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The caliphate the hejaz and the saudi-wahhabi nation-state introduction
THE CALIPHATE THE HEJAZ AND THE SAUDI-WAHHABI NATION-STATE
INTRODUCTION
One of the essential characteristics of the religion of Islam is its insistence that when a people recognize Allah Most High as ‘sovereign’ (al-Malik) then they must ensure that the State and all its institutions submit to Allah’s supreme authority and supreme law. If the State, rather than Allah, is recognized as sovereign, and that is the essence of the secularism, Islam declares such to be Shirk (blasphemy) and that is the greatest sin possible.
Around the world today the modern secular State is universally recognized as sovereign. Its authority is recognized as supreme, and so too its law. And so, around the world today mankind is now embraced by a universal political Shirk (blasphemy). This is, in fact, one of the major signs that we now live in the age of Dajjal, the false Messiah or Anti-Christ, who deceived mankind into worshipping other than Allah Most High. He, Dajjal, is the mastermind behind today’s world order about which the Hadith declares that 999 out of every 1000 will enter into the hellfire. But even Muslims seem to be unaware of this.
Since Muslims recognized Allah as sovereign, they never recognized Constitution, Parliament, Supreme Court, Government etc., as sovereign. The sovereignty of Allah implies the supremacy of the religion of Islam
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and, in particular, the sacred law or Shariah. The institution of the Caliphate symbolized that supremacy of Islam over the State and over public life. The Caliph, who was otherwise known as the Ameer or Imam, was the head of the Jama’ah or community of Muslims. They pledged allegiance to him through the institution of baiy’ah. The territory in which that Jama’ah was located was designated Dar al-Islam. It was so designated because the Ameer had the freedom and authority to enforce Allah’s sacred law in that territory.
Euro-Christian civilization was also founded on recognition of divine sovereignty. In that civilization, however, it was the Church that was recognized as God’s representative on the earth, and the State was thus subservient to the Church.
But Europe experienced a conflict between religion and the State that resulted in the defeat of the Church. The consequence was that Europe experienced such a revolutionary transformation of the very foundations of the civilization that the State and politics were secularized. The final chapter of the conflict, which sealed the fate of religion in Europe, and brought an essentially godless civilization into being, was the American, French and Bolshevik Revolutions. The sphere of religion was reduced to individual and group worship, and the Pope and Euro-Christianity were excluded as actors in the conduct of State. God was no longer recognized to be sovereign (al-Akbar). Instead it was the people who were sovereign, and they vested that sovereignty in the new secular model of a State. The State was now al-Akbar. For Europe that was secularism. For Islam, the religion, it was Shirk, the greatest of all sins!
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It was strange that non-European Christianity did not put up a great struggle against this destruction of the sacred model of a State created by the Prophets David and Solomon (peace be upon them both).
Godless European civilization has embarked upon a crusade to transform the entire world and to remold it after the new European model of the secular State and godless society. The rest of the world was colonized or had its essential freedom taken away. And so the non-European world also, was eventually secularized and is fast being reduced to a godless society. This included the world of Islam. In fact the world of Islam was the special target of godless European civilization.
The process of reducing the world of Islam to a godless society commenced with the secularization of public life. The Ottoman Empire was targeted. It had to be destroyed. But it could not be destroyed so long as the Caliphate remained a powerful institution of unity for Muslims. And so the Caliphate had to be destroyed.
The destruction of the Ottoman Empire, which was effected in the First World War, resulted in the emergence of the secular State of Turkey. The government was constituted of secularized westernized Turkish nationalists who worked hand-in-glove with an under-ground Jewish movement. They first reduced the Caliphate to an office that resembled that of the Pope, and then abolished it. But the secularization process in the world of Islam was sealed when the Hejaz, under the rule of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, also joined Mustafa Kamal (Ataturk) in the rejection of the
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supremacy of Islam over the State. And so Arabia, the heartland of Islam, also embraced of the secular model of a State. The birth of the State of Saudi Arabia coincided with the destruction of the Dar al-Islam that had been established by the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).
While the Hejaz was Dar al-Islam every Muslim had the right to enter that territory, - he did not need a visa. There was no such thing as Saudi sovereignty. There was no such thing as Saudi citizenship. The right of entry into any part of Dar al-Islam was one of several rights which Muslims had, such as the right to reside in Dar al-Islam, - they did not need residence permits, the right to seek livelihood in any part of Dar al-Islam, they did not need a work permits etc. The birth of the State of Saudi Arabia resulted in the denial and eventual elimination of all these rights of Muslims.
