Islamic Revival

Translated from Arabic distributed widely in the Muslim world 13th Thil-Qi'dah 1415h, 13th April 1995. The Islamic state In Arabic, the word Al Dawlah means linguistically the “Ghalaba”, i.e. the supremacy, it is also a term used to indicate the change of time; it is also said: The days have alternated or rotated, i.e. they have changed; or Allah (swt) alternates it between people etc. States change and vary according to the change of concepts, the change of times and the change of peoples. The State is a word of terminology which refers to an authority that commands and prohibits a group of people who live in a certain piece of land. However, the definition of the state differs due to the difference of viewpoints and nations towards its reality. The westerners for instance, despite the different viewpoints they hold towards the reality of the state and towards the type of rule within the state, whether this were religious, as was the case in the medieval times, or dictatoria

On March 6 2007, North Korea and the US concluded their first set of normalisation talks, which are part of the agreement reached in Beijing last month. Oddly enough the talks also coincide with American efforts to establish cordial ties with Iran. In her testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced that that Washington will join a “neighbours meeting”, convened by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to be followed by ministerial talks in April. So after five years of having labelled Iran and North Korea as part of the axis of evil, the Bush administration has finally decided to abandon its bellicose stance in preference for normalisation. Leaving aside America’s fading status in international affairs; US motives behind the restoration drive are borne out of separate considerations for each country. In the case of North Korea, the Bush administration has always insisted that Pyongyang must de-nuclearize before the US can deliver e

From the upcoming book 'Understanding Usul al-Fiqh': Those who say that the Shari’ah of the previous nations is a Shar’iah for the Muslims provide the following sayings of Allah (swt) as Daleels: إِنَّا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ كَمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَى نُوحٍ “We have sent you Wahi, as we sent it to Nuh” (TMQ An-Nisa: 163) شَرَعَ لَكُمْ مِنَ الدِّينِ مَا وَصَّى بِهِ نُوحًا “He set for you from the Deen what He advised for Nuh” (TMQ Ash-Shura: 13) ثُمَّ أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ أَنِ اتَّبِعْ مِلَّةَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ “Then We revealed to you, ‘Follow the millah of Ibrahim.’” (TMQ An-Nahl: 123) They claim that the above Ayat address the Muslims by the Shar’iah of the previous Prophets. They also state that Allah (swt) orders the Muslims to abide by everything the Messenger (saw) conveyed, except for issues specific to him and issues that were abrogated. Based upon this understanding, they claim that the Muslims are addressed by the Shar’iah of previous nations because the Qur’anic text contains