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Allah forbids you
with regard to those who fight you not in faith nor drive you not out
of you homes from dealing with them kindly justly and gently, for
Allah loves those who are just. Allah only forbids you, with regard to
those who fight you for your faith, drive you out of your homes and
support others in driving you, from taking them as protectors."
(Al- Mutahanah 8-9)
The divine justice
manifests itself on the social level in its call for establishing a
humane free and open society where every religion, theology and
opinion can coexist. Compulsion is not part of this society which does
not protect itself by the police forces, does not feel threatened by
those who have a different religion, neither will harass them, deport
them, or assassinate them. This is because this society is based on
the religious belief and on the free willingness of everyone to
protect it. Therefore the boundaries of this society ore open to every
Muslim regardless of his sex, color, or origin and to every Non Muslim
who is not hostile to it, and the pagans have the right of asylum in
the Muslim country, and the Muslim state has to protect him and
finance him.
It is necessary,
for the success of a universal message, to have a free and open
society that welcomes those who have a different opinion or a
different religion to live in it in full security, because people can
never believe in the same Ideology even if it were revealed by God. As
a result those who live in a Muslim state, and who have a different
religion, or don't have any religion are not treated as enemies, and
are not boycott except if they start attacking other members of the
society, Muslims , or Non Muslims. The law allows cooperating with
them through the treaties and the contracts that are fully respected
by the Islam. The Islamic society is a universal society that can
satisfy the aspiration of the whole humanity. It is the society that
provides ultimate justice to its citizens regardless of their
religion, sex, color, and origins.
Islam did not only
call for judging among Muslims with justice and kindness, bit also to
judge justly among all the people in a universal society. In addition
to justice Islam requires kindness. Justice is a must in Islam even
with the enemy.
"And let not
the hatred of others make you depart from justice, be just that is
next to piety."
But what is
required with the citizens of the Muslim countries is more than
justice, it is kindness and compassion. The Islamic society is based
on justice, equity in the duties and in the
rights , and in the participation in the running
the public affairs on the basis of qualification.
The other category
applicable to Ahl-al Dhimma (non-Muslims who are Christians, Jews) and
Sabeans, Zoroastrians and those who choose to reside in a Muslim State
and owe loyalty to it
whether they were born init or coming from outside . These are
accorded the same rights as the Muslims.In fact, the law of the
penalty for alcoholic drinks is not applicable to non-Muslims. It is
the consensus of opinion among modern Muslims Scholars that
non-Muslims in the modern Islamic State can even criticize Islam
itself freely and praise their own religion.
What is not
permitted to Muslims or non-Muslims is resort to violence or
aggressively in resolving disputes or coercing others by compulsion to
believe or disbelieve in this or that. In the Qur'an, it is stated:
"Call unto the path of your Lord with wisdom and comely
preaching. Dialogue with them with the more comely
arguments." (Qur'an
16:25)
April
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May 2002
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