Amongst the Muslims living under Democracy, the perpetual debate as to whether it is allowed for us to participate rages on with opinions ranging from the claim that voting is the Greater Jihad and others asserting that one becomes a Murtad (an apostate) the moment one chooses someone who will implement Kufr (non-Islamic) law over them irrespective if they subsequently are granted power or not.For Muslims Shari’ah has been a complete way of life since the advent of Islam over 1400 years ago, until about eighty years ago when the caliphate was destroyed. If we look to recent History we can see the kuffar lived under systems like Monarchy, Communism and Socialism, which were later toppled and replaced by Capitalism. Today we can see that democracy is the main system lived under whether in the West, or being practiced to some extent in Muslim Lands.Now the main slogans we hear from the dictators of the world are ‘Democracy’, ‘Freedom’ and ‘Liberalism’. Basically these all mean that the law and order to govern man is for man to decide, thus breaking any significance that God has any say in mans life affairs. As Muslims we are people who have a history of ruling and abiding by laws direct from the Creator and Commander Allah (swt). So in this day and time when the Shari’ah is not being implemented we are faced with the option of participating, accepting, following and then abiding by democracy, what should the Islamic Verdict be? Understanding democracyIt is an undisputable fact that the Muslims living in the West are living in countries which are juristically known as Dar ul-Kufr, the lands of disbelief. This is because the law and order that prevails in these countries are not based upon the Shari’ah (the law of Allah) but are based upon the whims and desires of those Kuffar (disbelievers) in the parliament. In political terminology, such a system whereby the people choose to determine the laws they live by is known as Democracy a term of Greek origin meaning the ‘Rule of the People’. And consequently, the worn out phrase, ‘the rule of the people, by the people, for the people’ is oft repeated by the proponents of such a concept.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 18:40:49 +0000
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