tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91052543155755851452024-03-14T11:13:56.671-07:00KHILAFAH WILL COME BACKFight4Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250373774616809230noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105254315575585145.post-23388995141985806412010-12-04T10:06:00.000-08:002010-12-04T10:06:02.903-08:00Bangladesh: Sold to the lowest bidder.<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBD8qMS_645tfeDs7LJ_APAQnKPLq-rX7GCCgs7sT2vxgYtEM71g6HaWm66jruJ6Pob6DxwNXniWbm4JSLkfiBGhCImMUIkp_Uo5eJxJQCKQQ_OLY_baxYTqT0cTzhjWwZeOK181P0c0/s1600/Dhaka-Bangladesh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUBD8qMS_645tfeDs7LJ_APAQnKPLq-rX7GCCgs7sT2vxgYtEM71g6HaWm66jruJ6Pob6DxwNXniWbm4JSLkfiBGhCImMUIkp_Uo5eJxJQCKQQ_OLY_baxYTqT0cTzhjWwZeOK181P0c0/s320/Dhaka-Bangladesh.jpg" width="320" /></a>Since its independence from Pakistan in 1971, Bangladesh has projected itself as being a free, independent, and a sovereign nation. But on studying its 39 year history, which has included military rule as well as heralding the Zia and Hasina era, a very different picture emerges with regards to its independence and sovereignty.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sovereignty is defined by one thinker as:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><em>"Sovereignty ...the belief that states are in every sense quite distinct and separate from one another treating with one another as equals and owing no duty to any outside earthly authority"</em> (Comparative Politics, an Introduction, Peter Calvert)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This question of sovereignty has been a pertinent one ever since the farcical Awami League government came into power in December 2008. Under the present government Bangladesh has been literally selling off its infrastructure, natural resources and political sovereignty to various countries. One would think it is common sense to assume that a seller would seek to secure the best value when putting a product on the market. Anyone who analyses the activities of the recent government will see an administration that is selling the country off to the lowest bidder, India. The relationship with India of late has come under much scrutiny, far from being a mutual one it is clear to see that India benefits more than Bangladesh.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Recently India granted a $1 billion loan to Bangladesh which will be used by the government for multiple projects. The loan is the largest India has ever given to any country and comes with a 1.75% interest rate over a repayment period of 20 years. The deal will see India construct a $120 million railway bridge on river Titas and the initiation of a transnational power gridline between Bahrampur (India) and Bheramara (Bangladesh), costing $158 million, along with many other projects. It's quite clear when it comes to energy infrastructure Bangladesh is reliant and subservient to Indian interests. The list continues as the Awami League government signed a $1.7 billion deal to have India build them two coal powered plants in the south. Bangladesh has allocated $245 million from its annual budget for constructing the infrastructure necessary to import 500 MW of electricity from India.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">India hasn't stopped there, in order to capitalise on its trade it has funded the construction of trade routes from the ports of Chittagong and Ashuganj. In May 2010 India exported 100,000 tons of rice to Bangladesh even though the country is one of the largest producers of rice in the World. Bangladesh also imports sugar from India. In January 2010 during her visit to India the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina agreed to the establishment of a railway link between Akhaurah and Agartala which will act as a trade route once again benefitting India. The strong foothold of India is clearer as Indian companies and financial institutions have submitted proposals to the Bangladeshi government amounting to around $1 billion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The influence of foreign subjects on domestic policy is well established, and the US has recently commended Bangladesh for its anti-terror initiatives. The Awami League recently played a pivotal role in outlawing Islamic based political parties, many of which have been outspoken on the government's foreign ties. There is no doubt that Indian and western influence has transcended the arena of economy, trade and infrastructure development. Indian security officials have even been training Bangladeshi embassy staff in Kabul.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">USA, China, and the World Bank have also been busy in joining this booming bidding process getting contracts for ports, gas, and yes more loans. From Peter Calvert's definition of sovereignty it is very clear that Bangladesh, far from being free and sovereign, is not on equal terms with its counterparts but rather subservient towards foreign interests. In the case of India it seems as though the New Delhi government has an ‘access all areas' pass when it comes to Bangladesh, some may even claim that Bangladesh has become India's 29th state.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bangladesh has been a failed state since its inception, it has never been independent, and it has been dictated and controlled by countries like India, China, and the USA. The time has come for the people of Bangladesh to embrace change and ditch the failed parties, and systems that ruined the country and people for decades. What Bangladesh needs is a radical new approach.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Islam has a bought a complete legislative system that determines the relationships of the state with society, a system that provides solutions in ruling, economics, social, educational, domestic, and foreign policy. This system is the Khilafah system and this is what Bangladesh needs.</div>Fight4Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250373774616809230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105254315575585145.post-69984027616101354462010-10-28T11:04:00.000-07:002010-10-28T11:04:44.254-07:00Excitement, enjoyment what next...?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML/> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> <w:UseFELayout/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiOSZVZ_ZQSL0WbFoQZ5Q_CTotnJFKWeJblU5dumFGlquv5LuXnhxOy5VHyzmGYgo3xwjgjDV_GlPYPZEpfvZdXt8fq9NN_Z2Q3XgXbA62qmhyphenhyphen8eY4yvkaqaGWJutaRfb3m9KT7T2SbkY/s1600/enH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiOSZVZ_ZQSL0WbFoQZ5Q_CTotnJFKWeJblU5dumFGlquv5LuXnhxOy5VHyzmGYgo3xwjgjDV_GlPYPZEpfvZdXt8fq9NN_Z2Q3XgXbA62qmhyphenhyphen8eY4yvkaqaGWJutaRfb3m9KT7T2SbkY/s1600/enH.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When we do have some enjoyment, movie, drinks, girlfriend, music dancing etc it gives us an almost immediate response. We feel high. We feel satisfaction, gratification and sometimes a boost of energy. But the reality is very soon we feel a down word spiral. So in order to reboot our self we need to have more, drink more movie more music and more beautiful girls to maintain ourselves on a constant high. There is no long lasting satisfaction .this satisfaction is a temporary boost a temporary enjoyment and in order to get the satisfaction again we need to consume more and more and waste money and time more and more money which we have already sold to Allah in order to get jannah.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This is the reality of a person who worships his whims and desires and passion. In fact this is the fundamental basement in which the western society is based upon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We do think what next what next? A visionless self desire fulfilling .in fact our desires is never going to be fulfilled as prophet Muhammad (sw) said “if the son of Adam was given a valley of gold he would have desired another one, the only thing that fulfills his stomach is the dust of the grave.” So a self desire worshipper will only be stopped from irrational consuming when he dies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then what we find as solution is completely different. And that is Islam. Islam teaches a completely different idea, to achieve the ultimate success we need to satisfy Allah (swt) , not by acquiring material possessions . Our God is not our desire or whims rather our God is Allah (swt) who knows best and only he knows best of our innate nature and tells us how to fulfill it and it gives us ultimate pleasure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If we jerk a coca cola bottle then open the cap of it, almost whole the coke inside it comes out. Similarly if we take Islam emotionally we will feel a jerk for a limited period, we will feel that we will do everything for Islam .but some days later when our emotion will go away we will lose all our enthusiasm we had in Islam. So don’t do short term excitement like western people rather read Quran and sunnah and be conscious to keep you up steady upon Islam(the ultimate way of life).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">May Allah bless us. </span></div>Fight4Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250373774616809230noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9105254315575585145.post-64101431140833870502010-09-29T12:41:00.000-07:002010-10-08T04:38:34.047-07:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","serif"; font-size: 27pt;">Khilafah </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","serif"; font-size: 30pt;">is the</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","serif"; font-size: 31pt;"> </span></i></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMKREge59dxDN7rTfG51PFPu5QYyOkKFG38ROB6WeSMVf6sfx9wXdGkqHuMyltRU0vGgkWZg1VRlnWIvrzj8dASMIxCHnT-5IUjM2XHSlmcq-OEyxM_9P03wcLdTusib42Sdp9wHc_did/s1600/20946_1351054262926_1428454315_949700_5914693_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEMKREge59dxDN7rTfG51PFPu5QYyOkKFG38ROB6WeSMVf6sfx9wXdGkqHuMyltRU0vGgkWZg1VRlnWIvrzj8dASMIxCHnT-5IUjM2XHSlmcq-OEyxM_9P03wcLdTusib42Sdp9wHc_did/s1600/20946_1351054262926_1428454315_949700_5914693_s.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLaIUzTbpXPIygxx1bLav-e2wUNOeT5GYTX7gnTBchK2oNYztZC1742pm_qi2uEaIb08OhNzcUWkF2XbmEzfLNBhHkFh6IcoN0u48QUV2oWyyWDOE6iHeezcTi4G1aTXZdZA85IPuRryG3/s1600/20946_1351054262926_1428454315_949700_5914693_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLaIUzTbpXPIygxx1bLav-e2wUNOeT5GYTX7gnTBchK2oNYztZC1742pm_qi2uEaIb08OhNzcUWkF2XbmEzfLNBhHkFh6IcoN0u48QUV2oWyyWDOE6iHeezcTi4G1aTXZdZA85IPuRryG3/s1600/20946_1351054262926_1428454315_949700_5914693_s.jpg" /></a><b><i><span style="font-family: "TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT","serif"; font-size: 33pt;"> </span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Introduction</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Times Newspaper once quoted a Hindu writer as saying,</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Turkey is now reduced from being a world-influence as</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the head of Islam to the insignificance of a Balkan State.”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That was on the 7th of March 1924, a few days after the destruction of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Khilafah ruling system at the hands of the traitor Mustapha Kamal.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Almost 80 years later it is clear what a miserable fate was to await the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims of Balkan States such as Bosnia and Kosovo. Who could</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">forget the sight of girls, tormented and unable to bear dishonour,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">hanging by their necks from trees? Who could forget the fields full of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bones at Srebrenica? These were victims of crimes committed under</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the noses of a cowardly UN protection force that had betrayed its</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">promise, given in exchange for the disarming of the local Muslim</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">fighters defending against the Serbs. We should ask how such things</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">could happen when the sons of Sultan Murad, who brought Islam to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Balkans 600 years earlier, were only 15 minutes away by plane? How</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">desperate we felt when planes of food and blankets and copies of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Qur’an were sent while our armies were locked in their barracks!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How many hundred thousand children have died in Iraq under a cruel</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">international regime of sanctions? Yet at the time of writing the doors of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Iraq’s neighbours are now open to a similar number of US troops in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">readiness for yet another killing spree, this time in the name of a “war on terror”. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How long will the Muslims of Afghanistan suffer American bombing and </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">subjugation to mafia warlords under the cover of a phoney Loya Jirga</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">headed by a Pashtun consultant for a major American oil company?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims everywhere have sensed themselves an open target for attack</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">- easy prey whether in Palestine, Iraq, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Afghanistan, Kashmir, Somalia, Gujarat - and the list is always growing.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Since the destruction of the Khilafah Muslims have been plumbing the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">depths of despair. The Islamic world has become characterised by</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">failure, disunity, bloodshed, insecurity and oppression. Our countries</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">are totally ineffective on the international stage and due to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dominance of our enemies they are unable to do anything for</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">themselves. Worse than that our rulers themselves seem to be the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dagger at our own throats in the hand of our enemies.