Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah

Public facilities are one of the most important land use categories in town planning. It transcends basic human needs that contribute to the overall liveability and wellbeing in its human welfare sense. The provision of public facilities somehow realizes the Maqasid al-Shariah (the objectives of Isl...

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Main Authors:	Mohd Khazani,, Nur Amilin, Ahmad Sarkawi, Azila, Abdullah, Alias, Md. Dali, Norimah
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	American Scientific Publishers 2017
Subjects:	HE Transportation and Communications HM Sociology KBP Islamic Law
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spelling	iium-630022018-10-25T08:51:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/63002/ Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah Mohd Khazani,, Nur Amilin Ahmad Sarkawi, Azila Abdullah, Alias Md. Dali, Norimah HE Transportation and Communications HM Sociology KBP Islamic Law Public facilities are one of the most important land use categories in town planning. It transcends basic human needs that contribute to the overall liveability and wellbeing in its human welfare sense. The provision of public facilities somehow realizes the Maqasid al-Shariah (the objectives of Islamic law) that is to preserve the maslahah (benefits) for humankind. This study examines seven types of public facilities in Malaysia against the five essentials of Maqasid al-Shari’ah namely faith, self, intellect, posterity, and wealth. Hence it is exploratory in nature adopting the content analysis and interview with several experts from planning and Islamic background to match the public facilities provided in the plans with the Maqasid al-Shari’ah principles. The conclusive findings are that the provision of public facilities is very much conceptually related to the Maqasid al-Shari’ah. This approaches simultaneously provides an insight to the policy makers on the level of importance of the five essentials and the need to fulfill each one of them to ensure balanced provision and enjoyment of the public facilities. This also shows all those objectives of Islamic Law that should take into considerations in planning and this have been highlighted by Malaysian Government through their effort to develop the Maqasid al-Shari’ah Index to measure the “Islamicity” of the country. American Scientific Publishers 2017-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63002/1/63002_Public%20facilities%20and%20human%20wellbeing_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63002/2/63002_Public%20facilities%20and%20human%20wellbeing_scopus.pdf Mohd Khazani,, Nur Amilin and Ahmad Sarkawi, Azila and Abdullah, Alias and Md. Dali, Norimah (2017) Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah. Advanced Science Letters, 23 (7). pp. 6309-6312. ISSN 1936-6612 E-ISSN 936-7317 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/asl/2017/00000023/00000007/art00062 10.1166/asl.2017.9258
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description	Public facilities are one of the most important land use categories in town planning. It transcends basic human needs that contribute to the overall liveability and wellbeing in its human welfare sense. The provision of public facilities somehow realizes the Maqasid al-Shariah (the objectives of Islamic law) that is to preserve the maslahah (benefits) for humankind. This study examines seven types of public facilities in Malaysia against the five essentials of Maqasid al-Shari’ah namely faith, self, intellect, posterity, and wealth. Hence it is exploratory in nature adopting the content analysis and interview with several experts from planning and Islamic background to match the public facilities provided in the plans with the Maqasid al-Shari’ah principles. The conclusive findings are that the provision of public facilities is very much conceptually related to the Maqasid al-Shari’ah. This approaches simultaneously provides an insight to the policy makers on the level of importance of the five essentials and the need to fulfill each one of them to ensure balanced provision and enjoyment of the public facilities. This also shows all those objectives of Islamic Law that should take into considerations in planning and this have been highlighted by Malaysian Government through their effort to develop the Maqasid al-Shari’ah Index to measure the “Islamicity” of the country.
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author	Mohd Khazani,, Nur Amilin Ahmad Sarkawi, Azila Abdullah, Alias Md. Dali, Norimah
author_facet	Mohd Khazani,, Nur Amilin Ahmad Sarkawi, Azila Abdullah, Alias Md. Dali, Norimah
author_sort	Mohd Khazani,, Nur Amilin
title	Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah
title_short	Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah
title_full	Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah
title_fullStr	Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah
title_full_unstemmed	Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah
title_sort	public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of maqasid al-shari’ah
publisher	American Scientific Publishers
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Public facilities and human wellbeing in the context of Maqasid al-Shari’ah

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