Now what is to be seen is the methods the Prophet employs to build up people...

Now what is to be seen is the methods the Prophet employs to build up people; what means he exploits and how he develops people. • Does he establish a school (madressa)? • Does he set up an institution of philosophy? • Does he build a monastery and a place of worship? The Prophet sets up a factory for manufacturing human beings. He prefers that even if it takes ten or twenty years, a plant should be built that automatically produces perfect human beings to his liking.

So to produce such humans the Prophet uses the human-building factory and this factory is the Islamic society and system. This is the basic point that will be the focus of our discussion. Everyone says that the Prophet wants to make humans. They all say that the Prophet came to educate and train and they fully understand it. However, what needs to be carefully understood is that the Prophet did not take every individual by his hand to a corner and sing songs of Allah's love.

The prophets did not set up institutions of knowledge and philosophy to train a few pupils and then sent them to the far corners of the earth to guide people. The work of the Prophet was much more robust and deep. He establishes a factory that only produces humans and that factory is the "Islamic Society". What is an Islamic society? And what is its composition? This is a separate discussion and is not part of our talk.

However, we find it necessary to shed a brief light on this subject for some elaboration. Islamic society is a society and culture whose ultimate reign is in the Hands of God; the laws of this society are from Allah; the boundaries in this society are decreed by Allah; positions and status in this society are awarded in light of Allah's teachings; and based on the same teachings the positions and status can be taken away.

As is the norm with some people knowledgeable about societies, if we draw a society in the shape of a triangle, God is at the top of the Islamic society triangle and all humans are below Him.

The institutions in this society are set up on the basis of religion; the laws of war and peace are created according to Allah's decrees; God's religion dictates communal relationships, economy, governance, rights and everything else; all are promulgated according to Allah's religion and Allah's religion is in the back of all these laws. This is called Islamic society. This is how the Prophet formed a society in Madina on his arrival.