(PDF) The Islamic Society: The Sociological Perspective (4th Ed.)

M. Alashari/Mohammad M Rahman

In this sixth edition “Segregated Social System” has been discussed

in the “Work and Economy” section

THE ISLAMIC

SOCIETY

THE SOCIOLOGICAL

PERSPECTIVE

SIXTH EDITION

 
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Contents 
Sociology and The Social Perspective .....................................5 
Sociological Science and The Islamic Thinkers ....................5 
The Human Animal and The Society ...................................6 
Sociological Research ............................................................7 
The Study of Sociology and The Islamic Society ..................7 
The Sociological Variables ..................................................8 
The Unrecognized Variable: The Human Soul .....................9 
Summary ......................................................................... 12 
Culture ................................................................................ 13 
Defining Culture .............................................................. 13 
Is Islam Separate from Culture? ....................................... 14 
Postmodern Cultural Themes .......................................... 15 
How to Participate in Islamic Culture? ............................. 17 
The Entertainment Industry: An Effective Culturization Tool
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Socialization ........................................................................ 21 
Social Structure and Social Interaction ................................. 23 
Groups and Organizations................................................ 23 
Social Deviance, Crime and Control ..................................... 24 
The Sharia Law ................................................................ 24 
The Secular Socio-Legal Landscape .................................. 27 

 
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The Issue of Rape: Bias of Secular System ........................ 30 
Stratification: Social and Global ........................................... 33 
Race and Ethnicity ............................................................... 38 
Gender and Gender Inequality............................................. 40 
What is Gender? .............................................................. 41 
The Inequality of Sexes and Gender ................................. 43 
The Feminist Politics ........................................................ 51 
The Islamic Woman ......................................................... 55 
The Islamic Patriarchy ...................................................... 57 
Proofs of Patriarchy in Islam ........................................ 61 
Social Role Where Man is Preferred ............................. 63 
Aging and The Elderly .......................................................... 63 
Work and The Economy....................................................... 67 
History at Capitalism and Communism ............................ 67 
Beginnings of Modern Capitalism .................................... 68 
Nature of Modern Capitalism .......................................... 70 
Corporate Capitalism ....................................................... 71 
Why Secular Economic Systems Failed? ........................... 74 
Why Interest Based Scheme is Harmful? ...................... 75 
The Islamic Solution ......................................................... 77 
The Islamic Tax ............................................................ 79 
Segregation in Employment ............................................. 83 
Segregated Social System ................................................ 84 

 
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Leisure and Entertainment .................................................. 86 
Politics and Government ..................................................... 87 
What is Politics and Governance? .................................... 87 
Political Islam .................................................................. 88 
Islam Rejects Nationalism ................................................ 89 
The Concept of The Ummah ............................................ 93 
The Dark Beginnings of Secularism .................................. 95 
Why Democracy is Harmful? ............................................ 95 
Islamic Meritocracy ......................................................... 96 
The Family ........................................................................... 97 
What is The Family?......................................................... 97 
The Islamic Family ........................................................... 99 
Divorce and The Islamic Family ...................................... 102 
Islamic Polygamy ........................................................... 104 
The Islamic Wife ............................................................ 105 
Child Upbringing ............................................................ 106 
Family Violence ............................................................. 107 
The Gay and Lesbian Family? ......................................... 108 
The Orphans .................................................................. 108 
Child Marriage ............................................................... 109 
The Dowry ..................................................................... 112 
Education .......................................................................... 113 
Education: An Indoctrination System ............................. 113 

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The Islamic Education .................................................... 114

Gender Based Education ............................................ 116

Segregated Education System .................................... 117

Religion ............................................................................. 119

Health and Medicine ......................................................... 122

Population and Urbanization ............................................. 124

Is Population Increase Bad? ........................................... 124

The Malthusian Protocol and Global Population ............ 125

The Islamic Solution ....................................................... 127

Feminism, Neocolonialism and Muslim Demography ..... 127

Social Change and The Environment .................................. 128

Collective Behavior and Social Movements ........................ 132

The Achievement of Islamic Society ................................... 134

Reference .......................................................................... 136

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"...the word of Allah - that is the highest…" (Quran 9:40)

Sociology and The Social Perspective

Sociological Science and The Islamic Thinkers

Sociology shares boundaries with other social sciences and is

the study of human thought, behavior, social interaction and

social change on scientific and evolutionary basis. It is the

study of human and his society in various perspectives and

levels of existence. Many consider Ibn Khaldun as the father

of sociology (Dhaouadi). He discussed some of the core

principles of sociology such as group identity, economic and

technological factors affecting social changes and evolution

of social sophistication from primitive to developed states. He

proposed causality in social changes.

Many factors decide group identity such as race, ethnicity,

nationality and religion. For Islam it is the religion itself

consisting of the divine values which is supposed to hold the

Muslims together transcending their race, tribe, ethnicity and

nationality. That is why the Muslims have been named as the

Ummah and their political representatives as the Khaleefa on

earth.

Modern sociology has become more sophisticated but

nonetheless based on past principles and philosophy.

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Statistical and modern natural sciences had a huge impact on

contemporary sociology as it abled identification of more

social variables at greater depth and accuracy. It will be fair

to say modern sociology has based its scientific approach on

the basis of the scientific principles proposed by Ibn Haytham

the Muslim scientist, which consisted of a repeating cycle of

observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and the need for

independent verification (Tbakhi and Amr). In a holistic view

sociology or for that matter any sciences depend on

identification of relevant variables and its dynamism in

relation to each other.

We can say sociology thus studies many levels of human and

social problems that if only the individual man and the

society were taught how to think and act in the proper way

much of these problems would vanish. Islamic society is such

a society on correct thought and act based on Divine

guidance that such problems ought to be almost non-existent

in this society. This is also why Quran calls itself the guidance

of humanity.

The Human Animal and The Society

The first question needs to be asked why do we form society?

This cannot be an animal urge because like beasts we do not

live by our instincts. For example, we, like a dog, do not chase

a cat when we see it or like a cat chase a mouse when we see

it. So, there must be other reason or reasons why we form a

society even at the expense of potential conflict and chaos so

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much so that we have believed in the rule of law. A simple

answer may be its human nature or more precisely the

nature of the soul itself to gather together. Then again many

things are human nature, things which are crucial to societal

survival and continuity. We unlike beasts of the jungle can

coexist across different yet contradictory societies, whereas

beasts of the same species are fiercely protective of its

territories while we can share ours. Having assumed mankind

is a social creature we can say society refers to a group of

people who live in a defined territory and who share a

culture. Social truths may be sourced from personal

experience, media, a priori, tradition, pressure group and

expert opinion such as researchers. Social truths are not

necessarily natural truths because there will be always

exceptions and outliers.

Sociological Research

The Study of Sociology and The Islamic Society

All of sociological research is statistical which means

dependent on data collection and data analysis based on

some clearly identified social variables that can be quantified.

These variables are essential triggers of social changes at

various and at times complicated levels of social existence.

Sociological studies are not only done for sake of science and

intellectual pursuit but also for making real life policies which

can affect millions of people. Secular approach to sociology is

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a-posteriori that is sociological understanding and policies are

based after statistical studies whereas Islamic approach to

sociology is a-priori that is sociological understanding and

policies are based on a-priori principles of Quran and Sunnah.

Statistical studies of sociology in Islam are thus corroborative

to truths of Islam and/or to devise new policies for social

change in line with Quran and Sunnah, that means such

statistical studies are done to most effectively implement

Quran and Sunnah. It is never about overturning the guidance

of Quran nor contradict it. For example, this paper which has

used sociological science is being written to best implement

the Quran and Sunnah to realize the Islamic society and

criticize the secular society.

The Sociological Variables

The social change and sociological study stand on some

essential universal variables common to all human societies.

These are trends and norms, stratification, social pressure

and social influence, the individual person,

upbringing, outsider influence, individual, collective (species)

and environmental biology, collective and individual

psychology and the human soul. These variables exist and

drive social change in varying levels of interactions and

complexities. Sociologists and other social sciences try to

understand these and how these drive social change and

evolution.

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The Unrecognized Variable: The Human Soul

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Even though modern psychology and sociology will not

mention the human soul directly, but it has signs and

indications of its existence. The human species is too a

complicated being to function wholly based on biology and

chemistry as biological and biochemical processes are amoral

it could not possibly create the human conscience, the

human will, morality and ingenuity, even though biology and

biochemical processes can influence our psychology as we

will see later in gender studies. There are also other

indications of the existence of human soul. In his research

using introspection, Titchener and his students claimed to

have identified more than 40,000 sensations, including those

relating to vision, hearing, and taste. What other sensations

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The human soul according to Quran is the command of God. It is

an existential conscience, the awareness which realizes itself and

whose abode is the body. The soul kickstarts the body's biochemical

and electrochemical processes once the body becomes its abode

during pregnancy. Both inherent and dispositional biology and the

soul can affect each other depending on the sex of the species. The

human soul is the source of human will, emotions, intelligence,

feelings and also psychology while the body is just a tool, an

expressive channel. Both the agent and the tool need each other. The

self is a snapshot of soul's particular existence that's why human

selves sometimes differ from one another and sometimes they are in

similar.

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may we humans have and what is their source? This is

another indication of the mysterious human soul.

Perhaps many atheists will source everything to the human

brain that is our sensation, feeling, emotion, willpower,

intelligence, psychology etc. If brain is the ultimate source of

these why can’t we replicate these biochemical and

electrochemical processes in other animal brains? What’s so

special about human brain? Why we humans can be spiritual,

rational, literary and artist, just yet also tyrant, creative yet

also destructive while all other animals just respond to their

biological needs and survival instincts? What about artificial

intelligence? Will they be ever human by replication of our

brain activities? Humans have same sensory channels to

create perceptions, yet our perceptions can differ from each

other. If the brain and the greater body was the end and

ultimate destination, we would all perceive same. This

indicates we must have something beyond brain and body.

Also consider when we exercise free will, rationality and

creativity we are telling the brain what kinds of biochemical

and electrochemical processes should take place and not

brain doing these by its own decisions. So our awareness our

conscience the human soul is using the brain as a tool. The

answer to these gaps and confusions is the human soul. The

soul and body complement each other and when soul leaves

the body dies and its biochemical and electrochemical

processes cease.

Evolutionary scientists try to define humans and his

surroundings by historical analysis of the species. For

example, evolutionary psychologists say jealousy has survived

over time in men, but they fail to accurately say why such is

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so. Such human psychological features very likely be rooted

in the nature of human soul rather than primarily in biology,

culture or society even though these external aspects can

influence human psychology rather than create them a

new. Nevertheless, the evolutionary approach is important to

psychology because it provides logical explanations for how

we have many psychological characteristics.

Some psychologists believe that the human mind is a “black

box” into which stimuli are sent and from which responses

are received. That is the human mind is like a programmed

machine which gives output to input fed in it. These

psychologists rejected free will and attributed a system of

input and output to the whole human experience and society.

Islam rejects this as God gave us limited free will. Prediction

of human behavior to stimuli do not negate free will. Just

because some people may form a habit to something does

not mean they cannot exercise free will. After all, obedience

to God is a daily struggle against our base desires and

temptations, all those tempting stimuli that the godly reject

by will power. Our free will arises from our creational

disposition. Creational predisposition (Quran 17:84) is the

nature of human self on which you have been created and

allowed to evolve. You get the “human will” out of it. This

makes you will to act in mind and action. The choice is yours.

This disposition may be a collection of things such as our

DNA, our mind and aspects we have not yet

discovered. Humans do not know in totality what is their

creational predisposition. They only come to know through

passage of time, and even then, their knowledge of their own

disposition is short sighted. They do not know how they

would act in all possible existence. May be sometimes God

intervenes and rearranges this. Predisposition presents us

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with possibilities which we can choose. For example, a person

may see an opportunity and get ideas or desires which may

be different from another person in same opportunity.

The necessity of this discussion to support human soul arises

from the fact that the Quran, Sunnah and the Ahl Bayt has

addressed some specific nature of the human soul whether

universal or sex specific, on which actual functioning of the

Islamic policies, Islamic law and the Islamic society depend

on. So, Quran has implied some essential psychological

features of man (Rahman 2020) which been part of his

creation that is inherent in man. These emanate from the

laws of Quran and Sunnah because the Divine law is also a

response to how God created our soul, our biology and our

psychology so it is fair to ask about the psychological

perspective behind every law of Islam. The response of the

human soul to its inherent features will always be stronger

than response to culturally and socially engineered features.

Divine religion wants to preserve the inherent monotheistic

conscience, so the human soul is always a step closer to its

godly identity because servitude was the first feature of

human soul as in Quran 7:172.

Summary

So sociological research is statistical which is dependent on

data collection and data analysis based on some clearly

identified social variables of which human soul as an

influential variable plays a great role by defining the

individual human selves. The purpose of sociological research

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in an Islamic society is to know how best and effective to

implement the laws and goals of Quran and Sunnah.

Culture

Defining Culture

Culture refers to the symbols, language, beliefs, values, and

artifacts that are part of any society. These aspects tell us

that culture is something which is practiced everyday by the

people. It also clarifies that culture is the total non-biological

continuous or repeated aspect or praxis of an individual,

group or society. It thus includes all continuous or

repeated beliefs and actions and tools to attain such. The

source of a culture can be the individual himself, the specific

group of people, the society or it can be external such as

religion or an ideology.

One essential symbolic aspect of Islamic culture is the

clothing. While secular culture is very laxed about it Islamic

society must be very strict about it. The purpose of clothing is

mentioned in the verse 7:26 of Quran and that the

uniqueness of human species above other is evidenced here

by virtue of their sense of shame. Clothing can be both

physical and spiritual and both kinds cover your shame

whether physical shame of your actions. The spiritual clothing

is clothing of piety which covers your beliefs and actions from

sins. The objective of clothing is to suppress temptation and

lust which Satan wants to immerse us in, resulting in sexual

hedonism, which ultimately results in godlessness and human

self-destruction, as humanity indulges in self-satisfaction

through predatory hedonism at any cost. Islamic society thus

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must enforce the law of Hijab/veil/cover for women whether

Muslim or non-Muslim alike and descent clothing for men.

Is Islam Separate from Culture?

Some people say Islam and culture are separate. However,

Islam itself is a culture because culture as it has been defined

is culture irrespective of it’s source in the Divine or the

secular. So Islamic culture refers to the symbols such as

Islamic greetings, Sunnah dress, language such as Quranic

Arabic, beliefs and norms such as those validated,

encouraged, discouraged by Quran, values such as hukm

Shar’I or Islamic legal rulings, and artifacts such as design of

mosques, Muslim houses or other Muslim architecture etc.

that are rooted or sourced from the Quran, the Sunnah and

those pious ancestors who preferred Islam over their races

and ethnicities. The difference between Islamic culture and

secular is the former always return to Quran, Sunnah and the

Ahl Bayt while the later to race and ethnicity that is the

people create their world view and not God.

It is obvious that culture is a critical component of any

society. By the term share we can assume there is always a

dominant culture existing with other marginal cultures

surrounding it. Today’s dominant culture is western

liberalism, a result of colonialism, and more precisely

American imperial liberalism with a focus on individualism,

competition and financial greed. As post modernity evolved

on unchecked liberalism various cultural trends and praxis

have emerged today such as influencers, bandwagon, egoism,

worth, survival and sex.

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Postmodern Cultural Themes

The culture of influence has become a fashion by the advent

of the social media. Everyone wants more followers, more

likes and more publicity irrespective of how or to what he or

she influences and without the consequences. Islam rejects

this blind recruitment of followers for personal image and

impression as this is considered arrogance and self-praise. It

is blinding to one’s worthlessness, humility and repentance.

One’s influence in the Islamic society must be based on

acceptable means and acceptable purpose: how one

influences and to what end? By this Islam aims to preserve

ordered social evolution.

The modern man loves to be on the bandwagon because that

validates his existence and experience of societal and

individual existence irrespective of how rational and justified

the trend is. Muslims today are blindly following trends and

shockingly many trying to justify this by twisting the holy

Book and the Sunnah. This has become so entrenched in

Muslim societies that many deviant trends has been

absorbed whether such is affecting the society at large or

some segment of society. Feminism is one such trend which

many Muslim societies have accepted blindly. Another trend

is the culture of social media nudity by Muslim women

justifying this yet also by the feminist concept of “right over

my body” and misinterpretation of Islam by the slogan “Allah

is my judge”. This psychological submission to the

bandwagon is what confuses Muslims about Islamisation

because they are not used to the values of Islam but with the

trend and they think Islamisation is something unethical. The

Islamic society must remember Quran 5:100. The existence of

evil trends must be hated, resisted and fought in the name

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and presence of God

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. This hurdle buried deep in our

conscience must be erased by faith and determination

assisted by philosophical and theological understanding of

Islamic values in Quran and sunnah and ongoing jihad to

achieve the changes. This is achieved by many social agents

as will be discussed in later sections.

The culture of egoism which prefers the “me” over the rest at

any cost is a hallmark of secular society and is designed to

create Darwinian personality, which is imposive,

assertive, violently aggressive, rebellious, self-preserving at

any cost, apathetic and materialistic. The moral design is

ethically egoistic and focusing primarily on material

productivity rather than spiritual and moral excellence, two

pillars of an effective and sympathetic Islamic society.

We now have a culture of free sex. It was not like this even in

the west not long ago. When the magazine Playboy came out

it was really controversial and debated but now it is

considered tame compared to what else is available online

and offline. All boundaries of sex are being broken and

marriage has become disgusting and resentful as it has

become the belief that it brings all that is troublesome and

bad. In this “free for all sex” existence the looks and style are

most preferred, and values are ignored and laughed at. The

modern society glamorizes female body and see no wrong in

taking pleasure from admiring and lusting the tempting body.

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Even though this may seem bias or some medieval rhetoric, but we

will see in the section on religion that God and Islam plays a very

persuasive pragmatic role in the lives of the people of Islamic

society and Islamic community. God and Islam have been

inspiration and force of change against empires.

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Love whether emotional or sexual is no more bonded

through the sanctity of marriage. It’s open season in human

mating. Matrimonial bond which preserves and demands

loyalty devotion and fatherhood and motherhood are seen as

meek and the old way whereas feminist glamor and

celebritism, girlfriends and lack of chastity are seen as worth

of a male and female. So today we have a culture of

increasing perversion with an increasing carnality including

rape, thus it is fair to say culture of nudity has increased rape

and sexual violence. Many of these aspects will be further

discussed in the relevant sections.

Islamic society rejects these new cultural trends brought

about by unchecked liberalism. Islam proposes a life based on

rules and measured consequences resulting from disciplined

actions. In Islam there is no pleasure higher than seeking the

pleasure of God. An example of such a life is the life of the

Muslim woman, which is built on chastity, sympathy,

intelligence and wisdom, piety, loyalty and devotion to

husband and guidance to the children.

How to Participate in Islamic Culture?

Islamic culture must not echo nationalism, racism, tribalism

or ethnic zeal or fervor but remind us of our Islamic

brotherhood, equity towards mankind in general, resistance

against tyranny and tyrants and the practice and devotion to

knowledge because the whole religion of Islam is color from

God, of which a crucial aspect of this color is Islamic identity

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culture. However Islamic identity culture has been eroded by

western identity culture due to colonialism. This means

western identity culture and not technology or knowledge

because these are universal to human heritage. Modern

western civilization has been founded on Islamic golden age

and it’s contributions so we definitely must not take

knowledge as part of making a culture. The crucial thing to

consider is when are Muslims accepting an identity culture

based on Shariah law. When it comes to forbidden things of

another identity culture it is clear Muslims must abandon

them such as Halloween, Christmas celebration, Valentine

day, Feminism, sex out of wedlock, alcohol, gambling etc.

