Politics

"People are subservient to Quraysh in this matter: the Muslims among them to the Muslims among them, and the disbelievers among them to the disbelievers among them." (Sahih Muslim) His statement "from Abu Hurayrah": this hadith was transmitted by al-Bukhari in the beginning of Kitab al-Manaqib (no. 3495) and it was also transmitted by Ahmad in his Musnad (2:243, 261, 395, 433). His statement "People are subservient to Quraysh in this matter": the 'ulama adduced this as proof that Qurayshi ...
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What becomes evident from studying the rules of the Shari'ah on politics, and what is mentioned in the Qur'an and Sunnah on this subject, is that Islam does not specify a particular "form of government" in the technical sense this phrase is used today, and it does not specify for it a particular methodology with all its particular details. It only provided us with basic foundations and principles, and general laws that must be observed and preserved in every age and place. As for...
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It has become well-known of Christians that they distinguish between religion and politics by their well-known dictum "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's". It is thus as though religion has no relationship with politics and politics has no connection with religion. This worthless concept has slowly advanced to its ugliest form in recent times in the name of "secularism" (al-'almaniyah) or "secularisation" which expelled religion from all matters of life until it did away with it completely. Truly...
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