Aside from the fact that trying to establish an Islamic state in the age of capitalist imperialism is a bit like building a house in the courtyard of the prison in which you are jailed; I am not anyway convinced that it is even a worthwhile objective during the period of “mulk jabriya”. And no, that period does not come to an end just because someone declares Khilafah.
“Mulk jabriya” existed under the name Khilafah for a very long time, naming a new government Khilafah will not bring the “mulk jabriya” to an end.
There is no convincing reason to believe that the Khilafah upon the minhaj nubuwwa will be established by anyone before the Mahdi.
We know that the emergence of the Mahdi will be preceded by a period of widespread injustice and oppression, and this will be during a time in which a ruling system called Khilafah will apparently prevail. It will be called Khilafah the same way that the ruling system continued to be called Khilafah after the death of ‘Ali bin Abi Talib, though it ceased to be the Khilafah mentioned by Rasulullah ﷺ, and was, in fact, a system of kings and oppressors.
When Rasulullah ﷺ mentioned to us the stages our ruling system would pass through, he did not mention that the Khilafah upon the minhaj nubuwwa would return and then fall again into injustice and oppression, and then return again; so we can assume from this that once it returns to the minhaj nubuwwa, it will remain upon it.
That can only mean that the period preceding the Mahdi, which will be a period of injustice and oppression, during which there is a ruler called a khalifah, this period must be from the time of the “mulk jabriya”, and not from the time of the Khilafah upon the minhaj nubuwwa. The new period of Khilafah Rashida will be inaugurated by the Mahdi, and not before.
In other words, any Khilafah we establish today will just be anther system of kings and oppressors, though we will call it Khilafah.
I don’t personally feel confident about installing an all-powerful ruler with total, arbitrary and unquestionable control over policy, when his government has already been defined by Rasulullah ﷺ as “mulk jabriya”. If it is a given that it will be tyrannical, I would at least prefer it to be less totalitarian in structure. Handing absolute power over to someone whom our Prophetﷺ has already assured us will be an oppressor, does not seem wise to me.
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