Islam Is A Code Of Life
1. Spiritual Life
Islamic prescription: Prayer, fasting, charity giving, pilgrimage, love for God and His Messenger, love for truth and humanity for the sake of God, hope and trust in God at all times, and doing good for the sake of God.
2. Intellectual Life
Islamic prescription: True knowledge based on clear proofs and indisputable evidence acquired by experience or experiment or by both. The Quran points to the rich sources of knowledge in the whole universe.
Islam demands faith in God on the basis of knowledge and research and leaves wide open all fields of thought before the intellect penetrates as far as it can reach.
3. Personal Life
Islamic prescription: Purity and cleanliness, a healthy diet, proper clothing, proper behavior, and good healthy sexual relations within marriage.
4. Family Life
Islamic prescription: A family is a human social group whose members are bound together by the bond of blood ties and/or marital relationship and nothing else (adoption, mutual alliance, common law, trial marriage. . . etc.)
Marriage is a religious duty on all who are capable of meeting its responsibilities. Each member of the family has rights and obligations.
5. Social Life
Islamic prescription: Man is ordained by God to extend his utmost help and kindness to other family members, relations, servants, and neighbors. No superiority on account of class, color, origin, or wealth.
Humanity represents one family springing from one and the same father and mother. The unity of humanity is not only in its origin but also in its ultimate aims.
6. Economical Life
Islamic prescription: Earning one’s living through decent labor is not only a duty but a great virtue as well. Earning is man’s private possession. The individual is responsible for the prosperity of the state and the state is responsible for the security of the individual.
The Islamic economic system is not based on arithmetical calculations alone but also on morals and principles.
Man comes into this world empty-handed and departs empty-handed. The real owner of things is God alone. Man is simply a trustee.
7. Political Life
Islamic prescription: The sovereignty in the Islamic State belongs to God; the people exercise it by trusting Him to enforce His laws.
The ruler is only an acting executive chosen by the people to serve them according to God’s law. The State is to administer justice and provide security for all citizens.
Rulers and administrators must be chosen from the best-qualified citizens. If an administration betrays the trust of God and the people, it has to be replaced.
Non-Muslims can administer their personal life of marriage, divorce, food, and inheritance according to Islamic law or to their own religious teachings.
They may pay Zakah (Islamic tax) or a different tax “Tributes” “Jizyah”. They are entitled to full protection and security of the state including freedom of religion.
8. International Life
Islamic prescription: Man has a common origin, human status, and aim. Other people’s interests and rights to life, honor, and property are respected as long as the rights of Muslims are intact. Transgression is forbidden.
War is only justified if state security is endangered. During war destruction of crops, animals, and homes, killing non-fighting women, children, and aged people is forbidden.