B. The role of Islam in the modern world

Quran Published translation

We sent thee not save as a mercy for the peoples.

Source: Qur’an, Al-Anbiya (21), 107. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: Frames discussion of the Prophetic mission; specific policies still need their own evidence.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Quran Published translation

It may be that Allah will ordain love between you and those of them with whom ye are at enmity. Allah is Mighty, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

Source: Qur’an, Al-Mumtahanah (60), 7. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: Allows for changed relationships rather than an immutable civilizational enemy.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Quran Published translation

Allah forbiddeth you not those who warred not against you on account of religion and drove you not out from your homes, that ye should show them kindness and deal justly with them. Lo! Allah loveth the just dealers. Allah forbiddeth you only those who warred against you on account of religion and have driven you out from your homes and helped to drive you out, that ye make friends of them. Whosoever maketh friends of them - (All) such are wrong-doers.

Source: Qur’an, Al-Mumtahanah (60), 8-9. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: Read the two verses together: peaceful difference and active persecution are not treated identically.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Quran Published translation

Call unto the way of thy Lord with wisdom and fair exhortation, and reason with them in the better way. Lo! thy Lord is Best Aware of him who strayeth from His way, and He is Best Aware of those who go aright.

Source: Qur’an, An-Nahl (16), 125. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: Provides a method of invitation and argument, not merely a command to win debate.

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Quran Published translation

And those who answer the call of their Lord and establish worship, and whose affairs are a matter of counsel, and who spend of what We have bestowed on them,

Source: Qur’an, Ash-Shura (42), 38. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: Establishes consultation as a value; the verse does not specify a complete modern constitutional system.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Quran Published translation

There is no compulsion in religion. The right direction is henceforth distinct from error. And he who rejecteth false deities and believeth in Allah hath grasped a firm handhold which will never break. Allah is Hearer, Knower.

Source: Qur’an, Al-Baqarah (2), 256. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: A foundational text for discussing faith and coercion; detailed historical legal interpretations require their own sources.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Quran Published translation

Lo! Allah enjoineth justice and kindness, and giving to kinsfolk, and forbiddeth lewdness and abomination and wickedness. He exhorteth you in order that ye may take heed.

Source: Qur’an, An-Nahl (16), 90. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: An ethical framework for public and private conduct, rather than a detailed institutional blueprint.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Quran Published translation

And if thy Lord willed, all who are in the earth would have believed together. Wouldst thou (Muhammad) compel men until they are believers?

Source: Qur’an, Yunus (10), 99. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: Complements the legal-ethical discussion of 2:256 with a theological reflection on belief and divine will.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Quran Published translation

Whosoever doeth right, whether male or female, and is a believer, him verily we shall quicken with good life, and We shall pay them a recompense in proportion to the best of what they used to do.

Source: Qur’an, An-Nahl (16), 97. English: M. M. Pickthall; Urdu: Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry. Both translations accessed through Tanzil.

Status: Text and cited translation wording checked; relevance note is editorial.

Relevance: Explicitly includes both sexes in the promise attached to faith and righteous action; not an empirical assertion of equal social outcomes.

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Hadith Established source translation

indeed, Allah is gentle and He loves gentleness, and He gives for gentleness what He does not give for violence and what He does not give for anything else.

Source: A’ishah. Sahih Muslim 2593. Arabic and established translations: HadeethEnc, record 5797. Numbering follows that record.

Status: Sahih according to the source classification. Contiguous excerpt; opening address omitted in all three text blocks.

Relevance: A contiguous core excerpt. The Urdu page includes two reports; only its second report is quoted here.

Best use: Evidence / ethical principle

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Hadith Established source translation

The Messenger of Allah (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) bought food from a Jew and pledged him his iron armor.

Source: A’ishah bint Abi Bakr. Bukhari and Muslim; exact report accessed as HadeethEnc 5881, category “Mortgage”. Arabic and established translations: HadeethEnc, record 5881. Numbering follows that record. Parallel canonical locator verified: Sahih al-Bukhari 2068, Kitab al-Buyu.

Status: Sahih according to the source classification.

Relevance: An authenticated Seerah example of ordinary dealing across religious boundaries; no second historical entry is counted.

Best use: Evidence / ethical principle

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Hadith Established source translation

"Do not belittle any good deed, even if it be meeting your brother with a cheerful face."

Source: Abu Dharr. Sahih Muslim 2626. Arabic and established translations: HadeethEnc, record 5348. Numbering follows that record.

Status: Sahih according to the source classification.

Relevance: Locates constructive social conduct in ordinary encounters, not only major institutional projects.

