QUR’AN – What it is ? ******************* “ The basic foundations of state according to Qur’an ************************************************************ As I have pointed out earlier, the most serious mistake that is often committed in understanding Qur’an is that most people think, it is a religious document – considering religion as an individual affair .It may be true ,but only to the extent to which Qur’an deals with the affairs of the individuals in an attempt to make them a worthy constituent of a society, based on the principles of righteousness. It is a document of governance, having universal applicability. Detached from the notion of the state, it is like a Constitution that has no specification of the country to which it belongs. In the words of Philip K. Hitti, ‘ The clerical or theological view favouring a providential interpretation of Islamic expansion , corresponding to the Old Testament interpretation of the Hebrew history and to the medieval philosophy of Christian history, has a faulty philological basis. The term Islam may be used in three senses; originally a religion, Islam later became a state , and finally a culture. Unlike Judaism and the old Buddhism, the religion of Islam proved as much of an aggressive and missionary religion as Christianity. Subsequently it built up a state.The Islam that conquered the northern regions was not the Islamic religion but the Islamic state….’ ” ( Philip K Hitti : History of Arabs- Tenth Edition, 1970- Macmillan Education Ltd. p.145 ) ( From my book ‘ Qur’an and Modern Jurisprudence’ by Mustafa Kamal Sherwani’. It can be seen at google under the same title ) Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL.D. Sherwani Nagar, Sitapur Road Lucknow, U.P. India sherwanimk@yahoo +91-9919777909
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