incredible trifles, would not hesitate to wage tribal wars over generations. |
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| Islam means submission to God, and therefore to the rules of His Creation. The essential mission of the Prophet (grace and peace upon him) is to teach us how to manage such submission in the best possible conditions, not always easy to assume in a hostile and treacherous world strewn with pitfalls. As islam advocates a state of perfect harmony with natural laws, whether those proper to the essence of being human or those having to do with human societies, the idea of the Islamic state was indeed present from the beginning for the Messenger (grace and peace upon him). |
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| Full Sails Ahead (avaible online at www.jspublishing.net) |
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