Best use: Evidence / ethical principle

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Hadith Established source translation

"The one who looks after a widow or a needy person is like one who performs Jihad in the cause of Allah, or one who regularly observes voluntary prayer at night and fasting during the day."

Source: Abu Hurayrah. Sahih al-Bukhari 5661; jointly reported. Arabic and established translations: HadeethEnc, record 3135. Numbering follows that record.

Status: Sahih according to the source classification.

Relevance: Relates sustained social care to major forms of devotion.

Best use: Evidence / ethical principle

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Hadith Established source translation — contiguous excerpt

the good word is a charity, every step that one takes to the prayer is a charity, and removing what is harmful from the way is a charity.

Source: Abu Hurayrah. Sahih al-Bukhari 2989; jointly reported; closing contiguous excerpt. Arabic and established translations: HadeethEnc, record 4568. Numbering follows that record.

Status: Sahih according to the source classification.

Relevance: Recognizes beneficial speech and removal of hazards alongside prayer as charitable acts.

Best use: Evidence / ethical principle

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Hadith Established source translation

“The believer who mixes with people and patiently bears their annoyance is better than the believer who does not mix with people or patiently bear their annoyance.”

Source: Abdullah ibn Umar. Al-Adab al-Mufrad 388, Social Behaviour, chapter 181; parallel Ibn Majah 4032 has a wording variant. HadeethEnc 5492 attributes the report also to al-Tirmidhi and Ahmad.. Arabic and established translations: HadeethEnc, record 5492. Numbering follows that record.

Status: Sahih according to the source classification.

Relevance: Supports constructive social engagement with patience; not an instruction to remain in abusive danger. HadeethEnc grades it Sahih; Darussalam also grades Ibn Majah’s version Sahih.

Best use: Evidence / ethical principle

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Hadith Established source translation

"The Ash‘aris, if they ran short of provisions while on a military expedition, or if their children were short of food in Madīnah, they would gather everything they had in one piece of cloth then they would divide them evenly among themselves. Thus they are from me and I am from them."

Source: Abu Musa al-Ashari. Sahih al-Bukhari 2486, Kitab al-Sharikah; Sahih Muslim 2500. Arabic and established translations: HadeethEnc, record 5543. Numbering follows that record.

Status: Sahih according to the source classification.

Relevance: A concrete Prophetic endorsement of mutual provision in scarcity, not a complete modern economic constitution.

Best use: Evidence / ethical principle

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Tafsir Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Ibn Kathir explains that clear religious evidence should not be replaced by forcing a person to embrace faith; forced outward adherence does not itself produce conviction.

Source: Ibn Kathir, Tafsir, abridged English version, commentary on 2:256, “No Compulsion in Religion,” accessed through Quran.com.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: An exegetical explanation of belief, not a claim that every historical legal controversy over religious liberty is resolved by this passage alone.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Tafsir Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Ibn Kathir’s concluding explanation extends temporary safe conduct to visitors such as emissaries, traders and negotiators from hostile territories, including security until their return.

Source: Ibn Kathir, abridged English Tafsir on 9:6, “Idolators are granted Safe Passage if They seek It,” concluding explanatory paragraph.

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Relevance: A juristic application beyond simply hearing the Qur’an; retain its historical wartime setting rather than equating it with every modern visa rule.

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History Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

The NLM catalogue identifies Ibn al-Jazzar’s Tibb al-fuqara’ wa-al-masakin as a 58-chapter work within a medical genre addressing people unable to obtain ordinary medical assistance.

Source: National Library of Medicine, Islamic Medical Manuscripts, Medical Monographs, Medicine for the Poor; Tibb al-fuqara’ wa-al-masakin, MS A 92, item 1, introductory description.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: Historical evidence of attention to access, not endorsement of medieval remedies. The catalogue, not the manuscript or a clinical trial, was inspected.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Classical scholarship Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Ibn Rushd holds that demonstrative truth and revelation cannot genuinely conflict; apparent conflicts call for interpretation under Arabic linguistic rules.

Source: Ibn Rushd, Fasl al-maqal, translator’s Chapter II, opening discussion; Hourani translation, 1976 e-text.

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Relevance: A specific hermeneutical theory; do not attribute it to all theologians.

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Classical scholarship Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Ibn Khaldun argues that individuals cannot secure subsistence alone; coordinated labour makes social organization necessary.

Source: Ibn Khaldun, al-Muqaddimah, Chapter I, preliminary discussion 1, necessity of human social organization.

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Relevance: Useful for modern discussion of interdependence, with application distinguished from the medieval argument.

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Modern scholarship Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Iqbal frames ijtihad as the principle through which a religious society relates enduring commitments to changing circumstances.

