The Unifying Idea
This axis links Islamic values with their practical implications in the public sphere. Islam here is understood as a commitment to freedom, dignity, and citizenship, not merely as a theoretical definition. This meaning appears in resistance to tyranny, and in confining the state’s function to legal regulation rather than monopolizing prohibition.
The theses included in the axis
- Freedom and human values constitute the criterion of Islam and the basis for resisting tyranny
- The civil state regulates the public sphere by law, not by religious prohibition
The axis’s support from the atoms
- Freedom is the basis of human dignity
- Loyalty to Islam is loyalty to human values
- The state has no power of prohibition
- God alone possesses the power to permit and prohibit
Reading method
Read this axis as a transition from value-based meaning to its political and ethical effect. Value here does not remain a slogan; rather, it is reflected in freedom, citizenship, and the limits of religious authority.