Zawaya

The establishment of a democratic country is not necessarily based on secular regime. Democracy in its broad sense means governance of the people by the people themselves. Returning to the definition of legal rule that it is defined as a set of general abstract norms of principles…… going back to the definition of conduct norms that are customs and tradition that gained the respect of a majority of people. On this basis, the establishment of a democratic country inevitably means passing laws from its principles not from other countries’ principles, as if importing laws that were passed for societies different from our societies in terms of norm, morality and religion. Thus, I believe, unlike what came in the article, that the establishment of a democratic country occurs by passing legal rules that mesh with nature, belief and customs of the society. Islam is not against the establishment of a country in the notion of governance of people by people itself, provided that the people must not replace God and legalize what is forbidden by God, and independent judgment explained this point. As for the separation of powers, what stops us from instituting alegislative body that does not interfere with the executive, as long as judges are concerned only with judgment. In the Arab and Islamic world, problems not only lie in the independence of powers or their control by the president of the country but in the question of whether the president adheres to the laws passed by him or by a legislative body and not interfere in judgment? History has proved that dictators hold all powers, and that the president does not intervene. Hence we can say that we are before the sovereignty of State laws. But, when we establish the mixture of legislative, executive and judicial bodies and these bodies aren’t subject to the law, it is a big problem. It is a fault in which all bodies in democratic countries, from the highest position in the pyramid of power to the lowest position, don’t believe in and respect what is passed and built by them for their peoples. This because these bodies existed only to serve each other, not their people as they are imposed upon their peoples. So I conclude by saying that our peoples haven’t reached enough awareness to take over their affairs as they are still physically, intellectually and dogmatically colonized.