A Question about the Method of Establishing Khilafa

Posted (anwar) in Imam Anwar's Blog on August-29-2008

Question:

Salam Alakum. What I understand from your lectures is that you believe the
method to re-establish Khilafah is through Jihad. Can you respond to this?
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- Also, can you give me your views on Hizb ut-Tahrir. JazakAllah Khair. Salam
Alakum.
Answer:
Most Islamic groups that were founded after the fall of the khilafa recognize the importance of re-establishing al khilafa again. There was a time during the decades of the eighties and nineties when the Salafi’s, Ikhwaan, Jamaat Islami, HT, Jihad groups and even some of the sufi’s talked about khilafah. Since then and because of the fact that the West has made it clear that it doesn’t like that idea and would not tolerate it, some groups have backed off completely from any talk of khilafah while others toned it down. Only a few remained steadfast in their call to establish the Islamic system again.

The proposed methods that Islamic groups presented for re-establishing al Khilafah are:

1. Through tarbiyyah and then somehow when our condition changes the khilafa will be re-established again. While others say we will do tarbiyyah until the ummah is ready and then we will fight the enemies of Allah.

2. By reaching to power through participating in the democratic system.

3. The HT method of raising the awareness of the ummah of the importance of khilafa, educating the Muslims on politics, and searching for nusrah.

4. Fighting in path of Allah in order to establish the religion of Allah.

The proponents of the first method have never given the ummah any benchmark to when we have done sufficient tarbiyyah to move on to the stage of implementation and therefore will remain in a perpetual state of tarbiyyah while negating the duty of Jihad.

They also miss the point that tarbiyyah is within one generation and not multigenerational. Meaning the change that Rasulullah brought which started with dawa and ended with jihad was within the lifetime of one generation. It all happened within 23 years. Every other successful change in the ummah occurred within one generation. History is a testimony to this.

subhanallah! life of a mu'meen is always a win-win situation!

Battle of the Hearts and Minds

****note: this was originally taken from a PDF form by Dar Al Murabiteen Publications
and we manually edited it in a WORD form to be presented to the readers in every possible way. if there was any mistake done during the editing may Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala forgives our short comings and may He accept this effort from us to please His Majesty.

Noah's Ark
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
All praise is to Allah and peace and blessings on our Prophet Muhammad and his
righteous companions and followers

Dear brothers and sisters
Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

All praise is to Allah the Lord of the Worlds, we ask Allah Almighty to accept all our
efforts. We ask Allah Almighty that he provides us with beneficial knowledge.

As was announced that the topic of this lecture is the “Battle of Hearts and Minds”, and I
started by, reading to you a quote from a report from Rand Institute in 2007 which states
that:
“The struggle under way throughout much of the Muslim world is essentially a war of
ideas, its outcome will determine the future direction of the Muslim world”.

So there is the struggle of ideas going on, right now, in the Muslim world.
And according to the Defense department, the US Defense Department in its quadrennial
defense review report
“The United states is involved in a war that is both a battle of arms and a battle of ideas.
A war in which, ultimate victory, will be achieved only when extremist ideologies are
discredited in the eyes of their host populations and passive supporters ”.

So according to Rand and according to the Pentagon and truth fully so, there is a struggle
of ideas going on in the Muslim world, but what is their position regarding this internal
affair, this affair that concerns Muslims, this battle of ideas between those who want to
follow Islam as it was reveled to Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah on him), they
want to follow Islam in its entirety and those who want to pick and chose from Islam,
they want to follow Islam selectively. Now, this issue is not new with Muslims, In every
age, there are Ahl-Haq (on the true path), and there are those who want to deviate from the true path,
through out our history this was a struggle that Allah destined to remain and it even
existed among the believing nations before us.

For example, with Banu Israel, there were those who held on to the truth and then
there were those whom Allah Almighty said about in Quran   
“They change the meanings of the words” (surah maidah:13).

So, they would take the words of the Bible and they would change it. And some of that
was done to please the authorities of the time, because we know that Bani Israel lived
under various nations. For example they lived under the Roman rule, and that time the
Romans were pagan. And they lived under the rules of the kings of Babel, and they were
pagans too. And according to a story mentioned in Tafseer, that at a particular time
some of the Rabbis of Bani Israel gave a Fatwa to the King of Babylon allowing him to
have a forbidden relationship, but they gave him such a fatwa to please that king. So they
changed the rule of Allah the Almighty, in order to please a human being!
So this conflict of ideas, that is going on in the Muslim world, what are these non-
Muslims doing about it! According to the US news and World report,

“Today Washington is fighting back after repeated missteps since the 911 attacks, the US
government has embarked on a campaign of political warfare unmatched, since the
height of the cold war. From military psychological operations teams and CIA covert
operatives to openly funded media and think tanks, Washington is plowing tens of
millions of dollars into a campaign to influence not only Muslim societies but Islam
itself.”
Now hear this again “The US is trying to change Islam itself!!! ”. Without any shame,
they are openly stating that we have a desire not only to influence the Muslim societies
but we want to change the religion itself! Probably at the time of Bani Israel those Rabbis
who were changing the book of Allah never dared to say so openly! These, without even
hiding it, are saying that we want to change Islam, yes we do!