Post by maruf on Apr 16, 2005 8:00:20 GMT -5
How to Re-establish the Khilafah
The Method of Muhammad ?
A talk delivered by Dr Imran Waheed at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, UK on Sunday 27th August 2000
Introduction[/u]
Truly praise is to Allah (swt). We praise Him (swt), seek His help and forgive-ness, and seek His refuge from the evils of our souls and the wrongs of our deeds. He whom Allah (swt) guides none shall misguide him and he whom Allah (swt) misguides none shall guide him; and I bear witness that there is no god but Allah (swt), Alone with no associates, and that Muhammad (saw) is His servant and His Messenger.
Allah (swt) said, “Let there arise out of you a party, inviting to the good, ordering what is right, and forbidding what is wrong. And they are those who are successful” [Ale-Imran:103] [/color]
Ever since Britain and the Western states destroyed our Khilafah on the 3rd of March 1924, this Ummah did not witness a single day of happiness. Our lands were divided, our fathers humiliated, our brothers disheartened, and our mothers and sisters were dishonored. They all cried out for their Imam, the Khaleefah who they lost as a protection and under whose shade they used to live. Since that time onwards, as described by the distinguished speakers who have spoken before me, the Ummah has had to face a multitude of problems, including disunity, occupation of our lands by the colonialists, social and economic decline, corruption in our societies and the continuous ruling over them by kufr.
Anyone can see that this array of problems beset the Muslim Ummah after she lost the Khilafah, and few would deny that the return of the Khilafah would once and for all deal with these problems. In my talk today, therefore, I will not focus on the necessity to re- establish the Khilafah since this has been established, and no one but those who seek to keep the stranglehold of the disbelievers over the believers would deny that the re-establishment of the Khilafah is the vital issue for the Muslims.
My dear Muslim brothers and sisters, Allah (swt) gave us a great honour and bestowed upon a great favour, when he gave us the pure and pristine Deen of Islam, in which he provided guidance for all matters. And He (swt) sent to us a Messenger (saw) whose truthfulness and high position above mankind is known to each and everyone of us. And He (swt) made the Messenger (saw) the best example for the whole of mankind to emulate, by making the Messenger (saw) dearer to the believers than their own fathers, mothers, brothers and selves. Allah (swt) said, “Indeed in the Messenger of Allah you have the best example” [Al- Ahzab: 21].[/color]
And anyone who took the Messenger (saw) as their example would see that Rasoolallah (saw) and his party of Sahaba (ra) struggled hard against all odds, and by overcoming all obstacles, to establish the supremacy of Allah’s (swt) Deen on the earth by establishing the Islamic State in Madinah, so that dar al-kufr became dar al-Islam. Anyone who looks to the Seerah, and wanted to follow the Messenger (saw), would not have to look hard to see that in a matter of thirteen years, the Messenger (saw) and his political party, comprised of his Sahabah (ra) managed to establish the Islamic State. The method by which this result was achieved could be found in any of the books of the Seerah written by the sincere Muslims. This method, which Hizb ut-Tahrir adheres to both in the generality and the details, and which is the subject of this conference today, is the method by which Muhammad (saw) brought radical change to the jahil (ignorant) Arabian society. And it is this very method that is the only way by which the Muslims can re-establish the Khilafah 1400 years later. It is not the method of theory or fantasy but rather a method that will shake the thrones of the tyrannical kings, terrify the Presidents and stir the sincere masses to action that will return to them the izza (dignity) in this life and the izza in Akhirah. All those who seek the return of the Khilafah and the radical change that must accompany its return must dedicate themselves to studying this method and following it without the slightest deviation. So they would be required to obey Allah (swt) when he commanded them to collectively work together as an Islamic political party to bring radical change when He (swt) said, “Let there arise out of you a party, inviting to the good, ordering what is right, and forbidding what is wrong. And they are those who are successful” [Ale-Imran:103][/color]
So let us consider how the Prophet (saw) built his political party, brought about the radical change of the society and seized the power. Yes! Bi idhnillah! The Messenger of Allah (saw) established a political party, and he shook the very foundations of society and he sought the power and he challenged the authority of the tyrants and he left no traces of their tyranny and indeed, politics is from the Sunnah of Rasoolallah (saw). Didn’t Rasoolallah (saw) say to the Quraish “I will give you one statement that will make you the rulers of the Arabs and the non-Arabs”. And when questioned as to what that statement was, he (saw) said “Say Lailaha illallahu, and you will be suc-cessful”. If this is not politics and political work then what is?
