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Calling for the democratic civil state is great sin, especially if the call is from the mouths of Muslims!

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Khilafah is the only ruling system obligated by Allah, the Lord of the Worlds Calling for the democratic civil state is great sin, especially if the call is from the mouths of Muslims! On Friday 24 June 2012, the Egyptian presidential election committee announced the victory of the candidate Mohamed Morsi over Ahmed Shafik. The committee announced that, "Mohammad Morsi is the new President of the Arab Republic of Egypt." The first principle statement made by the new president is his call for the democratic civil state and he declared that Egypt agrees to abide with its international agreements, and under its cover, of course, is the abiding by the Camp David agreement, a treacherous agreement that recognizes the Jewish occupation of the land of الإسراء والمعراج (Isra'a and Miraaj), the blessed land of Palestine. O Muslims: The Khilafah system and ruling by all that Allah has revealed, in the smallest of matters to the largest, is a great

Imam al-Awza'i and Accounting Rulers

Imam al-Awza`i (d 177/774) –  Exemplar in Accounting the Rulers   Muslims have a duty of accounting the ruler. This is an Islamic requirement. Many  hadith -texts establish this such as: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: أفضل الجهاد كلمة عدل عند سلطان جائر – أو أمير جائر “The best form of Jihad is the just word against an unjust Sultan or sinful ruler…” [1] Here  Jihad  is in the linguistic sense as mentioned by al-Munawi. “Just word” implies it is the truth, what is right, in the best of manner possible. سيد   الشهداء   حمزة بن عبد المطلب ورجل قام إلى إمام فأمره ونهاه فقتله “The best of martyrs is Hamza b. `Abd al-Muttalib and a person who stands before an Imam and enjoins the good and forbids the wrong and is killed as a result…” [2] This  hadith  indicates the political character of commanding good and forbidding wrong (as it involves rulers/people in power). The letter “ waw ” here is grammatically conjunctive (` atf ) and thus indicates the best of martyr

Tafsir Surah al-Rahman Part 2

Surat  al-Rahman pt 2–  Tafsir Basic notes and commentary:   V31 . { sa-nafrughu }:  sa-  = the near future particle prefix; { nafrughu } means ‘we will account you both’.  { al-thaqalan }: literally ‘the two weighty ones’/‘the two burdened ones’, i.e. human beings and Jinn.  V33 . { tanfudhu }: pass beyond something, exceed something, coming out of something (like an arrow from the bow). The entire verse has 3 meanings and more: [1] If you are able to explore and know more about the heavens and the earth then try and proceed. [2] If you think you are able to escape death by escaping passed the areas and zones of the heavens and the earth then try and do so. [3] If you think you will be able to escape the last day by passing beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth then try. { sultan }: power, dominion, permission, authority. Note : Section on Hereafter depiction/eschatological matters here related: V35 . { shawadh }: 1. the flames of fire ( lahb al-nar );