However, when something is permitted from another identity

culture then to what extent Muslims must accept them? Will

it be ok to replace a permissible aspect of another culture

with something of Islamic culture? For example, during

Ramadan it is a recommended Sunnah to eat dates but can

Muslims in west for example replace this Sunnah with a Irish

breakfast or English supper given everything in them are

permissible? Are we allowed to erode Islamic culture by

another foreign permissible identity culture? Here for

example once Muslims were proud to wear turban and robe

as a symbol of Prophetic Sunnah but now, we have replaced

them with suites, trousers and ties. Islamic republic of Iran

has officially tried to resist this identity culture by banning

the tie. Examples like these are many where Muslims have

been overwhelmed by foreign identity culture whether such

culture is forbidden such as governance by secular laws or

permissible such as the simple example of English breakfast.

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Irrespective of the demography Muslims must adhere to

Islamic culture and then their respective local culture filtered

through Islam. Islamic culture can be identified by normative

model where an identity culture has been prescribed by

Islamic texts such as governance by Shariah law or the simple

case of eating date during Ramadan or filter model where a

foreign identity culture is filtered through Islam. Either the

filter will render it forbidden or permissible. When it is

permissible, we must be sure that it does not erode an

established normative Islamic culture so occasional

adherence is ok without it being a pattern and norm.

Sometimes we may have a foreign identity culture which may

have no equivalence it replacement in Islam and in this

moment, we must look into it’s purpose, significance and

consequence before accepting it or rejecting it as a practice

for Muslims. The important thing is Muslims should prioritize

Islamic normative identity culture and create new based on

Islam and if a foreign identity culture is permissible by

Shariah then such needs to be practiced/participated

minimally that is the practice of this culture should not

overwhelm “Muslim following and admiration” of that

foreign identity culture as a whole and increasingly.

Observation of culture is different from admiration of it,

remember. Learning a culture to understand it and making

such understanding a tool to empower Islamic Ummah must

not violate Islamic laws. You do not have to behave and pray

like a Hindu to understand some aspects of Hindu culture.

You can observe them or read about them to know their

culture, so minimal participation is sought whenever possible.

So, Muslim must understand when he is learning a culture or

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when he is participating in it. This difference between

observation and admiration comes from the fact that not all

cultures emanate and manifest the glory and values of the

Divine True God. The Muslim mind must not debase itself by

admiration of other cultures which seldom emanate and

manifest the values of the True God and His religion Islam.

The Entertainment Industry: An Effective

Culturization Tool

People are affected by movies and the TV. Some may say it’s

just movies but unless and until the outsiders have really

experienced the culture and experiences of the place where

movies come from, they would not be able to know what

reality is and what is just acting. The western entertainment

industry which creates suspense, joy and other intense

emotions in the social man has created a global perception

due to successful glamorization and sensationalism. This

however fails to portray the real perspective about western

culture and society, for example the brutality and violent

ghetto culture which Hollywood so glamorizes is utterly dark

and savage and leaves no joy for a helpless weak social man

amidst them. The Islamic society failed to counter this

western entertainment and as such Muslims have been lost

in unIslamic world view and lifestyle. The Muslim

governments have failed to counter this because a) They are

ignorant and doesn't envision the significance of adopting

Islamic entertainment. B) They are afraid that empowering

and glamorizing Islamic society, culture, literature and history

through entertainment will awaken Islamic zeal when they

will lose their corrupt power and control. C) They are afraid

that Muslims by inclining to Islam will lose competitive edge

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with west. All these are refuted because success of Islamic

revolution of Iran proves them wrong and entertainment like

Ertugul from Turkey or children of heaven from Iran prove

that Muslim entertainment industry has huge potential to

challenge Hollywood but the Muslim governments failed to

promote and spread Islamic entertainment through social

change and culturization among Muslim counties.

Socialization

Socialization is the term sociologists use to describe the

process by which people learn a culture. There are various

agents and instruments by how this is achieved. Some

essential agents are family, school, media, peer and friends,

religious organization. Some essential instruments are

various products and services with a cultural inclination,

models of cultural participation such as types of clothing,

tone and style of communication, language, various activities

personal and collective etc. Socialization helps discover one’s

self identity as an individual and as member of the collective

he or she belongs to. The agents and instruments in the

Islamic society is guided and encompassed by the far-

reaching hold of Shariah law and Islamic institutions of

indoctrination such as education, mosque etc. Social

interaction makes socialization possible and such interaction

is modelled after the active dominant culture of the society.

The most important period of socialization process is

childhood and the most important agent in this process is the

mother, and role is motherhood who is a female. Career

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seeking women derail this socialization process for children

and hamper the growth and realization of their self-identity

and creating friction in the parental bonds. The children

become detached from an early stage of life and become

more vulnerable to take part in social deviance. Family as a

primary group if damaged in a social relational way has deep

and long-lasting impact on the members of the family and the

society at large. Individualist ideologies such as feminism can

weaken this primary group through erosion and destruction

of gender-based roles as Islam proposed in Quran 4:34 and

erosion of emotional attachments.

When the family becomes detached and distanced the

individual members create a different primary group. For

example a distanced husband may seek a new female partner

for emotional and biological support, the son or daughter

may seek primary groups in friends and hang with them most

of the time, the wife may also seek a new man, and children

may become isolated and find primary group in fantasy and

imaginations through books and digital world. Those who fail

to seek a primary group end up in suicide and many turns to

God and find a new meaning of life in God.

The Islamic society was first established during the Prophetic

era and it had its ups and downs until colonialism totally

ruined it. To revive the Islamic society we need to initiate the

resocialization process which involves far-reaching changes in

an individual’s and society’s values, beliefs, and behavior

through total institutions.

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Social Structure and Social Interaction

The major components of social structure are statuses, roles,

social networks, groups and organizations, social institutions,

and the society itself. Social reality is to a large extent socially

constructed. It is what we make of it, and individuals who

interact help construct the reality of the situation in which

they interact. Refer to this process as the social construction

of structural reality. Islamisation is a social construction

process of social reality too through the socialization process

based on Quran and Sunnah.

Remember that socialization happens through many agents

through social interaction and that the family and mother are

the most important socialization agents. The Islamic mother

thus must give years of focused attention to this socialization

process and interaction with her children to grow Islamic

“god conscience” children for Islamic ummah. It is thus of

utmost importance that the Islamic mother prioritizes future

of the Ummah and Islamic society over her career growth.

Groups and Organizations

Organizations can be normative such as laying down moral

guidelines, coercive such as military, utilitarian such as

universities or hybrid such the family unit. Islam establishes

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the family as the primary group with a patriarchal construct

with husband as the head. The Islamic primary group is

rooted in sakeena, piety and rules of Sharia which enhance

bond and emotional attachments. One of the important

feature of shariah based primary group is exercising balanced

emotion that is logic, reason and equity must be kept in sight

and emotion should not derail these. People who make

political, tribal or racial basis for primary group often

prioritize group emotion over equity and reason such as

Zionists or white supremacists or members of joint family

where honor killing and forced marriages are morally

acceptable.

Impartial social organizations are generally rooted in

governance and this is true for Islamic society more than any

other types of society. Islam considers the Islamic

government as the shepherd for it’s flock the society.

Therefore, based on Quran, Sunnah and historical evidence of

Islamic rule it’s bureaucracy has several defining

characteristics, including specialization, hierarchy, written

rules and regulations, impartiality and impersonality, and

record keeping.

Social Deviance, Crime and Control

The Sharia Law

Social control refers to ways in which a society tries to

prevent and sanction behaviors that violates established

norms. We fear risking the negative reactions of other people

if we violate formal or informal social norms. Social norms

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can be also contextual such as soldier killing in war may be

considered hero unlike killing in peace time. Islamic society

achieves social control and social norms through the

governance of political Islam and Shariah law. Islamic law has

universal jurisdiction over the Islamic society which means

even non-Muslims are also obligated to follow it in the non-

faith-based aspects of the law. Non-Muslims can follow their

religious laws among themselves as long as it doesn't impede

Islamic administration of law and governance or contradicts

public interest determined by Islamic law. In west the legal

system is monolithic. Such an Islamic multi legal system will

have conflicts and all will be settled in Islamic court which

also will consider the non-Islamic religious laws for non-

Muslims. Think of it as Islamic law and minority law like

federal law and state law. A reference to administer this multi

legal system can be such: Muslim to Muslim is Islamic law,

Muslim to non-Muslim is Islamic law and non-Muslim to non-

Muslim their law agreed by them and allowed by Islamic

judiciary. These Islamic laws are to be monitored,

implemented and managed by Islamic government.

Understand that Islamic law, legal system and governance are

based on Quran and Sunnah and these works synergistically

as a collective whole. They provide the theoretical and

functional details. However, implementation details and it's

efficacy will depend on the human capital serving Islam and

the type of country the Islamic government inherits or attains

the authority of. Islam will work as much as people serving it

make it work. Ignorant people will make Islam work lesser

than intelligent pious people. In comparison ignorant people

will make Islam fail and make it impotent.

Islam will change the upbringing of people and their cultural

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existence towards a divinely just, humane and ethical one.

Islamic laws are designed by God in response to human

psychology, and by design its activity in society will achieve

these changes. Islam aims to change the people in general by

changing their upbringing and cultural existence. This change

will be collaborative and productive for other changes that

Islam will make in political, economic and social levels.

With these changes for example some of the harsh Islamic

laws will act as great deterrence to crimes. Now deterrence

does not work if punishments are not publicized rather

implemented in isolation and secret. Today we can use digital

media to publicize thee punishments and instill fear and

sense into people. The model of legal system will not be to

send sane adult criminals to rehabilitation but to the gallows

that is punishment. We don't change the mindset of criminals

once they commit crimes but we change it in their upbringing

and cultural existence because performance of crimes beget

justice not mercy. Islamic punishments should be publicized,

or else deterrence will not work.

The Purpose and Message of Sharia Law

1. Proposes resistance against tyranny, persecution and

exploitation

2. Proposes equity and fair play in economy and interest

free economic system

3. Establishes Morality and charity

4. Proposes defense of honor, property and lives

5. Proposes Humility and mercy

6. Proposes rational freedom

7. Proposes accountability and transparency

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8. Proposes justice irrespective of class, race, gender or

power

9. Proposes defensive war

10. Proposes harsh deterring criminal legal system

The Secular Socio-Legal Landscape

Secular system has resulted gradually a very rotten form of

humanity with major features which are destructive for

human survival and societal coexistence. In west even though

some western countries are based on the rule of law have

failed morally because rule of law does not necessarily

preserve moral structure of the nation. In many developed

“rule of law” based western countries violent crimes, apathy,

xenophobia, racism, exploitative foreign policies, economic

injustice, falling population etc. are on the rise with also

harmful lifestyle, sexual perversions, disdain for marriage,

monogamy or polygamy, free sex trends, normalization of

extreme violence (gore) etc. are widespread (Rahman 2020).

For example there is a correlation between increasing nudity

since the 1950s and increasing rape culture and we see that

research indicates that up to one-third of U.S. women will

experience a rape or sexual assault, including attempts, at

least once in their lives (Barkan, 2012). The researchers,

Melanie Randall and Lori Haskell (1995, p. 22), concluded that

“it is more common than not for a woman to have an

experience of sexual assault during their lifetime. About 20%–

30% of women students in anonymous surveys report being

raped or sexually assaulted (including attempts), usually by a

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male student they knew beforehand” (Fisher, Cullen, &

Turner, 2000; Gross, Winslett, Roberts, & Gohm, 2006).

The rape perception by victims in secular feminist and Islamic

society is different. In the former the victim realizes violation

of her prejudice and ego by the male gender and a feeling she

has been dominated while in Islamic society the victim

perceives violation of her chastity and dignity, her purity and

her feminine worth as a woman of God. The socialization of

Islamic society imbues this gender conscience because the

woman of Islamic society preserves her chastity because it is

the right thing to do while in a feminist society chastity is not

trendy rather the preservation of woman's position as a

prestigious dominating gender is the right thing to do. So a

feminist society is competitive with the male gender,

assertive and arrogant.

Many theories suggest crimes and social deviance arise from

biological, psychological and social reasons such as what kind

of ideologies and morals the society accepted, social

inequities and social injustice etc. For example, serial killers

may often commit crimes out of hobby and fantasy. Rapists

may commit rape as a response to the provocative nude

feminine physique as the stimuli. Well established businesses

and corporations may commit crimes, injustice and

exploitation in the name of competition, individualism and

success. Social economic, racial, ethnic inequities may lead to

strain or frustration which leads to crimes and violence

whether against the society or oneself. These are some of the

social reasons based on some ideological foundations

affecting individual and collective psychology. So it can be

agreed that definitely a person’s worldview, moral perception

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and the social system affects how one approaches crime and

social deviance. For example, why the pious religious

companions and Prophets of the past didn't commit crime

even though they were in suffering, poverty and hardships?

Rather they took the path of resistance against tyranny to

change the social system and their personal selves?

In order to understand this, we must understand the basics

of the human mind. Human mind is like a memory with a

processing unit which runs program it installs. These

programs are ideological unit or worldviews which shape and

guide human thought and activities. Secularism is an idea of

human individualism where man is the center of his own

world. It is a license to human transgressions. Whatever right

and wrong that human already has left with him has been

due to human social evolution through the guidance of Islam

with its various versions over history. Even this is evaporating

in the Frankenstein morality being created by secularism. A

society which is not tied with God and does not know a

higher authority is destined to be doomed morally,

demographically and socially. We saw how atheistic

Darwinism during colonialism was used to commit the most

horrible atrocities against the natives and colonies. It is for

this ideological, psychological and social system that some

people take the path of crime and enhance It while some

take the path to change evil for collective good. So social

deviance has a hybrid multi-layered trigger. Islam proposes

both a preventive measure and punishment measure for

crimes and social deviance as discussed previously.

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The Issue of Rape: Bias of Secular System

Today if a woman cries of rape the legal system believes her

and punishes the alleged rapist even by slightest hint of

circumstantial evidence. This is yet also another damage

done by feminism. Let’s give an example. In 1984 Jennifer

Thompson was a 22-year-old college student in North

Carolina. One night a man broke into her apartment, put a

knife to her throat, and raped her. According to her own

account, Ms. Thompson studied her rapist throughout the

incident with great determination to memorize his face. She

said:

“I studied every single detail on the rapist’s face. I looked at

his hairline; I looked for scars, for tattoos, for anything that

would help me identify him. When and if I survived. “

Ms. Thompson went to the police that same day to create a

sketch of her attacker, relying on what she believed was her

detailed memory. Several days later, the police constructed a

photographic lineup. Thompson identified Ronald Cotton as

the rapist, and she later testified against him at trial. She was

positive it was him, with no doubt in her mind.

“I was sure. I knew it. I had picked the right guy, and he was

going to go to jail. If there was the possibility of a death

sentence, I wanted him to die. I wanted to flip the switch.”

As positive as she was, it turned out that Jennifer Thompson

was wrong. But it was not until after Mr. Cotton had served

11 years in prison for a crime he did not commit that

conclusive DNA evidence indicated that Bobby Poole was the

actual rapist, and Cotton was released from jail. Jennifer

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Thompson’s memory had failed her, resulting in a substantial

injustice.

Jennifer Thompson is not the only person to have been

fooled by her memory of events. Over the past 10 years,

almost 400 people have been released from prison when

DNA evidence confirmed that they could not have committed

the crime for which they had been convicted. (Wells, Memon,

& Penrod, 2006)

Now let us discuss whether the rape victim be also held

responsible for incitement and sexual provocation. Then let’s

discuss the proper way of punishing issues related to alleged

rapes. Men and women are sexually different both in build

and responses. The law of God i.e. Hijab is a perfect measure

and a preventive reductive mean of sexually related crimes,

and men being able to control themselves better. Also from

the fact that men are different in their overtly direct sexual

approach to women, which sometimes, they can full fill even

by aggressive and violent means, it is fair to say that both

men and women have responsibility to God and society to

not harass each other mentally and physically. So, both must

be legally responsible as to the consequence of rape and

sexual incitement.

To minimize and even stop sexual harassment and rape we

must implement a system of segregation in the Islamic

society. However even if sexual harassment or rape happens

after this then we must investigate on the basis of Shariah

law and not some sentimental bias towards a woman. The

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standard of establishing crime in Islam is high. Witness and

their credibility are scrutinized and then either accepted or

rejected. The whole legal process of Islam has a separate

study called ilm Al-Qada or the knowledge of judgement. In

other verses we will see in some contexts women’s witnesses

are lesser than men’s and this is, as discussed previously, due

to their psychology and biology. So, women need a greater

number of their gender witnesses in certain circumstances to

reduce probability of error.

What happens when a rape has no witness except the

woman herself as the example above? Quran 24:6-9

establishes a principle regarding this and leaves it largely as a

spiritual punishment. So, a rape cannot be established except

by witnesses whether digital or human. In fact, a digital video

may become a human witness by direct observation of the

event by four just male witnesses as women are vulnerable to

error and mistakes. What about forensics? Forensics cannot

prove rape but that an act of sexual intercourse has taken

place which might have been consensual. As punishment for

rape which is also adultery from one party can demand harsh

punishment it cannot be carried out except by high standard

of proof such as multiple witnesses. Understand also that

rape is a violent act and while this takes place other crimes

will take place such as violence, break-ins, robbery, beatings,

any other harms so these can be tried under the law of hiraba

and one may not always need to establish four witnesses.

Other forms of Islamic evidence will be then considered

resulting even in similar punishments in severity. If, however

forensics determine some sexual acts then the Islamic court

must investigate legality of these. For example, if a child is

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found to be sexually violated and she has no husband then

the responsibility will fall on her guardians. So, establishing

rape is not always needed in sexual crimes rather

establishment of culpable responsibility.

Stratification: Social and Global

Historically, based on a dominant culture society existed as

an "identity for a group" and historically such a group has

been in any of the hunting-and-gathering, horticultural,

pastoral, agricultural, industrial, and postindustrial types and

slowly heading to an artificial intelligence type possibly

resulting in a technological singularity (Rahman 2020 ) which

may revert us back to the most primitive of types. Once

society was formed so did stratification of people. Social

stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people

into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth,

income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social

status, or derived power. The major systems of stratification

have been slavery, estate systems, caste systems, and class

systems. Some Western European nations are not classless

but still have much less economic inequality than class

societies such as the United States. The common theme in

these systems have been the powerful owning the weak

without accountability, by iniquity and injustice. Today's most

common stratification system is the class system based on

prestige, power and wealth.

Islam supports the class system but based on equity, justice,

duty and responsibility in the class system. The class system is

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a divine design to test humanity. So Islamic society doesn't

aim to eradicate social inequality but rather social iniquity.

There will always be social inequalities such as rich and poor,

knowledgeable and the ignorant, educated and the

uneducated etc. Islam has thus established general and social

“role specific” rights and duties to remove social inequities

which are extensive and many. Sometimes equality can be

equity, but equality can also be iniquity.

Some people will exploit the class system as is the historical

and current reality and which was the trigger for Marxism

and Marxist thought. Why did Marx called religion the

“opiate of the masses?” He based his understanding on

Christianity and by this he meant that religious beliefs

influence the poor to feel that their fate in life is God’s will or

a test of their belief in God. If they hold such beliefs, they will

neither blame their poverty on the rich nor rebel against

them. Religious beliefs help create false consciousness. But if

Marx knew the Jihad of Imam Hussein his perception of

religion would be totally different. Quran recognized the

possibility of class oppression and class exploitation in many

verses. So definitely Islam is not an opiate but an

emancipator from tyranny and exploitation.

Why does class exist? There are natural reasons such as brain

power, physical power etc. and there are man-made reasons

such as exploitation, discrimination based on race, class,

background, religion, gender, language etc. Also based on a

materialistic secular metrics social class system has created a

grading perception for job roles. Some average prestige

scores for various occupations in US: physician, 86; college

professor, 74; elementary school teacher, 64; letter carrier,

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47; garbage collector, 28; and janitor, 22. Islamic social

stratification does not ascribe prestige based on job roles but

on piety and moral standards. The Islamic society aims to

eradicate envious and/or apathetic looking down on people

based on their lawful income. This perception creates a cycle

of reluctance and rejection against the poor due to which

they or their relatives and descendants are impeded to rise

up the social class. Equal opportunities or rather equitable

opportunities are not given to them. For example, in America

the capitalists blame the poor for being poor and in poverty.

