The doubt that crops up in some people’s minds stems from the fact that the existing situation now is different to that of the time of the Messenger 􀁕. In the time of the Messenger 􀁕 the division of societies was primitive (tribes and clans). As for today the divisions are more complex and interlinked. A tribe used to be on the level of a state; its people were counted by the thousands. Today, they are counted by the millions or tens of millions. The da’wah used to involve inviting the kuffar to Imaan. As for today, the da’wah to the Muslims in origin is to resume the Islamic way of life. In the time of the Messenger 􀁕, the superpowers such as Rome and Persia did not intervene in the da’wah of the Messenger 􀁕 in Makkah. Today the leaders are tied to the politics of the superpowers; in fact they are their puppets. It is the superpowers that plot against Islam and the Muslim, and so on and so forth.

The people who have these doubts say the following; “How can we adopt the method of the Messenger 􀁕 when many issues have changed?

Doing this would be rigidity and inflexibility, and we are not forced to adhere to it. What is important is to realise the greater objectives of the da’wah, which are the application of Islam via an Islamic state and realising the ‘ubudiyyah (servitude) to Allah 􀀬.” To explain the correct understanding of how to look at this issue, we say that the Shar’ee rule is always revealed relevant to a reality for whose sake this Shar’ee rule has come. When the reality changes, then the Shar’ee rule relating to it changes. If the reality does not change, then the Shar’ee rule stays as it is. Regarding the reality, what one considers is its fundamental attributes and not its outward forms.

Society consists of a group of people who believe in common thoughts, from which arise the emotions of acceptance and approval of whatever agrees with these thoughts, and emotions of displeasure and anger for that which goes against them. Then a system is established, which applies these thoughts and forbids their violation. Thus, the people live the life they are convinced of and they are content with.