Building the Party [/u]
From the first day that the message of Islam was revealed to Muhammad (saw) it was a message that challenged the very foundations that Makkan society was built upon:
“Read in the name of your Lord, who created you. Who created you from something which clings” [Al-Alaq:1-2] [/color]
This ayah commanded Muhammad (saw) and all that follow him until Yawm al-Qiyama to read, and study and gain the Islamic culture in the name of their Lord, not in the name of the idols of Quraish, or the names of the idols of Western civilisation like democracy and freedom, but rather in the name of the Creator and the Sustainer of mankind. After receiving the first revelation the Messenger (saw) understood what this message meant when he returned and told his wife, Umm al-Mumineen (the mother of the believers), Khadija (ra), “After today there will be no rest”.[/color]
The Messenger of Allah (saw) at the start of his call would visit people in their homes, telling them that they had been commanded by Allah (swt) to worship Him and to associate none with Him. He (saw) openly invited people to Islam in Makkah, thus abiding by Allah’s command: “O you wrapped up, arise and deliver the warning.” [Al-Mudatthir: 1-2][/color]
After this, the Messenger of Allah (saw) would contact people to teach them Islam. Every time someone embraced Islam, Allah’s Messenger (saw) would send him or her someone from those who had embraced Islam earlier to teach them the Qur’an. The Messenger of Allah (saw) set up the house of al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam as the centre of his call, a place from which he taught Muslims the Qur’an and perfected their knowledge of Islam, encouraging them to recite the Qur’an and understand it. Every time someone embraced Islam, Allah’s Messenger (saw) would join him in the house of al-Arqam.
He (saw) pursued this task for three years, teaching this group of Muslims, leading them in prayers, and performing tahajjud at night, motivating their souls, strengthening their belief through prayer and recitation, helping them to improve their way of thinking and to reflect on the verses of the Qur’an and the creation of Allah (swt). He (saw) taught them how to endure all manner of hardships by submitting to Allah (swt). He built in them the firm Iman so that every trace of kufr and jahiliya was removed from them and they became purified with the Islamic ‘Aqeeda. This prepared them to reject the twisted ways of their forefathers and to throw away the diseases of nationalism and tribalism. Anyone who wants to re-establish the Khilafah must build a party like the Prophet (saw) built his party such that all traces of capitalism, communism, nationalism and anything other than Islam are removed from the people so they would become people worthy of carrying this da’wa and capable of shouldering its burdens. The Messenger of Allah (saw) created a radical change within his Sahaba (ra) so that they were able to withstand the hardships to come. He (saw) changed Umar bin al-Khattab (ra) from the one who buried his daughter alive to the one about whom the Messenger (saw) said “When Umar walks on one side of the road, Shaytan walks on the other side”. It is this building of the party that transformed Abdullah bin Masud (ra), whose legs used to be blown away in the wind, to the one whose legs became firmer than Mount Uhud. It is this that transformed the 8 year old boy, Ali (ra), to the one who said when asked how he had decided to accept Islam, “Allah did not consult my father when he created me, so why should I consult him to worship him”. And it is this that led Abdullah bin Masud to believe that the Muslims would conquer the world when they were only six in number when Allah (swt) revealed the ayah, “This is but a reminder to all of mankind”. And it was this building that led the Quraish to say about the Messenger (saw), “Here is the man that is going to remove the Caesar”.
