His responsibility is to make a judgement in legal disputes...

His responsibility is to make a judgement in legal disputes, look after money belonging to orphans, oversee the awqaf (religious estates) and witness trade transactions and business agreements and appoint an official to carry out judicial punishments.

Another factor is that the number of prisons in an Islamic state is very small and so it is true to say that the people under Islamic rule have no intractable problems to confront and consequently they can busy themselves with their own affairs with a sense of serenity and peace of mind. Question: How can Islam make a nation progress? Answer: There are several factors for Islam being able to do this which can be summarized in the following basic…