This has led to socialism being rejected by the Americans thus

prolonging and increasing poverty as poor feel rejected and

neglected, they feel unmotivated and discouraged.

Then there is global stratification. Global stratification refers

to the unequal distribution of wealth, power, prestige,

resources, and influence among the world’s nations such as

that happens in developed capitalist nations where wealth is

hoarded and not distributed to the people and the less

developed nations who sell their resources yet not spend in

the people. If the world were one nation, its median annual

income (at which half of the world’s population is below this

income and half is above it) would be only $1,700 (data from

2000). The richest fifth of the world’s population would have

three-fourths of the world’s entire income, while the poorest

fifth of the world’s population would have only 1.5% of the

world’s income, and the poorest two-fifths would have only

5.0% of the world’s income (Dikhanov, 2005). Such gross

inequality also affects other human development factors such

as health, education and job. Islam has a perfect solution for

this through its multilayered taxation and welfare system

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designed to minimize inequality and give everyone an

equitable opportunity to life and development backed by

over stretching oversight of shariah law. Under Islamic

system poverty or episodic poverty or even vulnerability to

poverty will cease to exist as Islamic taxation and welfare will

always quantify a ratio of wealth distribution from top to

bottom including obligation of government to provide for

free universal needs such as water, electricity, gas,

healthcare, the internet education etc. At the least they must

subsidize these universal needs or implement a quota based

free service. Such a rich Islamic welfare system will improve

health, education, hygiene etc. and all the other indicators of

poverty and also improve the mental aspects of the people

making them determined appreciating and dedicated to the

system which in the long term will enhance productivity and

economy. For far too long corporations and imperial foreign

policies have exploited poor nations and created

hopelessness and disability in the minds of its masses.

Historically slavery has also been a system of stratification.

Many people accuse Islam of slavery promotion. Understand

that Islam came to abolish slavery through reformation.

Instead of banning outright slavery which was a deep rooted

business and social model, Islam first proposed restructuring

slave-master relationship based on equity, justice and

sympathy which is the pathway to abolishment of this unjust

institution. The reformation was done in these ways: 1.

Prohibition of enslaving free people and limiting it in only

defensive war for only prisoners and combatants 2. Keeping a

lot of legal obligations to free slaves as compensation of legal

wrongs 3. Obligating treatment of slaves as human beings

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and servants of God thereby minimizing the chances of

cruelty and humiliation. 4. Promising spiritual rewards for

freeing slaves voluntarily. It is interesting to note that Islam

only allowed enslavement in a lawful war, while in that time

people were enslaved through hijacking, force, etc. as

western colonial powers did for generations. So, Islam's

enslavement was only valid in one context which was

revolutionary in those times. Also, Islam came up with

numerous ways to free slaves. While in that time there

existed only one way to free slave, which is master's wish. So,

to say Islam promotes slavery is utterly wrong. Islam's

allowance of slavery in the time was only response to slavery

being a global custom, so Islam has set forth that time fair

and human reformatory laws for slaves something which was

like a renaissance. West even with its renaissance failed to

treat slaves like human beings.

But to really ask the question, is slavery in general terms non-

existent? If by slavery you mean unbearable suffering

restriction of freedom then instead of classic ownership of

individual humans, today powerful people and countries

enslave nations, its future and its resources. It enslaves all the

potential that your country and people can give you. In this

sense slavery is very much alive and Islam also prohibits and

resists (Jihad) this kind of slavery through it's fair laws of

economy, diplomacy, international relations and ultimately

war.

Today we also have the digital society. The stratification that

exists in the digital society is influencer and the follower. In

this society even the ills of traditional society have crept in

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such as the powerful influencers have greater say in how the

digital society is run while the followers have little space to

reject their assertive policies. Many followers are banned and

suspended for criticizing known influencers and their

philosophies about real world society. Digital society

influencers come in many categories: political, celebrity,

activist for social causes, fashion models and nudists. Nudity

has become dominant through sexual objectification of

females and this has an intense influence in shaping youth

sexuality and perception of the opposite gender.

Muslims have little control over the digital society, but Islamic

society can monitor the trends and developments in the

digital society and likewise educate, guide and dictate

accordingly through various Islamic social institutions. The

point is to change the mindset and persuade it towards

desired aims and objectives. Unfortunately, Muslims today in

their secular society have been engulfed by the bad practice

of the digital society so another yet effective solution is to

create and finance an Islamic digital society to persuade

Muslims towards it. Such as an Islamic social media will be a

very effective Islamic socialization and political organizational

tool because Muslims needs to counter the digital society

which is creating trends and values for all the societies of the

world as if a stronger species eating up the weaker ones.

Race and Ethnicity

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Racism, nationalism, aristocracy, tribalism etc. these secular

constructs are based on a sense of belonging to a biological,

geographical or material group, whereas Islamism is a

construct based on adherence to (divine values, beliefs and

actions). Islam thus is the most universal and welcoming

system and ideology. Shia Sunni hostility is also a product of

historical racist and tribalistic politics. Imam Ali, Abu Bakr,

Umar, Uthman never fought each other irrespective of their

differences, to preserve Muslim unity, but when Arab

nationalism and tribalism took over Islam, lots of bloodshed

occurred and unity was broken. Today still Islam is plagued by

nationalism, racism and tribalism by Arabs and non-Arabs.

Also understand race is a myth, a social construct rather than

a biological reality. There is only one human race even

according to Quran 23:14. Let’s take an example of Barack

Obama. Former president Barack Obama had an African

father and a white mother. Although his ancestry is equally

black and white, Obama considers himself an African

American, as do most Americans. In several Latin American

nations, however, Obama would be considered white

because of his white ancestry. Starting with genetics, people

from different races are more than 99.9% the same in their

DNA (Begley, 2008). In terms of DNA, then, people with

different racial backgrounds are much, much more similar

than dissimilar. As Quran said we are one human species

composed of people who look different.

But still why people call themselves as Malay race or Persian

race or Turkish race etc.? The same reason why Nazis thought

they were also Aryans. Simply put psychology of group ego

and group identity is at work here. It is a social construct by

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human will. They see themselves as looking similar, talking

similar and perhaps culturally similar so they assume they are

a biological race. Today blacks, whites, browns, greys etc.

may talk similar, may have same religion, same culture, same

geography. Are they a race? Definitely not! Quran 23:14

rejects biological race. World has paid and paying the price of

racism, nationalism, tribalism etc. All these secular “isms” are

ideologies of hate and destruction.

The Islamic society does not make policies based on race or

nationality. The lawful foreigner will get same treatment as

local, the black will get same treatment like white and vice-

versa. The Islamic society will see your belief and actions,

your role and abilities, not your color, ethnicity or nationality

which Islam has not identified in any role, duty or

responsibility. In the Islamic society whether citizens or

migrants, documented or undocumented, Muslim or non-

Muslim all deserve equal equitable protections under the

law, the right to due process, freedom from unlawful search

and seizure, and the right to fair criminal proceedings, among

many other things. There is no place for racism, nationalism,

tribalism and inhumanity because some people happen to be

different than you. While racism, nationalism, tribalism etc.

believe in collective judgement Islam rejects it in Quran 5:2.

Gender and Gender Inequality

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What is Gender?

There is no doubt that there is a significant difference

between sex and gender, but such difference does not

necessarily validate gender redefinition. While biology is

what determines our sex, gender determines our sexuality,

behavior and attitude. The disagreement however arises if

sex is the causality of gender because if that is true then

definitely gender studies will be based on essential

differences rather that equality. Gender can be formed by

social engineering that is how people are affected by their

society, social surroundings and social interactions.

Historically sex has defined the gender roles and perception

and that formed femininity which refers to the cultural

expectations we have of girls and women, while masculinity

which refers to the expectations we have of boys and men.

Why history has devised and formed such an attitude? It

returns to the psychology and biology of the sexes as we will

see.

Lower levels of psychological explanation are more closely

tied to biological influences, such as genes, neurons,

neurotransmitters, and hormones, whereas the middle levels

of explanation refer to the abilities and characteristics of

individual people, and the highest levels of explanation relate

to social groups, organizations, and cultures (Cacioppo,

Berntson, Sheridan, & McClintock, 2000). In early human

evolutionary phases pure unadulterated biology played a

large role in defining gender because bioengineering was

non-existent and social engineering like today was minimal or

almost non-existent. So, to say patriarchy and gender roles

were defined by culture and sociology will be wrong as also

the human soul in its early phase was in complete harmony

with the patriarch construct.

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Thus, when we say that a girl or woman is very feminine, we

have some combination of these traits, usually the positive

ones, in mind: gentle, sensitive, nurturing, delicate, graceful,

cooperative, decorative, dependent, emotional, passive, and

weak. What we traditionally mean by masculinity is captured

in the adjectives, again both positive and negative, our

society traditionally ascribes to men: strong, assertive, brave,

active, independent, intelligent, competitive, insensitive,

unemotional like woman, and aggressive

3

. When we say that

a boy or man is very masculine, we have some combination

of these traits in mind: he is tough, strong, and assertive. This

difference in psychology and biology is meant to create,

maintain and perfect bonding and synergism of gender

mating, cooperation and roles, each complementing the

other in human and social evolution. Given the essential

differences between the sexes historical gender roles have

been also different and equitable rather than equal.

However, our contemporary society has created various

gender identities. This is sociological and cultural engineering

rather that biology or nature itself. We have today

heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual and trans. After all these

differences still two main biological sexes remain with two

3

Aggression doesn't necessarily mean violence and harm.

Aggression can be defined as intense frequent prolonged use of

strength to achieve dominance. We see male aggression during

mating that is sexual intercourse. While men want rough and

dominating sex over her female partner the female wants a more

gentle and romantic sex but as her libido and arousal intensifies, she

submits to male aggression and dominance as she supposed to by

design of her evolutionary reproductive conscience.

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separate psychological and biological identities. These

identities have defined gender roles for millennia until

recently feminism has started to redefine what it means to be

a man or a woman.

The Inequality of Sexes and Gender

4

Biology and psychology can be inherent and acquired. Human

species has inherent dispositional biology, a result of God's initial

creation and according to evolutionists evolutionary design, and an

inherent dispositional psychology which is a result of human soul

and according to evolutionists another evolutionary design. Biology

can affect our psychology by biochemical and electrochemical

processes, but society and social institutions can also change both

biology and psychology for example by effect of drugs or

bioengineering, socialization and social interactions, but

bioengineering or social engineering cannot change the totality of

our biology or psychology rooted in our soul. We must remain

human, man and woman, nonetheless and this can be explained by

evolutionary constants which are those that do not undergo change

in the species but continue to exist throughout micro evolution. An

analogy would be an actor during acting his more consistent

permanent nature is masked by the nature of role in acting. Also, to

what extent can we bioengineer, or social engineer is an ethical and

religious issue and if we do such a thing the consequences may be

devastating as discussed in various sections of this writing. So,

understand one of the purposes of Divine guidance is to preserve our

creational disposition biological and psychological, by dictating

socialization, social interaction, social institutions and overall

society.

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What is sex? Sex refers to the anatomical and other biological

differences between females and males that are determined

at the moment of conception and develop in the womb and

throughout childhood and adolescence. Females, of course,

have two X chromosomes, while males have one X

chromosome and one Y chromosome. From this basic genetic

difference spring other biological differences. The first to

appear are the different genitals that boys and girls develop

in the womb and that the doctor (or midwife) and parents

look for when a baby is born. The genitalia are called primary

sex characteristics, while the other differences that develop

during puberty are called secondary sex characteristics and

stem from hormonal differences between the two sexes. In

this difficult period of adolescents’ lives, boys generally

acquire deeper voices, more body hair, and more muscles

from their flowing testosterone. Girls develop breasts and

wider hips and begin menstruating as nature prepares them

for possible pregnancy and childbirth. These basic biological

differences between the sexes have affected the historical

perceptions of what it means to be female or male, and

continue to shape gender studies, laws and rights. The basic

biological differences as well as from the very nature of

human soul depending on the sexes, we have two sets of

unique biological and psychological identities. These traits

corroborate both evolutionary and Islamic gender roles,

patriarchy and the nuclear family discussed in later section.

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Women Biological Features

• Brain activation differs in response to negative

emotions. (Stevens & Hamann, 2012)

• Data suggest that the greater strength of the men

due primarily to larger fibers. (Eur J Appl Physiol

Occup Physiol. 1993;66(3):254-62)

• Females grow to a certain extent and then switch to

reproductive mode, investing in fat production rather

than making muscle and bone (Nuwer 2017)

• Health effects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism (when

someone shows signs of addiction to alcohol) are

more serious in women. (http://www.nichd.nih.gov/,

2019; Buddy T)

• Women are more likely to die following a heart

attack than men are (http://www.nichd.nih.gov/,

2019; “New Study: Women More Likely to Die after a

Heart Attack Due to Unequal Treatment”)

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o Note that this says unequal treatment as if

women are discriminated. This is a false

perception. First it suggests vast number of

doctors are being negligent and medically

unethical against women. Second women

might have been getting different treatment

or absence thereof due to being female as

they may be vulnerable to such treatments

due to pregnancy or other factors.

• Women are more likely to show signs of depression

and anxiety than men

are. (http://www.nichd.nih.gov/, 2019)

• The effect of STDs/STIs on women can be more

serious than on men. (CDC, How STDs Impact Women

Differently From Men)

• Women are more likely than men are to experience

urinary tract problems (O Platte, 2019)

Biologically women are prone to more diseases than men and

such diseases express more severe in women than men.

Being only pregnant exposes them to lots of health risks and

drug effects. Women are physically impaired also by

menstruation and pregnancy. Both of which affects their

emotion and becomes a burden to deal with, impairing

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judgement, response and interaction. Even though women

are more vulnerable to health issues than men, women in the

US live longer than men. Why is this case? The reasons are

men in a secular society live a reckless life and do not care

about their health whereas women tend to live more

responsibly and self-care. This arises from the inherent

biological and psychological differences of the two genders as

men are more aggressive and pursue independence while

women gentle and pursue dependence. The recklessness is

not an inherent biological or psychological feature of the

male but rather engineered by social inequities and economic

injustice as men lose their independence, leadership and

mating opportunities in such a setting. This explains why men

are always involved in organized crimes and violence in an

unjust and morally broken society. The Islamic society

believes in an upbringing where both genders will realize

their true identity and purpose in God and achieve a

responsible character and balance of their inherent nature.

Women Psychological Features

5

• Experience more guilt (Else-Quest et al., 2012)

• Experience more shame (Else-Quest et al., 2012)

• Experience more sadness (Else-Quest et al., 2012)

5

Understand psychology whether natural inherent or acquired and

engineered exists and reveals in situations and contexts of various

social interactions and personal expressions and from these a

statistical and theoretical conclusion is made.

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• Experience more social anxiety (Caballo et al., 2014)

• Seeks more emotional support (Tamres et al., 2002)

• More fearful (Kring and Gordon 1998)

• More sympathetic (Babchuck et al., 1985; Hampson

et al., 2006; McClure, 2000)

• Emotionally more negative (Bradley et al., 2001;

Chentsova-Dutton & Tsai, 2007; Grossman & Wood,

1993)

• Higher on neuroticism: Experience more anxiety,

worry, fear, anger, frustration, envy, jealousy, guilt,

depressed mood, and loneliness. (Feingold, 1994;

Schmitt et al., 2008)

• Women cry more often than men do. (Tannen, 2001)

• Women take care of children more than men do.

(Tannen, 2001)

• Women smile more often than men. (Tannen, 2001)

• Women sexuality is dependent on context,

environment and layered on emotions unlike male

sexuality, which is direct, vivid and aggressive. (Sine,

2009, WebMD)

These feminine traits will cloud reason and cause the wrong

consequences emanating from a feminine mentality placed in

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a certain but critical situation. Men are also emotional yet in

different ways than women however women feel certain

aspects of emotions more than men which are detrimental to

leadership and decision making. Man’s emotion on the other

hand is towards independence while woman’s towards

dependence. Men due to their direct sexuality is the one who

rapes and has strong sexual response to feminine physique

and beauty. Social engineering can mask some of the biology

defined emotions or some of those rooted in the soul

however, because social engineering can create “gender

actors” and prevent one from realizing his or her essential

inherent natural identity. Does this mean we can recreate the

totality of man and woman by social engineering or make

them equal in their biological and psychological construct?

See footnote number 4.

Most of human existence have seen patriarchy dominance.

Since the third wave feminism matriarchy is the agenda.

Pursuit of irrational equality does not make man and woman

equal. Yes, woman can be better in some things than man but

in general they are weaker than men most of the times. For

example, men are weaker in controlling sexual desire unlike

women hence women are required to cover themselves in

Islam. Women are suited to more gentle roles where the use

of mind and body is less intense, less demanding and more

static. While men are suited to leadership and decision

making where pressure and stress are high. Men are also

suited for physically intensive roles such as military or hard

labor. Even according to evolutionists, it would be nothing

short of a Darwinian miracle for men and women to have

evolved precisely identical emotional and physical designs.

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Some studies suggest women are better leaders while some

say men are. However, these studies try to measure skills

rather than biological and psychological features which are

most crucial to understanding the inequalities in the sexes.

However based on such inequalities it is fair to say under the

same environmental variables, context and circumstance

men will most of the times excel women in mental and

physical capacity. For example, US military having same

variables and context for its recruits has women in

approximately 14 percent of the active duty Army, 23 percent

of the Army Reserve, and 16 percent of the Army National

Guard. Examples like this extend to many other domains of

men and women inclusion, even though women are getting

the favors and benefits. For example, most of the greatest

scientists and intellectuals in history have been men but

feminists will say men got more chances and women were

prevented from studying. Ok, so let just look at the Nobel

prize winners in the 21st century when women were having

more favors and bias towards yet still in this slight unfair

balance against men most Nobel prize winners have been

men. This arises from women’s genetic disposition as

research has shown that genetics have been found to be very

important in many domains, compared with environmental

factors. Although society may not want to hear it, differences

between men and women may be in part genetically

determined, perhaps by differences in brain lateralization or

by hormones (Kimura & Hampson, 1994; Voyer, Voyer, &

Bryden, 1995). This inequality in intelligence/brain power has

been corroborated by Quran and Hadiths as well. So

inconclusion we can say man and woman differ biologically,

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psychologically and cognitively. Islam thus assigned equitable

different roles based on such.

For more discussion of gender and sex differences see

(Rahman 2020, Why Society Needs Patriarchy).

The Feminist Politics

Modern feminism has threatened historical gender identity

and role. It wants to separate biology and psychology from

gender identity and wants to have total freedom in redefining

gender. This is dangerous and contradictory to nature,

natural selection (if you believe in this) and the Divine order

of things (if you are religious Muslim). Feminism, to

restructure historical gender identity and roles has adopted

policy of discrimination called Affirmative action. Affirmative

action refers to the preferential treatment of minorities and

women in employment and education. This is reverse

discrimination and, as such, is both illegal and immoral. The

people benefiting from affirmative action can be less

qualified than many of the men with whom they compete for

employment and college admissions.

Since third wave feminism is all about matriarchy and

reconstruction of a new social order (Dale, Jennifer, & Peggy

Foster, 1986). Feminism is about pushing women to positions

of power and less about genuinely helping oppressed women

such as those in war zones, forced prostitution or in occupied

territories. So it is about feminine individualism in the social

level and matriarchy in the political level.

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In this feminist agenda male species is portrayed as weak,

indecisive and predatory while women as the victim, full of

potential deserving preferential treatment. In this agenda

male species need to behave while women have full freedom

to exercise her choices and desires without consequences. In

this agenda female sex is divinely lustful, the opium to control

men. We are looking at a broken system of family, society

and outright anarchy, high rates of divorce, cheating family,

children detached from parents and an unfair job industry

and legal system.

The feminist mind is the very definition of pride. It sees only

control and ego. It does not understand care or wings of

mercy as it does not believe in humility in a relationship. It

sees man as the arch enemy. It wants absolute self-control

from man without self-control of herself. Feminism is

sexual/gender Nazism. Feminism is the reaction of white

woman to white man's tyranny. These feminists will find it

humiliating and insulted to serve their husbands or wash

their cloths or present themselves with beauty in room to

please their husbands. They will feel these as slavery and

subjugation but not relation building and empowerment of

bond. In their hearts romance and sympathy are weaknesses.

