It was on the 28th Rajab 1342 H / 3rd of March 1924 CE, that the destruction of the Khilafah ruling system at the hands of the traitor Mustafa Kamal occurred. A miserable fate was to await the Muslims of the world. 87 years later the Muslims of Balkan States (such as Bosnia and Kosovo) faced one such catastrophe. Who can forget the sight of girls, tormented and unable to bear dishonor, hanging by their necks from trees? Who can forget the fields full of bones at Srebrenica? These are victims of crimes committed under the noses of cowardly UN protection force, who had betrayed their promise, given in exchange for the disarming of the local Muslim fighters defending against the Serbs.
We should ask how such things can happen when the sons of Sultan Murad, who brought Islam to the Balkans 600 years earlier, were only 15 minutes away by plane. How desperate we felt sending planes of food and blankets and copies of Quran, while our armies were locked in their barracks!
How many hundred thousand children have died in Iraq under a cruel international regime of sanctions? Yet at the time of writing, the doors of Iraq’s neighbors are open to a similar number of US troops in readiness for yet another killing spree, this time in the name of a “war on terror”.
How long will the Muslims of Afghanistan suffer American bombing and subjugation to mafia war lords under the cover of a phoney Loya Jirga headed by a Pashtun consultant for major American Oil Company?
Muslims everywhere have sensed themselves an open target for attack – easy prey whether in Palestine, Iraq, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Somalia, Gujarat – and the list is always growing.
Since the destruction of the Khilafah, Muslims have been plumbing the depths of despair. The Islamic world has become characterized by failure, disunity, bloodshed, insecurity and oppression. Our countries are totally ineffective on the international stage and due to the dominance of our enemies they are unable to do anything for themselves. Worse than that our own muslim rulers seem to be the dagger at our throats in the hands of our enemies.
It is against this sorry background of affairs that the time has come for the Muslims to ask themselves some searching questions, such as why our society has become so backward and why our governments are amongst the most ruthless in the world. They think nothing of imprisoning subjects by the thousands without trial, and inflicting torture and extermination upon their own people.
Despite all the oppression that the Muslim Ummah faces we are characterized with confusion, weakness and disunity. For example, why had the Arab world, with its money and oil, been unable to wield any influences against Israel, and why has the Muslim nation, more than one billion in numbers, been unable to defeat Israel, a nation with a population the size of Ireland?
Why, when the Arab states alone have received many thousands of billions of dollars of oil revenues, has none of them got anywhere near becoming a newly industrialized country like Korea or Singapore? Who can even imagine so much money but what has it bought for this Ummah? It was taken from beneath our feet but it did not feed our poor or provide laboratories for our scientists or investments for our industry. It was not spent to raise an army to gain victory for Islam and the Muslims in even one single war. Rather, we have become used to many wars among ourselves, and we wait for bombs to fall upon our heads in the name of a post September 11th ”War on Terror” as indeed we have waited in impotence many times before.
Why is it that in matters of religion, history, language and culture we are so similar to each other, yet we are so disunited?
In the end these questions boil down to a single question, namely, Why is it that the once mighty and great Muslim nation is now so weak?
Our weakness is not inherent, and certainly does not lie with Islam. We are weak because we have abandoned Islam. Although we remain Muslims, the environment and society in which we live is non-Islamic.
The present day Muslim society can no longer be considered as representation of Islam. The public values, ideas, concepts, laws and ruling system proceed from the non-Islamic viewpoint of life. We have changed our loyalties and commitments from Islam to ignorance (Jahilliyah). Capitalism, democracy, socialism, nationalism, self-interest, benefit, and pride are all ideas that have replaced the unity of Allah (Tawheed) as the motivation of life and source of authority. Thus, the Islamic values have ceased to enter our hearts; our minds are no longer illuminated by the true Islamic concepts, and our ways of life is at variance with our creed.
When in 1924 Mustapha Kamal formally abolished the Khilafah system, the Muslims finally relinquished the divine laws (Ahkam Shari’ah) as the regulator of their lives. They adopted Western codes and systems of ruling and detached Islam from life’s affairs. The Muslims turned away from the sole worship of Allah to the worship of man-made systems and laws. This is the source of our weakness and humiliation.
After the demolition of the Khilafah the Muslim territories fell under the occupation of the European colonial powers, in particular, Britain and France. These two countries directly imposed their capitalist systems in the fields of economics, ruling, education, and politics. The countries were completely governed by these secular systems.
