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When contrasting Islam with generic terms like democracy, socialism, feminism, or social justice, I've often seen people jumping on the halal/haram bandwagon. The thing is, it's not as simple as that, and the labels can never be absolute.
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For instance, let's consider the domain of economic structure. People will debate whether Islam is capitalist or socialist in nature, or does it promote an economic structure of its own? The simple answer is: it's neither of that.
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Islam never defines a structure, it be political thought, scientific thought, or even philosophical thought. However, what it defines is limits. Those limits can be understood while going through Islamic law.
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These limits help us understand what are the legal bounds we can't cross, otherwise we'll be sinful transgressors. However, while we're within the bounds, we can formulate any framework which would be best suited to our socio-economic conditions and our environment.
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In simpler terms, Islam may support social justice, veganism, feminism, capitalism, democracy, monarchy or any other generic terms as long as our thinkers stay within the 'legal bounds' set up by Islamic law, and our framework is in line with our contemporary conditions.
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So yeah, I can confidently call myself an 'Islamic <label>' as long as I don't go against what Allah (SWT) has commanded, and I ensure that in the long run it won't adversely affect the social fabric, or the environment of my planet.
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