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is against this sorry background of affairs that the time has come for</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Muslims to ask themselves some searching questions, such as why</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">our society has become so backward and why our governments are</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">amongst the most ruthless in the world. They think nothing of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">imprisoning subjects by the thousands without trial, and inflicting torture</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and extermination upon their own people.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Despite all the oppression that the Muslim Ummah faces we are</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">characterised with confusion, weakness and disunity. For example,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">why had the Arab world, with its money and oil, been unable to wield</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">any influence against Israel, and why has the Muslim nation, more than</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">one billion in number, been unable to defeat Israel, a nation with a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">population the size of Ireland?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why, when the Arab states alone have received many thousands of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">billions of dollars of oil revenues, has none of them got anywhere near</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">becoming a newly industrialised country like Korea or Singapore? Who</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">can even imagine so much money but what has it bought for this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ummah? It was taken from beneath our feet but it did not feed our poor</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">or provide laboratories for our scientists or investment for our industry.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It was not spent to raise an army to gain victory for Islam and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims in even one single war. Rather, we have become used to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">many wars among ourselves, and we wait for bombs to fall upon our</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">heads in the name of a post September 11th war on terror as indeed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we have waited in impotence many times before.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why is there such a complete lack of co-operation and complementarity</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">between the various Muslim state economies? Saudi Arabia’s money</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and Sudan’s population and agricultural potential should produce a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">huge and successful farming industry; Gulf finance and Egyptian</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">expertise and population should produce a successful manufacturing</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">industry - they do not, why?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why is it that in matters of religion, history, language and culture we are</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">so similar to each other, yet we are so disunited?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the end these questions boil down to one, namely, why is it that the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">once mighty and great Muslim nation is now so weak?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our weakness is not inherent, and certainly does not lie with Islam. We</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">are weak because we have abandoned Islam. Although we remain</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims, the environment and society in which we live is non-Islamic.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The present day Muslim society can no longer be said to represent</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam. The public values, ideas, concepts, laws and ruling system</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">proceed from the non-Islamic viewpoint of life. We have changed our</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">loyalties and commitments from Islam to ignorance (jahilliyah).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Capitalism, democracy, socialism, nationalism, self-interest, benefit,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and pride are all ideas that have replaced the unity of Allah (tawheed)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as the motivation of life and source of authority. Thus, the Islamic</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">values have ceased to enter our hearts; our minds are no longer</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">illuminated by the true Islamic concepts, and our way of life is at</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">variance with our creed.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When in 1924 Mustapha Kamal formally abolished the Khilafah system,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Muslims finally relinquished the divine laws (ahkam Shari’ah) as the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">regulator of their lives. They adopted Western codes and systems of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ruling and detached Islam from life’s affairs. The Muslims turned away</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from the sole worship of Allah (swt) to the worship of man-made systems</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and laws. This is the source of our weakness and humiliation.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After the demolition of the Khilafah the Muslim territories fell under the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">occupation of the European colonial powers, in particular, Britain and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">France. These two countries directly imposed their capitalist systems</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in the fields of economics, ruling, education, and politics. The countries</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">were completely governed by these secular systems.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Under the colonial powers, many Western educated people rose to high</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">positions within the state. They held important positions in government,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">society and the media. Through their influence they sought to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Westernise society in the Islamic world.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After the Second World War, old style colonialism came under attack.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The European powers faced heavy financial obligations as a result of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the war; and due to the weight of Soviet propaganda against</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">colonialism, and more importantly, anti-colonial pressure from the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">United States, the occupying powers withdrew and pseudoindependence</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">was given to the colonies.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">These newly independent states were left in the hands of the new</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">generation of secular people who had been groomed by the West and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">cultivated under the supervision of the old imperialists. These</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">secularists followed in the footsteps of their former colonial masters.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In an effort to achieve progress and to revive their countries these new</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">secular leaders explored every avenue and slogan, apart, it must be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">said, from Islam. What is apparent, however, is that the reverse</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">happened. Politically there is only corruption and oppression; and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">regimes succeed only in dividing and impoverishing the nation.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Humiliatingly the Muslim countries have become increasingly</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dependent on their enemies.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In sum, the secular programmes did not only fail to achieve the false</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dreams of the materialist thinkers, but pushed the Muslims further</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">towards total enslavement to the Western and communist blocs.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the heroic liberation battles that were fought to free Muslim land,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam was the only real power that moved the people. Yet, when the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">reigns of power returned to the people, the Muslims who led the battles</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">were removed, and the secularists usurped the power. In Tunisia,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Algeria, Egypt and Pakistan secularists out manoeuvred and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">overpowered the Muslims. But the Islamic activists, throughout the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim countries, never abandoned their work. They continued to work</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in the society to confirm the failure of the secular programmes to bring</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">about the desired progress and improvement in the standard of living.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They struggled to refute the secularists’ political dogma, and to uncover</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the conspiracies against the Muslim Ummah.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When the failure of these alien systems became clearly visible for</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">everyone to see, people began to consider Islam as the real political</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">alternative to the corruption, humiliation, weakness, division and apathy</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">which had taken root in every Muslim country. Accordingly, over the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">last two decades Muslims, throughout the Islamic world, have returned</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to Islam. Arabs, Afghans, Africans, Iranians, Kurds, Malaysians,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pakistanis, Turks, and many other Muslims of different nationalities</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">have started to study its beliefs, contemplate its laws and rules on</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">society and state, and have taken up the struggle to restore Islam as</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the regulator of their lives. The strength of their will and conviction in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam is so potent that it has shook thrones, forced itself onto the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">political agenda of the superpowers and captivated the imagination and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">intrigue of the West. But above all, this newfound zeal for Islam has</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">sent a resounding message of hope to every Muslim that Islam will</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">again be brought back to the mainstream of life. What is required from</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">us is to contribute to this blessed struggle through a profound</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">understanding of the nature of our problem, the correct solution for this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">problem, and the procedure to bring to fruition this solution.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 1</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Khilafah is the Answer</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah, the Supreme, demands that people worship Him alone. This</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">means that they derive their concepts, values, laws and ruling system</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from Allah, i.e. through the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet (sw ).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Adopting any other source of authority is a negation of the declaration</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">‘La ilaha illa Allah’ – there is no deity but Allah.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam provides the Muslim not only with a belief (Iman) but the solutions</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for all his problems as well. The application of these solutions to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">problems of life is worship. When the Muslims applied these solutions,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">i.e. the divine laws (ahkam shariyah) and conducted all their affairs</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">according to Islam and the Islamic ruling system, we were the mightiest</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nation on earth and the most civilised society the world has ever</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">known. When we slackened in our adherence to Islam, we declined</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">both as a state and people. When we abandoned Islam and its system</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of life, our decline was complete and our failure and humiliation was</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">apparent for all to see.