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Religious Law
- EnglishThe Legislature shall by law make provision for regulating Muslim religious affairs and for constituting a Council to advise the President in matters relating to the Muslim religion. (Art. 153)
Religious Law
- EnglishIslam is the official religion of the UAE. The Islamic Shari’a is a main source of legislation in the UAE. … (Art. 7)
- Arabicاﻻﺳﻼﻡ ﻫﻮ اﻟﺪﻳﻦ اﻟﺮﺳﻤﻲ ﻟﻼﺗﺤﺎﺩ، واﻟﺸﺮﻳﻌﺔ اﻻﺳﻼﻣﻴﺔ ﻣﺼﺪﺭ رﺋﻴﺴﻲ ﻟﻠﺘﺸﺮﻳﻊ ﻓﻴﻪ. ... (المادّة 7)
Religious Law
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2. Religious organizations shall be separate from the state. (Art. 17) - Armenian…
2. Կրոնական կազմակերպություններն անջատ են պետությունից: (Հոդված 17)
Religious Law
- EnglishAlong with freedom of belief and religion, the State shall recognise the outstanding role of the Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia in the history of Georgia, and its independence from the State. The relationship between the state of Georgia and the Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia shall be determined by a constitutional agreement, which shall be in full compliance with the universally recognised principles and norms of international law in the area of human rights and freedoms. (Art. 8)
- Georgianრწმენისა და აღმსარებლობის თავისუფლებასთან ერთად სახელმწიფო აღიარებს საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესიის განსაკუთრებულ როლს საქართველოს ისტორიაში და მის დამოუკიდებლობას სახელმწიფოსაგან. საქართველოს სახელმწიფოსა და საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესიის ურთიერთობა განისაზღვრება კონსტიტუციური შეთანხმებით, რომელიც სრულად უნდა შეესაბამებოდეს საერთაშორისო სამართლის საყოველთაოდ აღიარებულ პრინციპებსა და ნორმებს ადამიანის უფლებათა და თავისუფლებათა სფეროში. (მუხლი 8)
Religious Law
- English
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20. The State shall strive to create conditions that will enable the true and sustainable development of a good and compassionate society rooted in Buddhist ethos and universal human values.
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༢༠) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་ཀྱི་ཁྱད་ཆོས་དང་ སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་གྲུབ་མཐར་རྩ་བ་འཛིན་པའི་ལེགས་ལྡན་དང་ བྱམས་སྙིང་ ལྡན་པའི་ མི་སྡེ་ཅིག་ ཡུན་བརྟན་གོང་འཕེལ་དངོས་སུ་འབྱུང་ ཚུགས་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་ དོན་གཉེར་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Religious Law
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The contents of the Articles of the Constitution related to the Islamic character of the political system; the basis of all the rules and regulations according to Islamic criteria; the religious footing; the objectives of the Islamic Republic of Iran; the democratic character of the government; the wilayat al-'amr; the Imamate of Ummah; and the administration of the affairs of the country based on national votes, official religion of Iran [Islam] and the school [Twelver Ja'fari] are unalterable. (Art. 177) - Persian…
محتوای اصول مربوط به اسلامی بودن نظام و ابتنای کلیه قوانین و مقررات بر اساس موازین اسلامی و پایههای ایمانی و اهداف جمهوری اسلامی ایران و جمهوری بودن حکومت و ولایت امر و امامت امت و نیز اداره امور کشور با اتکاء به آراء عمومی و دین و مذهب رسمی ایران تغییرناپذیر است. (اصل 177)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe religion of the State is Islam and Islamic Law shall be a main source of legislation. (Art. 2)
- Arabicدين الدولة الإسلام ، والشريعة الإسلامية مصدر رئيسي للتشريع. (المادّة 2)
Religious Law
- EnglishA citizen is free to engage in any conduct or activity that is not expressly prohibited by Islamic Shari’ah or by law. No control or restraint may be exercised against any person unless it is expressly authorised by law. (Art. 19)
- Dhivehiއިސްލާމީ ޝަރީޢަތުގައި ނުވަތަ ޤާނޫނުގައި ކަނޑައެޅިގެން މާނަކޮށްފައިނުވާ ކޮންމެ ކަމެއްކުރުމުގެ މިނިވަނަކަން ކޮންމެ ރައްޔިތަކަށް ލިބިގެންވެއެވެ. އަދި ޤާނޫނަކުން ހުއްދަ ލިބިގެންމެނުވީ އެއްވެސް މީހަކު ކުރާ އެއްވެސް ކަމަކަށް ހަމަ އެކަކުވިޔަސް ހުރަސްއަޅައި ހުއްޓުވައިގެން ނުވާނެއެވެ. (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 19 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Religious Law
- English
The religion of the state is Islam, and the Islamic Sharia is the basis of legislation. (Art. 2)
- Arabic
دين الدولة الإسلام، والشريعة الإسلامية هي أساس التشريع. (المادّة ٢)
Religious Law
- English
No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, … No religious test shall be required for the exercise of civil or political rights. (Art. III, Sec. 5)
- Filipino
Hindi dapat magbalangkas ng batas para sa pagtatatag ng relihiyon, ... Hindi dapat kailanganin ang pagsusulit pangrelihiyon sa pagsasagamit ng karapatang sibil o pampulitika. (Art. III, Seksyon 5)