The establishment of the Islamic State
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:
Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what was revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what was revealed before you? They wish to refer legislation to Taghoot, while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray (An-Nisaa 60).
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:
Whoever takes his hand from obedience will meet Allah on the Day of judgement without any proof (or argument for himself.
And whoever dies whilst there is no Bai’ah upon his neck, he dies a death of Jaahilliyah (Muslim).
And he (saw) also said:
Whoever comes to you whilst your affair is united and wants to split your strength and divide your collective unit then kill him (Muslim).
And:
Verily there will be Hannaat (trials and times of Fitnah) and Hannaat. So whoever wishes to divide the affair of this Ummah whilst she is united, then strike him with the sword whoever he may be (Muslim, Abu Daawood, An-Nasaa’iy).
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 first:
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.
The second:
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.
Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me (An-Nur 55).
And Allah ‘Azza Wa Jalla said And We wanted to confer Our favour upon those who were oppressed in the land and make them leaders and make them inheritors. And establish them (firmly) in the land and show Pharaoh and [his minister] Haman and their soldiers through them that which they had feared (Al-Qasas 5-6).
Reference: Taghyeer (change) - Mahmoud Abdul-Kareem Hasan