The destruction of the Caliphate and the emergence of the State of Saudi Arabia were events that changed the very face of the world of Islam in such a way as to result in a return to the pre-hijri stage of Islamic civilization. Nowhere in the world today does Dar al-Islam exist.
It would, we believe, be correct to assert that the basic difference that existed between pre-Hijri and post-Hijri Islam was the establishment by the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alahi wa sallam) of Dar al-Islam (the Islamic Public Order) in Madina. But the world of Islam, like the rest of the non-European world, has today been incorporated into a secular and materialist system of political organization constituted of the unit of the
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modern secular nation-State. As a consequence, Dar al-Islam no longer exists today, not even in Makkah and Madina. We are therefore justified in concluding that the world of Islam has in effect returned, in its collective existence as an Ummah, to pre-Hijri Islam.
Islamic civilization now appears to have entered into the post-caliphate era of its history. And, as it was in Makkah fourteen hundred years ago, so too today, - the Muslim community around the world is subjected to an all-embracing Jahiliyah that dominates the world. That Jahiliyah is, of course, modern post-Christian western secular and materialist western civilization.
It was, perhaps, with particular reference to this age, that the Prophet of Islam (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) is reported to have said: "Whosoever dies without having witnessed (during his lifetime) (the institution of) Baiy’ah (the oath of allegiance by the people through which an appointment to the position of leadership over the Ummah is legitimized) has certainly died a death of jahiliyah (i.e., a death in an age which has witnessed the return to the pre-hijri jahiliyah)".
This Hadith of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was considered to be of such authenticity and paramount importance that it was used by Al-Azhar University to justify the call for an international Islamic Caliphate Conference in Cairo which would respond in an appropriate way to the decision of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, in March 1924, to abolish the Caliphate.
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The Conference itself, which was held in 1926, adopted resolutions which incorporated this statement of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) and affirmed the necessity of the institution of the Caliphate, and hence, the Islamic Public Order, for the world of Islam.
The challenge before the Ummah today is plain and clear. It is to attempt to repeat the original movement of the Ummah and, thus, to travel from Makkah to Madina once again. In doing so the Ummah will re-realize the establishment of Dar al-Islam (Islamic Public Order). If this Ummah is ever to succeed in restoring the supremacy of Islam over the State in the world of Islam, it is imperative that Muslims be aware of the history of collapse of the Caliphate and its replacement, in the heartland of Islam, by the secular Saudi-Wahhabi nation-State.
This study is of even more strategic importance because the enemy who destroyed the Caliphate now have their eyes trained on the Hajj. The Hajj has been performed uninterruptedly since it was established by the Prophet Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salām) thousands of years ago. The Hajj continued even when Arabia had embraced idolatry. The enemies of Islam now have as one of their supreme long-term objectives, the termination of the Hajj.
Abu Said al-Khudri has narrated a Hadith of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alahi wa sallam) in which he, the Prophet, has declared that:
"The people will continue to perform the Hajj and Umrah to the Ka'aba even after the appearance of Y’ajūj (Gog) and M’ajūj (Magog)." Shu'ba narrated, in
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addition: The (last) hour will not be established until the Hajj to the Ka'aba is abandoned."
(Bukhāri)
Our study of the subject has led us to conclude that the goal of stopping the Hajj is now within the grasp of the enemies of Islam. All that is required for that goal to be achieved is that Masjid al-Aqsa be destroyed. The Jewish State of Israel can do that at anytime. It is just a matter of choosing the opportune moment. The present Saudi regime has been cunningly drawn into a non-reversible position vis-a-vis the Jewish State. The destruction of Masjid al-Aqsa will result in greater opposition for the Saudis. They will not be able to control the rage that Muslims will express at the time of the Hajj. And yet if they are seen as unable to control the Hajj then the internal opposition within Saudi Arabia will put the Hajj to effective use in destabilizing the regime. This is the scenario that will most likely lead the Saudis to stop the Hajj in order to preserve their rule.
If the world of Islam were to lose the Hajj, after having lost the Caliphate, it would constitute yet another massive step back to the Jahiliyyah of pre-Hijri Makkah. Our security predicament will become just as precarious as it was in pre-Hijri Makkah. Only the strongest possible Imān will survive that terrible test! What can we do about it? The first step that must be taken in any possible counter-strategy must be to study and critically evaluate the history of that period wherein the Caliphate was lost. This is what we attempt to do in this book.
read the complete book, it is really fascinating:
INTRODUCTION
One of the essential characteristics of the religion of Islam is its insistence that when a people recognize Allah Most High as ‘sovereign’ (al-Malik) then they must ensure that the State and all its institutions submit to Allah’s supreme authority and supreme law. If the State, rather than Allah, is recognized as sovereign, and that is the essence of the secularism, Islam declares such to be Shirk (blasphemy) and that is the greatest sin possible.