We cannot build a loving society with this ideology.

Feminism is also anti-family, egoistic. Feminist women

prioritize pursuing career over family because a family will

slow them down by childbirth and duties towards children as

a mother, while a career is the ticket to be a matriarch

somewhere. By this practice feminists hate their biology and

innate nature of motherhood. They want female emotional

weakness regarded as good leadership habits. They want

wife’s care for husband regarded as servitude and slavery.

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They want listening to husband’s advice (let alone command)

as defeat. They want living on husband's income regarded as

humiliation. They want to see their failure as effort while

failure of men as disaster. They want their nude provocative

dress to be seen a form of art. They want everyone to be

feminist instead of humanist. Feminism is like a stubborn

child.

The question is why feminism is spreading without men really

putting up a fight against this? This is because modern man is

free to feel strong sexual emotions towards the feminine

body which was not possible in the patriarchal past due to

moral constraints. As society became more sexualized and

pornified men has also become more lustful in a greater

breadth of their social interaction, and feminism has

enhanced this interaction even more by intensifying free

mixing and more sexual freedom. However, the spread of

feminist ideology doesn't necessarily correlate with

realization of total matriarchy.

Sentiment, politics, bias and social engineering is defining the

female journey towards matriarchy with devastating social,

economic and moral consequences. Families are being torn

apart, legal system is being redefined with bias against men,

men are being less motivated to start a family, education or

occupation because of bias towards women as men are seen

less valuable, unstable, reckless and more predatory.

Feminists often give examples of Jacindra and Merkel yet

forgetting most of their cabinet members are men who guide

them, yet also forgetting that the other women leaders of

Burma, Bangladesh etc. have blood and corruption on their

hands and that women have been involved in genocides,

crimes against humanity and organized crimes (Brown 2013;

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Wolford 2016; Asmann 2020; Burbank 2019; ). The only

excuse feminists will give is women do evil because they are

treated unequally so you see feminists justify women evil

which is a form of bias.

Or consider how academic bias prefers women rather than

listening to reason. Here for example in 2005 the president of

Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, sparked an uproar

during a presentation at an economic conference on women

and minorities in the science and engineering workforce.

Summers also argued that women might be less genetically

capable of performing science and mathematics—that they

may have less “intrinsic aptitude” than do men.

Summers’s comments on genetics set off a flurry of

responses. One of the conference participants, a biologist at

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, walked out on the

talk, and other participants said that they were deeply

offended. Summers replied that he was only putting forward

hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the

conference, and that research has shown that genetics have

been found to be very important in many domains, compared

with environmental factors.

The controversy did not stop with the conference. Many

Harvard faculty members were appalled that a prominent

person could even consider the possibility that mathematical

skills were determined by genetics, and the controversy and

protests that followed the speech led to first ever faculty vote

for a motion expressing a “lack of confidence” in a Harvard

president. Summers resigned his position, in large part as a

result of the controversy, in 2006 (Goldin, Goldin, & Foulkes,

2005).

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Or consider intellectually dishonest studies carried out in

favor of the female sex such as the one here (Sanchez 2018)

which suggests, by a giant leap of faith, that women are

stronger than men. What is their evidence? Fallacious

induction and false claim. It says women are more likely to

survive famine and epidemics and they based this

generalization on basis of data from times of slavery. They fail

to mention the real historical reasons, which were, men were

doing the most hard and dangerous works in those times

while women mostly were in home waiting to be married or

caring for children. But the article claims the survival ratio of

women were due to the hormone estrogen and the higher

death of men were due to the hormone testosterone. They

clearly forgot to mention that estrogen is implicated in the

development or progression of numerous diseases, which

include but are not limited to various types of cancer (breast,

ovarian, colorectal, prostate, endometrial), osteoporosis,

neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular disease, insulin

resistance, lupus erythematosus, endometriosis, and obesity

(Deroo 2006) whereas Testosterone regulate sex drive

(libido), bone mass, fat distribution, muscle mass and

strength, and the production of red blood cells and sperm,

that is, it makes men stronger and more powerful than

women (Wein 2016).

The Islamic Woman

The Islamic woman is the ideal feminine identity that nature

wanted, that God designed. The most unique earthly

feminine which is a pure result of female biology. Such a

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woman is a result of Islamic upbringing and Islamic education

which helps her realize her real nature as a woman of God, as

nature intended. According to Quranic verses and Sunnah of

Prophet (pbuh) we find some of the qualities of an Islamic

woman as following:

• Chaste in thoughts and actions

• Sympathetic and merciful

• Intelligent and understanding

• Economic yet content

• Loyal and obedient to husband

• Loving and a guide of children

• Greatness of God and Ummah in mind

• Humanitarian, not egoistic, not racist, not nationalist,

not tribalist

• Pious and sacrificing

• Wise in maintaining relationship

• Not a victim of populism

These divinely infused Muslim women are a mercy and

blessing to not only their husbands and families but the

entire Ummah. Chastity of which virginity is an essential part,

is a core feature of the Muslimah. Virginity is a dignity,

newness and purity of an individual. However modern secular

society thinks virginity is stupidity and lack of your maturity,

but then again modern secular society thinks alcohol,

tobacco, prostitution and mistresses are good. A Muslim

woman’s innocent character, simplicity, virginity and chastity

are the results of her religious values which are: shame, self-

respect with Islamic character (as mentioned above) and true

Islamic hijab, conservative in her public communication as

not to be a cause of sexual distraction for others and for

herself from other men.

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God wishes us to purify our romantic and sexual thoughts

and desires, for a loyal and lasting bond through matrimony,

through safe-guarding us from free-sex communication

unless necessary for marriage planning and decision. Each of

the Muslimah is a fertile and blooming garden future of the

Ummah, a peace to her family and children. In the name of

liberalism such precious and cherished creatures of God

cannot be polluted, and the hope of the Islamic successful

family cannot be destroyed, and as a consequence Muslim

demography having destructive divorces, familial chaos,

detachment from children, distanced husband and wife and a

society unwilling to marry be realized. The result is we are

today living in a sexualized world and not a family-oriented

world. It is trendier and easier to have a temporary sex

partner than a devout and loyal husband or wife.

Islam prescribed chastity of both your sexual organ and

feelings so that bonds can last, deepen and empowered

through matrimony. All that free sex and flirting are deceiving

you from realizing the greatest gift of God called love. Love

and chastity go hand in hand. A woman who is ready to lie

with any man for sexual pleasure, career growth or favors

cannot be trusted of having loyalty and devotion. Today’s

secularized girls seek a beautiful boyfriend for sex and a rich

man for marriage. No wonder divorce is the twin of marriage

today. Such is the nature and value of a Muslimah that

prophet emphasized and commanded them to marry

righteous and pious husbands.

The Islamic Patriarchy

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Why patriarchy was accepted and embraced even by women

for millennia until recently? Historical reality of gender roles

based on biological and psychological differences have been

validated and defended by many evolutionary scientists. In

prehistoric societies, few social roles existed. A major role

centered on relieving hunger by hunting or gathering food.

The other major role centered on bearing and nursing

children. Because only women could perform this role, they

were also the primary caretakers for children for several

years after birth. And because women were frequently

pregnant, their roles as mothers confined them to the home

for most of their adulthood. Meanwhile, men were better

suited than women for hunting because they were stronger

and quicker than women. In prehistoric societies, then,

biology was indeed destiny: for biological reasons, men in

effect worked outside the home (hunted), while women

stayed at home with their children. This shows nature and

many people will say God has defined the inherent roles of

the genders because of their biology and psychology. This in

turn implies that existing gender inequality must continue

because it is rooted in biology.

Historical gender identity has been based on biological

realities of human species. This resulted in patriarchy. Can it

be said that all those past people were wrong in their social

construct? Why cannot we accept rather that they knew the

nature of human existence and how it ought to be? Even

though men have exploited patriarchy but that does not

reject the inherent natural patriarchy construct of humanity.

Islamic patriarchy remedies iniquity of historic patriarchy and

lays down rules and protocols for a just and equitable

patriarchy beneficial for both sexes and gender.

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The most crucial aspect of Islamic patriarchy, a patriarchy

based on piety, is its potential ability to create intense love

and sympathy through imbalance of duties. When the

husband sees the wife is dependent on him his determination

and devotion increase not only towards the wife or wives but

also towards his job and work. In turn when the wife sees the

husband is so devoted her devotion and support for the

husband too increases. This creates a synergism and bond

enhancement. In some social ideologies however it’s about

pursuit of selfish goals and ambitions of the couples. There is

always an invisible line, a barrier dividing their complete

attachments.

Modern society has enabled anti-Patriarchy agenda through

feminism. Modern technology, liberal attitude and bias

towards women have made it possible. It is irrational and

socially destructive. Patriarchy has always sought to preserve

social and familial stability, order and harmony. Patriarch

construct thus demands correct thought, correct belief and

correct emotion of the two distinct human sexes that result

in two distinct genders. Patriarch establishes a hierarchy

which establishes an authority and as authority has the

power to enforce and prescribe action and behavior so it

results patriarchy is a normative social construct. Even

though historically godless patriarchy has exploited the

weakness of female sex and as a result gave birth to another

evil force called feminism, but this does not negate the need

and rationality of patriarch construct. Islam maintains and

guides the patriarch construct and rejects feminism.

What is the meaning of patriarchy? Islamic patriarchy means

men will be preferred in various social roles and men will get

more opportunities in society and social institutions and that

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men will be in more positions of authority. The social

schedule of the citizens’ upbringing will take this into

consideration. This is due to the fact that men have greater

duties and responsibilities including protection and

maintenance of women. The society must create an

economic and financial model so that men get enough

income and incentives to take care of their wife or wives so

society can sustain patriarchy and maintain the balance. Islam

already proposes a great welfare model towards this end.

The patriarch can be the father, husband and the Islamic

ruler. In absence of these the duty of Muslim men is to care

and protect their sisters in faith. Patriarchy rejects any form

of organizational feminine leadership. However, a woman can

lead other women. This is on the basis of the rule of

leadership in prayer. Islamic patriarchy also implies

segregated social system and institutions. Prolonged,

continuous and often intimate free mixing along with

provocative feminine dresses have amplified all forms of

moral evils related to sex whether voluntary such as free sex,

cheating couples etc. or forced such as rape, organized

crimes etc.

Islamic patriarchy also has emphasized the importance of

husband in relation to his wife or wives. The husband is more

entitled of wife’s obedience and attention than her parents.

This arises due to the facts that the husband is obligated to

protect and care for the wife’s mental, physical, spiritual and

financial wellbeing and as husband has the duty to do same

for his children because the husband has the responsibility to

maintain and guide the Islamic family which is the atomic

building block of the Islamic ummah.

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However today contradicting Islamic patriarchy is feminism. If

you observe the feminists, their social media posts, groups,

activities and their attitude, tone and emotion in the real

world then you will notice feminist rivalry is dangerous and

destructive. Why women want to be like men in the name of

equality, but men do not pursue being women? Feminists

want to always dictate the terms and to be irrationally

imposive for the sake of delusional achievement of woman's

equal rights. Whenever it’s a relationship with a man the

feminist gears herself to be confrontational with a winning

mentality as if it is a rivalry and competition against the

opposite sex. Feminists want to achieve things hastily and by

hook or crook which shows they are not rational and

considerate. Feminists just keep demanding things like a

stubborn bully child.

Proofs of Patriarchy in Islam

O Mankind! Be mindful of your Lord Who created you from a

single soul, and from it He created its mate. (Quran 4:1)

That means the first woman Eve was created from the first

man Adam so man is the cause of woman.

It is Allah’s Will to make things clear to you, guide you to the

˹noble˺ ways of those before you. (Quran 4:26)

Patriarchy was the way of the monotheistic ancestors.

Men are in charge/protectors of women, because Allah

hath made the one of them to excel the other, and

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because they spend of their property (for the support of

women) (Quran 4:34)

"The Prophet (S) of Islam stated: ' Any woman who dies while

her husband is pleased with her, enters Paradise'." (Mahajjat

Al-Bayda)

“If the woman performs the five daily prayers, fasts the

month of Ramadan, maintains her chastity and obeys her

husband, she will enter the Paradise of her Lord.” (Hadith)

If I were to command anyone to prostrate to anyone other

than Allaah, I would have commanded women to prostrate to

their husbands. (Hadith)

The Holy Prophet also stated: "If a woman does not perform

her duty as a spouse, she has not done her duty to Allah'." (Al-

Mustadrak)

"The Holy Prophet (S) stated: 'A wife is duty-bound to arrange

for a basin and towel to wash her husband's hands'." (Al-

Mustadrak)

"Imam as-Sadiq (a.s.) stated: 'Any woman who bothers her

husband and distresses him is distant from the blessings of

Allah and any woman who respects her husband, is obedient

and does not cause him sorrow, is blessed and prosperous'."

(Bihar al-Anwar)

'The Jihad of a woman is to take care of her husband well'."

(Bihar al-Anwar)

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Social Role Where Man is Preferred

• Leadership

• Judiciary

• Witness

• Jihad (Military)

• Religious Sermon/Khutba

• Inheritance

• Legal guardianship

• Polygamy & divorce

This is the model of patriarchy in Quran 4:34. Patriarchy

by guardianship of father, husband and Islamic ruler as

the highest decider is based due to essential differences

between man and woman in both mind and body. The

Islamic social construct of patriarchy gives us the

alternative system to remedy and heal this broken social

existence.

Aging and The Elderly

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There are three types of aging: chronological biological and

psychological. Often these three coexist as we grow older.

Gerontologists think that few people reached the age of 35 in

the prehistoric societies that existed thousands of years ago.

Those who did were considered “old” and treated as such. It

is obviously difficult to know much about aging back then,

and much of what we think we know is based on our

knowledge about the preindustrial societies that

anthropologists have been studying for many decades

(Sokolovsky, 2009). According to Quran our existence on this

earth is temporary and God has discouraged this worldly life

for the hereafter. It seems that God gave us short time

previously so we could unite with Him in paradise. The short

life our ancestors had was also a blessing due to less stress

and fast departure from this world. God might have given this

short lifeline so that we do not become too attached to this

world by prolonged existence and experience. However,

mans greed, ego and arrogance triumphed and he chose this

world over hereafter as global life expectancy only increasing.

God did not force on to humanity the stress, suffering and

complexities of modern world but we chose by our pride and

unjustified belief in human ability. In the past God also

prolonged lives of selected people such as prophets to make

the short-lived human depart with guidance and ease

generations after generations.

Old age is a mark from God that we become nothing after our

youthful power and energy and that God giveth and taketh.

The incapacity and feebleness of old age is a test of our

society's humanity and empathy. Islamic society must care

for the old as they decay biologically, cognitively and

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psychologically. However old age is a great period to increase

spiritually and has increased dignity to God due to this

spiritual potential. So as God reduces in some aspects He

increases in other. One must understand aging is a divine

design to test us through various phases of our life as we

undergo various biological, psychological, social, financial and

other changes. Aging is thus an ongoing test from God and

due to this in an Islamic society the people has a duty to the

old and vice versa.

Primary caretakers are supposed to be the sons and then the

Islamic governance, especially if the old persons they are

helping need extensive help with daily activities, which would

otherwise derail sons livelihood as Islamic society is a

patriarchy. So laws, corporations and the job industry must

accommodate care time for the elderly by allowing their

employees opportunity and time towards their old, specially

disabled or sick parents or isolated relatives. This must get

same importance as maternity leave. The stronger a society’s

economy, the more resources people can acquire by the time

they reach old age and the greater their power and status in

that time of life. Conversely, the weaker a society’s economy,

the fewer resources people can acquire by old age and the

lower their power and status as they age, however Islamic

society guarantees welfare for also the old from the Islamic

treasury. Caring for the old need not derail development by

blind adherence to tradition. Islam believes in betterment of

the lives of the ummah and thus reason should prevail over

racial and ethnic traditions for collective empowerment of

the Islamic society and Islamic values.

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In an Islamic society respect of the elder starts with your

parents, Islamic clerics and teachers however this must not

translate to Elderism. What is Elderism? For example, God

has commanded His servants to be respectful and caring for

old parents. Respect and care however do not translate to

blind obedience of parents which is called Elderism or

veneration of the elderly to the point of sainthood and sinless

entities. This Elderism is a reason for so called honor killings

in some Asian countries. Quran commands us to be respectful

and caring specially to old parents because of their

helplessness and fragility of existence and not obedience as

given to a dictator. Rationality and justice must not be

blinded by veneration of people.

Does putting parents in care homes translate to care for

them? It depends on the context of how sons and daughters

have defined their lives to be under the Islamic society. Most

husbands supposed to be working and earning for family so

they cannot give full time to parents, rather perhaps their

income may go to the parents’ care. The wives of your sons

are not obligated to look after you like nurse, neither the

husbands can burden the wives more than they can bear. The

wives main responsibility is to their husbands and children

and not to their father and mother in laws. So, given these

considerations a five- star care home in the Islamic society

can be better care for parents than living with their sons or

daughters. Parents must also understand the privacy of their

married children. Given how society and job industry has

evolved the Islamic society must ensure proper management

and guidance for care homes for the elderly. Another option

of care is home nurse. Depending on who to care for whether

old father or old mother the nurse’s gender need to be

decided. If a young female nurse is to care for the old mother,

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then the nurse’s husband’s permission needs to be sought

first by the employer. For old father a male nurse or old

female nurse is best suitable. Islamic society must shun the

pathways to sexual harassment as discussed in the section

Work and Economy.

Work and The Economy

History at Capitalism and Communism

We have come to a point in history where our needs and

wants to have amplified the quantity of goods and services

and vice versa as technology and human organization at

various levels of activity improved and became more

interconnected, interdependent and complicated. With this

world became more interconnected and our personal and

societal dependency increased. Imagine a man living in the

wilderness who is self-sufficient vs a man living in an

industrialized computerized society who is dependent on

many entities to maneuver. Today global economy has three

segments. The primary sector for raw materials and natural

resources of God. The secondary sector are the

manufacturers using the primary sector. The tertiary sector is

the service-based sector. Today corporatism and

neocolonialism has divided global population and earth on

the three segments. For example, some nations which are

subjugated and dominated by western imperial and old

colonists provide these sectors. Arabia whose tyrannical

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rulers are supported by west, Africa which is under perpetual

wars and exploitation for raw materials and Chinese slavery

and Asia which provides cheap labor services for

multinational corporations. This global economic exploitation

is supported by both western corporate capitalism and

Chinese communism.

Beginnings of Modern Capitalism

Western economic and financial exploitation started during

the colonialism. Western fascist colonialism has passed

through the hands of Catholic church, the European royalty

and now passing through the hands of western nationalist

governments and financial institutions. It would be wrong to

say that those former players are not involved anymore,

rather involved in limited but complicated ways. Western

governments have supported despots in Muslim countries

and other non-Muslim third world countries as far back as

colonialism, continuing to this day. They never honored the

hope and aspirations of self-rule for Muslims and welfare of

global third world population. This has created mass suffering

for, specially Muslims and global population in their existence

resulting in poverty, increasing wealth gap, intellectual

backwardness, political and social instability and corruption

and social moral disaster.

The major driving force for Colonialism was finance. Financial

capabilities and capacity of western civilization have been

boosted through colonialism (loot, genocide and subjugation)

when they came over large deposits of minerals in Australia,

Americas and Africa. A huge boost in terms of economic

capability, financial opportunities and research opportunities.

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So, they built administration, roads, bridges, security

apparatus, legal system and other necessary tools to manage

these newly found financial treasures.

Western legal, philosophical, scientific and economical

thought thrived during this time of colonialism as European

colonial tyranny gained more factors of productions,

knowledge and experimental opportunities from their

colonies. The rise of Adolf Hitler devastated the traditional

colonialism of Western countries as war finance almost

bankrupted them. Many colonies found independence, but

this independence did not give them intellectual, political and

economic independence and equality in the fullest sense as

the human capital was devastated and dependence on

western support and market was inescapable while dictators

and despots were placed over the population by colonial

fathers through newly created maps and identities.

