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thoughts relate to life's affairs or the organisation of the relationships.
In other words, it is through the political work to establish the Islamic
Khilafah via the dissemination of Islamic thoughts and the struggle in
this path.
That is because the people are ruled by an existing authority that has
been seized by rulers amongst them or from others. These rulers look
after the affairs of their citizens with specific thoughts and laws. This
caring for the affair is done for specific incidents with specific thoughts,
i.e. specific problems are solved by specific solutions. So these incidents
are tangible and perceptible and their solutions are tangible and
perceptible and their results in terms of providing the interest and
maintaining it are also perceptible. All that is required of those working
to establish the Islamic State on the ruins of this ruling system is that
they draw the people's attention to the corruption of these solutions, i.e.
to the invalidity of the thoughts and rules with which these incidents are
treated. They also have to demonstrate that the correct solution for such
incidents is a particular thought or a particular rule and that this is the
thought of Islam and the rule of Islam. So the Islamic thought or the
Islamic rule is applied to the current incident. Thus, the reality of the
rule is comprehended and its meaning is perceived, which then provokes
thinking and incites the emotions. As for demonstrating the invalidity of
the thoughts and rules with which the rulers solve these incidents, it is
not correct to do this in terms of realising or not realising an interest.
Rather the clarification should be in terms of them being Kufr thoughts
or Kufr rules. It is not correct that their invalidity is demonstrated by
showing that they do not achieve an interest or that harm arises from the
thoughts and rules or that they do not preserve an interest or that they
waste an interest. Rather, their invalidity should be demonstrated by
showing that they are un-Islamic rules and that they are rules of Kufr and
that judging by them is judging by Taghut. The invalidity that has to be
demonstrated is that they are thoughts and rules of Kufr, because the
issue is one of Kufr and Islam and not one of interest or harm. Similarly,
when the correct solution is shown as such and such thought or rule
and it is the thought or rule of Islam, it would not be correct to show its
suitability and explain its correctness in terms of realising an interest
or removing harm. Rather its correctness should be demonstrated and its
suitability explained in terms of it being a Hukm Shar’i by bringing its
Shar’i evidence from the Kitab and Sunnah, or from a principle deduced
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from the Kitab and Sunnah, or of it being a branch or a case from the
branches and cases of a Hukm Shar’i whose evidences are well known.
This is the manner by which the invalidity of specific solutions with
which the rulers solve specific problems is shown and by which the
correctness and validity of the thoughts and rules of Islam are also
shown. Thus the solution to current incidents should be directly linked
to the Islamic ‘Aqeedah. So the Islamic ‘Aqeedah is taken as the only basis
through which these thoughts and rules are viewed. They are looked at
from the perspective of Islam and Kufr and nothing else. For the rules in
the world are either rules of Islam or rules of Kufr, there is no third
category. It can also be said that the whole world is either Dar al-Islam or
Dar ul-Kufr, there is no third category. Therefore the refutation of
thoughts and rules should be on this basis only, i.e. Islam or Kufr and
nothing else whatsoever. So we should say about a thought or rule that
this is Kufr if it is Kufr, or this is Haram if it is Haram and the Shar’i
evidence will show that it is Kufr and the Shar’i evidence will show that
it is Haram. It must be explained to the people that the one who adopts
an un-Islamic thought or rule will leave the fold of Islam, thus
committing Kufr and apostasy if the thought or rule comes under the
orders of Allah pertaining to Iman, like the thought of separating religion
from state or giving donations for the building of a church. He will be
committing a sin and will be punished for it in the Hellfire if the thought
or rule was from the orders of Allah that relate to actions and not to
Iman, such as the thought of nationalism or taking an interest based
loan from the bank. Thus, the basis of the thoughts and rules must be
the Islamic ‘Aqeedah and their criteria should be Islam, Kufr, Halal and the
Haram. Accordingly, their falseness or correctness is judged on this basis
and according to these criteria.
When attention is drawn to the corruption of the current solutions, it
is done so for the purpose of explaining the corruption of the existing
society, i.e. the corruption of the existing relationships between people.
Their corruption does not arise from the fact that they realise an interest
or prevent harm or the opposite. Rather it results from the corruption
of the viewpoint about life which controls these relationships and from
which these solutions emanate. That is why we must link the solutions
with their basis and their error must be explained in terms of the
falseness of their basis and not in terms of the interest or harm. Thus
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