A Qur’anic explanation for the universal Shirk of the modern secular state - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

A Qur’anic explanation for the universal Shirk of the modern secular state

Our view is that only the Qur’an can, and has, explained this momentous political change that overtook the Euro-Christian and Euro-Jewish world, and then the rest of mankind. What is that explanation?

The Qur’an has taught that the historical process would one day come to an end when Allah Most High ordains that the ‘Last Day’ should come upon mankind and the world. Before that ‘Last Day’ can occur, however, there would be a Last Age that would be filled with numerous Signs from Allah indicating that it is the ‘Last Age’. 

Among those events that would take place in the Last Age would be the release into the world of Dajjal, the False Messiah – and of Gog and Magog. When released into the world they would eventually become the dominant actors in the historical process, and it is they who would be the masterminds orchestrating this unique and ominous transformation of mankind and the world. 

The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) declared that the age of Dajjal, the False Messiah (Antichrist), would witness the universal appearance of Riba. It would also be an age of Kufr since Dajjal has ‘Kafir’ written between his eyes. And it would be an age of Shirk since Dajjal will ‘play’ the role of God and deceive mankind into accepting him as such. It is as plain as daylight to this writer that Dajjal is the mastermind behind the creation of the modern essentially godless secular state and its system of electoral politics.

This writer has based his arguments on the Qur’an and Hadith to the effect that participation in electoral politics in the modern secular state constitutes Shirk and Kufr. In the event of disagreement with the view expressed in this book scholars should respond with arguments based on the Qur’an and the Sunnah of the blessed Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). They should declare the specific conditions in which it would be Halal for believers to vote in national elections.

The blessed Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) declared: What is Halal (permissible) is clear, and what is Haram (prohibited) is clear, abstain from whatever is doubtful. It now remains for the scholars, who are the guides of the believers, to declare whether it is Halal to participate in electoral politics in the modern secular state. In order to deliver a satisfactory positive answer the scholars must demonstrate firstly that it is not Haram to do so, and secondly that it is not ‘doubtful’ to do so. And they must establish their response on the authoritative foundations of the Qur’an and the authentic Hadith. 

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

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The alternative for believers to electoral politics in the modern secular state - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

The alternative for believers to electoral politics in the modern secular state

The Jewish, Christian or Muslim reader is likely to ask: Is there an alternative (for believers) to electoral politics in the secular state? The answer is: Yes! there is. The alternative is to struggle to restore the sovereignty of the God of Abraham, Most High, in the political system – to struggle for recognition of His Authority as Supreme Authority – and to struggle for recognition of His Law as the Supreme Law. That is the most noble of all struggles any one can ever wage, and it is a struggle that must be pursued until the end of time.

The alternative for believers is to uphold whatever Allah made Halal as Halal, and whatever Allah made Haram as Haram, regardless of the price they may have to pay. Also, when a people commit Shirk, Kufr, Dhulm and Fisq, then believers should condemn such conduct, oppose it, struggle against it, and turn to Allah and ask Him to separate them from such people:

“So separate us from this sinful rebellious people!”

(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:25)

The Qur’an refers to this mission of believers as “amr bil ma’aruf” (enjoining the right) and “nahi ‘an al-munkar” (opposing the wrong). If the struggle to restore the sovereignty of Allah Most High and the supremacy of His Authority and Law (in any territory) were to succeed, then that territory would become Dar al-Islam. Muslims would rule over that territory. But there is an alternative plural model of a state in which Muslims would share control over a territory with non-Muslims on the basis of political equality and through a constitutional agreement that would allow Muslims to recognize the sovereignty of Allah and the supremacy of His Authority and Law over ‘them’. Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) established that ‘plural’ model of state in the city-State of Madina wherein Muslims, Jews and pagan Arabs shared control over territory, and over the state, on the basis of political equality. 

Mankind has the freedom of choice to accept or to reject the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam). However, once the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) is accepted, believers do not have the freedom to choose between either a government of believers or a non-believing government. When they are denied that freedom in any territory they must search for some place where that freedom exists and then migrate to such a territory! Thus the God of Abraham, Most High, has commanded believers to:

“Oh you who believe, obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and (obey) those from amongst yourselves who are in (positions of) authority….”