Almost every Muslim country on the planet was conquered,

colonized and exploited by Europeans or Russians. Most of

those countries became free of the colonizer only since the

end of World War II, with many gaining independences in the

1960s. Although most Muslims living today were born after

World War II (and even after 1980), colonization has cast a

long, dark shadow. Just as abolishing de jure discrimination

has not eliminated de facto racial discrimination in the United

States, the simple act of becoming independent does not

immediately eliminate the attitudes, customs, and

institutions of either the colonizer or the colonized.

We are in the age of neocolonialism. Instead of traditional

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colonialism where genocides, crimes against humanity,

torture and engineered famine were a common occurrence

now the new occurrences are coup, espionage, sabotage,

sedition, civil war, monetary policies, debt trap and even war

among the other techniques of this neocolonialism. Thanks to

Adolf Hitler for the end of traditional colonialism. The

Neocolonialism started soon after. Following second world

war, the United States and United Kingdom used their

political power, specially over their former and existing

colonies to create systems of economic management and

protection to mitigate the worst effects of free trade and

neutralize the competing appeals of communism.

Nature of Modern Capitalism

Capitalism produces greater economic growth and

productivity but at the expense of human rights, environment

and spiritual welfare. Also, although capitalism produces

economic growth, not all segments of capitalism share this

growth equally, and there is a much greater difference

between the rich and poor which has been drastically

increasing locally and globally either between people or

between nations. The modern face of capitalism is

corporatism which is a cruel form of exploitation and

monopoly. Corporations have numerous unethical practices

some of which are bribery, kickbacks, and complex financial

schemes of dubious ethics, price fixing, dangerous and harsh

working conditions etc. Corporatism has reduced large scale

competition with only remaining intense competition among

themselves. It can be said US corporations are the leading in

the world and providing the modern world with the needed

goods and services such as IT technology, aviation,

engineering, diet, medicine, militarily equipment etc. These

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corporations centered in the United States and their foreign

affiliates have more than $18 trillion in assets and employ

more than 32 million people (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010).

Corporate crimes are often looked over even in the

developed nations and even more so in poor nations. In US

history such injustice by industrial capitalists were resisted by

labor unions as they fought companies over issues such as

low wages and substandard working conditions. However,

over the years laws have been framed in such a way that

labor union activities have become more difficult to pursue

and implement.

One of the key pillars of US and western economy is the

military industrial complex. For the US it is too powerful and

gained “unwarranted influence” over American life as it acted

for its own interests and not necessarily for those of the

nation as a whole. According the former five-star general and

President Eisenhower American militarism is like the clouds

of war, where humanity is hanging on a cross of iron. In 2009

US military spending was $767 billion (including $92 billion

for veterans’ benefits) and accounted for almost 22% of all

federal spending (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). According to

Oscar Arias Nobel peace prize winner "when the defense

budget squanders money that could be used to repair schools

or to guarantee universal health care” (Arias, 1999). Western

and in specific American standard of living, domination and

prestige depends on this militarism. It’s nothing about global

justice and equity.

Corporate Capitalism

Corporatism is the face of capitalism today that has been

adopted aggressively by China. Corporatism thrives on

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modern day slavery. China, India and other south east Asian

nations provide these cheap slave labors. China has a land to

recruit slaves called East Turkistan and Tibet. What is

corporatocracy? It is the alliance between the political

establishments and the first-tier corporations of which banks

are top. The first-tier corporations control and own land,

labor and resources of earth and air through debt slavery and

technological patenting. They are the lords of all

corporations, the elites. The economy is driven by them. They

are the economy. In some nations such as US corporations

have huge influence on the government while in some such

as Russia and China the authoritarian governments have huge

influence on the corporations but in all these they work

together to extend and enhance their influence, prestige and

wealth. Corporatocracy seeking maximum productivity in

rivalry by competing in speed, quality, quantity and cost of

labor. This productivity inversely depends on population

welfare and standard of living as the labor strives hard to

improve standard of living and earn welfare which he

deserves free. For this they abolished welfare model of

human care and need fulfillment implementing a Darwinian

"strongest survives" model. In this socioeconomic context it is

the mad and irrational pursuit of labor class to perfect their

skills to achieve fulfilment of their needs resulting in mental,

moral and other demographic consequences. The predatory

economic system wishes to recruit the cheapest labor

but welfare model, according to them will not make the labor

force ready because welfare will cause many to stay home

such as women and who are with children.

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Global corporatocracy is thus managing preventable global

population suffering to suit their business activities, market

and labor supply. They will always maintain preventable

suffering and hardship of the working class. No other country

than China has provided such a luxury for global

corporatocracy. China is the perfect field of Malthusian trap.

People are kept like slaves and all that is needed from them is

maximum productivity. A welfare model to address improving

the labor class's socioeconomic status will backfire and cause

China to lose the productivity it is giving today to the western

businesses.

Remember corporatocracy is about monopoly on resources,

labor and production. This is why corporatocracy is like a

mafia organization or a cartel. It’s about maximizing profit,

power and pleasure for the corporates and maintaining

market for business growth. China and Western businesses

have made Africa, Latin America and Asian countries the field

for exploitation and monopoly. Africa has been hit the

hardest then the middle east.

So global financial institutions are based on a system of

exploitation and interest-based debt enslavement of

developing countries infiltrating these nations through the

elite individuals and powerful businesses. The elites of the

neocolonized nations benefit while the nations are deprived.

If they cannot control and impose by finance or politics, then

military is the last option. Through the cooperation and

coordination of corporate financial institutions, political

establishments and military industries they control and

influence the world’s GDP, create market for their products,

create shareholder wealth largely based in developed nations

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such as powerful corporations, businesses and even private

banks, reduce national debt and trade deficits of their

countries, increase geopolitical power, export culture,

increase currency value and manage liquidity of finance and

market. Examples of these achievements are seen in cold

war, countless sanctions, coups, sabotage, espionage, civil

war by intelligence services and wars against Muslim

countries in Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Why Secular Economic Systems Failed?

Secular economic theories haven't worked whether laissez

fair, Keynesian, Marxian or Malthusian due to prioritizing

Marxian materialism, profit and debt slavery. Keynesian

economics facilitates corporatocracy by giving western

governments and central western banks too much power on

wealth management with too little transparency and

accountability. Keynes had no idea of corporate supremacy in

future resulted by the democratic context and process of

election funding. Keynesian economics just proves the

Marxian theory of class exploitation even more

pronounced. Keynesian economics is totally designed to

support and address western industrialist capitalist

economies and the central governments and central banks

Keynes talk of are not plans of independent nation states and

sovereign national central banks but rather a plan

implementing a global hierarchy of banks and governments.

Laissez faire have failed too and no economy exists in the

world which is independent of government intervention.

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None of these works because they have not addressed the

fundamental problem of western capitalism and that is:

interest based economic and finance system enabling debt

slavery. It is essentially for this reason that western capitalism

never been successful and have a history of instability

through 20th and current century. Multiple global financial

crisis, increasing inequality, exploitation and subjugation of

humans and environment are the ever-evident features of

western corporate capitalism.

Why Interest Based Scheme is Harmful?

Modern financial system is based on interest on loans. The

growth of banks basically depends on the return of interest

with principal. More number of loans mean more money

created in this current monetary system and lesser number of

loans mean lesser amount of money created. To understand

this, we need to understand how money is created in modern

banking system. There are three customary ways money is

created in the economy. Note that we said customary

because of this method of money creation is not recognized

in university textbooks. This shows banking industry has

power to change monetary policies dynamically at whim.

More loans are given to create more money by charging

interest rates, what this has done is made the overall

economic situation more miserable, because by creating

money in this way, banks have increased the amount of

money in the economy by an average of 11.5% in UK a year

over the last 40 years, which has pushed up the prices of

houses and priced out an entire generation. The common

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people has been hit hard by this interest-bearing money-

making banking scheme.

The interest-bearing banking system is also responsible for

increasing national debt. The government is at the mercy of

the wealthy capitalists and rich bankers. It is the case, for

example with both US and UK that they are under deficit, in

other words their governments spend more than they earn

from taxes and creation of money. Due to this deficit they are

bound to take loans from insurance companies and pension

funds instead of banks for the UK and bonds, stocks and

federal reserve for the US, many of which are foreign

investors from China and Gulf. Most of these investors are

wealthy people who have large portion of share in stocks,

funds, bonds and banks. It is basically the government taking

loan from the rich.

To deal with the result of this interest-bearing scheme

government may take some drastic measures such as raising

taxes significantly, aggressively promoting trade to foreign

nations, spending cuts on welfare services for public, bailout

or outright default. Many of the western imperialist nations

have pursued one or more of these methods aggressively

among which are wars, coup and sanctions to protect their

financial interests. These aggressions may not have been

done to only reduce nominal debt but also to increase the

earning ability of the imperialist economy (GDP) in long term

as temporarily wars will increase debt. An improved economy

means more available interest-bearing debts to government

which also increases the debts as well. It is like a cycle and

devastating cycle it is which can lead to global warfare as

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debt ridden nations vie each other for control. Long terms

effects of national debt can be crippling as happened with

Greece and other Eurozone countries.

So, in current financial system money is created out of

nothing which is interlinked with interest scheme. Interest

based financial system is burdensome on individual, society

and nations. It is responsible for wealth gap, inflation, piling

national debt and global wars. Islamic financial system offers

a simple solution. It offers wealth creation through collective

effort and not like the one where one becomes powerful at

the expense of other.

The Islamic Solution

First understand growth without welfare is slavery. The global

society must not then emphasize these Darwinian existences

where strength whether mental, physical or financial

determines success rather equitable system must be

implemented to reward honest work yet care for the weak

and the vulnerable. Islamic society is based on Islam and as

such doesn't succumb to these exploitative systems. That is

why Islam is not flexible with postmodern socio-economic

changes as its regulations and rules are all encompassing

including the economy. Islamic economic system is based on

welfare, private ownership and accountability. This model is

inherent in Islam and not a development of juristic need. Its

neither godless and selfish like capitalism nor totalitarian like

socialism nor predatory like corporatism. Islamic system is a

system of politics, economic and finance which prioritizes

welfare over profit, equity over exploitation, divine

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supremacy over Marxian materialism. Islamic economic

system cannot work in vacuum but implemented as a whole

package called Shariah Law. While profit is essential but is

secondary and shared through the wide-ranging taxation

system of Islam. God knows that not everyone will be rich,

but every rich can make sure the needy and unfortunate ones

are taken care of thereby eradicating class conflict which

driven historical materialism. Islam proposes this model of

care. Secular economic theories haven't worked whether

laissez fair, Keynesian, Marxian or Malthusian due to

prioritizing Marxian materialism, profit and debt slavery.

The key features of Islamic economic system are interest free

scheme, welfare model from diverse taxation schemes,

Islamic financial security schemes and gold back system.

Islamic system safeguards us from the harm of inflation

because Islamic system is based on interest free scheme and

natural currency such as gold and by these standard banks

are limited to create money as much as the speed of gold

mining. Islamic system is just and fair for corporate

governance as it holds the accountable responsible for their

duties. In current financial system the owners of companies

can walk away in case of default. This is called limited liability.

Often this helps the rich shareholders and harms the

suppliers. Islamic tax is levied on human agents whether

Muslim or non-Muslim and not on abstract entities such as

firms as is the case with current financial system. By this

legalized identity of abstract entities such as firms, rich

corporations escape paying tax by deception and legal

loopholes. Islamic laws on business and finance are meant to

prevent corporate tricks and deceptions and many of these

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laws have been mentioned in classical books such as in

Qawaid Al-Ahkam by Allamah Hill, a book on Shia

jurisprudence. This book establishes many rules and

prohibitions relating to trade, finance and business.

Current financial system is based on the philosophies of

McNamara and Friedman which are aggressive leadership,

deregulation, profit at any cost without any accountability or

transparency. Islamic system when performing financial

investment appraisals, financing from sources, financial

control and dealing with capital markets foreign or local,

obligates human and environmental welfare through Shariah

law’s wide-ranging rules on Haram and Halal. This welfare

can be its ability to empower human demography, human

health, empower the human capital, effect on the job

industry, effect on society and morality, effect on human

rights and effect on environment for example. Islamic

investment should not only consider an achievement on

economic benefits but also avoidance of social, human and

environmental harm as an obligation and reaping social,

human and environmental benefits as charitable. In current

economic and financial system minimum wage is set on the

basis of the lowest paid labor. This does not do justice to

those who are more skillful. Islamic system proposes a

minimum wage which should be defined based on job

category. A highly skilled person should have a different

minimum wage than a hard labor who works as a street

cleaner. This is because according to Quran 39:9 those who

know are not equal to those who do not know.

The Islamic Tax

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Tax is defined as a compulsory contribution to state revenue,

levied by the government on workers' income and business

profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and

transactions. Muslims and non-Muslims in the Islamic society

must pay varied types of tax except non-Muslims must only

pay one kind called Jizya. Paying of Jizya is for their security

and not because letting them practice their religion, because

that would mean if no Jizya was paid Islamic rule would

forcefully convert them. No, not this, but if no Jizya is paid by

non-Muslim subjects of Islamic rule then they will not enjoy

the protection and benefits of Islamic rule, in fact they will be

evicted or punished. Zakat and Khumus are demanded from

people of faith even though people who are not of faith are

eligible to be its recipients. Jizya is thus applied for non-

Muslims who are not people of faith. Islamic tax is not

personal, but Quran mentions state appointed collectors of

Zakat as was the practice of also the first caliphs of Islam. So

Islamic tax is political. Islamic taxation targets monetary items

and natural resources divided in these categories: a) Zakat b)

Khumus c) Jizya d) Rkaz e) Ushr. Islamic society must

gradually replace western secular taxation model with Islamic

one.

The recipients of Islamic taxes are the following:

1. God, His messenger and Imams of Ahl Bayt: These

constitute the Islamic government. The twelfth imam

of Ahl Bayt is in occultation now. Whether we should

store his rightful share or spend on his behalf need

addressing.

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2. Orphans, poor and the travelers of Banu Hasim: This

is the tribe of Prophet Muhammad (s)

3. The destitute: This can be the lower and lower middle

class.

4. The needy or poor: This can be the homeless, those in

poverty etc.

5. The tax collectors: Those who are in the

administration of taxation system.

6. In the path of God: All charitable work. Some

examples include public services, social welfare and

research

7. People burdened with debt: Those who are unable to

pay debt.

8. The wayfarers'/travelers: Those who are stranded on

their journeys when the Islamic society is their transit

9. People in bondage or slavery: In modern world these

can include prostitutes, child labors, child soldiers

etc.

10. Those who have inclined towards Islam: This is

basically for those who are inclined to Islam but have

not yet accepted Islam. These can be non-Muslims in

the Islamic society or those new Muslims who have

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financial problems and are weak to fully commit

themselves to Islam.

Islamic tax must be paid before the taxable people decide to

spend on the luxuries of life. The Islamic governance must

decide for Islamic society what is the necessary monetary

amount to be deducted before tax according to nisab. This

necessary amount is the basic standard of living that

someone must spend to survive as per economic class and

social custom, and Islam has set a limit of this nisab on

various trade goods and monetary amounts. Sometimes

special considerations should be given to special need people

for whom the necessary amount may be increased. So for

example if a rich person reaches nisab amount on his total

monetary amount then he has to pay tax on all of this total

amount after a year has passed since he accumulated this

amount. Now imagine someone has accumulated hundred

times the amount of nisab then after a year he has to pay

Islamic tax so is he allowed to squander this money until the

minimum amount is left at next year? Then everyone would

be paying the minimum tax which would never increase

welfare of the Islamic society. So once he has nisab then he is

not allowed to spend in any activity except in necessary

spending such as saving of life, medical, jihad, or business

investments. The nisab wealth cannot be spent in waste.

What if a shrewd businessman gives excuse of investment

every year to avoid paying Islamic tax? If such a pattern is

found the businessman must be charged all the tax he didn't

pay since the first nisab he accumulated. We do not want an

American system which cheats the people in billions by

excuse of business expenses due to legal loopholes. Herein

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lies the accountability part which also demands transparency

in all the financial activities of the Islamic society.

Now this policy may be well suited for people who earn

yearly mostly manufacturing businesses. However people

who earn monthly also should pay tax and they must have an

income which is consistently amounting to nisab value every

month and when they earn this every month yearly then they

must pay tax on the last income which fulfills the year for

hawl. Again the income must take account of the basic needs

as calculated by the Islamic government and deducted then

tax paid on the remaining.

Segregation in Employment

I have discussed before about rape culture in America. It is

worth repeating here. Research indicates that up to one-third

of U.S. women will experience a rape or sexual assault,

including attempts, at least once in their lives (Barkan,

2012). The researchers, Melanie Randall and Lori Haskell

(1995, p. 22), concluded that “it is more common than not for

a woman to have an experience of sexual assault during their

lifetime. About 20%–30% of women students in anonymous

surveys report being raped or sexually assaulted (including

attempts), usually by a male student they knew beforehand”

(Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000; Gross, Winslett, Roberts, &

Gohm, 2006). There is no doubt that free mixing along with a

pornified nude society is responsible for this.

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This is why the employment industry in the Islamic society

must be segregated with men only and women only business.

This segregation does not necessarily means total separation

of the sexes. What this means is controlled free mixing needs

to be adopted. There are contexts when free mixing will lead

to sin such as workplace and prolonged close company of

men and women. There are free mixings when it is a

necessity such as markets, superstores, hospitals etc. So, any

free mixing setting which prolongs company and closes the

physical and emotional gap between the two sexes is to be

banned by Islamic governance as part of blocking the means.

Apart from free mixing there is also the concept of Khulwa

where man and woman become alone with prolonged

companionship. This is mostly true on digital world and this

has led to webcam sex as evidenced many times in news and

media outlets. No blame in khulwa to see a wife to be or

husband to be as long the intention is to seek marriage. Some

jurists even permit to see whole naked body of the female for

purpose of marriage. This is rational as sometimes some

hidden physical feature may distance both wife and husband

to be.

Segregated Social System

Controlled free mixing to minimize the probability of flirting

and free sex is to be implemented. Education and jobs must

be segregated because here the probability of flirting and

free sex is highest. There needs to be women only education

institutions and men only. Job places such as offices where

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employees sit and work must be segregated such as men only

offices and women only offices. Women and men only

businesses can serve clients of opposite sex provided

interaction doesn't go beyond professionalism and remains in

the workplace place of service discharge. Places where

people go for necessities of life such as hospitals,

supermarkets etc. should have segregated places for men

and women unless medically required. Transport systems

must have segregated places. Any public or private

institutions providing services to the public should have

segregated places for men and women waiting. Man and

woman related by marriage or blood need not be segregated

and thus relevant places should have family spaces such as

restaurants. Islamic film industry mixing of actors and

actresses must not be free but supervised by morality police

and allowed as minimally as possible for the requirements of

permissible films, that is allowed only when actual shooting is

required provided such shooting doesn't violate Islamic

norms such as touching between unrelated man and woman.

Directors must teach script to the actors actresses in a

segregated manner. It is thus encouraged for actors and

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actresses to be related by marriage or blood when touching

or prolonged togetherness is required.

Leisure and Entertainment

Modern secular life has become stressful. Leisure and

entertainment is sought by the members of society to attain

a sense of self-calm and balance and to relax their selves.

Today’s leisure and entertainment have diversified and

multiplied from few options of ancient past. However, such

post modern leisure and entertainment have evolved without

Divine guidance and purely on basis of society’s hedonistic

impulses. Islam is not against relaxation of the mind and body

but it has guidelines and protocols that need to be adopted.

The principle of Islamic filtering of any entertainment must

be thematic and message oriented. When an entertainment

is to be permitted by Islamic law the morality police of Islamic

governance backed by Islamic psychologists, jurists and

cultural anthropologists must analyze the theme and

message such entertainment propagates. So, every

entertainment has the evident and apparent and then it has

the hidden and the underlying message. Both must be

understood and filtered until it is allowed under Islamic

jurisdiction. We must apply the concept of “blocking the

means” very carefully and judiciously when it comes to

leisure and entertainment.

