Concept of Islamic Constitution, Islamic states and Muslim states

The need of Uniform Islamic Constitution for the Muslim Ummah 

A study of Islamic provisions on the Constitution of selected countries

Md. Abdul Awal Khan

 

2. Concept of Islamic Constitution, Islamic states and Muslim states

Islamic constitution is that constitution where “Islamic Shariah forms the law of the land and  the Holy Quran and Sunnah are the main sources and guidelines of the state and on the basis of this principle, state enacts Islamic constitution. There shall be no such legislation as would contravene any of the principle of the Shariah.

All laws, which are in conflict with the principles of the shariah, shall not be included. It is incumbent upon the state to eradicate the vices which Islam wants to eradicate and to uphold and enforce the virtues which Islam requires to be uphold and enforced.”⁸ There are about 56 Muslim states in the world but among them, very few states so far have framed Islamic Constitution. It is only Iran, which has enacted Islamic Constitution in 1982.

A Muslim state, which has inserted Islamic provisions in its Constitution and exercises this strictly, is called Islamic state, but a Muslim states is one, which has Muslims majority, but no Islamic Constitution. So it is said that all Islamic states are Muslim states but all Muslim states are not Islamic states. Bangladesh, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia etc. are Muslim states but Iran is an Islamic state. 

 

Source

to be continued . . . .