Zeeshan Ali Zardari
Social engineering is an essential and fundamental part of human existence which decides the margin of human values and credibility of existing norms in the respective society. Human society is a practical medium to project moral, ethical and social progressions of inhabitants. Historical chronology witnesses that no human society has been deprived of values and morals, later on these progressions emerge as historical landmark for descendant beings. However, these values and morals of each society differ from one to another, yet uniqueness and exceptionality of these morals is of matter to concern. According to sociological parameters, from such unique and exceptional societies, Islam’s prolific society of Medina is exemplified as idealistic society in the sixth century A.D, which was primely engineered by Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H). Still holding the credit of idealistic society, Medina’s social spectrum was not mere the sociological wonder of Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H), but it was also an exemplary blueprint for political, economical and egalitarian manifestos. These all manifestos and sociological matrixes moulded by Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) sparkled around the globe and resulted in successful model of Islamic Caliphate. Islam heightened in glories and prosperities, the ratio of conquests skyrocketed as well and the boundaries of Islamic Caliphate secured three mighty continents of world. The sociological essentials of Islam were a recipe behind glorified acceleration of success; this not only fuelled Caliphate in political grounds but also proved fruitful to design economical maxims for the society. Islam provides a flamboyant road-map for exemplary social order, and for the engineering Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) was nominated divinely, to ascertain practical implication of Islamic sociological model. World witnessed an extra-ordinary emergence from Arabic peninsula in form of sociological model, which had very sensitive and robust policies to imply, the social model had a manual set with divine rules known as Qur’an Pak. The holy script had all mandatory social codes for fantastic social design, it had best judicial system, it featured dynamic economical maxim, it displayed massive fairness and it ensured rights broadly. . The example is vivid as; “If anyone killed a person not in retaliation of murder, or (and) to spread mischief in the land – it would be as if he killed all mankind.” (Al-Quran Surah-Miadah 5:32). Islam has never been opposing force for proper sociological order, indeed, the policies and codes featured by Islam are purely humanitarian and sociological exponents. Any society whose sociological order is designed on the print of Islamic blueprint will be lagged behind in Sociological sublimity. In the sociological spectrums Qur’an Pak ensures the individuality of mankind, which in itself is reliable epoch for foundations of society. The credible and robust policy for the individual and collective demarcation of citizens is on based piousness rather than on racial, national, cultural or ethical grounds. Beside resisting all other social evils Islam forbids from the cultural, national, ethical and racial chaos. Here is a prime instance in that context from Qur’an Pak: “Men, We have created you all male and female and have made you nations and tribes so that you would recognize each other. The most honourable among you in the sight of Allah is the most pious of you”. (Surah al-Hujurat, 49:13) Initially, the migration of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) from Makah to Medina was first step towards establishment of an ideal society; the soil of Makah was not yet fertile for bowing the rich seed of sociological wonder. Admittedly, the social order of Yathrib enabled it into a historical transformation of Al-Medina al-Munawwarah, ‘the city of luminousness’, hence Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) bowed the seed of sociological wonder. The seed later grew in tree of brotherhood in between Ansar-e-Medina as host and Muhajireen as immigrants from Makah. The tree served with fruit of State of Medina which later on settled the score with barbaric Arabs. A complete state of Medina with rational codes and proper sociological order yielded an influential patch on the Arabic peninsula, the Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) envisioned an outstanding equilibrium to maintain social order among the newly Muslim Arabs. Historical evidences further assured the egalitarian verdicts as prominent example of Prophet Mohamed’s prosperous social model. Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) had never compromised on any of the social, political or economic essential, in order to maintain a fair system his famed verdicts in form of Hadith are scripted in history. For instance, once Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) quoted a well-known Hadith to reflect the importance of social order, “Many a community ruined itself in the past as they only punished the poor and ignored the offences of the exalted. By Allah, if Mohamed’s (My) daughter Fatimah would have committed theft, her hand would have been severed.”Sahih al-Bukhari 3475(Vol. 4, Book 55, Hadith 681) and Sahih Muslim (1688). This reflects the mainstream infrastructure of social model designed by Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) as an influential and exemplary model for mankind. There are other contextual examples mirrored by Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) as sociological codes, these are true for every mandatory sociological development. Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) is a practical reflection of the Islamic sociological order, his policies were imitation from Islamic sociological charter, his tactics were depicting strength of Islamic sociological arena and his economical moves displayed Islamic mould of economy. “Verily Allah has ordained the payment of Zakat on them (Muslims). It will be taken from the rich and returned to the poor.” Sahih Muslim (Vol 1:21). Education and knowledge are two elementary building blocks for sociological matrix and Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H) throught his life aimed to educate Muslims, regardless of gender, colour, caste or ethimicity, he never had supported the pagan conventions on cultural basis, rather he chose the illuminating ray of knowledge on broad terms. Here is an example of Prophet Mohamed (P.B.U.H)’s policy to educate and flourish the sociological medium: “Learning is obligatory upon every Muslim man and woman” and that “he who gives the best upbringing and education to his daughters shall enter paradise.” “Whoever follows a path in the pursuit of knowledge, Allah will make a path to Paradise easy for him.”(Sahih Bukhaari, Vol 1, Kitaab al-‘Ilm, 10). A complete and practically applied blueprint of sociological order is provided by Islam, the necessity of hour is a frim implementation of this order. Today a drastic decline in sociological margin has destroyed the morale of Muslims, which is severe lacking of current times. Islam is cornered in four walls of mosque; it is thrown out of sociological order, and despite it has given the famed scientist of sociology Ibn-e- Khaldun, there is no ground for implication of Islamic sociological model. Sociological pursuit of Islam should be utilised in this need of hour for the Muslim establishments, Qur’an Pak as a manual is mandatory for sociological guidance and Prophet Mohamed’s firm sociological engineering needs to be implemented in societies; to regain the height of glories. Other hasty sociological model pretending to liberal, communist, socialist or democratic disdain will never become ray of hope for Muslim states, except that is divinely revealed sociological pursuit.