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Politics and Government

What is Politics and Governance?

Power refers to the ability to have one’s will carried out

despite the resistance of others. In Islam ultimate power is

for God and not the people. Politics refers to the distribution

and exercise of power within a society. It is not the practice

of politicians however which consist of lies, deception, false

promises etc. Polity refers to the political institution through

which power is distributed and exercised. Government means

the person, group of persons or institutions which direct the

political affairs of a state, society, group etc. but it can also

mean the type of rule (political system) by which a state is

run. In this sense any organization social or otherwise is also

a governance with a certain amount of politics in it and that

means, family, schools, businesses, the state or nation etc.

Historically power has been legitimized by force, by society's

support (popular vote or revolutionary charisma), by

inheritance or by religion (rule of religion). The Prophetic rule

of Medina which established the first Islamic state was a

result of religio-political revolution made possible by the

charisma of Prophet and his Divine message. This same

theme we also see during the 1979 Islamic revolution of Iran

through the charisma of Islamic cleric and philosopher Imam

Khomeini.

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Political Islam

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Is Islam Political? Man, by nature is political and hence he

does not like anarchy. History has been the collective

activities of politics. This is due to the fact that man as Khalifa

of God on earth needed to be political to represent His

authority and dominion against the authority and dominion

of the devil Djinns (Quran 2:30). Politics can also be stated as

organization, management and dispensation of justice. In

another perspective politics is control over men and

exercising policies. God has sent laws through prophets

throughout history just so that a) man can connect with God

b) man can live with justice and peace through God. Prophet

Muhammad (PBUH) mission was no different as some articles

here show. Islam as being the message and legislation of God

is also thus political. Due to this reason all scholars of Islam

are unanimous of the necessity of Imamate (political

leadership) for Muslims. Muslims thus are required

collectively to pursue a religio-political construct for their

existence through Sharia Law irrespective of what others

think or feel about this mission. The minority or non-Muslims

are obliged to obey non-faith-based Islamic laws as well. An

Islamic existence is beneficial for all aspects of human

existence.

Political and legal philosophy of Islam is not centered around

nationalism or racism. It is centered around the concept of

Ummah: The community of the faithful. This transcends

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culture, race and ethnicity. A powerful uniting factor which

the enemies fear. In this multi cultured, multi-racial and

multiethnic political and legal existence the rule of just law

reigns where tribes are not preferred, races are not

preferred, or even family attachments are not preferred. This

political entity is based on meritocracy and piety. Piety and

merits are the two standards by which offices are

determined. It is because by design preferring merit and

righteousness the world will maintain its peace and heal

itself. Also know that administration and implementation

of Islamic law including the declaration of Jihad needs

generally needs political authority (Sulta) and judgmental

power (Qada) because prophet didn't act as a military leader

or judge until He was the Head of state of Medina. So the

Islamic society will not see race, ethnicity, tribe or nationality

to determine political and public offices, rather only piety and

merit. So a foreigner can also be eligible if he meets the two

conditions. However, such a foreigner needs to be

naturalized. What I mean by naturalization is prolonged living

in the Islamic society, so he has come to know the culture,

society and the system and people also come to know him.

So some kind of proof needs to be established for his piety

and merit.

Islam Rejects Nationalism

Today nationalism is eating up the Muslims. While west has

grown and become matured it saw the evils of its nationalism

and has abhorred it. Muslims are still blinded by nationalism.

Nationalism is forbidden by belief, sentiment, tone, attitude

and policy. These tribalism, nationalism and racism, are

ethical philosophies which state moral actions as right and

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wrong, good and bad based on what empowers and supports

the racial or national or tribal cohesion and survival

irrespective of the consequences and rationality of such

actions. Since nationalists see national strength as the only

thing that makes a nation "good," nationalists will use any

means necessary to achieve that goal.

A Muslim's primary that is existential identity is by his

religion, not by his race or ethnicity or tribe and neither by

the culture resulted from such. When Muslim makes the

latter primary, it creates division and divisiveness in the mind

which is an erosion and disuniting factor of the Ummah. We

see this in the hadith where Prophet forbade such secular

identity:

We were in the company of the Prophet (

ﷺ

) in a expedition. A

large number of emigrants joined him and among the

emigrants there was a person who used to play jokes (or play

with spears); so he (jokingly) stroked an Ansari man on the

hip. The Ans-ari got so angry that both of them called their

people. The Ansari said, "Help, O Ansar!" And the emigrant

said "Help, O emigrants!" The Prophet (

ﷺ

) came out and said,

"What is wrong with the people (as they are calling) this call

of the period of Ignorance? "Then he said, "What is the

matter with them?" So he was told about the stroke of the

emigrant to the Ansari. The Prophet (

ﷺ

) said, "Stop this (i.e.

appeal for help) for it is an evil call”...(Bukhari)

We see the Sahabas from Muhajir and Ansar group turned to

nationalism and tribalism in the presence of the Prophet. The

prophet came to Medina and made a brotherhood among

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them but these Sahabas from both groups forgot it. So, to say

I am Iranian, or Turkish is nationalist tone because it portrays

ideological racial/ethnic inclination but to say I am from Iran

or Turkey is acceptable because it portrays a geographical

root. These self-identifications by “I am Iranian, Turkish,

Malaysian” etc. represent a secular value-based identity

which Muslims and non-Muslims have created while Islamic

identity is unique and faith-based sourced from the Divine

and not from the lifeless land of your ancestors. The Islamic

society does not need these secular self-identifications to be

inclusive of non-Muslims. The Islamic society is also the

Ummah and Ummah can also include the minority non-

Muslims as Prophet named the Jews of Medina part of the

Ummah as long as they submitted to the Islamic rule and the

Islamic society.

Unfortunately we have people today such as some Iranians

want to boast about their pagan ancestors of Zoroastrians,

some Egyptians about their pagan Pharaohs, some Tunisians

about the pagan Carthage, some Turks about their Ottomans

even though not all Ottomans were loyal to Islam, and so on

with the other Muslim ethnicities. Several verses of Quran

such as Quran 4:139, Quran 2:170, Quran 2:156, Quran 7:172

prohibits pagan ancestor veneration which is a core feature

of nationalism. Muslim Jahiliyya into ancestor veneration is

divisive, against monotheistic identity and against the

requirement of “uniting on rope of God” in Quran 3:103. This

jahiliyya must cease.

The Muslim needs to return to the verse 59:10 which shows

believers are one community with a conscience of solidarity

and empathy among themselves. This unity and monolithic

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empathy on faith rejects nationalism, racism, tribalism and

aristocracy. This rejects veneration of pagan ancestors be

they Cyrus, Carthage, Pharaohs or any others. The veneration

and admiration of Islamic ancestors is because of their faith

and devotion to God and because they helped the evolution

of Islamic lineage and Islam i.e. God’s rightful dominion and

rule. These people are the true citizens of heaven while those

who die for nationalism, racism etc. are the citizens of a

jahiliyya.

Contradicting the concept of Ummah is concept of

nationalism racism and tribalism. For example, this has

resulted in disunity. Some examples are: Muslim

countries lack bite when it comes to implementing pro-

Islamic foreign policies. It is because they are not biting

with all the teeth! Muslim countries' interests are not

only divided but also conflicting because their aims and

plans are not coordinated and collaborated in Islamic

unity, such as when one Muslim country makes a policy

in relation to another foreign non-Muslim country it

doesn't consider how it will affect other Muslim

countries, or for example trade, skills, technology and

research are not being shared and collaborated in and

as a result their security services and armed forces do

not collaborate and share intelligence to protect Islam's

and Muslim security and interests. Note that I am only

calling those countries Muslim whose governments have

shown even minimal loyalty to Islam and Muslim

diaspora and not those who are sold to America and

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Zionists. So for example Turkey, Iran, Qatar and Pakistan

must be the first to initiate Islamic unity. Iran has hinted

towards when they called for an united Islamic military

to protect the Rohingya

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The Concept of The Ummah

We Muslims are defined by the Divine values and not by

our races, ethnicities, nationalities or ancestors so we

have been named the Ummah, and our united lands to

be under Hukm Allah and thus we have been named

Khaleefa. The divine morality is collection of the values

which Allah has cherished for humanity and His

believing servants. Our shared values among all Muslim

races, nationalities, classes and tribes is the divine

morality. This is what define us and has defined us as

Quran and Prophet have stated in many verses, the

farewell pilgrimage and in many numerous Hadiths.

Verses and hadiths which talk of one community of

believers, one body of the believer, disregard for skin

color and wealth distinction, Muslim marriages among

different races, tribes, nationalities and classes are all

based on and proofs of oneness of our values and faith.

These values and faith are what is divine morality: Allah

assigned good and bad, right and wrong i.e. the criterion

of judgement and salvation.

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A Muslim of one race/nationality/tribe/class must not

fear the culture of Muslim of another

race/nationality/tribe/class due to differences among

their cultural perception and practices as long as such

practices and perceptions are Shariah compliant. We

must not be afraid of our foreigner Muslim brethren just

because their Shariah compliant culture is different from

us. This fear is being secular and xenophobic, racist.

So in order to usher the era of divine morality among

Muslims we need to have one universal common

jurisdiction to practice and enforce Shariah law even

though this jurisdiction is divided among multiple

Muslim demography, localities and rule. When we have

established a universal jurisdiction among Muslim

geographies, we can forget the preferences of locality,

nationalism, tribalism, aristocracy and racism. We will

have a universal domain for the pious and merited to

rule over us and have no fear and lack of trust of the

foreigner vis-à-vis local. This is the true spirit of Quran

3:103.

As being the just Ummah (ummatan wasatan) in Quran

2:143 we are also not isolationists and exclusionists of

non-Muslims. We are the representatives (Khaleefa) of

Allah and not representatives of our races, nationalities,

tribes or classes and this means we must be just and fair

towards all servants of Allah whether humans, animals

and even the nature we exist in.

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The Dark Beginnings of Secularism

During the French Revolution, one of the first acts of the new

National Assembly on November 2, 1789, was to confiscate

all Church property to pay off the national debt, so that

secularization began with dispossession, humiliation and

marginalization. This segued into outright violence during the

September Massacres of 1792, when the mob fell upon the

goals of Paris and slaughtered between two and three

thousand prisoners, many of them Christian priests. The glory

of secularism comes not from its benevolence but from its

empowerment of human ego. Free from the divine the

human made himself his god defining his own path and

purpose of life. Fundamentalism has always existed in a

symbiotic relationship with a secularization that is

experienced as cruel, violent and invasive as the history of

secularism shows. History of secularization is thus brutal. It

continues to be in atheistic communist China, North Korea

and nationalist racist Russia.

Why Democracy is Harmful?

Quran 6:116 rejects mob rule and democracy is a kind of mob

rule. Mob rule is irrational and depends on quantity rather

than quality. Efficacy of secular models of political systems is

not guaranteed by diversified field expertise of individuals.

That is why you will see modern democratic and election

systems are broken and impotent: Voters are unqualified,

gullible, sentimental, ignorant, political parties are paid by

the corporatocracy, electoral doesn't mean majority will,

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citizens submit themselves to few elite people who are

themselves chosen by their inter party dirty politics, the party

system which is divisive at the religious, national and social

levels and most importantly democracy is baseless of

morality and divine guidance. Democracy lacks any purpose

except to divide people, win votes and empower capitalist-

politician marriage. God thus rejects this mob rule which is

rooted in number and not faith and merit.

Islamic Meritocracy

Quran has repeatedly favored the knowledgeable and thus

they are the best people to form and decide on governance

and model of collective guidance. For the Muslim Ummah

God has chosen twelve wise Imams from Prophet’s family to

be leaders and successors and those who represent them

politically must be champions in piety and merit as well.

Quran 22:41 establishes the rule of theocratic meritocracy

that binds piety with knowledge. Both of these features need

each other. In an Islamic model of governance, the people of

merit will be only allowed to choose the leader of the state

and other relevant offices. These potential voters will be

required to pass tests on primary concerns of the state:

Islamic faith and law, Islamic history both classic and

contemporary, morality and ethics, economy, local and

international security and leadership. These tests/exams

must be modelled by Islamic law, Islamic history, famous

Islamic biographies and contemporary developments in these

fields. Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, 'He who knows [the workings

of] his time is never overwhelmed by its obscurities.’[Tuhaf al-

`Uqoul, no. 356]

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Essential feature of Islamic political system

• Right to life

• Right to justice

• Right to sustenance and livelihood

• Right to knowledge

• Right to welfare and charity

• Right to marriage and family

• Right to self-defense against injustice

• Right to property

• Freedom from liability

• Right to religious freedom

The Family

What is The Family?

Many aspects of the family have been discussed in previous

sections. Here I will primarily discuss patriarch role of the

husband which constitutes the traditional nuclear family and

the nature of Islamic family. The family performs several

essential functions for society. It socializes children, it

provides emotional and practical support for its members, it

helps regulate sexual activity and sexual reproduction, and it

provides its members with a social identity. Love doesn't

grow in a vacuum but needs preparatory groundwork of

which marriage is the major psychological force to initiate

long term commitment. In the real-world love needs

marriage unlike in the movies. Contemporary research

generally finds that marriage does benefit both sexes:

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married people, women and men alike, are generally happier

than unmarried people (whether never married, divorced, or

widowed), score better on other measures of psychological

well-being, are physically healthier, have better sex lives, and

have lower death rates (Williams, 2003; Waite, Luo, & Lewin,

2009).

Most sociology and marriage-and-family textbooks in the

United States during the 1950s maintained that the male

breadwinner–female homemaker nuclear family was the best

arrangement for children, as it provided for a family’s

economic and child-rearing needs. Any shift in this

arrangement, they warned, would harm children and by

extension the family as a social institution and even society

itself. This shift from traditional norm has occurred and

today's family is detached and distanced even if they are

living together. In the real world, we hear that parents are

too busy working at their jobs to raise their kids properly. We

hear of domestic violence. We hear of kids living without

fathers, because their parents either are divorced or never

were married in the first place. We hear of young people

having babies, using drugs, and committing violence.

The United States and many other societies primarily

practice endogamy, in which marriage or coupling occurs

within one’s own social category or social group.

In egalitarian families, fathers and mothers share authority

equally. Although this type of family has become more

common in the United States and other Western societies,

patriarchal families are still more common.

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The Islamic Family

The Islamic family is the smallest representative unit of God's

will and in this unit the housewife is the most important

social role (Rahman, 2020). This unit is the most important

cog in the wheel to create the future of Islamic ummah, the

Islamic human capital. Feminist individualism and personal

ambition cannot be the dominant trend in this patriarch unit.

The Islamic family is thus a platform, an organization based

on patriarchy, piety, lineage building on God conscience and

empowerment of ummah. The Islamic family is founded on

marriage. Marriage is defined as sakeena in the Quran that is

the platform of love. This divinely infused tranquility

flourishes on the ideological standpoint of patriarchy where

both the man and woman will know well their respective

positions, duties and responsibilities due to Islam creating

values and traits which both can agree on under God and His

Prophet. When positions are defined properly, and features

and traits shared by the couple and agreed on then

interaction and communication become smooth in a

matrimony.

The adult Muslim man and woman has right to choose their

marriage partner while their guardian only working in an

advisory role specially for the woman. There is no place for

forced marriage and marriages done for financial reasons,

neither elitism nor social class has any weight in Islamic

marriage. The most important thing in an Islamic marriage is

piety of the couples and their mutual admiration of each

other in starting an Islamic family in hardship or ease. The

Islamic court will ensure the marriage is taking place with the

intention of marriage and prolonged companionship

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committed on the basis of piety and righteousness. Towards

this end the court can inquire and investigate the position

and backgrounds of the potential couples and their

guardians.

Can a Muslim woman marry non-Muslim man? The patriarchy

is one of the reasons why a Muslim woman is prohibited to

marry non-Muslim man. A non-Muslim man’s leadership and

dominance will influence the worldview and upbringing of

the children and as this is very harmful for the Ummah it has

been prohibited. Also, a husband and wife form a family unit

and there is often inclination and sympathy. A husband may

incline to wife and vice-versa. That is why Quran and Sunnah

commands to marry pious and chaste men and women. For

Muslim men the chaste practicing Jews and Christians are

allowed as wives but not idol worshipping/polytheistic

women. Due to a dominant position of men both by their

finance, biology and psychology he may persuade the

Christian or Jewish wife to adopt Islam due to similarities in

the religions and the prophets. Also, Islam unlike Judaism and

Christianity clarifies and exposes the proper and greater

contexts of Christian and Jewish prophets by names and

missions which may become a persuading factor for the

Jewish and Christian wives. However, Quran rejects

polytheism and nothing in polytheism is revealed or

prophetic so there is no fundamental common ground. Due

to this fundamental difference a Muslim is prohibited to

marry polytheist women.

Another issue that critics always mention is Islamic marriage

can be incest because Islam allows marriage of close

relatives. However, this practice is scientific and rational. This

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practice psychologists and evolutionary scientists call kin

selection. It is that favor the reproductive success of one’s

relatives, sometimes even at a cost to the individual’s own

survival. It can help explain a range of social interactions and

not just altruistic cooperation. The simplest cases are that

when interacting individuals are more closely related, they

should be more likely to cooperate, show more restraint, and

show less aggression. Kin selection theory predicts when

individuals should behave altruistically and also when they

should curtail their selfishness.

In a happy and devoted matrimony, the standard of

relationship is not by material gratification or material

fulfilment but by exchange of continuous intense empathy

and feelings. The question is never asked by any as to how

much my husband or wife doing, rather they just do it. Unlike

in feminism it's all about questions such as, did my husband

do his part or how much is he doing, that I should for him.

This dead tasteless relationship better not exist! Recipe for

fast divorce. The feminists don't understand that the meaning

of matrimony is devotion, feelings and spiritual ecstasy as

Quran stated. Even though you can hire maid to clean your

house, or nanny to look after children or prostitute to fulfill

sexual desires having wife achieves them in a totally different

meaning of human existence, a relational existence of

feelings and not of commodity.

The Islamic family is a hierarchy and is a cohesive unit. It is an

organization and in a cohesive organization equality of its

members creates rivalry and friction. That means their

positions are unequal with husband being the authority and

providing leadership role with wife obeying the husband and

providing advisory role. This means husband’s will and

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decision can be enforced as long as it does not violate the

commands of God or His prophet. Consider the polygamous

family. The more people there are the greater and efficient

needs the control, organization and leadership as multiple

wives with children, without a strong leadership chaos will

reign. This leadership Islam prescribed on man. In monogamy

feminists often claim marriage is a partnership (which also

does not work) but this breaks apart in polygamy, that is why

you will see they hate polygamy as they just abhor male

leadership. Now some feminists may say make polygamous

family a democracy. So, who will decide on the voters? Will

adult sons and daughters be able to vote? What if husband is

the main earner or the main brain behind the family so why

will others have equal vote like him? In fact, political

democracy is also a sham which ends up empowering corrupt

politicians and rich corporatists.

Divorce and The Islamic Family

Divorce can lead to instability that can have negative impacts

on any children that may be involved and also on the adults

involved. That is why divorce is the most hated lawful act in

sight of God in Islam unless couples prove that one or both

had committed unislamic actions such as mental cruelty,

adultery, iniquity or other such unislamic behaviors. In the

United States 42% of American marriages end in divorce after

15 years while in Islamic society this figure should be close to

less than 1 percent. The American emphasis on feminism,

independence and individualism makes divorce and/or

cohabiting couple separating more likely than in other

nations;

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Also married adults are happier and otherwise have greater

psychological well-being than cohabiting adults living outside

wedlock. This is because the very nature of marriage creates

strong psychological commitment. That is why the children of

cohabiting that is unmarried parents tend to exhibit lower

well-being of various types than those of married parents:

they are more likely to engage in delinquency and other

antisocial behavior, and they have lower academic

performance and worse emotional adjustment.

