Human relations in a multi-religious society from the perspective of Islamic jurisprudence

Abstract

Today, many Muslims travel to non-Muslim countries as immigrants or for business, study, work, or other purposes. Therefore, building a peaceful and stable multi-religious society has become a necessity to bring forth communal harmony. The books of Fiqh are full of many juristic rulings related to the relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims in the fields of trade, renting and leasing, representation, partnership, marriage, divorce, and other fields included in different chapters of Fiqh sources. This research aims to focus on the juristic rulings of Muslims and non-Muslims’ relationships that abound in different sections of Islamic Fiqh by collecting and unifying them under one theme. It also seeks to shed light on the diversity of people’s beliefs, religions, and the different juristic rulings resulting from this vast diversity. In Islam, as discussed in this research, the principle that governs human relations is the establishment peace rather than conflict. The flexibility of Islamic Shari’a and its rulings prove the possibility of building a multi-religious society governed tolerance, freedom of belief, protection of human dignity, justice, peaceful coexistence and human cooperation.