(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:59)

When they no longer have the freedom to establish their own government anywhere, and they have to live under non-believing rule, believers in the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) ‘submit’ to that rule until such time as they can once again choose fellow-believers to rule over them. But ‘submission’ to such non-believing rule cannot involve their participation in establishing that non-believing government. Believers will submit to such rule on the condition of religious freedom, i.e., that nothing is forced upon them that violates the Law of the God of Abraham. While such a government will not be ‘their’ government, they can advise and assist the government in all that is true, good and virtuous, while warning, resisting and abstaining from all that is false, evil and harmful. 

It is in the very nature of the modern secular state that it would never allow elections to be used to transform it into a different model of a state – such as a state that would recognize the Sovereignty of the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) and the supremacy of His Authority and His Law. Electoral politics was meant to sub-serve the godless secular state. 

The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) declared that the world of Kufr constituted an essential unity (al-kufru millatun wahidah). And this is precisely what has now emerged in the world. The Jew and the Christian should ponder over the fact that when the Muslims of Algeria used ‘electoral politics’ to seek to restore the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) in Algeria and won 85% of the votes in the national elections, the godless world all came together to ruthlessly punish that 85% of the electorate which dared to seek to transform the godless secular foundation of the state. 

Thus rather than voting in elections and legitimizing the secular model of a state based on Shirk, Muslims should protect themselves from Shirk by disconnecting from the secular state. They should also respond to it by arguing that the ‘plural’ model of a state established by Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) is a superior model of a state when compared with the modern godless secular state.

 

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

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Reality of the modern secular state - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

Merits of the modern secular state

The secular state could not have won acceptance amongst a Euro-Christian and Euro-Jewish people, or amongst Muslims, had it not camouflaged its Kufr and Shirk with certain obvious merits. The modern secular state emerged in Europe in response to a dominant and oppressive Euro-Christian theocracy, and in order to challenge the ‘temporal’ power of the Euro-Christian Church. It challenged the Church when it proclaimed a fresh and exciting new gospel of complete and unfettered intellectual and religious freedom and human rights for all, and religious tolerance of all. It also established the political conditions that preserved peaceful coexistence amongst different religions within the same territory. It thus put an end to all the bloody religious warfare that had plagued Europe for so many centuries. 

It also skillfully bribed its way into the bellies and the hearts of mankind through its inventive creativity. It discovered or produced most of that which has been joyfully embraced by mankind, regardless of religious beliefs, as an indispensable necessity of modern life. Whenever anyone embraced modernity with all its wondrous inventions one also embraced the secular state and the secular way of life. That was no mean achievement!

Reality of the modern secular state

But these obvious merits of the secular state did not change that basic foundation of Kufr and Shirk. Indeed the modern secular state slowly began to reveal its real hidden agenda of rivalry when it began to wage a relentless war on the religious way of life Indeed religion slowly became a receding force in the new essentially godless secular world.

The democracy of the modern secular state turned out to be a sugarcoated pill of poison. The ‘political’ democracy worked in such a way as to sustain a usurious system of economic oppression and exploitation of the masses based on Riba. Economic oppression was oft-times supplemented by racial and ethnic oppression. The impoverished masses could never wrest real political power from the rich predatory elite, and hence could never have the power with which to end economic oppression. The new gospel of the modern secular society was that the rich shall inherit the earth. And that is precisely what has happened.

The new Europe proceeded to use its invincible military power and awesome powers of deception to dominate and brainwash non-European humanity. The new godless political philosophy with its godless conception of a sovereign state, exploitative economic system, and corruptive culture, eventually embraced all the rest of the world. That was no mean achievement!

Western colonial rule was now imposed upon the rest of mankind, including the Muslims, and through this means the new godless political system, based on Kufr and Shirk, was deceptively and subtly introduced. Thus the ominous prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was fulfilled! He prophesied that his community (of Muslims) would imitate and follow Jews and Christians to such an extent that even if they were to go down into a lizard’s hole, his community would do the same!

The result was that the world of Jews, Christians and Muslims entered into a collective trial of all trials (fitnah) and failed miserably in obeying the command of the God of Abraham, Most High, when He ordered:

“Follow what has been sent down unto you by your Lord-God, and follow no Master other than Him. How seldom do you keep this in mind!”

