The Islamic State Is Not a Democratic State: Democracy means, according to its founders “the rule of the people by the people”. It is the people who choose the ruler, enact the laws and settle the disputes between the individuals. Hence, they generated the notion stipulating that people are the source of authority. It is the people who appoint the rulers, draft the constitution, enact the laws, account the rulers and appoint the judges to settle disputes between individuals on the one hand and between people and the state on the other. This reality contradicts Islam in categorical manner. As for drafting the constitution and enacting the laws, the constitution and the laws in Islam are but Shari’ah rules deduced from the elaborate evidences. Every article of the constitution and every law is a Shari’ah rule. In fact, when Shari’ah ordered the adoption of solutions for life’s affairs, namely the Shari’ah rules, it restricted the adoption to what emanates from the Aqeedah and it linked it to Iman, thus making the taking of other than what emanates from the Aqeedah as taking from the Taghut. As for the appointment of rulers by the people, the reality of democracy contradicts Islam because although the ruler is chosen by the people in the democratic system, the effective rulers are those with huge capital. They are the ones who bring the rulers into power, not the people. On the other hand, when the people choose the ruler, it is on the basis that he is an employee. In Islam however, the Ummah chooses the ruler and the Baya’ah is what makes the ruler a ruler who executes Shari’ah and adheres to it. He is not an employee of the Ummah and he does not execute her volition. He is rather a guardian of her interests according to Shari’ah. Hence, the ruler in Islam is not a hired employee of the Ummah, but rather her deputy in the implementation of Shari’ah. As for the notion of people being the source of the judicial authority, this is nothing but a deception; because although people choose the ruler and appoint him, it is he, the ruler, who chooses those who assume the judiciary on his behalf. The people do not choose the judges and they do not have the competency to remove them; all this is rather in the hands of the ruler. Hence, it would be wrong to describe the Islamic State as a democratic state because the concept of democracy contradicts Islam, thus it would be that it is from Islam when Islam has nothing to do with it whatsoever. Read on: english.hizbuttahrir.org/index.php/excerpts/348-the-islamic-state-a-the-qcivil-stateq?start=4
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:58:10 +0000
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