The Sh:!

The Sh:!a believe that it is obligatory to implement Islam in all areas of life – politics, economics, education, society, war, peace, in the house, in the school, in the workplace, in the barracks, and in all other stages of life. Islam is a complete religion providing for all the needs of humanity in every place and at every time. Almighty Alla>h has said: eToday I have perfected for ye your religion and completed my blessings upon ye and have chosen for ye Islam as your religionf124.

Therefore Islam lacks nothing and it is the best of religions and principles. If humanity implemented it eThey would eat from above them and beneath their feetf125. Islam then is the true religion and none other will be accepted by Alla>h, and mankind will not find happiness in this world and salvation in the next except by Islam. Almighty Alla>h has said: eAnd whoever desires a relgion other than Islam it will not be accepted from him and in the next life he will be among the losersf126.

Implementing Islam in the world is the hope of the Sh:!a, for Islam provides for every person: correct belief; freedom for individuals and groups; happiness of life through being saved from poverty, illness, ignorance and crime; complete peace between countries, individuals, and nations. Every person has the right to free thought, free speech, freedom to work, freedom to travel and settle, freedom to write, all of this in a pure framework offered by tolerant Islamic law.

Islam consists of fundamentals (os}ool al-deen), ‘branches’ (foroo‘ al-deen), laws (ah}ka>m al-deen), and morals (akhla>q). Whoever denies one of the fundamentals is considered to be an unbeliever. One is also considered unbeliever if one denies – without being ignorant or subject to ambiguity – any of the other three sections127.

One who does not follow the laws of Islam in his personal life without denying them is considered to be a wrongdoer (f"siq) as Almighty Alla>h has said: eWhoever does not rule by what Alla>h has revealed then they are the wrongdoersf128. The Fundamentals of Islam are divine unity (tawh } id), prophethood (nobuwwah) and resurrection (ma‘a>d); and following on from divine unity there is divine justice (‘adl) and from prophethood the imamate (imamah).