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our revival can only occur when we return to Islam, believing in its</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">creed and implementing its systems and laws. When these two</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">interdependent elements are brought together in harmony, the Muslims</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">will progress. Achieving the satisfaction of Allah, we will ascend to our</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">rightful level as leaders of mankind. But so long as we implement non-</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islamic laws and systems of life we will continue to fumble in the depths</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of despair, exploited and cheated by nations who once never dreamed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they could be our equals let alone our superiors.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Currently, the non-Islamic systems of government, with the assistance</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of force and oppression, prevent us from living the kind of life</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">demanded of us by Allah ta’ala. Therefore, these governments must be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">removed, to be replaced by one Islamic government, i.e. the Khilafah state.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The establishment of the Khilafah state is not only a practical necessity,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">but also a religious obligation.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 2</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">The Khilafah defined</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The body responsible for the implementation of the divine laws (ahkam</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">shariyah) and the propagation of Islam is known as the Khilafah. The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khilafah is the name given to the Islamic ruling system which is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">distinguishable from all other ruling systems. Based solely on the Book</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet (sw) the Khilafah system is unique.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Although some refer to the system by the name of Imamah, the actual</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ruling system is one and the same. Numerous authentic traditions</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(ahadith sahiha) of the Prophet (sw) confirm this. Whilst either name</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">can be used to identify the system, Islam demands that the Muslims</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">adhere totally to the Islamic system these hadith describe.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Khilafah means the common leadership of all Muslims in the world,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">which implements the divine (shariah) laws and conveys the invitation</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(dawa) of Islam to the world. The Imamah means the same.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 3</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Establishing the Khilafah is compulsory</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The establishment of a Khalif for Muslims is an obligation on all</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims all over the world. The performance of this duty, like any of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the duties prescribed by Allah (swt), must be done. There is no choice in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the matter. To be complacent, or to neglect this duty is one of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">greatest sins for which Allah will punish severely. This understanding is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">supported by evidences from the Book of Allah, the Sunnah and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">consensus of the companions of the Prophet (sw), i.e. ijma’a-assahaba.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Evidence from the Sunnah</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Abdullah bin Omar reported:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I heard the messenger of allah say: whoso takes off his hand from</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">allegience (baya) to allah will meet him on the ressurrection day without</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">having any proof for him, and whoso dies while there was no allegiance</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on his neck dies a death of the days of ignorance (jahiliyyah). </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim.</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thus, the Prophet (sw) made it compulsory that every Muslim should</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">have a pledge of allegiance (baya) on his or her neck. He described</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the person who dies without a pledge of allegiance on his neck as dying</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a death of the days of ignorance, i.e. before Islam. The pledge of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">allegiance is not given to anyone except the Khalif.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Although the Prophet (sw) did not mention that it was compulsory for</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">every Muslim to give a pledge of allegiance to a Khalif, he made it an</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">obligation that every Muslim should have a pledge on his neck. In other</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">words, it is compulsory for there to exist a pledge of allegiance on the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">neck of every eligible Muslim. This necessitates the presence of a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khalif to whom every Muslim can give the pledge. Accordingly it is the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">presence of the Khilafah, which renders possible the existence of a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pledge (baya) on the neck of every Muslim.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, this hadith of the Prophet (sw) is an evidence that the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">appointment of a Khalif is an obligation (wajib) and not an evidence to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">suggest the making of the pledge is an obligation. This is so, because</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Prophet (sw), in the hadith, rebukes the absence of the pledge of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">allegiance on the neck of the Muslim at the time of death, and not the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">giving of the baya itself.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hisham bin Urwa reported on the authority of Abey Saleh on the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">authority of Abu Hurairah that the Prophet (sw) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Leaders will take charge of you after me, there the pious (one) will lead</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">you with his piety and the impious with his impiety, so listen to thme</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and obey them in everything which conforms with the truth. If they</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">acted rightly it is to your credit, and if they acted wrongly it is counted</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for you and against them.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">al Mawerdy</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim reported on the authority of al-Araj on the authority of Abu</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hurairah that the Prophet (sw) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Behold, the imam is but a shield from behind which the people fight</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and by which they protect themselves.”</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim reported on the authority of Abu Hazim who said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I accompanied abu hurairah for five years and heard him talking about</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the prophet saying: the prophets ruled over the children of israel.</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whenever a prophet died, another prophet succeeded him, but there</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">will be no prophet after me. There will soon be khalifs and they will</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">number many. They asked: what then do you order us? He said: fulfil</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">allegiance to them one after the other. Give them their dues. Verily</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">allah will ask them about what he entrusted them with.”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Abdullah ibn Abbas reported that the Prophet (sw) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “If anyone sees in his amir something that displeases him let him</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">remain patient, for behold! He who separates himself from the sultan</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(authority of islam) by even so much as a hand spand and dies</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">thereupon he has dies the death of jahilyyah (days of ignorance).” </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">al-</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bukhari and Muslim.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In these traditions (ahadith) the Prophet (sw) informs us that leaders will</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">run the affairs of Muslims, and included in these hadiths is the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">description of the Khalif as a shield, i.e. a protection. The description of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Imam as a shield is an indication of the benefit of the presence of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Imam, thus, it is a command of enjoinment on Muslims. This is so,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">because when Allah and His Prophet (sw) inform us about something</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wherein a rebuke is mentioned this is taken as a command of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">prohibition, in other words, to abstain from the thing. If the text, i.e. the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">verse or hadith, contains praise it is taken as a command to do the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">action. If the commanded action is necessary to implement a divine</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">law (hukm sharai), or if its neglect would cause a divine law to be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">abandoned, then this command is a decisive command, i.e. an obligation.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The hadiths inform us that those who run the affairs of Muslims are</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khalifs. Therefore, this is a command to establish or appoint them.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The hadiths also include the prohibition upon Muslims separating</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">themselves from the authority, and consequently, an obligation upon</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims to establish an authority, i.e. ruling. Furthermore, the Prophet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">( ) ordered the Muslims to obey the Khalifs and to fight those who</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dispute their authority as Khalifs, which in turn means a command to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">appoint a Khalif and to protect his Khilafah by fighting those who</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dispute his authority.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr bin al-Ass reported that the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Whoso pledged allegiance to an imam giving him the clasp of his hand</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and the fruit of his heart shall obey him as long as he can, and if</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">another comes to dispute with him, you must strike the neck of that man.”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, the command to obey the Imam is an order to establish him,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and the command to fight those who dispute with him is a collaborating</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">evidence that this command is decisive in maintaining the presence of one Khalif.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Consensus of the Companions (Ijma-as-sahaba)</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All the companions (sahaba) agreed upon the necessity of establishing</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a successor (Khalif) to the Prophet (sw) after his death. They all agreed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to appoint a successor to Abu Bakr, and upon his death to appoint a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">successor to Omar, and upon Uthman’s death to appoint Ali as a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">successor to him.