Is Islam Hadhari a new mazhab (legal school)?
• Islam Hadhari is not a new legal school. Neither is it a new mazhab. Muslims need to recover the original teaching of Islam and to implement it in society for the benefit of all. This is the basic idea of Islam Hadhari. • As the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdullah Badawi answered this question in his book Islam Hadhari: a Model Approach for Development and Progress, (2006, p. 3) “Islam Hadhari is not a new religion. It is not a new teaching nor is it a new mazhab (denomination). It is an effort to bring the ummah (the world wide community comprising all adherents of the Muslim faith) back to the basics of Islam, back to the fundamentals as presented in the Qur’an and the hadith which form the foundations of an Islamic civilisation.” He also wrote that, “Malaysia offers a modest working model of renewal, reform and the beginnings of a ‘renaissance’ in the Muslim world.