Around the world today the modern secular State is universally recognized as sovereign. Its authority is recognized as supreme, and so too its law. And so, around the world today mankind is now embraced by a universal political Shirk (blasphemy). This is, in fact, one of the major signs that we now live in the age of Dajjal, the false Messiah or Anti-Christ, who deceived mankind into worshipping other than Allah Most High. He, Dajjal, is the mastermind behind today’s world order about which the Hadith declares that 999 out of every 1000 will enter into the hellfire. But even Muslims seem to be unaware of this.
Since Muslims recognized Allah as sovereign, they never recognized Constitution, Parliament, Supreme Court, Government etc., as sovereign. The sovereignty of Allah implies the supremacy of the religion of Islam
Internet Edition – Islamic Scholar Imran N Hosein
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and, in particular, the sacred law or Shariah. The institution of the Caliphate symbolized that supremacy of Islam over the State and over public life. The Caliph, who was otherwise known as the Ameer or Imam, was the head of the Jama’ah or community of Muslims. They pledged allegiance to him through the institution of baiy’ah. The territory in which that Jama’ah was located was designated Dar al-Islam. It was so designated because the Ameer had the freedom and authority to enforce Allah’s sacred law in that territory.
Euro-Christian civilization was also founded on recognition of divine sovereignty. In that civilization, however, it was the Church that was recognized as God’s representative on the earth, and the State was thus subservient to the Church.
But Europe experienced a conflict between religion and the State that resulted in the defeat of the Church. The consequence was that Europe experienced such a revolutionary transformation of the very foundations of the civilization that the State and politics were secularized. The final chapter of the conflict, which sealed the fate of religion in Europe, and brought an essentially godless civilization into being, was the American, French and Bolshevik Revolutions. The sphere of religion was reduced to individual and group worship, and the Pope and Euro-Christianity were excluded as actors in the conduct of State. God was no longer recognized to be sovereign (al-Akbar). Instead it was the people who were sovereign, and they vested that sovereignty in the new secular model of a State. The State was now al-Akbar. For Europe that was secularism. For Islam, the religion, it was Shirk, the greatest of all sins!
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It was strange that non-European Christianity did not put up a great struggle against this destruction of the sacred model of a State created by the Prophets David and Solomon (peace be upon them both).
Godless European civilization has embarked upon a crusade to transform the entire world and to remold it after the new European model of the secular State and godless society. The rest of the world was colonized or had its essential freedom taken away. And so the non-European world also, was eventually secularized and is fast being reduced to a godless society. This included the world of Islam. In fact the world of Islam was the special target of godless European civilization.
The process of reducing the world of Islam to a godless society commenced with the secularization of public life. The Ottoman Empire was targeted. It had to be destroyed. But it could not be destroyed so long as the Caliphate remained a powerful institution of unity for Muslims. And so the Caliphate had to be destroyed.
The destruction of the Ottoman Empire, which was effected in the First World War, resulted in the emergence of the secular State of Turkey. The government was constituted of secularized westernized Turkish nationalists who worked hand-in-glove with an under-ground Jewish movement. They first reduced the Caliphate to an office that resembled that of the Pope, and then abolished it. But the secularization process in the world of Islam was sealed when the Hejaz, under the rule of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, also joined Mustafa Kamal (Ataturk) in the rejection of the
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supremacy of Islam over the State. And so Arabia, the heartland of Islam, also embraced of the secular model of a State. The birth of the State of Saudi Arabia coincided with the destruction of the Dar al-Islam that had been established by the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).
While the Hejaz was Dar al-Islam every Muslim had the right to enter that territory, - he did not need a visa. There was no such thing as Saudi sovereignty. There was no such thing as Saudi citizenship. The right of entry into any part of Dar al-Islam was one of several rights which Muslims had, such as the right to reside in Dar al-Islam, - they did not need residence permits, the right to seek livelihood in any part of Dar al-Islam, they did not need a work permits etc. The birth of the State of Saudi Arabia resulted in the denial and eventual elimination of all these rights of Muslims.