In Islam both husband and wife can seek separation through

different rules for who initiated the separation. However, as

we saw divorce is most hated lawful act to God because it

breaks family apart so reconciliation and continuity is highly

encouraged. For example we see in Quran 33:28-29 the

righteous wife is patient and never burdening his husband

beyond his mental, physical and financial abilities but rather

live with him in patience, love and sympathy while hoping

great reward from God for her perseverance and loyalty to

her husband. God is thus guiding the women who may be

demanding and thinking selfishly without consideration and

understanding. So this verse is prescribing or rather

proposing and encouraging a principle of loyalty, devotion

and perseverance in love and sympathy. This noble principle

was also lived by the great wife of prophet Ayyub during his

severe disease. However, if the wife/wives unable to bear

such with the husband then she may seek divorce through

the law of khul. This verse also indicates that the husband be

generous and helping in providing for the wife/wives who

wish to leave him due to their perceived lacking in him. So,

the verse encourages the husband to be generous in

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providing for his departing wife/wives instead of making use

of the khul.

Quran also prescribed a period for realization of the divorce.

So the wives’ waiting period is to give her time to prepare

emotionally, financially and biologically. Quran has given this

period of divorce also because there is a hope that the

divorce will not take place. The father's responsibility towards

the children continues however until the children become

matured and able or until the divorced woman marries a new

man and gets custody of children.

Islamic Polygamy

Polygamy has been prescribed and it has many benefits:

safeguarding from married and unmarried infidelity, wealth

distribution, relationship building and cohesion, growth of

family values, improved demography, enhanced sexual

experience through virginity and chastity some of the

benefits. Some say why a woman cannot marry multiple

husbands. Well such an arrangement existed among the

Nayar people of India where woman would have several

sexual partners during her lifetime, but any man with whom

she had children had no responsibilities toward them. Also, in

such a setting the patriarchy construct is defeated as multiple

men cannot be equal leaders at same time and it would be a

challenge to make one male leader over the rest even though

they have equal access to the woman! Then there are issues

of inheritance and child lineage which can turn out wrong

even using genetic science of today. Also, evolutionary sexual

selection theory states that because of their lower minimum

parental investment, men can achieve greater reproductive

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success by mating with multiple women than women can

achieve by mating with multiple men. Evidence also indicates

that, across cultures, men report a greater openness to sex, a

larger desired number of sexual partners, and a greater

desire to have sex sooner in a relationship. Willingness of

modern-day men to have sex with attractive strangers, and

the prevalence of extramarital affairs in similar frequencies

cross-culturally, are evidence of an ancestral past in which

polygamous mating strategies were adopted (Schmitt, D.P.

(2003)). This is also corroborated by another research which

when asked about their regrets in life, men are more likely to

wish they had had sex with more partners, whereas women

wish they had tried harder to avoid getting involved with men

who did not stay with them (Roese et al., 2006). That means

women prefer a stable one to one relationship whereas men

prefer one to many relationships. These differences may be

due to differential evolutionary-based predispositions of men

and women. Evolutionary arguments suggest that women

should be more selective than men in their choices of sex

partners because they must invest more time in bearing and

nurturing their children than do men (most men do help out,

of course, but women simply do more; (Buss & Kenrick,

1998). Islamic polygamy is just natural and divinely ordained.

The Islamic Wife

Wife's main social role should be caring for the house,

children and husband and then as a secondary role she may

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engage in jobs where stress

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and demands are minimum.

Why is it ok for a nanny to be caretaker of house and children

but when wife does that, she is considered oppressed? The

social feminist perception thinks being a housewife is against

female dignity and independence. In reality in a social

existence every human soul is dependent on someone and

something. In recent history women have been increasingly

involved in work force not only as a demand of feminism but

also to want to sustain their families due to not enough

income of the husband. However, an Islamic family in the

Islamic society should receive Islamic welfare if the husband

is of low-income category so that wife does not need to be

under the stress of outside work and in homework. When

both spouses work outside the home, moreover, it is more

difficult to juggle the many demands of family life, especially

childcare, and family life can be more stressful. Such stress

can reduce marital happiness and make divorce more likely.

Spouses may also have less time for each other when both

are working outside the home, making it more difficult to

deal with problems they may be having.

Child Upbringing

When it comes to child discipline and upbringing almost

three-quarters of Americans think that it’s sometimes

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Stress affects higher in women than men and it can have

disastrous effects on women and children she is caring for. Stress

can cause physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual harms in

women. The cumulative effect of these shatters the woman, her

family and marriage. Islam has thus divided social roles for man and

woman. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/5545-

women-and-stress

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necessary to discipline a child with a good, hard spanking.

Islam believes in both authoritative and empathy-based

discipline. While its necessary sometimes to be harsh its also

beneficial to approach children indiscipline in an empathetic

and engaging way making them think and feel sorry for their

wrong and indiscipline. It stems from the belief that innocent

creatures of God are most ripe ground to accept and

embrace monotheism and too much harshness may trigger a

sway towards the inner evil of every soul.

Family Violence

When it comes to family violence observers claim that

husbands are just as likely as wives to be beaten by a spouse,

and there is evidence that husbands experience an act of

violence from their wives about as often as wives do from

their husbands however men due to their greater physical

and mental prowess can do more harm in violence than

women. Western family violence is also a result of alcohol

and drugs consumption. However, Islam has only allowed the

husband as the leader of the family to discipline the wife.

Family as like any governance needs guidance and rules.

Islam establishes these and chose husband as the primary

enforcer. A hierarchy demands a system of accountability and

rule. In a family the man is the head and the ruler, guide and

financier. He has the right to discipline the family in case they

err and act evil. So, Islam has allowed the husband to

discipline a disobedient/arrogant wife in varying stages

depending on the severity of the disobedience. This is an

Islamic social construct applied to also non-Muslim family.

The beating must not be injurious but only disciplinary. A wife

being a mother, one who also responsible of the household,

and closer to children through socialization and social

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interaction as discussed in previous sections, her wrongdoing

and disobedience will be extremely detrimental to the family.

One of the grievous ways a wife can be disobedient is by

adultery and being wasteful of wealth. Note that given the

high qualities that is demanded in personal characteristics

and morals of a Muslim husband or wife it is highly unlikely

the relationship will go to this point of conflict and

disciplining.

The Gay and Lesbian Family?

Islamic society rejects gay and lesbian family. How can gay

couple emulate the love, care and emotion of a mother and

lesbian couple emulate the dominance and guidance of a

father? This is not possible and psychologically destructive to

children upbringing and self-identity realization.

The Orphans

About 19% of U.S. children live in poverty, a figure that rises

to 44% for children living just with their mothers and to 53%

for children under the age of 6 living just with their mothers.

These orphans are neglected and are ripe for committing

social deviance. Quran and Sunnah placed special emphasis

on the orphans and Islamic society must ensure orphan care

as per dictates of the Quran and Sunnah. In Islam the orphan

is one whose father died while he or she has not reached

maturity of mind and sexuality. As most of the times maturity

of sexuality follows maturity of mind then most Islamic jurists

have said maturity of sexuality relieves orphanhood.

However, if maturity of sexuality did not also result in

maturity of mind then such a person still remains orphan and

this is also the view of Imams of Ahl Bayt in Fiqh Ar-Rida. The

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Islamic state must protect the wealth of the orphans

according to the general inclusion by verse 2:188. It is the

duty of Islamic state to make sure piety, morality, reason and

mental capacity thrive in its subjects including the orphans.

We see in Quran 4:5 that orphans for example who are

immature in age and mind must be educated and trained to

flourish their God given intellect and only then their wealth

will be handed over to them. Until they are mature the

Islamic governance will implement a mechanism of oversight

of the immature in mind such as the orphans or those whose

minds have not developed or the mentally disabled, their

shelter, education, training and healthcare among other

things. Understand that Islamic state is a welfare state and

Islamic treasury is a humanistic treasury. Darwinian existence

has no place in Islamic rule. In Quran 4:2 God commands the

believers to give the orphans their wealth. The oversight of

this transfer is the duty of Islamic governance who will

witness the transfer and document it. It is not merely a claim

by the responsible of the orphans because they may steal the

orphans money and perform a forgery. The orphans wealth

must be protected and not exploited to achieve personal

gains as well. God’s special attention to orphans just shows

God’s attention to the most vulnerable and weak.

Child Marriage

Child here means anyone below the civil law age of marriage

whereas in Islam the age is a differentiating factor for sexual

intercourse only and not actual contract of marriage. So for

example if a child bride is unable to have sexual intercourse

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then marriage contract will stipulate such condition of

intercourse avoidance till mature.

Quran 4:3 allows child marriage (orphans) if you can care for

the child. Islam did not set a minimum marriage age because

it does not want to prevent a good match. Marriage in Islam

is well defined with rights of girls and women protected. A

socio-cultural barbarism in no way defines the negativity of

Islamic marriage but enforces the fact that Islam is needed

more than ever to these barbaric societies from east to west.

A child may have sexual urges and desires specially in this day

and age. To not help her achieve her sexual desire through

lawful means would be a human right violation. In west child

pregnancy is rampant. This shows children in west are too

eager to have either or both companionship of opposite sex

and sexual activities with their boyfriends and in the later

case numerous girls become pregnant given that about 25%

of young adults report “thinking a lot about sex” as 11–12

year olds (both boys and girls) (Larsson & Svedin, 2002).

Based on reports of fourth- and fifth grade (ages 9–11 years)

American boys and girls, 16% reported self-relevant sexual

thoughts (Butler, Miller, Holtgrave, Forehand, & Long, 2006).

In a sample of Spanish boys and girls, about 6% of 9–10-year-

old boys reported sexual fantasies, increasing to 66% among

13–14-year olds. Among girls, 15% of 13–14-year olds

reported fantasies, with none reported by 9–10 and 11–12

year olds (Arnal & Llario, 2006). Among 511 American 6th,

7th, and 8th graders, 56% reported at least one current

crush, with larger proportions of girls (61%) than boys (48%)

(Bowker et al., 2012).

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If we consider negative aspects of child marriage then we

must consider negative aspects of marriage in general.

Islamic society must remedy these negative aspects to make

marriage successful. It is often the case that the guardian of

the girl is sympathetic to the girl’s wellbeing and have her

interests in mind. The uprightness and justness of the

guardian is a consideration for the Islamic judiciary because

the Islamic government ultimately is responsible for the

wellbeing of its subjects including the well being of a

marriage. Islam has thus advised the guardian to consider

carefully the wellbeing of the girl:

The Prophet (SAWA) said, 'When someone comes to you with

a proposal and you are well-pleased with his faith and his

integrity then accept him in marriage, for if you do not,

discord and corruption will prevail in the land.’[Bihar al-

Anwar, v. 103, p. 372, no. 3]

Imam al-Hasan (AS) said to man who came to ask his advice

about getting his daughter married, 'Marry her to a pious

man, for if he loves her he will honour her, and if he comes to

dislike her, at least he will not be unjust towards

her.’[Makarim al-Akhlaq, v. 1, p. 446, no. 1534]

Hence marriage whether child or adult will be initiated after

consideration first, of the match, whether the adult husband

is suitable and just, whether he is of noble upbringing and

whether he will guarantee the care and safety of the wife to

be. This process should be followed for both adult and child

and people often follow this process of thought when it

comes to marrying their daughter or even son.

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One can say the young girl has no consent, but the young girl

has no consent too when starting a school for example. Her

parents act as guardian on her behalf and her consent. Just as

most of the times a girl comes to like school so too, she will

come to like her husband in early marriage. It is just natural

and relationship building. Children are the most innocent and

their feelings are free from the suspicion and doubt of evil

minds. Child marriage thus has the greatest potential to

create a strong loving bond as the child’s feelings are

revealed gradually by prolonged companionship of the

husband. Childhood relationship lasts and is much strong

than relationship built in adulthood.

Child marriage do not cause illiteracy and poverty in itself. It

is how the guardian chooses to act for his daughter. A girl

may stop studying due to sudden death of her father or due

to any other socio-cultural constructs. In fact, Islam has

encouraged knowledge and pursuit of knowledge in countless

number of verses in Quran and Hadith. Also, domestic

violence is not confined to only child marriage but any adult

marriage. Islamic society must address the causes of violence

and rectify them which being various social inequities and

economic injustice.

The Dowry

In India and Pakistan, thousands of women are killed every

year in dowry deaths, in which a new wife is murdered by her

husband and/or his relatives if she does not pay the groom

money or goods (Kethineni & Srinivasan, 2009). Islamic

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society rejects this barbaric practice. Islam obligates the

husband to pay dowry to the woman. The point of dowry is to

legalize the sexual bond between the man and woman and as

man is the financier and leader he is obligated to pay this.

However, all these rights and rules are administered and

overseen not by the family but by the Islamic governance and

Islamic courts. All legal disputes arising from marriage and

divorce are the matter of Islamic jurisdiction and Islamic

courts.

Education

Education: An Indoctrination System

Education is the social institution through which a society

teaches its members the skills, knowledge, norms, and values

they need to learn to become good, productive members of

their society. Education thus teaches also the cultural identity

of a nation to preserve the dominant shared system of values

in a nation. Modern education system may discriminate such

as when it sets a medium of language of instruction even

when students are not native to it, it may set different fees

depending on local or foreigner, it may provide different

opportunities depending on whether a student is local or

foreigner etc. The education system has two purpose: teach

members of society the values and belief system that is

considered good and ethical and implement a testing system

to distinguish skills and talents needed for nation building.

Today's secular education put more emphasis on talent and

skill building than morals and spirituality building. Today's

schooling system can be also unequal and discriminatory

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even with in its own members. For example, schools in the

United States differ mightily in their resources, learning

conditions, and other aspects, all of which affect how much

students can learn in them. Simply put, schools are unequal,

and their very inequality helps perpetuate inequality in the

larger society.

The Islamic Education

Islamic education is achieved through many channels. The

family and the systematic education are the two most

important models of creating a healthy and godly society. The

success of a nation spiritually morally and materially depends

on how good and effective these two models are. Another

important area of education is the society and public place

which reveals the social activities and interactions through

various means human or otherwise. When children and adult

go out in the public places what they should see, what they

should listen and what they should experience all form part

of the education. In today's world digital world is another

space of education and in fact it has become influential. It is

extremely instrumental in creating the individual member of

the society. The commitment to free or low-cost, high-quality

early childhood education must be the philosophy of the

Islamic society. The Islamic society's policies must reflect its

recognition of the importance of child’s spiritual, moral,

cognitive and gender based emotional development during

the first few years of life, as well as its recognition to take

special steps to help children of families living in poverty.

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Islamic education has a philosophy which is beneficial and

productive for the very soul of the Muslim human and his

overall society. The modern Islamic education, like the times

of Islamic golden age, will be a morality based analytical

education to build a strong and moral human capital to serve

the Islamic society. The contents of Islamic education should

include creed, spirituality, morality and cultural heritage of

Islamic ummah throughout history as well as exposure to

natural and social sciences, logic, mathematical and

computational sciences and humanities designed for various

levels of education until specialization choice. In the setting

of schooling and university knowledge can be taught in the

following ways: illustration through diagrams, movies,

animations etc., experience through site visit, museum,

archeology, and awareness and learning through case

studies, archives, records and reports. Before initiating such

knowledge imparting the Islamic education must decide if

such knowledge is allowed or prohibited. The purpose and it’s

significance should be looked into and the relevance age and

gender category it needs to be taught or withheld from.

The purpose of Islamic education is to make your ego (kibriya

nafs) submit to a higher power while secular education only

makes you believe in yourself your ego restrained to no one

but yourself. When you are your God you do what you want

and the consequences you fear are as much as you fear loss

of your material possession. Atheism that's why, have

created greatest criminals of human history. These criminals

when they reached the level of absolute power fearing no

consequences, they unleashed their ego. The power and

purpose of Islam is to change our base humanity to that of

the godly one. Islam reveals to us our true purpose and

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journey of this life. Through learning and following Islam both

in heart and body as individuals we change ourselves and the

society overall. Islam not only changes our individual but also

our social and over all human existence. Without this the

Islamic identity, culture and values will be lost, and Muslims

will be just there for the census only.

Islamic education will also benefit the non-Muslims as they

become aware of Islamic heritage and history and the religion

itself, they will abandon Islamophobia or even minimize it.

Islamic education will safeguard them from propaganda of

Islamophobic media of the west and the east. As protection

of mind is one of the six fundamental aims of Islam; thus,

education and knowledge seeking must bring about the

fulfillment of intellectual, social and moral personality as well.

Also, an aim of Islamised/Islamic education is to embed into

hearts of its subjects the need to serve justice, morality and

equity, protect Islamic political and legal system and to

empower the Islamic Ummah and to shun racism, tribalism,

aristocracy and xenophobia.

One of the essential aims of Islamic education is to teach the

doctrine of Islamic family and Islamic social construct which is

rooted in patriarchy. While feminist propaganda and

education are creating and evolving a destructive society

Islamic family education must create and evolve a

constructive society by clarifying the importance of

matrimony and positions of both husband and wife in

relation to each other as an equitable hierarchy.

Gender Based Education

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All females have right to education on religion and religion

guided sciences and math. If there is quota in any institution

the males will be preferred. If there is a quota in a specific job

industry then males will be preferred unless such specialized

jobs are more suited for women such as women specific

doctors, nurses and primary school teachers etc. Education

must branch out based on gender, after a certain age. After a

certain age girl will be required to study specific subjects

suited to her biology and psychology while males to their

biology and psychology. Some subjects will overlap while

some will be gender specific. As women need to be mothers

and responsible wives their tertiary education and jobs can

be delayed until a certain age as children become adult and

responsible. Old age should not be an impeding factor for

female studies and profession. Rather it will be more suitable

sexually and socially.

Segregated Education System

The Islamic society must segregate education system.

Students must focus on study rather than opposite sex and

this is mostly true for boys who get easily distracted towards

the other sex through fantasy and lust. In western countries

they have accepted free sex as part of their lives and scoring

girls is seen as an achievement among high school students.

Islamic society rejects this as destructive to moral norms of a

healthy family and society. Segregated school also prevent

rivalry and violence centered around dating, girls and male

assertiveness rooted in essential human male psychology.

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Psychology of free mixing is different from segregated model.

There are issues that realizes in free mixing set up. For

example, in adult free mixing set up human mating strategies

are triggered. Free sex society has no problem with this as is

evidenced. These strategies are a set of behaviors used by

individuals in that setting to select, attract, and retain mates

what modern society calls dates and act of dating. The human

desire for emotional companionship is one of the strongest

human drives which is only amplified in a free mixing set up.

In this set up to bond or express sexual interest, people flirt.

To initiate flirting they first prepare impression or image. This

is achieved by nice and tempting looking dresses, certain

types of behaviors and attitudes, enhancing makeups and

looks. This can have wider familial and personal implications

such as financial loss, distractions from studies and

spirituality. Flirting between married strangers can even

weaken marital bonds. The person flirting sends out signals of

sexual availability to another and hopes to see the interest

returned to encourage continued flirting. Flirting can involve

non-verbal signs, such as an exchange of glances, hand-

touching, hair-touching, or verbal signs, such as chatting up,

flattering comments, and exchange of telephone numbers to

enable further contact. These can contribute to members of

society becoming less devoted to matrimonial relationships

as it enhances their sexual freedom and destroy their

conservatism and long-term commitment to marriage. The

spiritual gift of sakeena as Quran mentions is lost, buried in

our psychology.

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Religion

Religion is not only personal, but it can be also social and

collective. Religion as a social institution involves patterns of

beliefs and behavior that help a society meet its basic needs

collectively. Modern world's standard of religious adherence

is very liberal, and they include into the census any who

minimally participates in their religion. However, Islam

considers and treats who is a Muslim by strict standards. The

Islamic society achieves social institution through political

Islam. Religion provides us with hope, collective

empowerment and platform of solidarity. Quran provides the

best organizational psychology through the concept of the

ummah and rule of the caliphate. While secular outlook is

about emphasizing the self and individual enhancement

Islamic brotherhood is about the weakest being empowered

by the strong many.

