Root Islamic Education

Root IslamicEducation

Author: ShaykhAbdalqadir al-Murabit

Publisher: MadinahPress

ISBN: 9781874216056

Pages: 185pp

Price: RM50

Weight: 0.309kg

Islam is notand can never be, by definition, in crisis or need of revisionist change,Islam, Kitab wa Sunna, is immutable in all places until the end of time. It isitself critique and balance-principle against which all human ventures must bemeasured and themselves revised and changed.

The 'mizan' ofIslam adheres in every case, personal and social. At no time and in no place dothe moral and political limits become altered to suit the latest fantasies andambitions of men. Limits of human behaviour remain decreed by the revelationuntil the end of the human situation. This involves the delineation of kufr,shirk, and the hadd punishments, as well as hijra and jihad. The limits set ontrading transactions and monetary systems have been decreed. Just as warfarehas obligations, so too do commodity trading, coinage, marriage, sexual mores,and the maintenance of the public good. Thus, all ijtihad and all analogicalextension of these basic elements must derive from the basic Islamic model ofMadinah, during its phase when it functioned as the primary model for thefuture of mankind. The Madinah of the Salafi community was neither a primitivenor a formative society but a complete and blueprint pattern for Islamicsocieties from then on.