The destruction of the Caliphate and the emergence of the State of Saudi Arabia were events that changed the very face of the world of Islam in such a way as to result in a return to the pre-hijri stage of Islamic civilization. Nowhere in the world today does Dar al-Islam exist.
It would, we believe, be correct to assert that the basic difference that existed between pre-Hijri and post-Hijri Islam was the establishment by the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alahi wa sallam) of Dar al-Islam (the Islamic Public Order) in Madina. But the world of Islam, like the rest of the non-European world, has today been incorporated into a secular and materialist system of political organization constituted of the unit of the
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modern secular nation-State. As a consequence, Dar al-Islam no longer exists today, not even in Makkah and Madina. We are therefore justified in concluding that the world of Islam has in effect returned, in its collective existence as an Ummah, to pre-Hijri Islam.
Islamic civilization now appears to have entered into the post-caliphate era of its history. And, as it was in Makkah fourteen hundred years ago, so too today, - the Muslim community around the world is subjected to an all-embracing Jahiliyah that dominates the world. That Jahiliyah is, of course, modern post-Christian western secular and materialist western civilization.
It was, perhaps, with particular reference to this age, that the Prophet of Islam (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) is reported to have said: "Whosoever dies without having witnessed (during his lifetime) (the institution of) Baiy’ah (the oath of allegiance by the people through which an appointment to the position of leadership over the Ummah is legitimized) has certainly died a death of jahiliyah (i.e., a death in an age which has witnessed the return to the pre-hijri jahiliyah)".
This Hadith of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was considered to be of such authenticity and paramount importance that it was used by Al-Azhar University to justify the call for an international Islamic Caliphate Conference in Cairo which would respond in an appropriate way to the decision of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, in March 1924, to abolish the Caliphate.
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The Conference itself, which was held in 1926, adopted resolutions which incorporated this statement of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) and affirmed the necessity of the institution of the Caliphate, and hence, the Islamic Public Order, for the world of Islam.
The challenge before the Ummah today is plain and clear. It is to attempt to repeat the original movement of the Ummah and, thus, to travel from Makkah to Madina once again. In doing so the Ummah will re-realize the establishment of Dar al-Islam (Islamic Public Order). If this Ummah is ever to succeed in restoring the supremacy of Islam over the State in the world of Islam, it is imperative that Muslims be aware of the history of collapse of the Caliphate and its replacement, in the heartland of Islam, by the secular Saudi-Wahhabi nation-State.
This study is of even more strategic importance because the enemy who destroyed the Caliphate now have their eyes trained on the Hajj. The Hajj has been performed uninterruptedly since it was established by the Prophet Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salām) thousands of years ago. The Hajj continued even when Arabia had embraced idolatry. The enemies of Islam now have as one of their supreme long-term objectives, the termination of the Hajj.
Abu Said al-Khudri has narrated a Hadith of the Prophet (sallalahu ‘alahi wa sallam) in which he, the Prophet, has declared that:
"The people will continue to perform the Hajj and Umrah to the Ka'aba even after the appearance of Y’ajūj (Gog) and M’ajūj (Magog)." Shu'ba narrated, in
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addition: The (last) hour will not be established until the Hajj to the Ka'aba is abandoned."
(Bukhāri)
Our study of the subject has led us to conclude that the goal of stopping the Hajj is now within the grasp of the enemies of Islam. All that is required for that goal to be achieved is that Masjid al-Aqsa be destroyed. The Jewish State of Israel can do that at anytime. It is just a matter of choosing the opportune moment. The present Saudi regime has been cunningly drawn into a non-reversible position vis-a-vis the Jewish State. The destruction of Masjid al-Aqsa will result in greater opposition for the Saudis. They will not be able to control the rage that Muslims will express at the time of the Hajj. And yet if they are seen as unable to control the Hajj then the internal opposition within Saudi Arabia will put the Hajj to effective use in destabilizing the regime. This is the scenario that will most likely lead the Saudis to stop the Hajj in order to preserve their rule.
If the world of Islam were to lose the Hajj, after having lost the Caliphate, it would constitute yet another massive step back to the Jahiliyyah of pre-Hijri Makkah. Our security predicament will become just as precarious as it was in pre-Hijri Makkah. Only the strongest possible Imān will survive that terrible test! What can we do about it? The first step that must be taken in any possible counter-strategy must be to study and critically evaluate the history of that period wherein the Caliphate was lost. This is what we attempt to do in this book.
read the complete book, it is really fascinating:
