ALTERNATIVE TO ELECTORAL POLITICS OF THE MODERN SECULAR STATE

Can Muslims Vote in Elections of the Modern Secular State?

THE WORLD-ORDER TODAY

THE MYSTERY OF THE MODERN SECULAR STATE

MERITS OF THE MODERN SECULAR STATE

SHIRK AND KUFR IN THE MODERN SECULAR STATE 

THE CALIPHATE AND THE MODERN SECULAR STATE

QUR’ANIC EXPLANATION FOR THE UNIVERSAL SHIRK OF THE MODERN SECULAR STATE 

ALTERNATIVE TO ELECTORAL POLITICS OF THE MODERN SECULAR STATE 

The Jewish, Christian or Muslim reader is likely to ask: Is there an alternative (for believers) to electoral politics in the secular state? Yes, there is! 
The alternative is 
– to struggle to restore the sovereignty of the One God in the political system 
– to struggle for recognition of His Authority as Supreme Authority and
– to struggle for recognition of His Law as the Supreme Law. 

That is the highest and noblest of all political struggles any one can ever wage, and it is a struggle that must be pursued until the end of time. Indeed Allah, Most High, has guaranteed that time cannot end before that struggle ultimately succeeds.

The alternative for believers is to uphold whatever Allah made Halal as Halal, and whatever Allah made Haram as Haram, regardless of the price they may have to pay. Also, when a people commit Shirk, Kufr, Dhulm and Fisq, then believers should condemn such conduct, oppose it, struggle against it, and turn to Allah and ask Him to separate them from such people:
“ . . . So separate us from this sinful rebellious people!” (Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:28)

The Qur’an refers to this mission of believers as “amr bil ma’aruf” (enjoining the right) and “nahi ‘an al-munkar” (opposing the wrong). If the struggle to restore the sovereignty of Allah Most High and the supremacy of His Authority and Law (in any territory) were to succeed, then that territory would become Dar al-Islam. Muslims would rule over that territory. But there is an alternative model of a plural state in which Muslims would share control over a territory with non-Muslims on the basis of political equality and through a constitutional agreement that would allow Muslims to recognize the sovereignty of Allah and the supremacy of His Authority and Law over ‘them’. Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) established that model of state in the city-state of Madina wherein Muslims, Jews and pagan Arabs shared control over territory and over the state on the basis of political equality.

Mankind has the freedom of choice to accept or to reject the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam). However, once the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) is accepted, believers do not have the freedom to choose between a government of believers or a non-believing government. So long as believers have the freedom to do so, they must choose fellow-believers to rule over them. When they are denied that freedom in any territory they must search for some place where that freedom exists and then migrate to such a territory! Thus the God of Abraham, Most High, has commanded believers to: “Oh you who believe, obey Allah, and obey the Messenger, and (obey) those from amongst yourselves who are in (positions of) authority. . . " (Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:59)

When they no longer have the freedom to establish their own government anywhere, and they have to live under non-believing rule, believers in the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) ‘submit’ to that rule until such time as they can once again choose fellow-believers to rule over them. But ‘submission’ to such non-believing rule cannot involve their participation in establishing that non-believing government. Secondly, believers submit to such rule on the condition of religious freedom, i.e., that nothing is forced upon them that violates the Law of the God of Abraham. Such a law would be, for example the religious obligation to fight (al-Qital) and hence to receive military training!

While such a government will not be ‘their’ government, they can advise and assist the government in all that is true, good and virtuous, while warning, resisting and abstaining from all that is false, evil and harmful. Herein lies the most important political role of Muslims in the politics of Trinidad and Tobago.

It is in the very nature of the modern secular state that it would never allow elections to be used to transform it into a different model of a state – such as a state that would recognize the Sovereignty of the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) and the supremacy of His Authority and His Law. Electoral politics must function subservient to the godless secular state.

The Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) declared that the world of Kufr constituted an essential unity (al-kufru millatun wahidah). This is precisely what has now emerged in the world. The Jews and the Christians should ponder over the fact that when the Muslims of Algeria used ‘electoral politics’ to seek to restore the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) in Algeria and won 85% of the votes in the national elections, the godless world all came together to ruthlessly punish that 85% of the electorate which dared to seek to transform the godless secular foundation of the state. The merciless and shameless rape of Algeria by the entire godless secular world still continues even years after that unfortunate election.

Thus, rather than voting in elections and legitimizing the secular model of a state based on Shirk, Muslims should protect themselves from Shirk by disconnecting from the secular state. They should also respond to it by arguing that the model of a state established by Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) is a superior model when compared with the godless secular state. The alternative to the political Shirk of the secular state and its electoral politics must also be an alternative that would save Muslims from the Riba of the modern economy. That Riba is bringing upon all of mankind a new sophisticated slavery. Muslims also need an alternative to the moral corruption that is descending upon all of mankind. Perhaps the most dangerous of all evils from which Muslims must flee is an educational system that secularizes knowledge and education and, in so doing, produces people who are internally, spiritually blind.

There is only one road through which Muslims can preserve their faith in the world today and that road is given in Surah al-Kahf of the Qur’an (the Surah which protects from Dajjal). It is to disconnect from the godless world, i.e., to ‘drop out’.The Qur’an itself directs the Muslim to disconnect from the godless world:
“ . . . So separate us from this sinful rebellious people!” (Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:28)

The method through which Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago can effectively disconnect themselves from the Shirk that now surrounds them is given in the Qur’an in the story of the young men in Surah al-Kahf. That method is to establish Muslim Villages that are detached from the nation.

THE MUSLIM VILLAGE 

CONCLUSION 

Source: Sheikh Imran Hosein 

to be continued . . . .