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These works show that the meaning of politics to the Muslim mind, and as envisioned by Islam, involves making arrangements for mankind in accordance with the values prescribed by Allah (SWT) for the realization of His purposes in creation, and in fulfillment of the trust of vicegerency, the duties of civilization, and the responsibility of the Ummah to act as a witness unto all mankind in its capacity as the "Middlemost Nation.
These misconceptions demand that contemporary Muslim political scientists, today more than ever, mobilize all the resources available so as to be able to unflaggingly pursue, on the one hand, the introduction of a mvolution of thought in the Ummah of Islam and, on the other, the establishment of sound academic foundations for an Islamic science of Shari`ah-based principles and conduct of government.
As a second step for the Muslim scholar of political science, it would seem appropriate to work on presenting a complete conception or design, based on the principles indicated above, of how a Muslim may practice politics in the contemporary world, how politics are linked to Shari' ah obligations, how present-day political practices and institutions may be considered Islamic or at least capable of substantiating Islamic objectives in areas like individual political expression, Shara, and enjoining the good and prohibiting what is evil.
The fiqh of politics and government which is needed by the Ummah at present must turn to the goals and purposes of Islam, to its general principles, 14 and to its precepts.