Re: man-made laws and Islam
No.
I wanted to know how much emphasis is there in Islamic teaching regarding obeying rules which a society forms for various reasons like traffic rules or customs or income tax or immigration. It is just anecdotal evidence but I see that more ‘learned’ a person in in religious (not specifically Islamic) knowledge, less regard that person generally has for other regulations. Somehow, just like financially elite of Pakistani society, the religious elite considers themselves beyond such regulations.
So the questions are like this:
Is there much emphasis on following rules framed by society while one goes through religious teachings in religious schools?
Do schools teaching religion find it their duty to ‘teach’ citizens to follow societal and civil laws?
Remember that I am not criticizing religion or religious schools but just would like to know if such attitudes are because of lack of emphasis on importance of civil laws by religious scholars or because of our general attitudes of not being concerned about them.