Democracy in Islam focuses on government and rulers.
Islam is a “total way of life". It has provided guidance in every sphere of life, from individual cleanliness, rules of trade, to the structure and politics of the society. Islam can never be separated from social, political, or economic life, since religion provides moral guidance for every action that a person takes.
Muslims have a right to appoint their rulers, hold them accountable and, when need be, to remove them from office. Islam does not, however, empower the system of government with the right to absolve or change the legislation of the religion. What this means is that the people or their elected officials do not have a right to make permissible what God has forbidden, or to declare forbidden what God has made permissible.
Islamically, Sharee‘ah refers to the sum total of Islamic laws which were revealed to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and recorded in the Quran as well as deducible from the Prophet’s divinely guided lifestyle called the sunnah