Islamic State and Democracy

The principles of sovereignty of Allah Almighty and viceregency of man attached with the doctrine of consultation give to the Islamic political system a form of excellent democracy. The policy of sovereignty of Allah Almighty confirms the authority of divine law in a state of Islam. No leader or government can provide a command. It cannot legislate a law which is repugnant to any command of the Holy Quran and Sunnah of Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him). So, if someone is making any law or instruction against religious obligations like Namaz, Hajj, it will be not endorsed.

The ruler is compulsory to submit Islamic law as much as an ordinary inhabitant of the Islamic state. He is neither, in his official dimensions, above rule, nor he can disturb the religious and ethical code of Islam in his individual and public life. Consequently, the likelihood of a ruler becoming a dictator, a tyrant or a power-hungry man indulging in illegal performances, is excluded. The principle of viceregency of man is another strong setback to a leader who strives to harbour any dictatorial propensities. The principle of viceregency of man makes every person vicegerent or representative of Allah Almighty. According to it, viceregency or caliphate is not vested in any individual, family, tribe, race or class. Rather everyone is caliph and an equivalent contributor in the caliphal roles as a deputy or representative of Allah Almighty.

The doctrine of popular viceregency overcomes in an Islamic society where there is no space for the autocracy of any individual or group of individuals. The status of an individual who is elected or selected to run the matters of the government. All the citizens of the Islamic State who are, technically talking, caliphs of Allah Almighty, have allocated their caliphate to him, as a substance of administrative suitability, to administer Divine law for the general benefit of all. He is accountable and answerable to Allah Almighty for his actions on the one side and on the other side he is answerable to his fellow peoples who have entitled him by assigning their rights of Caliphate in his goodwill. Therefore, democratic government provides a complete freedom to all religious obligations. For Hajj, Islamic Pilgrimage Tour can be introduced for Muslims and they can freely move towards holy places.