This article is the conceptual paper, responding to the crisis of current bloody Myanmar by using the approach of Islamic political law, particularly on the basis of the Constitution of Medina. Besides, in this opportunity also, brief analysis on proposing the essence of the Medina’s Constitution onto Myanmar’s state of affairs also be expounded in order to diminish the tense, hatred between the pluralistic coexistence society, cum the stable and harmonious living in Myanmar is inevitably achieved. As a conceptual paper, the data is analysed from textual, contextual and comparative study. Nonetheless of the thousand proposals and ideas posited in solving these crises, it is a hoped that this study is considered as one of the contributive factors leading to the amiable and prosperous living of Myanmar and the whole communities, generally.
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