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Land of ISLAM vs Land of KUFR
– Evaluating the STATUS of Muslim-populated lands
– (9) EXISENCE of LAND of ISLAM – An amazing fact and understanding the FALSEHOOD of the ASTRAY ‘scholars’ – Part 1 :|:
Bismillah! Al Hamdulillah!
Wa AsSalatu AsSalamu A’ala Rasulallah!
AsSalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatuallh Wa Barakatuhu!
(1)
My brothers,
Subhanallah!
Let me give you an amazing fact first which I am sure let alone the regular Muslim, most of the scholars are not aware of.
When most of the Zaheel astray Ulama today misguide Muslims saying “Where is Allah’s Shariah?”,
“Show me, which land implements Allah’s Shariah, so I can go there!”, which they say to justify their living with the Mushrikeen, with the Kuffar, in the Kuffar’s lands, under the Kuffar’s authority, while these Jaheel ‘scholars’ actually fail to understand how and what are the criteria that determine a land as a ‘Land of Shariah’.
Therefore, before you get to that amazing fact let’s understand what the ‘Land of Shariah’/ ‘Land of Islam’ is and what the ‘Land of Kufr’ is.
(2)
What the scholars say:
Imaam Abu Yoosuf may Allah have mercy upon him who was Abu Haneefah’s disciple, said:
“A place is considered Daarul Islam when there is a manifestation of the Islamic law in it even if most of its dwellers are not Muslims.
And a place is considered Daarul Kufr when there is a manifestation of non-Islamic laws in it even if most of its dwellers are Muslims.”
[Al-Mabsoot written by As-Sarkhasy: 10/144]
Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim may Allaah have mercy upon him said:
“Daarul Islam is the place where Muslims have settled down and where the rulings of Islam are applied. And any place where the Islamic rulings are not applied is not considered Daarul Islam even if it is adjacent to it.”
[Ahkaam Ahludh-Dhimma: 1/266]
(3)
So, we derived the following understanding from the above ruling of the scholars:
A land/ country that is ruled by Shariah law, is what is called a ‘Land of Shariah’, even if Muslims are the minority in that land.
On the other hand, a land which is ruled by the Kuffar’s law (man-made law through democracy or any other ways) that land is called the ‘Land of Kufr’ even though 99% of people who live under that rule are Muslims.
To be more precise, even if a country follows 99% of the law from Shariah but 1% or simply just ONE (1) law from man-made law, Kuffar’s Law, that means it is rejecting one law from Allah’s Shariah, that land is also considered a ‘Land of Kufr’.
(4)
Now let’s proceed to our amazing fact.
Often people judge Islam by the behavior or conduct of Muslims, Isn’t that the case with most of the people? In fact, most of the Jaheel (ignorant) people stop knowing about Islam or they reject Islam by assessing the behaviour of the Muslims.
But if you ask any knowledgeable, how should one assess Islam?
What do you think the knowledgeable will reply to you?
By the Quran and the Hadith! By the book!
You don’t judge a system by the people who follow it. You judge the system by the system itself. The same method should apply to assess whether a country is a ‘Land of Islam’ or ‘Land of Kufr’.
So, how do we know a land/ country’s ruling system?
Through looking at the constitution of the land.
Therefore, let’s look at a few constitutions of the Muslim-populated lands.
(5)
What do you think of the legal and official status of a country where its constitution says the following?:
(A) “The Shariah, that which laid in the Qur’an and Sunnah, shall be the supreme law of the land”.
or
(B) “All laws would have to be brought into accordance with the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Quran and Sunnah and that no law repugnant to such injunctions could be enacted.”
or
(C) “The decisions of judges shall not be subject to any authority other than the authority of the Islamic Shariah”.
or
(D) The judicial authority is an independent power. In discharging their duties, the judges bow to no authority other than that of Islamic Shari’ah.
or
(E) “No law contrary to any tenet of Islam shall be enacted in the land/ country”
or
(F) “No law shall contravene the tenets and provisions of the religion of Islam in the Land.”
Or
(G) “No law which is not compliant with the general principles of Shari’ah can be enacted.”
(6)
Can you believe this?
Is there such a country that exists today?
Yes, it does.
