Abstract

Land is closely connected with human life. As per scientific calculation everything is generated from land and is transformed into land. It is a valuable continuous wealth. No one can ignore the usefulness of land. Land is being used from the very birth of life. Land, property and housing rights are generally cross-cultural and asserted within every socio-economic and political system, but the practice regarding their regulation and protection may take many forms. Islam as the complete code of life has laid down general principles for regulating every aspect of human life. In order to build up a prosperous society it embraces in its sovereign domain detailed rules regarding land management system. Islamic property rights framework conceives of land as a sacred trust but promotes individual ownership with a redistributive ethos. Under Islamic theory, the state’s role in land management is seen as supervising, land ultimately belonging to God. Thus, the state is mandated to administer land efficiently and fairly in accordance with God’s laws and ethical and moral principles. In this paper, an endeavour is made to find out the very issue that Islam can provide an appropriate system of land management. For this purpose, the various provisions of the Holy Qur’an, the Sunnah of the Prophet (PBUH), the practices of His Companions especially the rightly guided Caliphs and the juristic principles have been focused оп.