Islamic Government as a Divine Trust

By government we mean a political system that deals with how to impose rule and wield the political power and since it also refers to managing people’s relation with the government, designing a legitimate and rightful model of wielding power is one of the major concerns both in theory and practice. Based on this, the research question is what model can govern the Islamic system and what the consequences from a jurisprudential point of view could be. The research method is content analysis and tries to seek an answer to the question. It is shown that the Islamic government is a divine trust and is characterized by piety, justice, trustfulness among the rulers and their responsiveness to the people, the necessity of safeguarding the system and people’s votes if the Islamic government is to be sustained.