What is Democratic

The Democratic Islamic Welfare State is a socio-economic and political system that promotes and guarantees the individual and collective welfare, both material and spiritual of its people, through a blend of the mandates and commandments of the holy Quran and Sunnah. It’s socio-political, religious and economic matters develop into an applied form of divine statecraft. Justice — individual, social and institutional is the soul of the welfare. The society is kept in a constant state of equilibrium to ensure peace and tranquility through an inspired and motivated system of law and order. Some of the alien concepts that portray enormous material gains as the predominant measure of welfare and doling them out to the unemployed are only one quarter of the human ‘welfare.’ The other is the equitable distribution of the produced wealth among the entire population. The rest is the welfare of the spirit, tranquility of the soul and the peace of mind of the citizen. An overall environment created out of the amalgam of these factors enables the State to make broad-based progress in national and international affairs to find an honourable place for its people in the world community. The fact is that ‘welfare’ as defined above, has been denied to man as much in poverty as in plenty. It is Islam’s economic system, a divine dispensation that is sure to succeed where all other systems have failed because they do not explicitly make moral and ethical values the guiding principles of man’s economic behavior. A political system of Islamic character is an integration of all the subsystems covering economy, education, elections, administration, justice, defense, working of the parliament etc. giving shape to an Islamic Constitution. The holy Quran leaves no doubt about the un-Islamic character of a system based on simple majority vote, the one that we presently have under the western brand of secular and hypocritical parliamentary pattern. Islamic concept of democracy particular individual, as in a dictatorship, a group of people as in Pakistan where we have a handful enjoins to sift the views of the educated ones who are also men of’ taqwa,’ Further the authority to govern is entrusted to the nation as a whole and not to a of feudal families ruling the country  decades. In an Islamic democracy no one seeks power. The question is: “can the anti-Islamic democracy, the bedrock of our present Constitution, transform into a system of true democracy? Certainly it can. It will come by evolution or through revolution but more probably through enforcement at the hands of a leader who is in absolute command of the national affairs. Evolution is lethargic and revolution is destructive. Their end- results complicate situations further and do not guarantee much.