The Islamic society has authoritative and advisory religious

organizations. Historically the institution of hisbah was

authoritative which guided people towards good and away

from evil. In Islamic republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia today

we have religious or morality police doing the same historical

practice. When it comes to advisory institutions, we have

today the Tablighi jamaat who encourages people to become

basic and simple preachers. Religiosity in the Islamic society is

about adherence to commands and prohibitions of God and

His prophet. One becomes a sinner when he or she

contradicts such commands or prohibitions by belief and/or

act. Sometimes such contradiction can result in apostasy.

Religiosity in Islamic society is achieved by family upbringing,

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education and socialization which is guided and backed by

the overall state apparatus of Islamic governance and law.

Islam has resisted changes unlike other religions of the world

that is why Islam is seen as a stranger to the global liberal

norms. This is especially true when it comes to the pursuit of

political Islam by many Muslims. No other religion today is as

political as Islam. Political Islam is driving middle eastern

politics since the fall of the ottomans which renewed pace

since the Islamic revolution of Iran and the creation of Hamas

as a resistance movement against the apartheid state of

Israel.

According to Quran in the beginning mankind was one

community united and following one religion Islam. Racial,

nationalist, tribal rivalry and pride did not exist, but their

hatred, jealousy, greed had created new religions away from

God. There is thus only one God and one religion, but

throughout human history men have deviated from Him and

His religion and reduced His identity and the form of His

religion by their own reducing qualifications. You will notice

all these qualifications are lesser and inferior than what

Quran has qualified God and His religion as. This moral and

ethical disagreements have caused and continue to cause

suffering and injustice. Therefore, God must exist to reveal a

set of guidance to them, emanating from outside them- a

third party, by which their collective existence can maintain

peace, balance and justice in the best norm. Muslims believe

this guidance had been given since the start of humanity on

earth as verse 2:213 establishes.

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Opposite to organized religion stands political atheism such

as communism. Atheism is an indoctrination through secular

education. Atheists have the tendency of ascribing divinity to

scientific processes. Here for example the events in heavens

that have regularities atheists ascribe to these regularities a

power so high and innate that they see no need of God. Also

atheists give us a pessimistic dark reality where death is end

of everything and escape for all sinners and tyrants. No final

judgement. The atheist life is meaningless as stated by some

atheists themselves such as Blackmore. That is to say atheism

is meaningless, and we are just driven by our biological

needs. Such an existence is cruel. Such an existence is what

the beasts in the jungles exist by evidently. Such an existence

essentially sees no need of law and order, morality or

aesthetics. Such an existence is the existence of prime evil

where we see no limits or constraints of our biological actions

as pursuit of these actions are the only meaningful thing?

Where we see no obligation because there is no meaning. I

mean to what end? Some other atheists such as Gervais will

say that these are beauties of life and part of being human.

But so is being a tyrant part of being human. Is that ok? They

are thus implying their own morality. Atheists such as

Dawkins will say we are still trying to find why we are here.

Atheists have acquired the conscience of good and bad right

and wrong mostly from thousands of years of social evolution

through religious sentiments and constructs. We do not know

where morality will end up if divine religion completely dies.

That reminds me of Stalin who stated from his atheistic moral

outlook that death of one man is tragedy, the death of

millions a statistic. State atheism has created the most

horrible human tragedy.

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Health and Medicine

Health refers to the extent of a person’s physical, mental, and

social well-being. Medicine is the social institution that seeks

both to prevent, diagnose, and treat illness and to promote

health. Scientific medicine is a relatively recent development

in the history of the world. Prehistoric societies attributed

illness to angry gods or to evil spirits that took over

someone’s body. Islamic golden age can be said to kickstart

modern medical science and objective outlook on health,

sickness and cure was already in practice during Prophetic

era. Islamic society thus must be free from superstitious

attribution as health and medicine sometimes depend on

cultural perception and belief. For example, in Japan organ

transplant is discouraged to honor the dignity of the dead

body. Islamic society undertakes the life is a trust and saving

it through transplant is an act of righteousness. Islamic

society thus must know to prefer reason and Islamic culture

over unfounded traditions because Islam has a glorious

history of science and medicine, and Prophet of Islam

encouraged treatment.

If Islamic diet and hygiene were strictly followed and

implemented Social epidemiological study would show

improved sociodemographic characteristics. Islamic society

thus must implement effectively efficiently Islamic dietary

laws including but not limited to banning smoking alcohol and

pork. In this way, an improvement in health and reduction

in illnesses will both reflect and reinforce society’s social

equities. Stress in turn damages health because it impairs the

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immune system and other bodily processes (Lantz, House,

Mero, & Williams, 2005). The Islamic welfare scheme and the

Islamic government acting as the guardian of people will

minimize this stress specially for women, social class

disparities in health and improve health as this will give

them sense of control over what happens to them. Islamic

education is essential in educating people about health-

related issues and yearly checkup.

Islamic insurance and health insurance to be precise is built

on welfare of God's trust: the human body. Islamic society

establishes insurance based primarily on welfare motive

rather than profit motive to reduce inequality and

discrimination so society can interact better and evolve

healthy. As discussed in the education there must be woman

specific curriculum and professions that include also the

health care industry which needs women gynecology and

nursing. Also due to same reasons women must not be put in

critical roles such as ICU, surgery, emergency etc.

Medical mistakes are thought to kill almost 200,000 patients

per year, or almost 2 million every decade (Crowley & Nalder,

2009).

Women due to their fragility of mind and body need

focused recommendations for various procedures,

medications, and diagnostic tests, including cardiac

catheterization, lipid-lowering medication, kidney dialysis or

transplant, knee replacement for osteoarthritis, mental

health and gynecology.

Many types of health-care providers, including physicians,

dentists, medical equipment companies, and nursing homes,

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engage in many types of health-care fraud. All types of

health-care fraud combined are estimated to cost about $100

billion per year (Kavilanz, 2010). Islamic society must ensure

the medical professionals do not escape responsibility and

accountability by prestige of their professions. Justice in

Quran doesn't respite even one's own parents and relatives.

Population and Urbanization

Is Population Increase Bad?

Why world hunger still exists? Quran explained this in verse

36:47: A good deal of thinking and research in sociology

suggests that world hunger has less to do with the shortage

of food than with a shortage of affordable or accessible food.

Sociologists have found that social inequalities, distribution

systems, and other economic and political factors create

barriers to food access. On a per capita basis, food is more

plentiful today than any other time in human history.…[E]ven

in times of localized production shortfalls or regional famines

there has long been a global food surplus (J. Scanlan, J. Craig

Jenkins, and Lindsey Peterson (2010)). As Ghandi stated the

world has enough for human need but not enough for human

greed. Increasing population is not the real issue here.

Overpopulation is a blessing provided this population is moral

and educated. While west and east are facing an existential

threat due to lack of population Muslims have a large

population and they can utilize it to their advantage.

Population is a great resource economic, financial,

demographic and military but what this massive Muslim

population needs is Islamisation and the push towards right

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direction. Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google could never

become global giants if it were not for a large market

consisting of a large population. A country doesn't thrive

without trade and business activities. A big population but

moral and educated is thus a blessing to start such activities if

also backed by law, security and accountability. Islamic

society is based on such morality, law, security and

mechanism of accountability.

The Malthusian Protocol and Global Population

Extending on the discussion on world hunger we need to

understand global corporate politics and how it wants to

keep global population exploited by various divisions. This is

an extension of the Malthusian protocol. People like Malthus

and his writings enabled colonial genocides and apartheid.

Even though Malthus’s predictions turned out to be wrong

but his philosophical and economic implication that

population and demography needs to be controlled has been

adopted by global corporate tier. Malthus's (who inspired

Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory) fear mongering of

population growth and suggesting population control by low

standard of living, high mortality rate and chronic food

shortages have become the corporatocratic model to sustain

its mode of production and consumption, and human

existence. So we have here is impeding welfare of people to

prevent population growth and maintain control through

servitude by manufacturing and managing biological and

social needs, needs which are not fulfilled by welfare, a

welfare which is not only paying social monetary benefits to

the masses but also providing efficient free public services,

environmental preservation, moral and ethical protocols

for businesses and trade activities as well, but whose

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fulfillment is imposed upon cruelly by socio-

economic protocols and structure.

The corporatocracy will impede whole scale

educational development of global population through

political, social and economic engineering to always create a

class of labor for hard work. These can be seen in Asian, Latin

America and Africa where refugees and immigrants providing

low level labor services to America and Europe, or China

where the Chinese government maintains a certain standard

of living even for the educated ones. Global corporatocracy is

thus managing preventable global population suffering to suit

their business activities, market and labor supply. They will

always maintain preventable suffering and hardship of the

working class. No other country than China has provided such

a luxury for global corporatocracy. China is the perfect field of

Malthusian trap. People are kept like slaves and all that is

needed from them is maximum productivity. A welfare model

to address improving the labor class's socioeconomic status

will backfire and cause China to lose the productivity it is

giving today to the western businesses.

Remember corporatocracy is about monopoly on resources,

labor and production. This is why corporatocracy is like a

mafia organization or a cartel. It’s about maximizing profit,

power and pleasure for the corporates and maintaining

market for business growth. China and Western businesses

have made Africa, Latin America and Asian countries the field

for exploitation and monopoly. Africa has been hit the

hardest then the middle east. Corporatocracy is controlling

the population growth and demography by dividing global

population into segments: those that supply labors, those

that supply markets, those that supply resources. Controlling

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global population means maintenance of these segments and

minimizing or impeding the global welfare model by paying

no taxes, lack of environmental concerns and forcing the

existence of a certain political landscape suitable for

corporatocracy. African continent and post-colonial middle

east are perfect examples.

The Islamic Solution

Islamic system is a system of politics, economic and finance

which prioritizes welfare over profit, equity over exploitation,

divine supremacy over Marxian materialism. Islamic

economic system cannot work in vacuum but implemented as

a whole package called Shariah Law. While profit is essential

but is secondary and shared through the wide-ranging

taxation system of Islam. God knows that not everyone will

be rich but every rich can make sure the needy and

unfortunate ones are taken care of thereby eradicating class

conflict which driven historical materialism. Islam proposes

this model of care.

Feminism, Neocolonialism and Muslim Demography

I have discussed that feminism discourages motherhood and

marriage for sake of career growth and female

independence, but this also is detrimental against increasing

fertility rate in a demography. In the long run this causes

demographic catastrophe by population decline. The Prophet

of Islam encouraged childbirth through marriage because

increased population based on Divine guidance will benefit

the Ummah in several factors. It will continue the Muslim

lineage and Islamic ummah, it will enhance Islamic military

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capabilities, it will create a big economic market and a pool of

financial resources, it will create a pool of national human

capital to serve the Islamic ummah and the Islamic society, it

will make the Muslim population dominant enough to dictate

global policies and politics, it will create a pool from which

Muslims can migrate to all over the world and guide foreign

societies towards Islam. Imperialism and colonial politics of

which feminism is a part has tried relentlessly to destroy this

potential Islamic demography. In some respects, they have

been successful. Many Muslim countries today rely heavily on

foreign human capital whose loyalty are not to Islam. Take for

example Emirates which has allowed prostitution and alcohol

in the heart of Prophetic Arabia most likely to attract western

investments and human capital by accommodating their

lifestyle. When imperialism and colonialism have failed

ideologically, they intervened militarily and through

economic terrorism to keep the Muslim population lame and

backwards.

Social Change and The Environment

Social change refers to the transformation of culture,

behavior, social institutions, and social structure over

time. Major sources of social change include population

growth and composition, culture and technology, the natural

environment, and social conflict. Secular Muslim societies

should initiate change towards Islamic society. Quran 16:125

is a trigger of social change and Muslims should follow it. This

preaching is not only done towards non-Muslims but also

towards Muslims who have deviated. This is not only spiritual

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preaching but can also be political and social activism to

empower Islam and human rights through Islamic

governance. The highest purpose of Dawah is to bring an

existential collective change and that is through political

change. Islam had revolutionized the pagan political

landscape of Mecca and Arabia by multilayered approach of

Prophet: preaching, diplomacy, war. It was not merely a

Dawah like the Tablighi Jamaat but more like the Dawah of

Imam Khomeini and Hasan Al-Banna. Prophet's participation

in Hilful Fudhul is a clear proof of the political mindset of

Prophet pbuh and that he not only wanted personal changes

of the Arabs but also their political changes. In fact, the two

are interlinked.

Simply put because the highly effective and efficient call to

Islam which Prophet presented was not only merely a call to

change our personal selves but also a call to change our

political, economic, social, military and cultural existence.

Prophet welcomed everyone who accepted this change but

accommodated everyone according to their faith. This new

system ruled by Islam was meant to establish divine

humanity, justice, equity and framework of human

government. Prophet had achieved this Islamic rule, in other

words hukm Allah by being a father, a preacher, a political

leader, a general, a spy master, a financer and a judge. Hence

when God commands us to preach Islam by wisdom and

argument it merely asks us to achieve the end-product of this

Prophetic mission i.e. Islamic rule through Sharia law, over

our personal selves and our collective existence. The

Prophetic mission is a framework and roadmap towards that

end. Any non-Muslim are welcome to join this Islamic rule

and he or she will be respected, protected and his or her

religion tolerated. From the prophetic mission we see the

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Muslims achieved Islamic society by awareness, organization,

change (political and social institutions), transformation (for

generations to come) and then ongoing development. A

general guideline

macro model:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348805034_Towa

rds_Islamic_Rule

micro model:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348563742_Islam

ization_A_Sociological_Approach

In the Islamic society the social change is minimal compared

to secular societies. This is because Islamic laws and culture

are deterministic and pre-established as a model to filter and

guide changes. However, today’s secular Muslim societies

have been a result of decades of colonialism and many of

these societies faced forced changes and at times with

violence and tyranny. For example, Muslims of Ottoman

Turkey and Iran were forcefully westernized to abandon

Islamic self-determination and independence. Today we have

neocolonial pressure groups in Muslim demography imposing

western ideas which are detached from Islam, such as

feminists, supporters of LGBTQ, secularization of education,

rejecting child marriage etc. Added to these problems are

today’s scholars of royals, rulers and corrupt politics in

Muslim demography as they are trying to convert and change

Islam towards the social trends rather than trying society and

its trends to convert and change to Islam. This arises from

their lack of realization of Islam’s greatness and wisdom of

Divine law. The Muslim society is sensitive to what the others

will think of Islamization. Muslims want to be looked as

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culturally modern, so their identity have become a cocktail

based on many conflicting ideas. In such a neocolonial post-

colonial setting Islamic society is achieved through

revolutions.

Cohesion and closeness in the Islamic society is achieved

maintained and evolved through religious organizations such

as the Friday prayers, Eid prayers, daily congregational

prayers etc. The sense of community and brotherhood is

maintained by charity, welfare initiatives and proactive help.

Urbanization and technological modernization thus don’t

make the Islamic society distant, detached and internally

divided. Islamic society is not against individual freedom.

Islam balances between the individual and the collective. In a

modern urban society we can have strong local social bonds

such as people among themselves in a locality, condo or area.

One does not need to be intrusive to realize this bond and

sense of community. Routine interaction and occasional acts

of kindness and mutual help can sustain and evolve the bond

in the Islamic society. Such can frequent at a higher rate

during special Islamic days and occasions. Such initiatives

must come from a social authority be the mosque, the Islamic

local government or influential intellectuals or institutions. It

starts by mutual acquaintance and evolves with time and

habitual interaction on such occasions or social occasions.

The Islamic society rejects mob violence and any changes

achieved through this is unethical and need to be reversed.

The psychological acceptance of mob violence sends the

society to an irreversible path. We see today how mob

violence has made the lives of minorities in India unlivable

and possibly defining Indian society for generations to come.

Mob violence is one kind of mob rule and as we saw Islam

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rejects it. Mob violence is often rooted on rumors and

hearsay. Islamic society through Islamic education must train

critical minds to not succumb to rumors and hearsay. Quran

49:6 and 4:83 obligates Muslims to be inquisitive both in their

collective and personal existences.

Environmental problems are largely the result of human

behavior and human decision making. Changes in human

activity and decision making are thus necessary to improve

the environment. Islam is a rational religion and as such

established principle of avoiding harm and generating benefit

and in case of conflict avoidance of harm is prioritized. If this

Islamic principle was followed by nations and corporations

from decades back, we could have avoided environmental

catastrophe and the need for drastic changes as being

proposed today. Islamic society was not the norm and thus

the need of environmental revolution to protect the

environment. This will undoubtedly and drastically affect

human society.

Collective Behavior and Social Movements

A social movement is an organized effort by a large number

of people to bring about or impede social, political, economic,

or cultural change. One of the earliest and historic

revolutionary social movement was that of prophet of Islam

which influenced one of the greatest revolutions of 21st

century the Islamic revolution of Iran. Some social

movements can be destructive such as riots and rebellion but

depending on the purpose and acts of self-defense against

the persecution of the establishment these can turn into

moral revolution. Riots have been common in American and

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world history since the colonial era. A major type of riot is

protest riots, which are political in nature. In Islamic society

armed rebellion or riots are serious crimes as these are

detrimental to peace, security, morals, welfare and order.

Quran 5:33-34 establishes the principle that any ideological

hostility against Islam deserves a punishment under Islamic

jurisdiction. Under an Islamic system when an apostate

following his apostasy tries to convert Muslims to Islam then

it is a declaration of hostility against Islamic system much like

how western democracies perceived communist recruitment

and activities a hostility against democracy and vice-versa.

You cannot exist in a political system then start promoting a

system against the de facto and de jure political system and

that is why Islam being a political Islam also apostasy

demands death penalty.

Quran 5:33-34 discusses, among other things, collective

armed rebellion or wanton death and destruction through

riots and rebellions against peace and against Islamic rule.

This has many forms: armed insurrection against the Islamic

jurisdiction, the government, armed rebellion and robbery,

and organized crimes. This is basically a collective model of

criminal activities against Islamic state and the people. Mafia

or drug cartels for example may not always go on rebelling

through arms but they create fasad (great corruption) on

earth by drug trade and activities, enemy of collective peace

and welfare. The levels of punishments in this verse vary on

the basis of the severity of criminal activities and

criminals. Note that protesting or rebelling against the

tyranny and injustice of a tyrant and corrupt ruler just like

what Imam Hussein did is not included under this verse. That

is Jihad. That is why it is essential in Islamic society there exist

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accountability groups based on Shariah law which will

provide advisory guidance both the people and the authority.

Quran 3:104 proposes that believers should form such

activist groups not only to uphold religion and religious

morals but also to uphold and fight for all just causes from

human rights, animal rights to environmental rights and so

on.

One of the pillars of the Islamic society is the religious

movement of preachers who preach Islam to both Muslims

and non-Muslims alike. Islamic republic of Iran has strong

Islamic social movement such as the Basij who has

safeguarded the revolution well. Other known Islamic social

movements have been the Muslim brotherhood, Hamas,

Hezbollah etc. These Islamic social movements have political,

cultural, and biographical consequences in the wider

demographic and geopolitical settings.

The Achievement of Islamic Society

After all what is the ultimate goal of Islamic society? The

ultimate is to connect with God and live in Him so that we

achieve the best gifts possible for human body and

psychology. So, the achievement of Islamic society will:

1. Result in the most satisfying mental and

emotional states in all models of personal and

societal relationships.

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2. Protect us from chaos and conflicts in all models

of our personal and societal relationships as

designed such by Islam.

3. Protect our physical, mental and

various collective organizational wellbeing from

harms and diseases perceived or unknown.

4. Result in success in after life.

5. Maintain the evolution of humanity and his

existence by keeping them safe from self-

destruction.

6. Will stimulate our spiritual and moral conscience

towards greatness of God triggering self-

discovery as children of Adam which also in turn

will be a welfare attainment factor for our mind,

body and human collective existence.

Islam develops Islamic society through its guidance which

improves humanity

• As an individual

• As a society

• As a family

• As a government

• As a student of knowledge

• As an employee

• As a citizen

• As an international player

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• As a person of wealth

It is only the will to make the change that remains.

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