Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 219
Chapter Five Political Peace Political Peace Has to Be Carefully Examined at the National and International Level As far as national politics is concerned, the foremost issue is which political system is good or bad for man. Again, we need to discover whether it is the failure of political systems and their inherent defects which are responsible for the miseries and dissatisfaction of a people or is it something else. Is the system to be blamed or those who run it? Can immoral selfish, greedy, or corrupt political leadership which rises to power by democratic means be really good and beneficial for society as against benign dictatorship, for instance? In order to establish and guarantee international peace, Islam has a word of advice for the contemporary politicians. Islam lays extraordinary stress on introducing absolute morality to all spheres of human activity—politics being no exception.