I have felt that Islam has not sketched any particular system of governance. After Rasoolullah saw, there was no uniform system by which a ruler was elected or ran the affairs of state. Even at the time of Khilafat-e-Rashida, one feels the stability was largely on account of excellent statesmanship of one man, the second Khaleefa, Omer ra and after him the things started to take a turn for bad.
I am not making any judgements here, and the purpose of thread is just to learn something.
[FONT='Times New Roman']Arabs were idol worshipers so basically they run after personalities rather than a system(Islam). I guess you are not accusing any body it’s a historical fact that those who joined Islam after fall of Macca, started gaining political power around that time and that secret idol society is still in place.
Khilafah can be described like this or close to it.
Islamic Democratic Welfare Republic.
This can be an ideal structure of Islamic government. IMO.
There is a Shura (parliment) directly elected by people.
Shura members are supposed to be pious and known for their fairness.
Shura chooses Khalifa (president).
Khalifa chooses his Musheer (secretary of departments).
Shura recommends or nominates Quzaa (Chief Justice and Justices etc)
Khalifa chooses Quzaa after consenses with Shura.
Quzaa keep the check and balance right for all three institutions.
Constitutional ammendments and new legislation is made only with the consenses of Shura.
Police is under Secretary of state who works under the nose of Khalifa, closely monitored by Quzaa. Quzaa may interfere or challenge their actions if there is a need.
Millitary is strictly for the border security and wartime only and it works under secretary of defense who is the sipahe salaar (General) of the forces. His disobidience to Khalifa or parliment will be considered as national crime and he will prosecuted by a panel of Quzaa lead by Qazi ul Quzaa (Chief justice).
Treasury is run by secretary of monetary affairs directly under Khalifa, who is subject to submit account books to a comettee of shura (comprises of all parts of country) every month or quarter. This comettee verifies the transactions and distributes the report to the rest of the Shura. This will be available for common man on request.
common man:
there is no common or uncommon man/woman in islam all are equal, and whatever you said above are the servents of your so called common men/women.
(correct me if I am wrong)
actually the administrations of all 4 pious caliphs were slightly different in their own way.Each caliph encountered unique problems and in their own way found solutions for it
As far as the pious caliphate is concerned the shura elected only one caliph hazrat uthman ( allegiance of the majority of muhajireen and ansar was the criteria for selection of the caliph which the other 3 fulfilled)
Shura was not elected by the people it was appointed by the caliph after consultation with certain other important figures.
Military was largely conscripts early in the caliphate but after the conquest of Iran many of the warriors who participated in them settled in garrison towns of Kufa and Basra
In Shia Islam, it is a little different. Our system of governanace is that after the Prophet, leaders were appointed by Allah (SWT) to lead the Muslims.
Thanks for explaination. That exactly what I mean, what I meant was that the financial statements can be in reach of public on demand and not is not a classified information accessed by government only. Financial expenditure includes the spendings on the government officials themselves, so they can be questioned on their use of public’s treasure.
The Khilafa and musheer are definetely servents of public and my explaination further clear their position. The check and balance is the key. There is no Haakim in Islamic way of governance. The Haakim-e-Aala is Allah only and Khalifa is a mere administerator whose responsiblity is to implement the commandments of Allah and serve the people.
This can be an ideal structure of Islamic government. IMO.
There is a Shura (parliment) directly elected by people.
Shura members are supposed to be pious and known for their fairness.
Shura chooses Khalifa (president).
Khalifa chooses his Musheer (secretary of departments).
Shura recommends or nominates Quzaa (Chief Justice and Justices etc)
Khalifa chooses Quzaa after consenses with Shura.
Quzaa keep the check and balance right for all three institutions.
Constitutional ammendments and new legislation is made only with the consenses of Shura.
Police is under Secretary of state who works under the nose of Khalifa, closely monitored by Quzaa. Quzaa may interfere or challenge their actions if there is a need.
Millitary is strictly for the border security and wartime only and it works under secretary of defense who is the sipahe salaar (General) of the forces. His disobidience to Khalifa or parliment will be considered as national crime and he will prosecuted by a panel of Quzaa lead by Qazi ul Quzaa (Chief justice).
Treasury is run by secretary of monetary affairs directly under Khalifa, who is subject to submit account books to a comettee of shura (comprises of all parts of country) every month or quarter. This comettee verifies the transactions and distributes the report to the rest of the Shura. This will be available for common man on request.
Excellent reply very clear except the common man part.