And when you find a country’s constitution says any of these, you have to take that country as an Islamic country, a Land of Islam. Yes! Just having those clauses in any constitution should make that country/ land a ‘Land of Islam’ unless we find anything else in the constitution that contradicts these clauses.
(7)
By the way, here is another amazing fact. If you ask AI or ‘Sheikh Google’ what is the first constitution ever written?
They will come up with
San Marino 1600
Sweden 1634
America 1788
And so on.
But then, if you ask about the first Islamic constitution, Subhanallah! You guess! It’s the constitution of Madinah! They call it the Madinah Charter! 622 CE. That’s the very first constitution of the world.
Subhanallah! Kuffar’s corruption/ falsehood is everywhere, in every aspect even in these newly invented AI too. May Allah show us the truth.
(8)
Back to our main point.
Do you know how many Muslim-majority land/ countries exist today which have those Articles/ clauses in their constitutions?
There are at least four (5) Muslim-majority countries out of 52 that have those Articles in their constitutions.
Subhanallah!
This is such an amazing fact!
Yes, we do have lands that are officially, and legally Islamic countries, those who were intended to be ruled by Allah’s Shariah, those who put sovereignty to Allah over the people.
Which are these countries?
I let you guess for now until we comeback with the 2nd part of this article, En Shaa Allah!
(9)
Now, what we get from these findings finally is the falsehood of Jaheel ‘scholars’ those who are misguiding Muslims by saying, “Where’s Allah’s Shariah?”
This is what the least we can say that their statement is utter misguidance, utter lie. They are the misguided, astray scholars.
Surely these astray ‘scholars’ fool the Jaheel Muslims while the Jaheel Muslims follow them because they have ‘such’ and ‘such’ credentials, therefore, these Jaheel Muslims believe whatever they say is the truth while the truth is otherwise.
(10)
Now, there could be a matter of Ikhliaf (difference of opinions) here.
If you examine closely how our classical scholars evaluated [(those we mentioned above (2)] a ‘Land of Shariah’ is ‘that which IMPLEMENTS/ APPLIES/ RULES by the Shariah of Allah’.
But here we are evaluating a ‘Land of Shariah’ by the book, by what is written in the constitution, not by the fact of how the rulers those who are in power rule the land, as we explained earlier we judge Islam by the book not by the people who practice it.
By doing that are we saying, those classic scholars are wrong?
No. We don’t mean that.
We say, they are right but there’s something here to understand about the issue.
In their times there’s no written constitution exists therefore they have to evaluate the status of a land by observing practically how the land was being ruled by the rulers. So, that’s how they are right.
But we have now written constitution in front of us and written constitution shows the intention as to how it was meant to be ruled, thus written constitution gives the official status of a land.
That’s how it could become a matter of Ikhtilaf. Some could say, we will go by how practically a land is ruled. And some could say as what we say that we will go by the book. And then, the rulers who rule by other than what their constitution says, the consequences apply on them. If a ruler rules by something else even though the constitution says there can’t be any law other than Shariah law, the KUFR will apply to that ruler, not to the land. The land remains as a Land of Islam. And Allah knows best.
On the other hand, if a country’s constitution is on Kufr but there’s new rulers take over and they apparently ruling the land by Shariah we take that land as the Land of Shariah. We expect that It’s a matter of time when they will amend their constitution.
Now, one can say, we don’t care about constitution. It’s a new thing, It’s also a system/ Deen came from the Kuffar. Madinah constitution was a constitution worked like an agreement/ rules set between the Muslims and all the tribes. No Khilafah was based or ruled based on constitution except until Umayyiad Khilafah introduced a form of constitution during 1660. Throughout the Islamic history, our scholars knew the Shariah and they applied it accordingly without any written constitution.
We would say, that’s also correct.
Whatever understanding suits you, follow it.
As for us, for now, for the purpose of choosing a Land of Hijrah, we find going by the Book gives us more space.
And we say that Yes! Land of Islam does exist.
May Allah shows us correct path and we ask Allah to make our Hijrah easy.
And Allah knows best.
May Allah guide these Muslims.
May Allah protect the Ummah from the astray scholars.
May Allah settle us in a land where we can practice and establish our Deen.
Ameen.