Source: Iqbal, Reconstruction, Lecture VI, “The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam,” opening discussion of permanence and change.

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Relevance: A modern reconstruction argument, not a licence for unqualified individual fatwas.

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Modern scholarship Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Iqbal rejects an absolute closure of ijtihad and calls for qualified reconstruction informed by accumulated commentary and new experience.

Source: Iqbal, Reconstruction, Lecture VI, concluding qiyas/ijtihad discussion, paragraph beginning “The closing of the door”.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: Attribute the historical assessment to Iqbal; do not treat every school as historically identical.

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Modern scholarship Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Iqbal treats religion as involving thought, feeling and action together, while regarding thought and intuition as complementary approaches.

Source: Iqbal, Reconstruction, Lecture I, “Knowledge and Religious Experience,” paragraph beginning “Religion is not a departmental affair”.

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Relevance: Useful for the role of religion in modern intellectual life; this is Iqbal’s philosophical position.

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Modern scholarship Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Point 2 distinguishes shared religious fundamentals from differences in subsidiary jurisprudence.

Source: The Three Points of the Amman Message, V.1, point 2.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: Useful for intra-Muslim dialogue without erasing genuine doctrinal differences.

Best use: Argument / critical analysis

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Modern scholarship Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

IIFA announced its role in external Sharia-compliance review of UNHCR’s Refugee Zakat Fund.

Source: International Islamic Fiqh Academy, “IIFA forms Sharia Board for UNHCR Zakat Fund,” 13 February 2025.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: A particular academy’s institutional action, not universal juristic agreement about every Zakat arrangement.

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Academic research Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Kammer and co-authors identify possible contributions of Islamic finance to inclusion, smaller firms and infrastructure, while emphasizing regulatory and institutional requirements.

Source: Alfred Kammer et al., Islamic Finance: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Options, IMF Staff Discussion Note 2015/005, 6 April 2015, publisher’s summary; DOI 10.5089/9781498325035.006.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: The 2015 authors’ conditional argument, not a claim that these outcomes are automatic. Publisher summary inspected, not the full paper.

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Academic research Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

Farooq and Zaheer report relatively lower withdrawals from Islamic branches during the studied financial panic, including differences within dual-bank networks.

Source: Moazzam Farooq and Sajjad Zaheer, Are Islamic Banks More Resilient during Financial Panics?, IMF Working Paper 2015/041, 26 February 2015, abstract.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: A finding about the studied Pakistani branches, not a universal conclusion about all Islamic banks. Abstract inspected; full paper not inspected.

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Institutional sources Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

The document advocates full citizenship based on equality of rights and duties.

Source: Al-Tayyeb and Francis, Human Fraternity, 4 February 2019, paragraph beginning “The concept of citizenship”.

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Relevance: A documented contemporary position, not a claim of universal agreement.

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Institutional sources Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

The signatories frame love of God and love of neighbour as a basis for Muslim–Christian dialogue.

Source: A Common Word Between Us and You, official letter, “Summary and Abridgement,” opening and concluding invitation.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: Represents the signatories’ proposal, not a new scripture or an impact evaluation.

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Institutional sources Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

UNHCR reports that Islamic giving supported over one million displaced people in 25 countries during 2025.

Source: UNHCR, Islamic Philanthropy Annual Report 2025, Executive Summary, “Overall Impact of Zakat and Sadaqah Donations”.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: Agency-reported programme reach, not an independent impact evaluation or the total of all Muslim charity.

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Institutional sources Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

The report describes the Global Islamic Fund for Refugees as a Sharia-compliant endowment entering active operations in 2025.

Source: UNHCR, Islamic Philanthropy Annual Report 2025, Executive Summary, “Global Islamic Fund for Refugees”.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: An institutional financing mechanism; long-term effectiveness is not established by its creation alone.

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Institutional sources Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

UNICEF reports that 71,000 out-of-school adolescents entered accelerated learning pathways in Pakistan during 2025.

Source: UNICEF Pakistan Annual Report 2025, June 2026, website “Highlights,” accelerated learning result.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: A contemporary example of remedial educational provision, not a uniquely religious intervention or an independent impact evaluation.

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Institutional sources Scholarly position / paraphrased argument

UNEP presents Al-Mizan as a collaborative Islamic environmental initiative linking scripture-based responsibilities with contemporary action on climate change and threats to nature.

Source: UNEP, Al-Mizan: A Covenant for the Earth, project page, “About” and UNEA-6 launch description; accessed 18 September 2026.

Status: Cited digital passage inspected; an attributed paraphrase, not a verbatim quotation or Hadith grading.

Relevance: The project description was inspected, not every provision of the full covenant. Collaboration does not establish unanimous juristic consensus or measured ecological impact.

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