Management Indicators of Medina at Time of Prophet Muhammad

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) introduced new designs to the external and internal construction of the city of Medina as the capital of the Muslim world. What he created can be considered a model for building communities and managing world affairs.

Civil society is a model that western philosophers drew for human happiness and it also bears a lifestyle model in its heart. This theory has indicators that are in contravention of the theory of Madinah al-Nabi.

"Madinah al-Nabi" is a model of community building and world management that was presented by the Prophet (PBUH). As a theoretician of the divine worldview, he used a new plan in the external and internal construction of the city of Medina in Arabia as the capital of the Islamic world. This plan was definitely not limited to Medina, but a global plan for the management of human society.

We can present the components of "Madinah al-Nabi" with three criteria and one goal. These include wisdom, chastity and justice.

The motto of Islam and the main goal of these three indicators is the hadith “Say there is no god but Allah and you will be successful” which bears the message of spirituality and monotheism.

Wisdom

In Islam, wisdom is knowledge and light that gives its possessor the ability to distinguish between good and bad and is obtained through strengthening intellectuality and moral virtues. Basically, in Madinah al-Nabi, a person who does not have the wisdom or is not on the path of wisdom, cannot fulfill his role as a human being. On the other hand, one of the important components of civil society is the insistence on scientific principles. Although attention to science saved the West from the superstitions of the church, it is one of the factors of its fall into the abyss of blasphemy.

Chastity

In Islam, men and women are duty-bound to observe chastity. Chastity is an inner power that using it a person can face his/her illegitimate and animalistic desires and bring them under his/her control and prevent the emergence of lust in society.

Hedonism is against this chastity; it is a limitless regressive process that starts with opposition to divine orders and ends with turning humans into dangerous animals.

Justice

Justice is a priority and standard in Islamic civilization. In other words, the more justice is established in society, the more that society is fixed on the path of Islam. This issue is so important in Islamic texts that Muslim scholars believe the job of divine prophets was to invite people to worship God and establish justice.

This article was derived from a book written by Hossein Abbasi Asl