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The Principles of Politics in Islam by Muhammad M. Al-Hudaibi

THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICS IN ISLAM

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Since the Islamic Shari’ah revealed by Allah (Exalted be He), judges applied its teachings with no need for prior approval from the rulers.

They fulfilled its injunctions without reference to those in power.

 A significant part of the Shari’ah tenets consists of rules and principles. Hence, judges would exert their intellectual energy to deduce rulings for individual sub-cases with no need to have general laws promulgated by the rulers.

Out of this Ijtihad (Personal Reasoning) and the views of scores of scholars who devoted their lives to the interpretation of the Qur’an and Sunnah and the provisions they contained, a massive wealth of jurisprudence developed which came to be known as Islamic Fiqh.

Of necessity and in view of the differences of cultures and characters, various schools and trends emerged each with its method of interpreting the texts, of extracting rules and verdicts from them, and of applying them using analogy with existing texts in case there is no specific text for the topic in question.

Most of these schools and trends adhered to the basic fundamentals and rules found in the Shari’ah texts (the Qur’an and Sunnah). In this way they managed to avoid extremism and irregularity.

This was the case in particular with what came to be known as the doctrine of the Sunnis. In fact, the differences that developed among these