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What does it mean?
Only God has the authority to make laws in Islam.
In plain terms
God alone makes the laws in Islam.
What can you take from it?
Divine law supersedes human legislation.

Where it applies

  • legal systems
  • religious governance
  • constitutional debates

Putting it to work

  • study sharia law
  • analyze divine law claims

Questions to consider

  • Who should make laws in a society?

Another view

It challenges democratic law-making.

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