Political Islam should base its theories, not upon an artificial Islamization of available Western political concepts, but upon the information we have from our Prophet ﷺ about our current situation. After all, Rasulullah ﷺ informed us about every stage the political administration of our Ummah would pass through.
We have not had Islamic government upon the minhaj Nubuwwa since Hassan bin Ali abdicated as khalifah, and we will not have Islamic government upon the minhaj Nubuwwa until the emergence of the Mahdi, Muhammad bin Abdullah.
Between these two phases of government, we have had, and will only have, tyrants and oppressors. We have had, and will continue to have, rulers who implement the Shari’ah in some areas and not in other areas; who are sincere in some aspects of their rule, and who are treacherous in other aspects of their rule. But they will be, in this stage of our history, tyrants. It matters little whether they are called, or call themselves, presidents, kings, prime ministers or khalifahs; they can only be what our Prophet ﷺ said they will be.
They will be Mulk jabaryy; they will rule by force; and any government that can only rule by force and not by consent, is unavoidably a government dependent upon external support. And indeed, this is what we see today.
وصدق رسول الله ﷺ
This being inevitably the case, the logical priority of the Islamic movement should not be developing strategies to acquire power, but developing strategies to confront and influence power.
Obedience in Islam is only ever obedience to Allah and His Messenger; obedience to those in authority depends upon the compliance of their orders with obedience to Allah and His Messenger. No illegitimate order is obeyed, No illegitimate authority is recognized.
The role of the righteous in this period of our history is to be in perpetual anti-state opposition, to be a counterbalance to the inevitable tyranny of the rulers.
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