Author: Shahid Bolsen

Question: Since you agree with Ibn Taymiyya’s opinion (and I agree with you that the problem of our government is not the kufr that obliges toppling it according to the said opinion), so why then should we resist if the only premise for fighting is Kufr? Answer: There are two things here. First, there is…

Ethnic, regional, and tribal senses of identity are inevitable, but in Islam, they must be secondary to our identification as Muslims belonging to a single Ummah. The phenomenon of nation-states, in which the people come to define themselves primarily as being Egyptian, Syrian, Canadian, or what have you, has, to a great degree, transformed the…