Islamic Revival

Ustadh Forid Abu Yaqoob  presents a discussion on proving the duty to re-establish the Khilafah as obligatory as well as to explain how it is a vital issue which means that the Muslim Ummah must make it a central aspect of their lives.

After Paris, the West ask, ‘why do they hate us?’ and ‘what is wrong with their religion’? They are asking the wrong questions. The question after Paris should be, ‘How has the Muslim Ummah displayed such remarkable restraint at the hands of brutal western colonialism?’ The year was 1857, across India the mutiny had erupted against British colonial rule. The British fought back with brutal force. The then figurehead of the rebellion, the last Mughal Bahadur Shah Zafar, was captured. To underscore their brutality, when requesting food, the British brought to him the heads of his two sons they had just slain. With immense composure he replied, “Thanks to Allah, the descendants of Timur always come in front of their fathers in this brave way”. Zafar died in captivity. In Algeria, the rebellion against colonial independence from France from 1954 was met with sheer European brutality. The French adopted a policy of  ratissages, combing through towns and cities and slaughtering everyo

O n a primary level, question of  talab al-Nussrah  (seizing power vis-à-vis those who possess the material capacities to do so) is not to be deliberated on the basis of whether or not we perceive it to be an “optimal” strategy or not. It is a question of whether or not this  hukm-Shari’  is binding. More than often, “Islamists” construct their methodology, which they go on to justify with Islamic references, on the optimal and expedient political strategy at hand. The  usulliyun  have explained that a particular action of the Prophet ( f’il ) is a  hukm-shari’  when it is related to a legal-verse from the  Qur’an  ( ayaat al-Ahkaam ). It is for this reason scholars, in explaining the relationship between the  Qur’an  and  Sunnah , defined the  Sunnah  as those actions which make the  Qur’anic  injunctions manifest ( tibyaan al-Qur’an ). The Prophet’s, peace be upon him, seeking of Nussrah is an explicit example of such. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, in his magnum opus  Fathi ul-Bar