The book is divided into four main sections. The author dedicates the first section to defining comprehensive development linguistically and conceptually. He then clarifies the relationship between development and religion and outlines its conditions. He also discusses the obstacles and impediments to comprehensive development in the Islamic world, such as illiteracy, ignorance, backwardness, and many other issues, skillfully pointing out the wounds present in the Islamic world that need attention. Similarly, he addresses various types of corruption, such as administrative corruption, political corruption, financial corruption, and environmental corruption, discussing each type in detail, providing examples for the reader, and showing their rulings and harms. Finally, he presents Islamic solutions for each of these problems.
In the second section, he discusses individual development, both internal and external, clarifying both types and demonstrating how to develop them. In the third section, he talks about the development of society and its institutions, such as the role of the family and the importance of endowments (waqf) and citizens benefiting from them.
In the fourth and final section, the author focuses on the importance of authority and its great role in development, also introducing good governance as the type of rule that brings about comprehensive development. Finally, he discusses economic development and some of its obstacles and impediments, such as poverty, for which he presents necessary Islamic solutions.
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Original Language: Arabic
Author: Ali Muhiuddin Al-Qaradaghi
Translated into Kurdish by Omar Ali Muhammad
Number of pages: 359
Year of publication: 2020