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The consensus of the companions (may Allah be pleased with them) on</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the establishment of a Khalif manifested itself emphatically on the death</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of the Prophet (sw). The companions delayed the burial of the Prophet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(sw) and engaged themselves in appointing a successor to him. It is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">known that the burial of the person is obligatory (fard), and that it is a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">sin (haram) for those who are supposed to prepare the burial to engage</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">themselves in anything else until they complete the burial. In spite of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">this, some of the companions engaged themselves in appointing a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khalif, even though they were obliged to engage themselves in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">preparing the burial of the Prophet (sw). The other companions kept</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">silent on their action and participated in delaying the burial for two</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nights, despite having the ability to condemn the delay and being able</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to bury the Prophet (sw).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This action of the companions is therefore an evidence of consensus</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(ijma-as-sahaba) to support the appointment of a Khalif rather than to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bury the dead. This could not be legitimate, unless the appointment of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a Khalif is more of an obligation than the burial of the dead.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All the companions (may Allah be pleased with them) agreed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">throughout their lives upon the obligation of appointing a Khalif.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Although at times they differed about the person to be appointed, they</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">never disagreed that a Khalif should be appointed. Accordingly, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">consensus of the companions (ijma-as-sahaba) is both a clear and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">strong evidence that the appointment of a Khalif is obligatory.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Shariah Principle</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The establishment of our religion (deen) and the implementation of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">divine law in every aspect of life is an obligation (fard) proven through</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">authentic and conclusive evidences. However, the establishment of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">deen and implementation of the divine law cannot be achieved unless</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">there is a ruler who possesses the authority to do so. Accordingly, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">fulfilment of the duties to implement the divine law and to establish the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">deen cannot be accomplished unless there exists the ruler. In this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">context the shariah principle states:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “That which is necessary to accomplish a duty (wajib) is itself a duty</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(wajib).”</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, according to this divine principle the presence of a Khalif is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">compulsory.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Evidence from the Book of Allah (swt)</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah ta’ala commanded the Prophet (sw) to rule the affairs of Muslims</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">by that which He revealed to him; this command of Allah was conveyed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in a most decisive way. Allah (swt) addressed the Prophet (sw) saying:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “And rule between them by that which allah revealed to you, and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">do not follow their vain desires away from the truth which came to</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">you.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 5:48)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And He (swt) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “And rule between them by that which allah revealed to you, and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">do not follow their whims, and beware that they may deviate you</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">away from some of which allah revealed to you.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 5:49)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The speech of Allah to the Prophet (sw) is also a speech to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prophet’s Ummah (nation), unless there is an evidence which indicates</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">this speech is limited to him. In this case there is no such evidence</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">limiting this address to the Prophet (sw). Thus, the verses call upon</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims to establish the rule of Allah. The appointment of a Khalif does</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">not mean other than the establishment of the rule of Allah and the authority of Islam. Regarding the authority, Allah ta’ala obliges the Muslims to obey those in authority, i.e. the ruler, which is an indication that the existence of the ruler is obligatory. Allah (swt) says:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “O you who believe, obey Allah and obey the messenger and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">those in authority among you.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 4:59)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah does not command obedience to those who do not exist.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, the existence of a ruler is a must, and the order of Allah to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">obey those in authority is also an order to establish them.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The implementation of the divine law depends on the presence of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ruler, i.e. the man with authority, and the absence of the ruler results in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the non-application of the divine law. As the absence of the ruler</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">results in the non-application of the divine law, which is a sin, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">presence of the ruler is compulsory.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is apparent from these evidences that the establishment of the rule</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and authority amongst Muslims is a duty, and that the appointment of a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khalif, who takes charge of the rule and authority in order to implement</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the divine law – not merely for the sake of the rule and authority alone –</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is also compulsory.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The following hadith of the Prophet (sw) indicates that the obligation of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">establishing a ruler is not merely for the sake of authority and ruling.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Auf bin Malik al Ash’jayi reported on the authority of Muslim that the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prophet (sw) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “The best of your imams (leaders) are those whom you love and they</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">love you and who pray for you and you pray for them, and the worst of</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">your imams are those whom you hate and they hate you and you curse</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">them and they curse you. We asked: o messenger of allah, shall we</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">not then declare war on them. He said: no, as long as they establish</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">prayer among you.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This hadith clearly informs us about the good and the bad leaders, and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">about the prohibition of revolting against their authority so long as they</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">establish the prayer. ‘Establishing the prayer’ indicates upholding the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">religion and implementing its rules.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, the obligation upon Muslims to appoint the Khalif who</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">implements the laws of Islam and conveys its invitation (dawa) is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">beyond doubt with regards to its status in the texts of Islamic law.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Furthermore, the duty is obligatory because Allah made it compulsory</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(fard) upon Muslims to establish the authority of Islam and to protect</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the honour of Muslims. This duty, however, is a collective duty, i.e. fard</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">kifayah. Accordingly, if some people accomplish it, the duty is fulfilled</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and the responsibility is therefore discharged from the rest of the nation</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Ummah). But if a section of the Ummah is unable to accomplish this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">duty, though they undertook actions required to fulfil it, then the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">responsibility remains and the obligation falls upon all the Muslims.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The duty will not be excused from any Muslim so long as the Muslims</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">are without the Khalif.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 4</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">The time limit for appointing a Khalif and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">consequence of not fulfilling this duty</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is forbidden (haram) for a Muslim to remain more than two nights</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">without having a pledge of allegiance (baya) on his neck. This is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">concluded from the consensus of the companions (ijma-as-sahaba).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As soon as the Sahaba heard the news that the Prophet (sw) was dead,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they went to the courtyard of Banu Saida to discuss the appointment of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a successor to the Messenger of Allah. At this time the Prophet (sw)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">had not been buried. The Sahaba continued discussing the matter into</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the second day following the death of the Prophet (sw). Thereafter they</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">gathered in the mosque to give the baya to Abu Bakr. When the baya</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">had been given, the Sahaba prepared the burial of the Prophet (sw);</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">three days and two nights after his death the Prophet (SDAW) was</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">buried. Thus, the companions of the Prophet (sw) delayed the burial</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">until after they had chosen a successor.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When Omar bin al Khattab was close to death he nominated the six</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">people among the companions who, when the Prophet (sw) had died,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">he had been pleased with them to select a Khalif from among</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">themselves. The six included Uthman, Ali and Abdul Rahman bin Awf</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(may Allah be pleased with them). Omar decreed that if agreement on</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the choice of Khalif was not reached within three days, the one who</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">disagrees should be beheaded after the three days. No one disputed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">this order, even though to kill someone without just cause is haram.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And these six were not just anyone; they were the best of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">companions who had been promised paradise. The agreement of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">companions on this order is therefore an Islamic evidence for us that</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Muslims are forbidden to be without a Khalif for more than three</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">days. After the three days of discussion and consultation with the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">people of Medina, Uthman was chosen as Khalif.