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Islamic Flextime, Liaquat Ali Khan
Islamic Flextime, Liaquat Ali Khan
Ali Khan
Islamic flextime is derived from a divine decree that convenience is the organizing principle of cosmic construction. Rigid temporal frameworks restrict freedom and may even impede human happiness, social harmony, and economic efficiency. This essay explains the foundation of Islamic temporality. Islam teaches that human beings can use temporality but they have no control over time, just as they can benefit from sunlight but cannot conquer the sun. A flexible notion of temporality facilitates the performance of obligations, without repudiating the core concepts of punctuality and time commitments. Islamic flextime is an accommodation principle that respects individual needs and mitigates …
Essay: Infinity Of Law, Ali Khan
Essay: Infinity Of Law, Ali Khan
Ali Khan
At a given point in time, law is finite and its constitutive norms can be mostly identified with certainty. Despite its finitude, however, law is also infinite because the number of future additions and subtractions to the legal system is incalculable. As a general matter, law faced with infinite causes and consequences opts for legally manufactured finitism. Concerned with contracts, decedent’s estate, patents, searches and seizures, and other areas of law, practical law requires finite facts and finite laws in order to structure transactions and resolve disputes. Practical law shuns the infinite and courts finitude. The principle of finitude, however, …