Abstract:
This paper aims to delineate the nature of an Islamic perspective on public administration and official ethics. It is a comprehensive way of life it treats and nourishes an administrator personality via trustworthiness, honesty, virtue, politeness, responsibility, and accountability and it also discusses the intrinsic characteristics of man to represent an elaborated debate in the form of moral values of man particularly concerning the public administrators. By nature, Islam is the faith of an administrative oriented and it incorporate the professional code of morality in civil services which constitute the moral fiber of civil servants. Public administration is the executive side of government that relies on the public officials to put into practice the public policies. In an Islamic point of view, public administration is the body of people (appointed worker of Islamic state) which executes the orders of Islamic state upon the citizens and manages the public affairs Islamically, and makes the state governable on the basis of Islamic Sharia. Moreover, administrative ethics denotes the professional code of morality in civil services as envisaged with deep guidance to decorate the personality of an administrator under the jurisdiction of Islam. Islam inculcates the sense of official ethical values and responsibility which is the integrating part of public administration to carry out administrative process and execution of public policies successfully. It develops with the notion of an effective and efficient use of authority with the deep satisfaction of one's soul which makes man more sensitive to be responsible to Almighty, chief executive of Islamic state (Caliph) and general public regarding his/her assigned authority and responsibility in the Islamic state.
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