The spirit of “Legitimate Democracy” stems from Shariah and that’s where it lives!

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clearly reveal how wrong some radical people are in seeing democracy as a regime of blasphemy and to think that Sharia is an alternative and rival administrative  system to democracy. In addition, as Bediuzzaman Said Nursi is a supporter of the concepts of republic and legitimate constitutionalism, the fact that democracy is an indispensable part of a real republic and that it is basically nothing but “constitutionalism without a sultan” has been examined in the most striking way and within a valid logical manner, with a view to revealing the serious mistake of a mentality that cannot object to these concepts but continues to see democracy as blasphemy (denial).An analysis has been made,  in the most precise and clear way, to prove the facts that  Sharia is not an administration system, but a set of basic principles and rules, that Islam does not recommend and set forth what and how the government will be, and therefore, that an administrative system (democracy) and the principles of implementation (sharia) cannot be compared with each other, nor can they be alternatives or rivals to each other. In addition, our study has put forward,  in the most reasonable way, the natural relationship between respecting divine wisdom & discretion and democracy and the fact that divine provisions can be voted. Finally, it has been most clearly determined that a “legitimate” (i.e., within the framework of shari’ah) government, that is, “legitimate democracy”, in which the people govern themselves, provided that everyone abides by the basic shari’a rules, is a administrative approach that is much more compatible with sharia (compared to the constitutional monarchy).

Keywords: Legitimate Democracy, Constitutional Monarchy, Sharia, Freedom of Faith, Governance System and Regime.

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