This thread, is a very useful thread where the critics have been proving that the Quran is not for todays world.I would like my Muslim brothers and sisters, to Quote the verses of the Quran in terms of practical living today.
This thread I will want everyone to know how peace, oppressed ones can be governed by the Sharia law. These are the relatively limited points, more detailed explanantion is precisely what is better for comprehending.
For example Zakah, is paid to protect the poor.
Re: *Quran and its Applications
It should be borne in mind that Islam prescribes that the proceeds of Az-Zakat should
be distributed among the poor by the state and not by the rich people. In this sense, Az- Zakat is a tax collected and distributed by the state. The Public Treasury under Islam is the counterpart of the modern Ministry of Finance which collects public revenues and distributes these among the various public utilities. The state supports and looks after those who become needy-through inability to earn their living or due to the insufficiency of their means-but it cannot be said that the state does that out of charity or that such help is humiliating to the recipients. No one can say that retired officials who receive pensions from the State or that workmen who benefit from social security schemes feel like begging from the rich.
The same thing can be said of helpless children and aged people who cannot earn their living. No one can say that the pride of such people is hurt when the state supports and extends aid to them. The state is bound to do such things by virtue
of its human obligations.
Social security by the state is a modem system which humanity managed to adopt after bitter experiences and a long history of social injustice. One of the glories of Islam is that it prescribed the said system at a time when Europe lived in social darkness. Yet some people who are charmed by systems which are imported from the West or East, accuse the same systems of regression and backwardness if they had been adopted by Islam.
On the other hand, the Islamic state is required to provide work for every person who
is able to work. The state's obligation to find work for every Muslim is emphasized by the
following tradition:
“A man came to the Prophet (peace and prayer of God be upon him) begging for
anything to live on. The Prophet gave him an axe and a rope and ordered him to collect some wood and sell it and live by its price. He further told the man to come back and report what would happen to him".
This sense of responsibility which Islam prescribed thirteen centuries ago is **completely supported by the most modern economic and political theories. ***But where the state is unable to find work for the unemployed, the Public Treasury will support them until their circumstances improve. There is nothing wrong in this, for Muslims are generous to themselves, to the state and to others.*