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The appointment of a khalif is obligatory from the moment the previous</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">khalif dies or is disposed. If the delay exceeds two nights and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims have not established a khalif the matter must be examined: if</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Muslims were busy engaging in appointing the khalif, but due to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">overwhelming circumstances, they could not accomplish it within two</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nights, the sin will fall from them. This is so because they engaged in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">performing the duty but were unable to accomplish the duty in the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">prescribed time because of compelling circumstances. However, if they</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">were not engaged in the duty they would be sinful.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To refrain from establishing a khalif for Muslims is a great sin, because</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">it is an absentation from fulfilling one of the most important duties of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam. The implementation of the sharia (divine law) and the very</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">existence of Islam in the battlefield of life depend upon the fulfilment of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">this duty. Consequently, the Muslims as a whole commit a great sin if</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they refrain from establishing a khalif for themselves. If they agree to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">abandon this duty, the sin would fall on every single Muslim in the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">entire world. If some of the Muslims embark on working to establish a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">khalif whilst the others do not, the sin would fall from the shoulders of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">those working to establish the Khilafah, but would remain with the rest</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">until the khalif existed, because participating in the work to accomplish</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the duty (fard) has the effect of removing the sin from the failure to fulfil</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the duty. This is the result of the participation in the work to accomplish</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">it and a deep hatred of the thing that prevents the accomplishment of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the duty.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Those who do not participate in the work to accomplish the duty will be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">sinful from three days after the departure of the khalif until the new</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">khalif is appointed. This is so, because Allah had entrusted them with a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">duty that they neither carried out, nor participated in. Thus, they</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">deserve the sin, the punishment and shame of Allah both in this life and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the hereafter. They refrain from establishing the Khilafah and from</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">performing the actions, which according to the divine law, establish him.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The shunning of any obligatory duty that Allah has enjoined upon the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims, particularly the duty by which other duties are implemented,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the divine law established the word of Allah exalted and Islam carried</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">aloft, clearly deserves the punishment of Allah.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 5</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">The unity of the Khilafah</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Muslims are not allowed to have more than one khalif and one</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">state; this is confirmed by the following hadiths:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Abu Said al Khudri reported that the Prophet (sw) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “When oath of allegiance (baya) has been taken for two khalifs, kill the</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">latter of them.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Abdullah bin Amr bin al-Ass reported that the Prophet (sw) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Whoso pledged allegaince (baya) to an imam giving him the clasp of</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">his hand and the fruit of his heart shall obey him as long as he can. If</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">another comes to dispute with him, you must strike the neck of that man.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Arfaja reported that the Messenger of Allah (swt) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Whoso comes to you, while your affair has been united under one</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">man, intending to divide your staff or dissolve your unity, kill him.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslim</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When the Khilafah has been re-established its duty will be to annex all</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the other present day Muslim countries to it; thus forming one state for</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">all Muslims. The existing boundaries that divide the Muslim Ummah</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">must be removed. There is no Islamic evidence to support the view</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that they should remain once the Khilafah has been established. The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">modern state boundaries are completely artificial and are the creation</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of the colonialist nations that once occupied the land of Muslims.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 6</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">Establishing the Khilafah the Prophet’s way</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the quest of establishing the Khilafah state it is obligatory upon us to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">make the light of our guidance our Prophet Muhammed (sw), because</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the duty to follow the Prophet (sw) in this question is the same as the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">command to follow him in the question of prayer (salat), pilgrimage</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(hajj) and any other aspect of our deen.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah (swt) says:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Nor does he speak of his own desire. It is not save an inspiration</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that is inspired.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 53:3-4)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Whoever obeys the prophet obeys allah.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 4:80)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Prophet Muhammed (sw) was divinely guided in his quest to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">establish the first Islamic State in Medina; and as such, his way</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">constitutes the divine answer to the question of how to establish the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khilafah State.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Say: this is my way: i call on allah with sure knowledge, i and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">whoever followeth me.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 12:108)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Culturing Stage</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The beginning of the Prophethood commenced with the revelation:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Read in the anme of your lord who created. Created man out of a</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">clot (of congealed blood). Read and your lord is the most</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bounteous. Who taught by the pen. Taught man what he knew</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">not.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 96:1-5)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then, with the revelation of the last verse of Surah Ad-Duha, i.e. “The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Morning Hours”:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Therefore of the bounty of thy lord be thy discourse.”</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Prophet (sw) conveyed the Message to members of his own</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">household and to Abu Bakr, his life-long companion. With the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">assistance of Abu Bakr, the Prophet (sw) contacted people whom he</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">thought would respond to the call of Islam until Muhammad’s (sw) call</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">became well known within Mecca.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">During this initial period – which was to last for three years – Islam was</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">conveyed to the inhabitants of Mecca and there was no direct</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">confrontation with the idolators (mushrikeen) and their ways of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ignorance (jahiliyyah).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In this period, care was taken to develop dispositions, attitudes and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">behavioural patterns, which were the living example of the Quran. The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prophet (sw) sought to cultivate a unique group of Muslims who would</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">be ready for the consequences of open confrontation with society that</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">was to soon follow.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At the time when Prophethood was conferred upon Muhammed (sw) the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">society, its beliefs, values, emotions and laws were non Islamic; in sum</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the society was Jahil. Against this background the culturing stage was</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">used by the Prophet (sw) to build up the Islamic creed in the followers</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and to strengthen their faith in Allah. It was used to replace the Jahili</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">customs, ideas, and values with Tawhid, i.e. the unity of Allah. The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prophet (sw) would collect the Muslims in Dar al Arqam and mould</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">them according to the guidance of the Quran.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Today, Jahiliyyah similarly surrounds us. Our society is non-Islamic, as</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">it was at the beginning of the Prophet’s mission, though we are Muslims</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as individuals. Accordingly, the initial stage of the movement to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">establish the Khilafah had to go through this preparation stage with the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">objective is to build up the Islamic creed in the individuals of the group.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This stage is characterised by a deep and practical study of the Islamic</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ideology that prepares the individual to bear the duties of offering the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">call to resume the Islamic way of life, which will require patience,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">endurance and persistence. The confidence in Islam as a whole, and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in its different systems, needs to be cultivated by a good knowledge of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam and its systems so as to help restore the nations confidence in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam. The aim is to establish a Party structured upon a clear and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">unshakeable belief in the ideology in readiness for the uncompromising</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">address of the dawa to society.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The need to work as a group</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Individuals cannot accomplish the establishment of the Khilafah. It is a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">collective duty that requires the Muslims to act in a concerted manner</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as a group. The Prophet (sw) did not leave his followers to act as</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">individuals. The Muslims would meet in Dar Al Arqam (the house of Al</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Arqam) where they would learn about Islam, pray together and act in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">every capacity as a group – a unique group.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Practical examples of the companions (may Allah be please with them)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">acting as a group are numerous. For example the companions came</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">together one day and remarked that Quraysh had never heard the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Quran distinctly read to them except from the Prophet (sw). Abduallah</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bin Masud said that he would make Quraysh listen to it. So in the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">morning he went to the Kaaba and read the Quran aloud, whereupon</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Quraysh set upon him and began to hit him. When he returned to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">companions they said: “This is what we feared would happen to you.”