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:3)

The new modern secular state devised a system of electoral politics for constituting Parliament and Government, and sometimes for electing Judges. Citizens of the secular state, regardless of their religious beliefs, voted in democratic elections. They were obliged to submit to its authority and be obedient to it. If the elections were to produce a government dominated by idol-worshipping Hindus who were openly hostile to those who worshipped the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam), or a government which declared to be Halal (permissible) everything which Allah Most High had declared to be Haram, then the principle of democratic elections required that Jews, Christians, Muslims etc., who were citizens of that secular state, recognize that government as their lawful government, submit to its authority, and be obedient to it.

There is nothing in the revealed scriptures (Torah, Gospel, Qur’an) or the Sunnah (example or way of life) of the Prophets that can be used to justify Jews, Christians, Muslims, etc., participating in such elections in which they freely vote for such a government as lawful to govern over them. On the contrary there is very clear condemnation of such conduct! 

 

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

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The Caliphate and the modern secular state - JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN

The Caliphate and the modern secular state

The Islamic Caliphate was precisely such a conception of a state and political system that recognized Allah’s Sovereignty, Supreme Authority and Law, and enforced Haram as Haram and Halal as Halal. The Caliphate emerged in consequence of precisely that divine imperative demanding obedience of Allah, His Messenger, and ‘those in authority amongst the Muslims’. 

“Oh you who believe, obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and (obey) those from amongst yourselves who are in (positions of) authority …. ”

 (Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:59) 

Islam refused to recognize divided loyalties – that one could deliver supreme loyalty to the state and yet, also deliver supreme loyalty to Allah, Most High. The two worlds (the worlds of religion and of politics) were not to be separated from each other since the Qur’an proclaimed, “Allah is the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden.” (Qur’an, al-Hadid, 57:3). Supreme loyalty must be delivered to Allah, not to the state, since the Qur’an asked the believers to proclaim:

“Say: Verily my prayer, and my service of sacrifice, and my very living and my very dying are all for Allah the Lord of all the world.... ” 

(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:162)

Europe destroyed that Islamic model of a state and political system when the Ottoman Caliphate was targeted and destroyed. Europe went on to ensure that the Islamic Caliphate could never be restored. It did so when it assisted in the creation of the secular State of Saudi Arabia in the Hejaz, and then went on to ensure the survival of that state by way of guaranteeing its security. The Caliphate could never be restored for two reasons. Firstly, the Saudi-Wahhabi regime that controlled the Haramain the Hejaz and Hajj would never claim the Caliphate. Secondly, so long as they controlled the Haramain, the Hejaz, and the Hajj, no one else could claim the Caliphate! 

There are a number of reasons that explain why Europe targeted and destroyed the Islamic Caliphate. The first was to facilitate the achievement of the goal of liberating and returning the Jews to the Holy Land. The second was to make possible the universal embrace of Shirk of the new European model of a secular state. When the Caliphate was destroyed, the modern secular State of Turkey replaced it; and the secular State of Saudi Arabia in the Arabian heartland of Sunni Islam. Following this Indian Muslims were exquisitely deceived into embracing the secular Republic of Pakistan. Thirdly, the Caliphate had to be destroyed because it obstructed the realization of the ultimate goal in the new godless European agenda. That European goal was to establish Jewish Israel as the ‘Ruling State’ of the world – ruling the world from Jerusalem.

Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) prophesied that the Caliphate would disappear. He did so in the following Hadith:

“How will you be at that time when the son of Mary descends amongst you and your Imam (i.e., Amirul M’umineen or Khalifah) would be from within your midst (i.e., he would be a Muslim)”?

 (Sahih, Bukhari)

This Hadith revealed three things:

Firstly, it informed us that the Caliphate would be present in the world in the ‘End Time’. This amounted to a prophecy that the Caliphate would disappear from the world but would one day be restored. Secondly, prior to the restoration of the Caliphate, Muslims would live for a period of time under the authority, control and rule of those who would not be Muslims. That is precisely the world in which we live today. Thirdly, the return of the Caliphate would be an event that would be contemporaneous with the return of the son of Mary. And since we know that when Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam) returns he will rule the world from Jerusalem as a Just Ruler enforcing Allah’s Law, the implication is that the modern secular State of Israel would be replaced in the Holy Land by the authentic Islamic State which would be free from the Shirk of secular Israel.

Those who adamantly defend the status quo of secular Islamic nation-states should pause to reflect over the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) concerning the restoration of the Caliphate.

 

Source: Jerusalem in the Qur'an by Imran N. Hosein

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