<![CDATA[The protection of the rights of persons with disabilities has become an increasingly significant issue in both human rights discourse and contemporary Islamic legal scholarship. Although Indonesia enacted Law Number 8 of 2016 to guarantee the rights of persons with disabilities, scholarly attention devoted to examining the law through Jasser Auda's contemporary reconstruction of Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah, particularly from the perspectives of social justice and systems theory, remains relatively limited. This study employed normative legal research using a juridical-philosophical approach by analysing primary legal materials, principally Law Number 8 of 2016, supported by relevant legislation, scholarly literature, and contemporary Islamic legal scholarship. The study aims to analyse the compatibility of the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities under Law Number 8 of 2016 with Jasser Auda's maqāṣid al-sharīʿah and to explore how his systems approach provides a more comprehensive interpretive framework for understanding disability law beyond conventional normative analysis. The findings demonstrate that the law reflects a paradigm shift from a charity-based approach to a human rights-based approach by recognising persons with disabilities as equal citizens entitled to full participation in public life. The findings further indicate that the law fulfils the six essential objectives of Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah while embodying the six principles of Jasser Auda's systems approach, namely cognitive nature, wholeness, openness, interrelated hierarchy, multidimensionality, and purposefulness. This study contributes to the advancement of contemporary Islamic legal scholarship by demonstrating that maqāṣid al-sharīʿah can serve as a dynamic interpretive framework for disability law and offers policy implications for strengthening the implementation of the rights of persons with disabilities in Indonesia.]]>
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