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

and contemporary experience of Muslims and non-Muslims—that is because the word
"state" is a universal expression and all of the states, even those that are democratic, are
established after oceans of blood—proves that we need this solution which we have set
forth. Each stage of this solution gives way to others in accordance with similar historical,
and even modern, situations. This is not an elementary mental deduction. Any failure in a
previous situation is attributable to a shortcoming in understanding the universal and sharia
causes [or “methods”], a fact which leads to the underdevelopment of this situation. The
matter is not attributable to a shortcoming in the solution itself, which is also a sharia
obligation, as we said.
Most of the Islamic movements reject that solution because it is difficult and only a few are
able to take the decision to follow it in the beginning. They do not acknowledge that and
they offer as a pretext proofs which God has not legitimated or they raise up deceptive
slogans. It behooves these movements to not combine a lie and a defeat. If they were
honest with themselves, they would say: "The road is long and the thorns are many and our
legs are unable to bear the embers." Thus, a crisis of candor is truly upon us, regrettably.
I found an article by a specialist in political studies—who shifted toward the side of the
peaceful current during the fitna of the 90s in Egypt—in which he censured the movements
of jihad for their call to militarize the Islamic movement because the Islamic movement, in
his opinion, was entirely a missionary movement. I said: What did the Messenger (peace and
blessings be upon him) do with his Companions? By my father and mother, did he not
militarize them? Who is more learned than him in sharia and universal law? Why should it
not be so since God (praise and exalted is He) commended him as follows in a hadith qudsi