Author: Shahid Bolsen

If you reject the democratic process for the selection of the ruler, I wonder how you believe the ruler should be selected? It seems to me that the only other alternative is to advocate that a ruler to be imposed by force, which means to advocate Mulk Jabaryy. This is what we already have and…

The core of democratic theory is the consent of the governed; and there is nothing about that whatsoever that conflicts with Islam. Indeed, it was only when the selection process of the ruler began to exclude the population, began to be indifferent to securing the consent of the governed, and control of the government became…