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How does Islam Satisfy the Demands of Every Epoch? - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief How does Islam Satisfy the Demands of Every Epoch? 2021-06-24 315 Views In the discussions about society, this point has amply been stressed that it was on account of the necessities of life and due to an individual’s inability to cope with its demands all alone, that the human being chose to lead a social existence.

Contents Determining the needs of life The Islamic Perspective The Basis of Islamic Outlook Similarly, we often hear in juridical discussions that a society can genuinely satisfy the vital needs of its individual members only when it formulates a set of laws and regulations that correspond with their needs so that each member of society can obtain his genuine rights and benefit from the fruits of collective existence.

In the light of these two notions, the principal basis of social laws is the satisfaction of the basic needs of human life, without which a human being cannot, even for a moment, continue its existence. It is this fulfilment of basic needs that directly results in the formation of a society and the formulation of laws and regulations.

Evidently, a society in which there is no collective effort for the fulfilment of basic needs, and where there is no interrelationship of activities among members, such group does not deserve to be called a ‘society’. In the same way, laws and regulations whose existence and implementation have no effect on the fulfilment of the social needs of the people, are not worthy to be called ‘laws’, that is, a set of regulations that safeguard vital social interests.

The presence of laws which more or less satisfy the needs of society and which are, on the whole, acceptable to its members, is necessary even for the most barbarous and backward societies. However, in primitive societies, the laws and regulations are products of custom and tradition, having gradually emerged from the irregular collective behaviour of the past.

At times, in such societies, laws are imposed upon the people through the extravagant will of one or more powerful individuals, resulting in the establishment of a well-defined base for the mainstream of social life acceptable to the majority. Even today, we see such people in various corners of the world who conserve their customs, culture and traditions without losing the fabric of social life. In an advanced society, if it is a religious one, the Divine Law prevails.