Qur’anic Foundations and Structure of Muslim Society (In 2 Volumes)

The basic function of this book is to state the Philosophy and the Code of Life as given in the Qur’an. This comprehensive study contains new material based on research in a systematic way in different aspects of the moral teachings of the Qur’an. This work provides a System of Guidance in an elaborate manner, substantiating thoroughly the Qur’anic claim that it enshrines the "exposition of everything wherein humanity needs Divine Guidance". The Code of Life as given in the Qur’an has developed, however, with morality as the central theme. And that should have been so. Because the value-system which the Holy Qur’an has given establishes spirituality as the root, morality as the trunk, and all other aspects of life: economic, political etc., as off-shoots of morality; – whereby it ensures the emergence of the integrated and progressive individual and the integrated and progressive social order.  The central importance for morality that has emerged thus should impress upon the Muslims the central importance of moral struggle. Viewed in that perspective, the present book forms a basic contribution in respect of extricating Muslim society from the crisis of character which has overtaken all classes of Muslims, and which is the deadliest poison that has every paralyzed or killed any human community. The method of exposition adopted is simple and direct. Moreover, personal comments have been kept at the barest minimum, so that the Qur’an has stayed in its august position free to explain itself. In the dynamic orthodoxy that has thus emerged lies, in the belief of the present writer, the salvation of Muslims and of humanity at large.