Maqasid Shariah and Sustainable Development
SCSH 1201 (Sustainable Development : Issues, Principles, & Practices) 26/10/2022 (week 3) Wednesday, 10a.m - 12a.m Venue : Class online on Zoom TODAY'S LESSON, I UNDERSTOOD THE DEFINITION OF MAQASID AL-SHARIAH, WHICH IS INVOLVES REALIZING THE HUMAN WELL-BEING BY ENHANCING WELFARE, OR BENEFIT (MASLAHAH) OF THE PEOPLE ON ONE HAND AND PREVENTING HARM (MAFSADAH) ON THE OTHER. In Islam, sustainability of five things : Life, faith, mind, property, and lineage is considered to be an objective of the law (Maqasid al-Shariah) and Muslims are duty-bound by their religion to ensure the sustenance of these five objectives. This means that the Islamic development is endogenously sustainable since preservation of life is an explicit objective of the Islamic law, which makes only those development efforts Islamically permissible that do not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. And maqasid shariah is related to our daily lives as servants of God on this earth. ...