So for example...

So for example, the national assembly or parliament is to apply and implement the general laws to whatever they are applicable but it is not for legislation and law-making [outside the framework of Islamic laws], since legislation and law-making is the right of Almighty Allah, firstly, and secondly because there is no deficiency in the laws of Islam nor is there any shortage that we need to legislate.

Islam has elucidated for us the law of everything, “even the compensation of a scratch”, as the hadith goes188, and in another hadith, “the h}ala>l of Muhammad is h}ala>l until the day of judgement, and his h}ara>m is h}ara>m until the day of judgement”189. Therefore, it is not permissible for anyone to prescribe anything as h}ala>l or h}ara>m, and the only right there is the freedom in implementation, for example Islam has decreed that trading is the right…