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EDITORIAL 

This year's third issue of Hamdard Islamicus presents an informative 

and inspiring bouquet of articles covering and elaborating Islamic 

guidelines pertinent to various spheres of life. This is a part of our 

continuous journey towards the renaissance of Muslim world by 

motivating all Muslims to transform their lives as the teachings of Islam. 

This issue gives concrete evidences that Islam in itself is a comprehensive 

manual for all contemporary and modern challenges.   

The Indonesian National Waqf Body (BWI) and Ministry of Finance 

(MoF) have implemented a model called Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk 

(CWLS) and issued the government of Indonesia Sukuk (Islamic 

securities) namely Sukuk Waqf Indonesia (SWI) in 2020. This is a key 

milestone as this cash waqf can potentially finance public infrastructures 

such as public hospitals, airports, state schools, mosques and, traditional 

markets. Indeed, it is very crucial to assess the feasibility of the CWLS 

model and to have a robust academic assessment such as formulation of 

the model, optimal level of each party such as the government, waqif, 

waqf management agencies (Nadzhir) and the like. which is the objective 

and main motivation of our first article entitled "Identifying the 

Optimal Cash Waqf Linked Sukuk: Indonesian Experience" . 

"Does Islamicity affect economic growth? Evidence from OIC, 

high, middle, and low-income countries" is the title of our second 

article which is authored by Saudi and Turkish professors. They claim 

that empirical studies on the main determining factors of economic 

growth have neglected the effect of Islamicity on economic growth. This 

study expands upon the recent literature on economic growth and 

Islamicity. By using the Islamicity indices data for the first time, this 

study provides a brand-new viewpoint on Islamicity and the economic 

growth nexus in the world, focusing on sub-divisions of high, middle, and 

low-income countries and the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC).   

Advances in communication technology have made social media 

one of the media that plays an essential role in conveying political 

campaigns. Some people use the momentum of political contestation as 

an opportunity to seek financial gain by working as a buzzer on social 

media. The third article titled “Political Buzzer in Islamic Law and Its 

Impact On Muslim Society" aims to analyze political buzzer actions 

from Islamic perspective and highlight its negative impact on the Muslim 

community of Indonesia. After conducting in-depth research, the author 



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concludes that it is mubāh (legal) for a political buzzer to promote the 

ability, expertise of a candidate for leadership or a specific regional head. 

However, the act of political buzzers who create and spread hoaxes, hate 

speech, and black campaigns are harām (unlawful) and strictly prohibited 

in Islam. 

The end of the Mughal Empire in the wake of the War of 

Independence 1857 left the Muslim community of South Asia as political 

orphans, desperately facing religious and cultural assaults, political as 

well as economic victimization and marginalization under the British Raj. 

At this time of vulnerability of the Muslim society, it was the educational 

institutions established by Muslim ideologues which took up the task of 

strengthening, reforming and revitalizing the Muslim society to cope with 

the challenges pushing them down to the bottom, and helped excel at 

regaining the lost confidence and integrity. Among them, one was Darul 

Ulum Deoband. The Fourth Article "Darul Ulum Deoband: 

Preserving Religious and Cultural Integrity of South Asian Muslims 

through Structural and Strategic Innovations" goes into some of 

important historical developments such as the socio-political 

circumstances led to the origination of madrasah Deoband, lofty vision 

and objectives that envisaged by its founders, administration of 

educational-cum-institutional paraphernalia, nationalist stance and 

struggle for freedom carried out by the Deobandi veterans, strategies and 

policies it adopted to deal with political challenges confronted to the 

Indian Muslims during British Raj and after partition of India.  

Everyone is working hard to be successful in his/her career. 

However, that requires an individual to be more ethical, committed, and 

self-contented towards his/her expected goal. H ence, last but not the 

least, the fifth article entitled " The Effect Of Islamic Work Ethics On 

Academics’ Career Success: The Mediating Role Of Psychological 

Capital Resources" aims to explore the influence of Islamic work ethics 

(IWE) on academics’ career success (ACS), besides the role of 

psychological capital (PsyCap) as mediation between IWE and ACS. The 

data was collected from full-time academic staff in public universities in 

Sudan. After analyzing 236 questionnaires, the findings indicated that 

IWE is positively related to the ACS. Furthermore, PsyCap was a 

significant mediator between IWE and ACS.  

 

Dr. Muhammad Wasie Fasih Butt, 

              Editor