THE LEGALITY OF DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION IN ISLAM

Abstract

History spans more than three thousand years. Humanity has known several applications of diplomacy, whether as a relationship regulating the means of international communication or as rules to be resorted to during conflicts and wars, until today it has reached the heights of progress and development and gained international consensus and became a binding custom everywhere and at all levels. As for Islam, diplomacy appears to be a crucifixion daughter of it, both in letter and in spirit. There is hardly an unanimous diplomatic rule that deviates from the provisions of Islamic law. While diplomacy took hundreds of years to appear as it is today, of transcendence and pomp; It was born in Islam with complete pillars as it was enacted and applied by the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and his companions and caliphs, and the Muslims gained as a result the respect and appreciation of enemies before friends. Just as women had a role and sold in this general behavioral approach in the experiences of all nations and peoples; The Muslim lady also had her role and sold it from Mrs. Khadija, may God be pleased with her, to every responsible woman in the diplomatic corps in any contemporary Islamic government. The research aimed to demonstrate every issue dealt with by all available references, whether Islamic or historical. Therefore, this research, in the name of (the legitimacy of diplomatic representation in Islam), was keen to fill a vacancy in the field of diplomatic studies related to Sharia; He believed that a lot of effort should be made to make diplomacy a considered tributary of stability and prosperity in Islamic societies. Which aims to show the greatness and uniqueness of Islam by emphasizing its difference in principles and values ​​from religions, intellectual, doctrinal and philosophical laws and human struggle throughout the long history of mankind. International. Since the phenomenon of these factors is wide and far apart, it was necessary to adopt a clear scientific methodology that relies on mixing between applied and analytical viewpoints in the application of this phenomenon.