Under the colonial powers, many Western educated people rose to high positions within the state. They held important positions in government, society and the media. Through their influence they sought to westernise society in the Islamic world. After the Second World War, old style colonialism came under attack. The European powers faced heavy financial obligations as a result of the war; and due to the weight of Soviet propaganda against colonialism, and more importantly, anti-colonial pressure from the United States, the occupying powers withdrew and pseudo-independence was given to the colonies. These newly independent states were left in the hands of the new generation of secular people who had been groomed by the West and cultivated under the supervision of the old imperialists.
These secularists followed in the footsteps of their former colonial masters. In an effort to achieve progress and to revive their countries these new secular leaders explored every avenue and slogan, drifting away from the teachings of Islam. What is apparent, however, is that the reverse happened. Politically there is only corruption and oppression; and the regimes succeed only in dividing and impoverishing the nation. Humiliatingly the Muslim countries have become increasingly dependent on their enemies.
Consequently, these secular programs did not only fail to achieve the false dreams of the materialist thinkers, but pushed the Muslims further towards total enslavement to the Western and communist blocs.
In the heroic liberation battles that were fought to free Muslim land, Islam was the only real power that moved the people. Yet, when the reigns of power returned to the people, the Muslims who led the battles were removed, and the secularists usurped the power. In Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Pakistan secularists out maneuvered and overpowered the Muslims. But the Islamic activists, throughout the Muslim countries, never abandoned their work. They continued to work in the society to confirm the failure of the secular programs to bring about the desired progress and improvement in the standard of living. They struggled to refute the secularists’ political dogma, and to uncover the conspiracies against the Muslim Ummah.
When the failure of these alien systems became clearly visible for everyone to see, people began to consider Islam as the real political alternative to the corruption, humiliation, weakness, division and apathy which had taken root in every Muslim country. Accordingly, over the last two decades Muslims, throughout the Islamic world, have returned to Islam. Arabs, Afghans, Africans, Iranians, Kurds, Malaysians, Pakistanis, Turks, and many other Muslims of different nationalities have started to study its beliefs, contemplate its laws and rules on society and state, and have taken up the struggle to restore Islam as the regulator of their lives. The strength of their will and conviction in Islam is so potent that it has shook thrones, forced itself onto the political agenda of the superpowers and captivated the imagination and intrigue of the West. But above all, this newfound zeal for Islam has sent a resounding message of hope to every Muslim that Islam will again be brought back to the mainstream of life. What is required from us is to contribute to this blessed struggle through a profound understanding of the nature of our problem, the correct solution for this problem, and the procedure to bring to fruition this solution.
Khilafah is the Answer
ALLAH, the Supreme demands that people worship Him alone. This means that they derive their concepts, values, laws and ruling system from Allah, i.e. through the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet(SAW). Adopting any other source of authority is a negation of the declaration ‘La ilaha illa Allah Muhammadur Rasool ALLAH’ – there is no deity but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet. Islam provides the Muslim not only with a belief (Iman) but the solutions for all his problems as well, by describing a complete and perfect way of life. The application of these solutions to the problems of life is the worship of ALLAH. When the Muslims applied these solutions, i.e. the divine laws (Ahkam Shariyah) and conducted all their affairs according to Islam and the Islamic ruling system, we were the mightiest nation on earth and the most civilized society the world has ever known. When we slackened in our adherence to Islam, we declined both as a state and as humans. When we abandoned Islam and its system of life, our decline was complete and our failure and humiliation was apparent for all to see.
Our revival can only occur when we return to Islam, believing in its creed and implementing its systems and laws. When these two interdependent elements are brought together in harmony, the Muslims will progress. Achieving the satisfaction of ALLAH, we will ascend to our rightful level as leaders of mankind. But so long as we implement non-Islamic laws and systems of life we will continue to fumble in the depths of despair, exploited and cheated by nations who once never dreamed they could be our equals let alone our superiors.
Currently, the non-Islamic systems of government, with the assistance of force and oppression, prevent us from living the kind of life demanded of us by Allah ta’ala. Therefore, these governments must be removed, to be replaced by one Islamic government, i.e. The Khilafah State.
The establishment of the Khilafah state is not only a practical necessity, but also a religious obligation. It will InshaAllah solve all issues of Muslim Ummah not only Kashmir Issue but also Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Afghanistan and other directly occupied territories.
Ultimate Solution to liberate occupied territories of Islam like Kashmir, Bosnia, Chechniya, Kosova, Fluga and others is to bring back Khilafat, because Prophet Muhammad pbuh said “Behold, the khalifah is but a shield, from behind which the people fight and by which they protect themselves.” Sahih Muslim.
