6:116 and 6:165 Any connection?
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I Salam
I beleive these ayats destroy any hope that Western style democracy and equality can be reconciled to the quran. And thank God for that.
When the quran speaks of taking counsel among the people, have you asked yourself taking consel, among WHOM? Not the majority!
The quran is a theocentric religionand its political system , when working in accordance with the quran, will be a theocentric society. (TOO BE DISTINGUSIHED FROM THEOCRATIC), It is a society that recognizes the natural, God given ,superiority of some over others. When this system works, all are equal before God by virtue of their piety; in fact, that is how man is to be judged, by how conscious he is of the absolute..of God, and how pious he is; what other equality can their be?
If one looks around, there is a hierarchial struture to EVERYTHING..(.even within yourself)
Show me one organization, one animal group, show me anything that is not hierarchial in its struture. Even God, as he relates to us as his creatures, descends in a hierarichal fashion, but that is a different story.
I would only add that no system has ever worked; there is something in human society that defies definition, but when a society most prospers (and i do not mean economically or in the modern sense of "human rights") it has been a theocentric system, where God and not man is at the center. "(Demo" meaning people, and Theo meaning "God"salam