Taghyeer (change) by Mahmoud Abdul-Kareem Hasan

As for the deception and misleading that has occurred in regards to the impossibility of establishing the Islamic State and the impossibility of it continuation as the disbelievers will spare no effort in regards to that. They create and invent false truths in regards to harmful effects of the Khilafah (Mafaasid), they erase and wipe out the truths and true realities whilst fabricating the history and repressing those who call to Islaam. They focus in their misleading and deceitful media upon the divisions between the Muslims and their weakness whilst focusing at the same time upon the capabilities of the disbelievers and their great powers and strength. They have made from some of their agents, who have raised Islamic slogans and brought defeat and regression to the Muslims, they have made from them prominent models and leaders in respect to distorting and twisting Islaam and the deviation of Muslims. All of which aids them to make the Muslims fall into despair and to spread the climate of depression and hopelessness. If despair was to find a firm foothold within the hearts of the Muslims then this would inevitably take them away from undertaking action and they will never work for the establishment of the Islamic State.

Because the Shar’iyah texts from the Qur’aan and the Sunnah guide to the return of the Islamic State, its authority, its honour and might, the Muslims possess the belief that it will return. However we have noticed in those in whom despair has become deeply rooted that they say that the establishment of the Khilafah is not for our current time but rather it will occur after 100 years or after generations or even when Imaam Mahdi arrives. These arguments play their own role in respect to reinforcing the hopelessness and they are promoted and pushed by the regimes via their media and their agents. Amongst these agents are the Ulamaa As-Salaateen (the scholars of the rulers), the regime or state Muftis and the TV ‘Ulamaa who have been given a rubber stamp by the regimes. They direct and mislead the Muslims so that they only become concerned about the individual private affairs and those related to their ‘Ibaadah (acts of worship). As for the idea that the Islamic State is a gift that will be gifted to the people when Allah (swt) wills without the people needing to act or work for it then this is ignorance whilst the regimes hostility in our current time is aimed at striking fear in the Muslims and intimidating them.

There are also those movements and so-named ‘Ulamaa who claim to be Islamic whilst undertaking actions that provide support to the regimes. They remain silent when evils are committed, openly give loyalty to them, protest against their opposition in insignificant matters and provide justifications for all that the regimes do using arguments such as Maslahah, incapability or the reality. In all of these ways they therefore divert the Muslims away from the thought of the Islamic State and working to establish it whilst being made content with alternative courses and paths which just lead to their increased misguidance, weakness and new defeats.

For these reasons the Muslims must realise and fully comprehend the Haqaa’iq (truths) associated with the reality and the Shar’a (Islamic legislation) and to then weigh and measure every thought, methodology, opinion or person upon the scale of the Haqq (truth).

The application of Islaam and carrying its Da’wah is Fard and these cannot possibly be fulfilled without a political entity that secures it, applies it and protects it from rebellion or weakness to its sovereignty. I will add further that the existence of this entity represents part of the Ahkaam of Islaam and Islaam has prohibited the application of any System or law that has not been taken from Islaam whilst describing this as going to judgment to the Taghoot (false illegitimate idols/sources):

Allah (swt) says:

The regimes and systems that are currently standing today in the Islamic world are all from the Munkar and indeed they represent the head of the Munkar. It is a Shar’iy obligation to bring them down, replace them and then establish the Islamic State upon their ruins, the Khilafah State, which is the only (legitimate) State for all of the Muslims upon the face of the earth.

The Messenger of Allah (saw) said:

The application of Islaam and carrying the Da’wah is not possible without a power that secures it and protects it so that it can undertake the implementation of Islaam and carry its Da’wah. This is because the Islamic State is a political entity that is established upon the basis of the application of Islaam internally and the spread of Islaam to the world by way of Da’wah and Al-Jihaad externally. This means that the Islamic State is the executive implementing body to establish the Deen of Islaam completely and as such the establishment of the State means that two matters need to be brought into existence:

The generation of a public opinion (Ra’y ‘Aamm) in which the Imaan in Islaam dominates and prevails and the possession of a general awareness (Wa’ie ‘Aamm) in respect to the obligation that is being committed to it, its application and the establishment and protection of its State.

Bringing into existence the power or authority that will realise and accomplish the application of Islaam, its protection and possess the capability to spread its Da’wah to the world.

These two matters represent the axis that the serious Islamic work to establish the Islamic State revolves around and they represent the axis upon which the struggle with Kufr, its systems and those who guard them takes place.