</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He said: “Allah’s enemies were never more contemptible in my sight</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">than they are now, and if you like I will go and do the same thing before</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">them tomorrow.” The companions said: “No, you have done enough,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">you have made them listen to what they don’t want to hear.”</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Another example occurred when the Negus of Abyssinia called the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims to answer accusations made by Quraysh, concerning the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">position of Jesus in Islam. When the summons reached the Muslims</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they held a council to discuss the matter. They decided to inform the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Negus exactly what the Quran says without deviation and sent Jafar bin</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Abi Talib to speak on their behalf. After hearing Jafar statement, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Negus told the Muslims, “Go in peace, whoever insults you shall be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">punished. Go in peace, wherever you wish. In my land you will be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">secure.”</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Public Interaction Stage</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The following Quranic verse marked the transition of the call from its</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">culturing stage to that of public interaction:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Therefore proclaim (openly) that which you are commanded, and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">turn away from the polytheists. Verily, we are sufficient unto you</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">against the scoffer. Who take with allah another god but they will</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">come to know.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 15:94-95)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In this interaction stage, the Prophet (sw) began to openly confront the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">system of jaahiliyah within Quraysh. He demanded that they</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">acknowledge and worship no god(s) beside Allah. He chose a number</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of initiatives to bring Islam into the centre of public attention. Firstly, he</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">invited his relatives, among who were the leaders of Quraysh, to a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">banquet at his home. He explained to them the Message and promised</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">them a paradise which is as vast as the earth and heavens, and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">warned them of a fire which:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“On the day when we say unto hell: art thou filled? And it saith:</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">can there be more to come?” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 50:30)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Prophet ( ) also went to the top of the hill of As-Safa and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">proclaimed to all the clans of Quraysh:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Tell me, if i were to inform you that some cavalry in the valley were</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">about to attack you, would you believe me?” They said “yes, we have</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">not experienced anything except truthfulness from you.” He then said,</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“i am a warner to you before a severe chastisement.” </span></i><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">al-Bukhari.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The third major initiative occurred following the conversion to Islam by</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hamza and Omar ibn al Khattab. The Prophet (sw) arranged the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muslims into two columns, with Hamza heading one column and Omar</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">heading the other, and then they marched around the Kaaba. This</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">shocked the people of Makka. For the first time they were confronted</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">with the reality of the solid basis of the Muslims. Prior to this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">demonstration, the Muslims prayed in private, thereafter they prayed in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the courtyard of the Kaaba.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">These incidents pushed the Prophet (sw) and the Muslims into the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">confrontational phase of the dawa.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In this stage, the Prophet (sw) presented the Muslims as an organised</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">group that was intent on challenging and changing the society, its</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">values, ideals, practices, emotions and system of ruling and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">organisation of life’s affairs. In this task, the Prophet (sw) met the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">jahiliyyah system head on without any compromise or deviation.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He attacked the aristocratic and money conscious values of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">jahiliyyah society in the following manner:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Woe unto every slander, traducer who accumulates wealth and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">counts it. He thinks that his wealth will render him immortal. Nay</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">he will indeed be flund into the destroyer.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 104:1-4)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Rivalry in worldly increase has distracted you. Until you visit the</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">graves (as dead bodies). But nay, you soon shall know (the dire</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">consequence of this practice).” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 102:1-3)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Concerning the hypocrisy and uncaring feelings of Quraysh leaders</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">towards the less well off and deprived, Allah (swt) revealed:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Have you seen him who gives the lie to religion? That is he who</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">repels the orphan - and urges not the feeding of the needy.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah107:1-3)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In regard of their practices, Quran condemns them saying:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Woe unto the defrauders. Those who when they take the</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">measure from mankind demand it in full, but if they measure unto</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">them or weigh for them, they cause them loss.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 83:1-3)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Turning to the leaders of Quraysh, Allah (swt) revealed:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “The power of abu lahab will perish, and he will perish. His wealth</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and gains will not exempt him. He will be plunged in flaming fire.</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And his wife, the wood-carrier. Will have upon her neck a hacker</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of palm-fibre.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 111:1-5)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Concerning al-Walid bin al-Mughirah, Allah (swt) says:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Therefore obey not thou the rejectors. Who desire that thou</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">would compromise, that they may compromise. Neither obey thou</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">any insignificant oath monger. Slander, going out with calumnies.</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hinder of the good; transgressor, deeply steeped in sin. Coarse</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(and thick) therewithal, ignore. It is because he is possessed of</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wealth and children. That, when our revelations are recited unto</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">him, saith: mere fables of the men of old. We shall brand him on</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the nose.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 68:8-16)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Because of this intellectual struggle with Quraysh, in which the Prophet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(sw) attacked jahiliyyah in all its forms, his relations with Quraysh</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">deteriorated and men withdrew from him in enmity. They were always</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">talking about him and inciting one another against him. They</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">complained to the Prophet’s uncle Abu Talib, “We cannot endure that</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">our fathers should be reviled, our customs mocked and our gods</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">insulted.”</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Ideological Struggle</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the stage of bold public interaction, the group must address itself to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">delivering the message of Islam to the society, so as to build</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">confidence in Islam as it was built in the minds and hearts of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">companions. This cannot be achieved except by engaging in an</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ideological and intellectual struggle against all the non-Islamic</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ideologies, thoughts, values and systems. This should be done by</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">disclosing the corruption inherent in the prevailing ideologies, systems</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and customs. The sincere Islamic movement must wage an ideological</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">war against the ideologies, concepts and values that contradict Islam.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Following the method of the Prophet (sw) the movement must refute</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">capitalism, democracy, communism, nationalism and every other</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">…..ism. Non-Islamic practices, values, systems and laws must be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">challenged. The awareness of the society must be raised so they reject</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">these thoughts as un-Islamic.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The presidents, kings, leaders and personalities who stand as</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">obstacles before this dawa should be disclosed to the society for what</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they are. Their plots, atrocities, intrigues and policies directed against</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam should be revealed to the nation. This is the example of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Messenger of Allah, and whoever shys away from this task is failing to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">uphold the Sunnah and method of the Prophet (sw).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Compromise</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When Quraysh failed to restrain the Prophet (sw) with reason and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">argument, they sought to confine him by negotiation, compromise and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bargaining.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The chiefs of Quraysh sent a number of delegations to the Prophet (sw)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in which they offered wealth, leadership and dominion. He rejected all</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">offers to compromise this message.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Persecution and the desire for success will bring the believers into a</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">position where they are faced with an offer of compromise. The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">method of the Prophet (sw) tells us there can be neither compromise</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nor half solution in this task. Islam can never co-exist with Jahiliyyah,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and halfjahiliyyah,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah’s sharia will prevail, or else people’s desires.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “And judge between them according to what allah has revealed,</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and do not follow their opinions, and beware of them lest they</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">confuse thee in matters which allah has revealed to thee.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah5:49)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thus, it is not of the Prophet’s way to join an un-Islamic government in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">order to implement Islam in certain aspects, such as the judiciary. The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">gradual implementation of Islam means the mixing of truth with</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">falsehood, which is impossible.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Similarly, the Prophet’s way does not permit a compromise in the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">objective. The objective is to establish the Khilafah as the general</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">leadership of all Muslims in the world. There can be no compromise in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">this objective. The Prophet (sw) refused to accept the help of Banu</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Amir because they wanted the leadership after Muhammed (sw). He</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">also rejected the offer to support from the tribe of Sheeban b. Thaalaba</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when, although agreeing to protect the Prophet (sw) from all Arabs, they</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">would not protect him against the Persians.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The objective is not power for the sake of power. There is no meaning</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for establishing the authority if we deviate from the method of Islam.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Although the objective of this duty is to establish the rule of Allah and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Islamic way of life, the ultimate aim of every action must be to earn</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the pleasure of Allah. Thus, every action whether it be the individual or</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">group should be undertaken purely for the sake of Allah, expecting no</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">praise from anyone. The sincerity of the group, its leadership and its</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">members should be exposed in their actions. The sincerity by this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">meaning will enlighten the way to success, for the victory only comes</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from Allah.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Persecution</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When their bargaining tactics failed, Quraysh resorted to outright</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">violence. They launched a policy of persecuting the Muslims. They</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">apprehended those Muslims not protected by the existing social</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">system. Such people were imprisoned, tortured and killed. They also</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">directed their attacks on the Prophet (sw), they slandered him, spread</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">lies and propaganda against him and sought to inflict bodily harm on him.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Following the persecution, the Prophet (sw) suggested to his followers</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that they emigrate to Abyssinia until Allah provided relief for them.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When Quraysh saw that the companions of the Prophet (sw) had</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">landed in Abyssinia, and that Umar and Hamza had accepted Islam,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and that Islam continued to spread, they drew up a document in which</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they made it binding upon themselves with respect to the Muslims,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib that they would not marry from</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">them, sell to them, nor buy from them. The Muslims were banished to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the Shi’b of Abu Talib, a rugged little valley outside Makka. This severe</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">boycott lasted from the seventh year of the Prophet’s mission to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tenth year.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shortly after the end of the boycott the Prophet’s wife, Khadigah (may</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah be pleased with her), died followed one month later by Abu Talib.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Because of the tremendous loss felt by the Prophet (sw), this year</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">became known as the Year of Grief (Am al-Huzn).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As a result of this ideological struggle, the Islamic movement will at</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">times earn the anger of the general public with its jahiliyyah thoughts</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and values. The leaders of the states will level persecution on the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">members engaged in the struggle. They will imprison, murder, boycott,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">exile and slander them. This is inevitable, but it must not seduce the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">believers from their goal and remaining steadfast to this method or</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">compromise their aim.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Sacrifice</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Establishing the Khilafah and restoring the sovereignty of Islam to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">earth requires sacrifice with all that we cherish. It needs patience and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">endurance to bear the hardships and trails that will afflict the souls,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">family and wealth. Accordingly, the believers must prepare themselves</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to guard against the seduction that will tempt them from this mission.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be assured the believers will be afflicted so that Allah will differentiate</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">between the good and bad of us. This is the law of Allah in regard of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His creation. Allah the Supreme says:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Do they think that they will be left to say: we believe without</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">being tested? Surely we had tested those who came before them,</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">surely allah will know who are faithful and who make a lie.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah29:2-3)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The messengers and prophets and those who followed them were</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">severely tested with hardship and tribulation. Allah described the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Did you think that you will enter the paradise before the like of</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">those who came before you comes to you. Suffering and distress</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">touched them and they were shaken to the extent that the</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">messenger and those who believed with him came to say: when</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">will the victory of allah come? Lo! The victory of allah is near.”</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 2:214)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore, the misery and distress, hardship and oppression that</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">surround the believers who bare the invitation of Islam and the call to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">establish the Khilafah is inevitable. The conspiracy of the oppressive</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tyrants must not be allowed to distract the believers from this noble</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">task, nor weaken their determination and commitment to wilfully pay its</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">price.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah (swt) has informed us that He did not send His help to His</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">messengers except after they had arrived at a state of desperation. He</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “When the messengers were desparate and thought that they were</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">denied, our help came to them.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 12:110)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hence, it is the law of Allah that relief and victory do not come except</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">after distress, tribulation and hardship. So the believer must be patient</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and endure, and realise that answering the call of Allah must be more</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">precious to us than ourselves, our wealth, our families and all the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pleasures of this life. Allah says:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Say: if your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">merchandise for which ye fear that there will be no sale, and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than allah and his</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">messenger and striving in his way: then wait till allah bringeth his</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">command to pass. Allah guideth not wrong-doing folk.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah9:24)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The seeking of support</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Following the Year of Grief, the Prophet (sw) offered himself to the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tribes outside of Makka. He would offer himself to the tribes whenever</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the opportunity arose, particularly in the season of pilgrimage when</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">many tribes descended on Makka.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He would ask them to believe in him and to protect him until Allah</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">would make clear to them the message with which Allah had charged</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">him.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Prophet (sw) offered himself to numerous tribes including: Thaqif;</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kinda; Banu Amir bin Sa’sa’a; Banu Kalb and Banu Hanifah. The Banu</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Amir said: “If we actually give allegiance to you, and Allah gives you</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">victory over your opponents shall we have authority after you?” The</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prophet (sw) replied, “Authority is a matter which Allah places where He</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pleases.” None of these tribes responded positively to the call.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">However, while the Prophet (sw) was offering himself to the Arab tribes</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">he met at al-Aqaba a number of the Khazraj from Medina. They</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">responded to his call and accepted Islam. When they returned to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Medina, they informed their people about the Messenger of Allah (swt)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and invited them to Islam.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The following year, 12 of the Ansar pledged themselves to the Prophet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(sw) at al-Aqaba. They returned to Medina with Musab bin Umayr, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prophet’s companion, who was sent to teach them their religion.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Musab proceeded to deliver the call to Islam in Medina till the Prophet</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(sw) became well known and Islam and the Prophet (sw) were</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">mentioned in every house.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The following year, Musab and seventy-three men and two women set</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">out for Makka to meet the Prophet (sw) and to conclude their pledge of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">support to the Prophet (sw). Following the second pledge, which is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">known as the pledge of War (Bay’at al-Harb), the Prophet (sw) directed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">his companions to migrate to Medina. Shortly after, upon receiving the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">permission of Allah, the Prophet (sw) together with Abu Bakr migrated</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to Medina whereupon he established the first Islamic State.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The importance of public opinion</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The nation is dominated by what the society respects or disrespects in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">public, not by the opinions of individuals. This public opinion is usually</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">influenced by the collective actions that are directed towards the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">collective conscience of the society, not the conscience of individuals.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The collective conscience of the society will always dominate the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">opinion of individuals. An example of this is the decision of Quraysh to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">terminate the boycott of the Muslims. In spite of Abu Jahl and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">leaders of Quraysh saying the pact was sacred and inviolable, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">strength of public opinion forced Quraysh to bring an end to the boycott.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is not essential that everyone in the society be behind the call for the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">transformation of the society to be possible. However, it is essential</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that the collective thoughts and opinions be Islamic. Thus, when</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Musab returned from Medina and gave his report to the Prophet (sw) he</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">informed him that Islam had entered every house, not that everyone</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">had accepted Islam, but Islam dominated the collective conscience of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the people. It was on this basis that the Prophet (sw) concluded Medina</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">was suitable for bearing the first Islamic State.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The importance of interaction</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The collective conscience of the people can only be built through</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">constant interaction. The people who want to change the society must</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">live with the people. Isolationism and withdrawal have no place in this</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">process. The society must be won over to Islam through a long and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">hard intellectual and political struggle.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Consequently, it is necessary that the Muslim activists adopt the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">interests of the Ummah in all fields, and to motivate the Ummah to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">stand up for its rights and to reject outright the oppression (zulm)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">imposed upon it. The greatest form of zulm imposed on the Ummah is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the ruling of their affairs by kufr systems that contradict their faith and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">creed. The Ummah must insist that only Islam is their saviour and that</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they possess the power to reject the secular systems being imposed on</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">them.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Many people believe they can establish an Islamic society simply by</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">applying an Islamic constitution without the preparatory work being</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">carried out before hand. This idea is an illusion and contradicts the way</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of the Prophet (sw).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Prophet (sw) interacted with the society to build the Islamic creed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as the basis for the society’s emotions, i.e. so the people would love</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">what Allah loved and hate what displeased Allah. And he struggled to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">establish the Islamic thoughts as the dominant opinions in the society,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">so that the halal and haram became the criterion to judge every action</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and to define every interest and relationship. When this materialised in</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Medina, the Islamic society came into being.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 7</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">The Return of the Khilafah is near</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The believers should have firm confidence in Allah, that His victory is</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">coming, and that the Khilafah will be established. The Prophet (sw) has</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">brought us good tidings concerning the re-establishment of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khilafah. Imam Ahmad has narrated that the Prophet (sw) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “The prophethood will be among you as long as allah wills, then he will</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">eliminate it if he so wills. Then a khilafah on the model of prophethood</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">will prevail so long as allah wills, then he will elminate it if he so wills.</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then there will be a biting monarchy as long as allah wills, then he will</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">eliminate it if he so wills. Then there will be an oppresive monarchy as</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">long as allah wills, then he will eliminate it if he so wills. Then a khilafah</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on the way of prophethood will prevail and he kept silent.”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This hadith is one of the signs of prophethood because it gives</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">information about the unseen, most of what is mentioned in the hadith</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">concerning the prophethood, the Khilafah, the biting monarchy and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">oppressive monarchy has been verified. That which remains to be</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">seen is the last part of the hadith, i.e. the restoration of the Rightly</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Guided Khilafah.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In another hadith, the Prophet (sw) described how the territories of the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khilafah would expand and its conquests would be many. Imam</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ahmad and Ad-Darmi narrated on the authority of Abu Qubail, who</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “We were with abdullah bin amr bin al ass and he was asked, ‘which of</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the two cities will be opened first, constantinople or rome? Whereupon</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">abdullah sent for a box which contained rings, he brought out of it a</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">book, abdullah said: while we were sitting around the prophet (sw)</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">writing, the prophet (sw) was asked which of the two cities will be</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">opened first, would it be constantinople or rome? The prophet (sw)</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">said: the city of heraculius (meaning constantinople) will be opened</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-ItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">first.”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The above mentioned hadiths indicate that the Muslims will open</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rome, the capital of Italy, the home of the Pope and the stronghold of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Christianity and that the Khilafah will return and remain.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 8</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">The help of Allah</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah (swt) says:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “O you who believe, if you help allah, allah helps you and</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">consolidates your foothold.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 47:7)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah had promised His victory to those who help Him and His deen.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He (swt) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Surely allah will help those who help him.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 22:40)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And He (swt) made this help a right upon Himself when He (swt) said:</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “It was a right upon us to help the believers.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 30:47)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah has kept the knowledge of the victory to Himself. But if Allah</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wishes the victory to occur He eases the means to achieve it and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">prepares the circumstances by what the believers know and do not</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">know. Therefore, we have to be assured that the stronger our help is to</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah and His deen, the greater and closer will be His help to us.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thus, in order to attain the reward and victory of Allah, we must</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">respond to the call of Allah, submitting to no one but Him, believing with</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">absolute conviction that Allah alone is the Creator, the Provider, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One who gives life and causes death, who honours and humiliates, and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He alone is the One who gives victory, and He is able to do everything,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and that not one of us will die before he receives his provisions in full,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">his life term and that which is destined for him.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chapter 9</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Impact","sans-serif"; font-size: 17pt;">O believers! Answer the call of Allah (swt)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Sahaba (may Allah satisfy them) gained favour with Allah because</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they responded to the call of Allah. They showed Allah their sincere</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">intention, and spent their wealth and their lives to raise high the Word of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah. Together with the Prophet (sw) they established the first Islamic</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">State and built its pillars on the debris of jahiliyya and the territories of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">shirk.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Today, the Muslim nation needs the believers to answer the call of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah and to work with, and in, the nation (Ummah) to restore the ruling</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of Islam. This requires that the Muslim gain knowledge of his duty, that</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is as an obligatory duty which if neglected deserves the punishment of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah; and, that in its performance, he must be restricted by the Book of</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Allah and the Sunnah of His Prophet (sw).</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Establishing the Khilafah, as detailed in the life (sirah) of Muhammed</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(sw), demands, above all, that the believers inject the thoughts and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">emotions of Islam into the body of the Ummah. The sense of duty</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">should motivate the believer to interact with the Ummah so that it gains</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">confidence in Islam, so much so that the people see no alternative but</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Islam. Mixing with the people in the cafes, shops, universities and</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">mosques, the believer must implant faith and hope in Allah and the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ability to the Ummah to stand up to the tyrant rulers and to demolish the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">non-Islamic regimes. This interaction will move the Ummah so that it</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">discards the garment of fear with which the tyrant oppressors have</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">adorned her. The Ummah will then erupt and replace the non-Islamic</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">regimes with the state of Khilafah. Uniting all Muslims in one state, the</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Khilafah will make this state into the world’s leading power.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “O you who believe, answer the call of allah and his messenger</span></i></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when he calls you to that which gives you life.” </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Surah 8:24)</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "ArialMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">_________________________________________________________</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial-BoldItalicMT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">KHILAFAH IS THE ANSWER</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>Fight4Truthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250373774616809230noreply@blogger.com0