Islamic Revival

Assalam wa alaikum In depth articles about the Islamic ruling system are available from the following website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~luqman/index.html Many subjects like the issue of Bay'ah are discussed in depth together with evidences and references.

The following is the draft translation from Arabic of a leaflet issued by the workers for Khilafah in the Muslim world. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Isn’t it high time for the rulers to be ashamed -even once- for letting Palestine down?! Isn’t it high time for the blood in the veins of the armies to boil and make them burst out for championship?! Oh Muslims: A Jewish soldier is captured during a fight -he was not kidnapped from his home- and state of Jews turns the world upside down for his sake, and considers him a crucial issue. Thousands of our prisoners and captives from men, old people, women and children, the violation of our sanctities, the besmirching of our holy places and the disasters which fall upon our heads from Jews day and night, all these are not considered by our rulers as crucial issues, which deserve patronage or even say a word of truth about them, they work as mediators and raise their hands in prayer hoping that the soldier will return safe and sound! The state of Jews

‘Usul ul-Fiqh [i] utilises many technical terms, from the discipline of the Arabic language to the Science of Hadith. One such term is Qaid’a, or maxim. Qaid’a is a legal principle derived from the legislative sources which is applicable on actions or objects because it is a principle derived from the daleel [ii] . Qaid’a serves as the initial stage in issuing a legal verdict, and the mujtahid [iii] would consider it as a basis to build other daleel upon it. Throughout the history of ‘Usul ul-Fiqh and Fiqh many Qaid’a existed. Some were accurately derived and widely applied, while others were not. The Qaid’a could be related to ‘Usul ul-Fiqh or Shari‘ah. Some of the widely accepted Qaid’a in ‘Usul ul-Fiqh are: The Initial rule is that an object or a thing is permissible unless stated otherwise. This Qaid’a is derived from many ayat in the Qur’an: “He it is Who created for you all that is on earth.” [TMQ Al-Baqarah 2:29] “Who has made the earth a resting place for you, and the sky as

Those who wish the Ummah to accept submission before US hegemony have sought to amend Islam so that it does not exceed the boundaries set by Blair and Bush. They carry the old call of "modernism". They would have us accept the Western way of life because the West is strong. Such a call is in fact just one part of the crusade against Islam that is being waged under the guise of a "war against terrorism". The modernisers who sit in the courts of Blair and Bush and at the feet of the tyrant rulers in the Muslim countries suggest that Islam can change from time to time, and from place to place. The consequence of this concept is that certain rules of Islam, would not apply, due to the new environment they live in, and that we live in a new time and age. So rules regarding riba, marriage, social interaction, international law, ruling systems, would need to be updated, according to the said principle. The proponents of this understanding use the example of Imam Shafi to l

The following is an interesting article that highlight the rise of the political understanding of Islam in the world and the yearning for a return to the Islamic rule - the Khilafah state. http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=9192 An Idea Whose Time Has Come? by Patrick J. Buchanan In 1938, the year of Anschluss and Munich, a perceptive British Catholic looked beyond the continent over which war clouds hung and saw another cloud forming. "It has always seemed to me … probable," wrote Hilaire Belloc, "that there would be a resurrection of Islam and that our sons or our grandsons would see the renewal of that tremendous struggle between the Christian culture and what has been for more than a thousand years its greatest opponent." Belloc was prophetic. Even as Christianity seems to be dying in Europe, Islam is rising to shake the 21st century as it did so many previous centuries. Indeed, as one watches U.S. armed forces struggle against Sunni insurgents, Shia militias

Question: Is it permitted for us to seek our rights under a non-Islamic system, for example are we allowed to go through the courts under a Kufr system? If so, what are the conditions for this. Answer: 1. The person has the right to demand for his right and to demand for removing the injustice away from him and to defend himself by proving his right and removing the injustice away from him. He has the right to delegate another person (such as a solicitor) to do that on his behalf. 2. Such right has to be approved by the Shar’a but not by the man-made law, and similarly the zulm (injustice) has to be proved likewise. Had a Muslim sold some alcohol and the purchaser did not pay him the price, this price would not be considered a right for the Muslim. Therefore it is wrong to demand of it, though it is (his) right according to the man-made law. Similarly if an insurance company did not pay to the insurer for an accident, i.e. did not compensate him and dealt with him unjustly

Sahl b. Sa’d as-Saa’idi (ra) who said that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said, “Islam began as something strange, and it shall return to being something strange, so give glad tidings to the strangers.” It was asked, "Who are those strangers, O Messenger of Allah?" He replied, “Those that correct the people when they become corrupt.” [At-Tabarani in al-Kabeer] The resurgence of the Islamic Ummah and her demands to return to the Islamic way of life on all her affairs has become apparent for all the people to witness. This has manifest itself in revival of Islam as a political Deen, which seeks to implement itself. In fact the discussion that Islam is political and the need for an Islamic State in order to apply the Islamic rules and laws that have been detailed in the Quran and the Sunnah are foregone conclusions. The revival of Islam started as something “strange” in the new secular world order but is now whole-heartedly adopted by the Muslim Ummah as her cause. However certa