The fundamental objectives of Islamic jurisprudence are to protect 1) the right to believe and practice Islam, 2) life/security, 3) intellect & sanity, 4) lineage; the right to have a family and know one's family, 5) the right to own and safeguard one's assets/property. These...
...are considered priorities in policy-making/legislation and executive action for the holistic well-being of a Muslim society. Once these essentials (daruriyyat) are established, complementary laws for public benefit and safety from harms may be instituted. Then we can focus...
...on luxuries such as grandiose monuments and roundabouts, pageantry and other embellishment events. These principles ideally should guide a Muslim society's judgement on matters such as the legality of small children being abandoned by their parents and fostered out to...
...strangers who are incapable of looking after them in a modern socio-conomic milieu. It also ought to guide how much percent of funds and focus should be directed towards healthcare, security and education vs. wardrobe and sitting allowances and renovations of political...
...buildings. It also ought to be a guide for what topics we Muslims prioritise discussing, whether it be how to overcome the plague of drug abuse infecting our communities or whether women's rights campaigners are public enemy #1.
