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Ruling with Quran Alone
By Ijaz Chaudry
SBO -
Submission.org
AM -
Al-Muzzammil
SBO - How did the
prophet Muhammed ruled during his life time? Did he make his own laws or his own
regulations?. Did he follow the Quran; contradict the Quran, made a new Quran?
Did he change the laws of God? Where are all these contradictions we see in the
Hadiths books coming from? It cannot be coming from our beloved prophet
Muhammed. To know this for a fact, read these verses from our Holy book, the
Quran.
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AM - It is a
misconception by many Muslims, including Submission.org that the world can be
ruled by Quran alone.
Quran is fully detailed
but not complete; the dictionary meaning of complete is;
having all the necessary
or appropriate parts.
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Indeed at the very basic
level we know Quran is not complete, because of the structure of the Quran,
where additions of words have to be added to the verses of the Quran to make
full sense. So when we incorporate the dictionary meaning of "complete" with the
structure of the Quran, it prevails that Quran is incomplete, because it does
not have all necessary parts to make it complete.
It might appear shocking
news to the believers who think that Quran is complete. For those guy's and
girls there is good news because (Quran 6:115) enlightens us that it is
complete in "truth and justice", and that is important to know.
Because there is only one religious book in the whole world which is totally
true and just and that is the Quran. Which makes it highly desired book, which
one can totally trust?
(Quran
6:114) Shall I seek other than GOD as a source of law when He has revealed to
you this book fully detailed? Those who received the scripture recognize that it
has been revealed from your Lord truthfully. You shall not harbour any doubt.
(Quran 6:115) The word
of your Lord is complete, in truth and justice. Nothing shall abrogate
His words. He is the Hearer, the Omniscient.
The highlighted words in
(Quran 6:115) says it all, that is whatever is in the Quran, is " ...complete in
truth and justice...". This is entirely different from the context of a
statement that Quran is totally and utterly complete. It is not!
So based on the fact
that Quran is not complete, Muhammad would have been involved in issuing
regulations and laws of the country based on the teachings of the Quran and
teachings of the outside world. This does not mean as your heading state "Ruling
with Quran Alone".
It would have been
similar to today's democratic ruling of the countries. Not all the laws are from
the Quran, but we tolerate that because it is based on the public consensus.
Similarly in Muhammad's time he would have had many denominations living in
Mecca, whom he had to cater for. He would have established the laws which would
have been acceptable to all!
There is a verse in the
Quran which puts this matter in its correct perspective;
(3:112)
they shall be humiliated whenever you encounter them unless they uphold GOD's
covenant as well as the people’s covenant. They have incurred wrath from
GOD and consequently they are committed to disgrace. This is because they
rejected GOD's revelations and killed the prophets unjustly. This is because
they disobeyed and transgressed.
The
reference above made to the phrase “the people’s covenant" is implying
belief in democracy. Please refer to the actual Arabic wording, it does not say
"peace covenant" it says "people’s covenant".
Conclusion:
There is no
such thing as Islamic constitution. Islam believes in first God’s law stated in
the Quran and second democracy or the constitution based on public opinion and
voting of the land where one lives. As long as democracy does not superimpose
God’s laws we should abide by it. Islam respects most of the human rights,
things like homosexuality can be tolerated in Islam based on the fact that Lot
lived most of his life with homosexuals without raging war upon them and
eventually God intervened. Similarly we should tolerate homosexuality and leave
it to God to be judge of them.