The Method of Muhammad ?
A talk delivered by Dr Imran Waheed at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, UK on Sunday 27th August 2000
Introduction[/u]
Truly praise is to Allah (swt). We praise Him (swt), seek His help and forgive-ness, and seek His refuge from the evils of our souls and the wrongs of our deeds. He whom Allah (swt) guides none shall misguide him and he whom Allah (swt) misguides none shall guide him; and I bear witness that there is no god but Allah (swt), Alone with no associates, and that Muhammad (saw) is His servant and His Messenger.
Allah (swt) said, “Let there arise out of you a party, inviting to the good, ordering what is right, and forbidding what is wrong. And they are those who are successful” [Ale-Imran:103] [/color]
Ever since Britain and the Western states destroyed our Khilafah on the 3rd of March 1924, this Ummah did not witness a single day of happiness. Our lands were divided, our fathers humiliated, our brothers disheartened, and our mothers and sisters were dishonored. They all cried out for their Imam, the Khaleefah who they lost as a protection and under whose shade they used to live. Since that time onwards, as described by the distinguished speakers who have spoken before me, the Ummah has had to face a multitude of problems, including disunity, occupation of our lands by the colonialists, social and economic decline, corruption in our societies and the continuous ruling over them by kufr.
Anyone can see that this array of problems beset the Muslim Ummah after she lost the Khilafah, and few would deny that the return of the Khilafah would once and for all deal with these problems. In my talk today, therefore, I will not focus on the necessity to re- establish the Khilafah since this has been established, and no one but those who seek to keep the stranglehold of the disbelievers over the believers would deny that the re-establishment of the Khilafah is the vital issue for the Muslims.
My dear Muslim brothers and sisters, Allah (swt) gave us a great honour and bestowed upon a great favour, when he gave us the pure and pristine Deen of Islam, in which he provided guidance for all matters. And He (swt) sent to us a Messenger (saw) whose truthfulness and high position above mankind is known to each and everyone of us. And He (swt) made the Messenger (saw) the best example for the whole of mankind to emulate, by making the Messenger (saw) dearer to the believers than their own fathers, mothers, brothers and selves. Allah (swt) said, “Indeed in the Messenger of Allah you have the best example” [Al- Ahzab: 21].[/color]
And anyone who took the Messenger (saw) as their example would see that Rasoolallah (saw) and his party of Sahaba (ra) struggled hard against all odds, and by overcoming all obstacles, to establish the supremacy of Allah’s (swt) Deen on the earth by establishing the Islamic State in Madinah, so that dar al-kufr became dar al-Islam. Anyone who looks to the Seerah, and wanted to follow the Messenger (saw), would not have to look hard to see that in a matter of thirteen years, the Messenger (saw) and his political party, comprised of his Sahabah (ra) managed to establish the Islamic State. The method by which this result was achieved could be found in any of the books of the Seerah written by the sincere Muslims. This method, which Hizb ut-Tahrir adheres to both in the generality and the details, and which is the subject of this conference today, is the method by which Muhammad (saw) brought radical change to the jahil (ignorant) Arabian society. And it is this very method that is the only way by which the Muslims can re-establish the Khilafah 1400 years later. It is not the method of theory or fantasy but rather a method that will shake the thrones of the tyrannical kings, terrify the Presidents and stir the sincere masses to action that will return to them the izza (dignity) in this life and the izza in Akhirah. All those who seek the return of the Khilafah and the radical change that must accompany its return must dedicate themselves to studying this method and following it without the slightest deviation. So they would be required to obey Allah (swt) when he commanded them to collectively work together as an Islamic political party to bring radical change when He (swt) said, “Let there arise out of you a party, inviting to the good, ordering what is right, and forbidding what is wrong. And they are those who are successful” [Ale-Imran:103][/color]
So let us consider how the Prophet (saw) built his political party, brought about the radical change of the society and seized the power. Yes! Bi idhnillah! The Messenger of Allah (saw) established a political party, and he shook the very foundations of society and he sought the power and he challenged the authority of the tyrants and he left no traces of their tyranny and indeed, politics is from the Sunnah of Rasoolallah (saw). Didn’t Rasoolallah (saw) say to the Quraish “I will give you one statement that will make you the rulers of the Arabs and the non-Arabs”. And when questioned as to what that statement was, he (saw) said “Say Lailaha illallahu, and you will be suc-cessful”. If this is not politics and political work then what is?
