abu-bakr-naji-the-management-of-savagery-the-most-critical-stage-through-which-the-umma-will-pass

deviation and there is no doubt that it is crooked jurisprudence and corrupt laws. This
jurisprudence which we hear from our shaykhs that permits political diversity and
negotiating with those in authority and does not permit offensive jihad and permits
appointing infidels to political, military, and judicial positions in the Islamic state only comes
about on account of this corrupt dream, and this dream results from indigestion, the
underlying reason for which is the mixing of ideas that are not of the same kind. The
explanation of this is that our world, on account of the factors of the Satanic structure in it,
has been filled with evil in all of its dimensions and the Islamic hope has been thwarted.
When a shaykh comes along to remedy this situation by means of (Islamic) legal rules, this
remedy—and under the circumstances of this situation—will make it move away from many
of the "hardnesses of the salaf" (as they have been named)
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and towards the "softnesses of the descendents" (their moderation is just as the name
implies). That is because the establishment of an Islamic state has occurred without properly
preparing the foundation for it. This preparation only occurs through the “power of
vexation." 22
(We agree with this) while appreciating that is difficult, in various stages, to predict and
determine the results of the movement of radical change which we intend and its Sunna path
which we clarify because it is a movement in which all of the elements of existence take part.
It is "one of the most complicated things a human will face in his life and it is one of the
most difficult and most abstruse things that happens to human beings in the course of their
22 "Articles Between Two Methods" by Shaykh `Umar Mahmud Abu `Umar (may God release
him from his captivity).