If a secular law fails, then blame the law. When Islamic law fails, blame the stupid person behind the law who cannot carry out Divine Will. I certainly disagree with these propositions; however, this is what some Indonesian Muslims believe.
Just recently, I watched a live-to-air Islamic sermon (I was expecting the news, not this live preaching) on TV. The topic revolved around the conflict between antigraft body, the KPK, and the National Police, and how Islam should respond. (By Arif Maftuhin, Yogyakarta)
Your comments:
Arif Maftuhin, I respect your opinion but I think you should understand the system you are talking about and then analyze how it is implemented. If it is implemented as it is designed, then you are right, the system is weak, but mostly you will find the weakness is in how it is adapted by the government or administration and how it is followed by society. Without this rational analysis, it is unjust to allocate blame.
The first thing you would need to implement for Islamic law is justice, which is not implemented in any of the examples you mentioned above (the Islamic republics of Pakistan and Iran both).
Justice means issuing fair punishment to the culprit and relief to the victim and bringing back balance to society which, unfortunately, is not the case anywhere in the world, especially in the Islamic countries.
So it is not the law, again it the people who are violating it by corruption and not implementing it fully. These days, Muslims pick laws that are to their benefit and leave behind those which will be hard for them to practice.
If you have to implement a system, implement it fully with honesty, accept it, and act on it. That's how any system will succeed, Islamic or non-Islamic, to achieve whatever purpose it is designed for.
Ghazanfar Shahid
Jakarta
In the Koran there is no such thing as Islamic law. It is an invention of so-called scholars, but it is not in the Koran. Most Indonesians have never read the Koran.
John Ralph
Jakarta
Hi John, Yes, that's true but all those rules are generated based on the Koran and hadith, and it requires a scholar to have high qualifications in order to invent such laws.
If you refer to early Islamic scholars or clerics, you will find that they have a very strong authority in their field, and even most Western historians would not deny the fact.
Hasan
Jakarta
