The separation of church/masjid and state

● The separation of church and state is a philosophic and jurisprudential

concept for defining political distance in the relationship between
religious organizations and the state. Conceptually, the term refers to
the creation of a secular state

● No such distinction is present in islam, the masjid plays a multi-faceted

role.

● Separation first came about after the reign of the four rashidun caliphs.

● Still the lines of “separation” or lack thereof, remains blurry

Immutability of islamic laws
● Things that are unchangeable in islam;

1. Kalimaat-i-Allah (i.e. Allah’s words, precepts, or laws given in

the Quran).
2. Sunnat-i-Allah (i.e. Allah’s laws in the universe or nature or
His laws about the rise and fall of people or nations)
3. Khalq-i-Allah (i.e. Allah’s way of making things whereby He has
endowed every creation with a certain nature or constitution)
Immutability of islamic laws
● Changeability of laws beyond the quran and hadith, based on
interpretation
● Varying degrees regarding the question of extent of
immutability in Islamic Laws:
1. Nothing is permanent (not even the word of God); everything is
changeable,
2. Only the word of God is unchangeable; every other law is
amendable,
3. Both the word of God and the word of the Prophet (s.a.w) are
unchangeable; every other law is amendable,
4. Word of God, the word of the Prophet (s.a.w) and the word of
the founder of a particular school of thought or a particular
Islamic scholar of the past, all are unchangeable
Bottom line
Only the word of God is permanent and every other law is
changeable or amendable by consultation among the Muslims,
either in the parliament of their representatives or
through referendum.