It is important to indicate here that it is not possible to work to bring about the power that will implement Islaam before first generating the public opinion for it within the society and the environments for it and the preparedness or readiness for its application. Similarly it is not possible to declare (or announce) the Islamic State before the existence of the Islamic public opinion that desires its existence, supports it and views it as a Haqq, Waajib and correct solution to its reality and issues. It is not enough to say that the Muslims exist, that they represent an Islamic Ummah in their entirety and that their Aqeedah is Islamic. This is because it is required for them to be Muslims who have awareness about Islaam and not misguided or deceived in respect to the obligation of its application, its political existence or the shape of its existence. So if the Muslims are calling based on their patriotism or nationalism or the separation of the Deen from life or democracy, and are being deceived by their rulers, systems, or the ‘Ulamaa of those in authority and anything similar, then in that case they would not be ready. They would remain as those who are deceived by the falsities and misconceptions which would caus them to lose their potent great spiritual strength and force. If the sound general awareness is brought into existence related to the establishment of the Islamic State and the resumption of the Islamic way of life, and the existence of the Islamic State has become a demand of the Muslims, then at that time it would be obligatory to bring about the power that will be able to establish the entity of the Islamic State, remove the Kufr support base and its power, and then apply Islaam (in its place).

This depends upon the extent of the spread of the Islamic thought and the thought related to the existence and presence of the State that will implement and apply Islaam. This makes it imperative upon the carriers of the Da’wah to Islaam, in order for the Islamic State to be established, for their thoughts, sentiments and positions to be supportive of one another in all places of the world, specifically the Islamic world and even more specifically in the area in the Islamic world which is being prepared to be the Khilafah State. This requires the existence of an Islamic political party (Hizb) that makes the establishment of the Islamic State its goal and objective. It would adopt thoughts and Ahkaam Shar’iyah that would unify it and then it would work to bring these into the Ummah, to establish a general awareness upon them and generate supporting atmospheres for them. It must continue in this work so as to make them the concepts of the Ummah and so that they represent the demand of the Islamic Ummah, particularly in the area of the focused work (Majaal) and the places that have been specified to be the starting and support point (Nuqtat ul Irtikaaz) for the Islamic State.

As for the second issue which is the power behind the radical change (i.e. to make a coup) and its potential requirements, then it is stipulated that they have the capability to protect the implementation of Islaam internally and externally and to maintain the continuance of this implementation. The success in relation to attaining this second issue will be in accordance to the success in relation to accomplishing the first issue.

All of this is not impossible like the Shayaateen of the regimes, their masters and agents have attempted to portray. Indeed most of these existing regimes of disbelief did not reach the position of ruling except by way of a coup or by a military power enforcing itself upon the people. The difference however in respect to those coups is that they did not rely upon the thoughts of the people and their strength but rather they relied upon and still rely upon the colonial disbelieving states. For this reason, the likes of these tyrannical states did not require any political work within the Ummah in order to carry specific thoughts to them and this is because they were reliant upon powers that were external to the Ummah, as they were agents and traitors. As for the Islamic State, then it is reliant upon the strength and power of the Muslims and as such the political work is obligatory in order to carry the Islamic thought to the Ummah so that it will push her to provide her loyalty to the Khilafah and to sacrifice in the way of Islaam. And in order for the State to be really and truly Islamic and to be in possession of her will, then the Muslims must represent the source of its strength and the tool for safeguarding it and its protection.

We will repeat the statement here that the Islamic State is the executive (implementing) entity of Islaam and that it is not possible to implement anything in the Dunyaa (life of this world) without a competent power that is capable in this regard. To bring this power into existence there have been many opinions and views, there have been a number of experiments and experiences, some of which have been naive whilst others have not, and some of them have been sincere whilst others have not been. What is absolutely essential is that great care and attention must be given to this matter and that thinking is undertaken upon the basis of Ikhlaas (sincerity) and truthfulness whilst continuously sticking to the aim in respect to bringing about this (capable and competent) power. For example, it is not required for a certain Hizb, movement, Jamaa’ah (group) or person to reach the position of ruling, but rather the only requirement is for Islaam to be brought to the rule and for Islaam to be applied where the ruling is by what Allah (swt) has revealed and where the Deen is established completely without any distortion or compromise based on arguments of circumstances, developments or modernisation and so on.

And the work to bring this power into being, which is the second matter, means attaining it from its sources and the different places in which it is found and located within the Ummah. It is then to motivate it by the Aqeedah and the thoughts of Islaam so that it becomes a servant to Islaam, its application and the carrying of its Da’wah. This power is therefore not sought from where it does not exist; so it is not sought from the weak and oppressed Muslims or from the enemies of Islaam and the Muslims, traitors and places of doubt and suspicion.

This searching for a power or force and seeking to make it a servant for the application of Islaam and subservient to its Ahkam, is what is called Talab An-Nusrah (seeking the Nusrah/support). This means undertaking a radical change and to apply Islaam in the Majaal (area)

in which the Nusrah has been attained for a complete and comprehensive application.

This is the practical and effective methodology. There is no other path according to the Shar’a; practically there is no other way, it is what the Nabi (saw) did and through it he (saw) declared the establishment of the Islamic State. As for how this power or Nusrah is brought into being and the manner in which the Nabi (saw)

attained it, then this is an aspect that has been neglected by the Muslims due to the actions of deception and misguidance practised by the regimes and their agents, particularly the State ‘Ulamaa of the authority and the preachers of the rulers. It is this subject that we will discuss and explain in detail in the following chapter Inshaa Allah.

Allah (swt) said: