The Importance Of Unity In Islam

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In Islamic perspective, integrity means consistency which Muslim individuals have to remain steady in the same position throughout their life. But, in an English language, Cambridge by the way, integrity has described as Honesty (the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles that you refuse to change)’ and Whole (the quality of being whole and complete) (Cambridge 2012). Therefore, integrity, by a complete sentence, is. When people work strenuously, integrity is one of the central engines that generates how the task will be done without deterioration and disruption. As Drs. Fatima Abdullah defines her paper, ‘integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, expectations, and outcomes.’
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the poor, the rich, young, elderly, and so on to form a strong society (Sumayah Mohamed Saleh and Shadiya Mohamed Baqutayan 2012). In other words, unity in Islam is not merely togetherness of Muslim populations in a physical way, but to build the bonds that might fasten the cohesion of the Ummah in a more emotional, spiritual and economic approach. That is why the Muslim people take the name Ummah, they are one nation, even if they live in various countries. When the society provides a full attention to each other, not just the personal advantages, but the whole nation as a one; the Ummah hence, soothes all illness wounds that can grow between them. Thus, the population might live a peaceful and harmonious life …show more content…
Nonetheless, as Islam defines it, integrity is what is being felt inside at the time of doing a specific assignment where there is no one who is watching or monitoring. The success of any organisation, whether, a profit-oriented one, international non-governmental, business organisations or even the United Nations, they rely upon the compassion, trustworthy and other components of integrity. Without integrity, the progression of the organisation’s processes might be halted or sometimes stopped permanently. This leads some institutions and organisations to teach their employees integrity and ethics classes (Abdullah 2014). In this case, integrity relates the type of relationship with the work itself by non-Muslims, and with the Creator, Almighty Allah by Muslims. For Muslim relationship, one must reveal all of his or her abilities towards the one and only Allah, who creates them for serving His (Allah) creation. With this purpose, Dr. Pasha classifies working for Almighty Allah without compromising the personal work is the real integrity of the Muslim society (Pasha 2014). If Muslim people put Islamic integrity first before everything else, the rest of worldly matters arrive automatically under the

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