Of course, we cannot accept a secular system in principle. We cannot agree that legislation in society should be disconnected from the Revelation of Allah. That would be a profound betrayal of not only Allah, Subhaahu wa Ta’ala, but of mankind. We cannot accept the supremacy of laws from inferior sources while the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger ﷺ exist. That is a given.
However, of course we can work for improvement and justice within any secular system, and this does not compromise our beliefs in the least. Just as Rasululllah ﷺ accepted in the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah to erase “Rasulullah” and replace it with “Muhammad bin Abdullah” ﷺ because he was dealing with people who did not recognize his prophethood at the time. He ﷺ did not refuse to sign the agreement because they wouldn’t acknowledge him as he Messenger of Allah; he pursued what was of practical beneficial to the Muslims, while coping with the reality of the existing ideology of the Quraysh.
There is no reason why we cannot do the same thing today. If you can achieve improvements in the lives of the Muslims, decrease the harm in society, promote justice, within a secular system with which you fundamentally disagree, you cannot say that Islam prevents you from doing so. It is wrong to say that this equates to acceptance or support of a secular system; it is striving for what is good and beneficial within the reality of existing circumstances, that’s all.
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