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  Support IslamQA  Please contribute generously in order to ensure the continuity of our website InshaAllah. Contribute Islamic politics Related topic Concept of democracy in Islam  05-02-2015          Question 98134 I heard that the word democracy is derived from Islam. Is that true? What is the ruling on promoting democracy? Answer Praise be to Allah. Firstly:  Democracy is not an Arabic word. Rather it is derived from the Greek, and it is a composite of two words: demos, meaning the masses or the people, and kratia, meaning rule. So what is meant is the rule of the masses or the rule of the people.  Secondly:  Democracy is a system that is contrary to Islam, because it gives the power of legislation to the people or to those who represent them (such as members of Parliament). Based on that, in democracy legislative authority is given to someone other than Allah, may He be exalted; rather it is given to the people and their deputies, and what matters is not their consensus but the ma

  Menu Sign In  Home   /  Articles  / The concepts of leader and leadership in Islam The concepts of leader and leadership in Islam Developing Just Leadership     Zafar Bangash    Rabi' al-Awwal 13, 1421    Occasional Paper   MyLibrary   Facebook   Twitter   Google+   Whatsapp by  Zafar Bangash In reviewing the vast body of  S eerah  literature (life-history of the noble messenger of Allah, upon whom be peace) produced by Muslims, Dr Kalim Siddiqui (1931-1996) made the perceptive observation that almost all of it was in a chronological order and was descriptive rather than analytical. Little or no attempt appears to have been made to derive lessons from the  Seerah , especially studying it from the power perspective, to re-order Muslim societies [1]. Such scant attention to the fundamental aspects of the  Seerah  is quite astonishing since Allah describes the Prophet's character in the noble Qur'an as " uswatun hasana " (‘the most beautiful pattern of conduct,'