Building the Party [/u]
From the first day that the message of Islam was revealed to Muhammad (saw) it was a message that challenged the very foundations that Makkan society was built upon:
“Read in the name of your Lord, who created you. Who created you from something which clings” [Al-Alaq:1-2] [/color]
This ayah commanded Muhammad (saw) and all that follow him until Yawm al-Qiyama to read, and study and gain the Islamic culture in the name of their Lord, not in the name of the idols of Quraish, or the names of the idols of Western civilisation like democracy and freedom, but rather in the name of the Creator and the Sustainer of mankind. After receiving the first revelation the Messenger (saw) understood what this message meant when he returned and told his wife, Umm al-Mumineen (the mother of the believers), Khadija (ra), “After today there will be no rest”.[/color]
The Messenger of Allah (saw) at the start of his call would visit people in their homes, telling them that they had been commanded by Allah (swt) to worship Him and to associate none with Him. He (saw) openly invited people to Islam in Makkah, thus abiding by Allah’s command: “O you wrapped up, arise and deliver the warning.” [Al-Mudatthir: 1-2][/color]
After this, the Messenger of Allah (saw) would contact people to teach them Islam. Every time someone embraced Islam, Allah’s Messenger (saw) would send him or her someone from those who had embraced Islam earlier to teach them the Qur’an. The Messenger of Allah (saw) set up the house of al-Arqam ibn Abi al-Arqam as the centre of his call, a place from which he taught Muslims the Qur’an and perfected their knowledge of Islam, encouraging them to recite the Qur’an and understand it. Every time someone embraced Islam, Allah’s Messenger (saw) would join him in the house of al-Arqam.
He (saw) pursued this task for three years, teaching this group of Muslims, leading them in prayers, and performing tahajjud at night, motivating their souls, strengthening their belief through prayer and recitation, helping them to improve their way of thinking and to reflect on the verses of the Qur’an and the creation of Allah (swt). He (saw) taught them how to endure all manner of hardships by submitting to Allah (swt). He built in them the firm Iman so that every trace of kufr and jahiliya was removed from them and they became purified with the Islamic ‘Aqeeda. This prepared them to reject the twisted ways of their forefathers and to throw away the diseases of nationalism and tribalism. Anyone who wants to re-establish the Khilafah must build a party like the Prophet (saw) built his party such that all traces of capitalism, communism, nationalism and anything other than Islam are removed from the people so they would become people worthy of carrying this da’wa and capable of shouldering its burdens. The Messenger of Allah (saw) created a radical change within his Sahaba (ra) so that they were able to withstand the hardships to come. He (saw) changed Umar bin al-Khattab (ra) from the one who buried his daughter alive to the one about whom the Messenger (saw) said “When Umar walks on one side of the road, Shaytan walks on the other side”. It is this building of the party that transformed Abdullah bin Masud (ra), whose legs used to be blown away in the wind, to the one whose legs became firmer than Mount Uhud. It is this that transformed the 8 year old boy, Ali (ra), to the one who said when asked how he had decided to accept Islam, “Allah did not consult my father when he created me, so why should I consult him to worship him”. And it is this that led Abdullah bin Masud to believe that the Muslims would conquer the world when they were only six in number when Allah (swt) revealed the ayah, “This is but a reminder to all of mankind”. And it was this building that led the Quraish to say about the Messenger (saw), “Here is the man that is going to remove the Caesar”.