Shura and democracy are two concepts that seem substantially almost exactly the same,
but these two concepts have differences because both have differences historically, culturally and
structurally. The differences are further aggravated by the suggestion and the image that grows in
some people that shura is identical with the teachings of Islam which is derived from Allah. In, fact
democracy is a product of man (the West) while Shura is Islamic concept of authority. This paper
tries to see how the difference between shura and democracy and whether the difference was highly
significant that what is thought by some people, that we have to replace the democratic system with
the shura.