The response of the
Angels to the Divine announcement that a Khalifah, or ruler, would be placed on
earth, was to bluntly question it in overt disagreement! The Angels already
knew that the subject of the establishment of rule, and of a ruling State, on
earth, would result in Fasad, i.e., that which corrupts to an extent that can
destroy, and the shedding of blood. The only source from whom they could have
acquired such knowledge was the Lord-God Himself.
The dissenting view of
the Angels was based on the argument that their constant worship of the
Lord-God, while celebrating His Praise and glorifying His Holy Name, qualified
them, instead, to rule:
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:30)
The Angels asked Allah
Most High: Will You place on earth such as will commit Fasad thereon i.e.,
engage in corruption which can destroy, and shed blood—whereas it is we who
extol Thy limitless glory, and praise Thee, and hallow Thy name?
The enigmatic Divine
response to the Angels was the declaration:
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:30)
Allah answered: Verily,
I know that which you do not know.
Hence, while the Angels
knew that the quest for establishing rule over the earth would result in
destructive corruption and in bloodshed, they did not have complete knowledge
of the subject that justified the Divine announcement. They did not have
knowledge of two events which were about to occur at this time, i.e., the
beginning of history, which were connected to the end of history, and which
offered an eschatological justification for the Divine announcement.
Allah Most High then
proceeded to confer knowledge directly on this ruler, i.e., into Adam ʿalayhi
as-salām who would establish his rule on earth. He could do so since He had
already breathed His Divine Ruh into him in such wise that he could receive
knowledge both externally and internally or spiritually:
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:31–32)
And Allah Most High
taught Adam the knowledge of the names of all things pertaining to the subject
of rule on earth; then He brought them within the ken of the angels and said:
Declare unto Me the names of these things, if you are to be truthful in respect
of your knowledge of the subject of rule on earth.They replied: Limitless are You in Your
glory! No knowledge have we save that which You have imparted unto us. Verily,
You alone are all-knowing, truly wise.
The implication of the
above was that rule on earth could be established successfully only by those
who received such knowledge directly from the Lord-God which would qualify them
to rule. That knowledge is of course, located in the divinely-revealed
scriptures. This appears to be one of the reasons why Allah Most High responded
to the question posed by the Angels with the declaration: I know that which you
do not know! Hence whoever does not turn to the Qur’an for guidance and for
Law, is not qualified to rule over Muslims.
Allah Most High then asked
Nabi Adam ʿalayhi as-salām to respond to the question, and he did so:
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:33)
Allah Most then said to
Adam: Oh Adam, convey unto them the names of these things. And as soon as Adam
had conveyed unto them their names, Allah said: Did I not say unto you, Verily,
I alone know the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth, and know all that
you bring into the open and all that you would conceal?
The
conclusion to which we arrive from the above is that mankind was placed on
earth for the over-riding imperative of establishing rule over the earth, and
that such can be accomplished only by those who act faithfully in accordance
with knowledge which has come to them from Allah Most High, and pursue no other
agenda while establishing their rule. Those who rule otherwise will face an
awful doom on Judgment Day. We recognize this mission of ruling on earth on the
basis of Truth, to be the Amanah, or Trust, that Allah offered to mankind, and
which they accepted.
And Lo! Thy Lord-God
said unto the Angels: Behold, I am going to establish upon earth one who shall
be a Khalifah, i.e., who would govern or rule ...
A Khalifah (or Ruler) on Earth
The Qur’an has disclosed
in the verse above, that Allah Most High addressed the Angels in Awwal al-Zaman
and informed them that He was going to place on earth one who would be a
Khalifah, i.e., he would rule or govern on earth (Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:30).
This declaration constitutes the foundation on which the entire edifice of
Islamic political philosophy, as well as Islam’s model of a State, is
built.
The Qur’an went on to
disclose that when Allah Most High appoints a Khalifah on earth, his function
would be to govern or rule with al-Haq i.e.,Divinely-revealed ‘Truth’, and hence to establish a Holy Khilafah State
or Pax Dei, which would enforce Allah’s Law as the Supreme Law. The modern
West, created by Dajjal, effectively denies any State the freedom with which to
establish Allah’s Law as the Supreme Law. All States must belong to the United
Nations Organization and, as a consequence of membership in that organization,
must accede to the UN Charter which has, in effect, imposed the UN Charter, and
the resolutions of the UN Security Council, as the Supreme Law. The modern West
also demonizes the Khilafah State as a theocratic State, and indoctrinates all
of mankind to so despise and reject a theocratic State as to banish it to the
museums of history.
In its place the West has
delivered to the world the modern republican State in which the supreme law is
the law of the State rather than Allah’s law. A republican State, such as
Pakistan, cannot be a Khilafah State, since the highest law in a republican
State is always the law of the State, and not Allah’s Law. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
appears not to have been aware of this elementary fact when he wrote the
following in his Magnum Opus, ‘The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in
Islam’:
The republican form of
government is not only thoroughly consistent with the spirit of Islam, but has
also become a necessity in view of the new forces that are set free in the
world of Islam.
(Essay entitled: The Principle of
Movement in the Structure of Islam)
A republican form of
government requires the prior establishment of a Republic, and the ‘new forces’
to which Dr.Iqbal referred above were, of course, the modern secular republican
State which was created by Dajjal, and was introduced to the world through
Dajjal’s modern western civilization.
When viewed from the
perspective of the less-than-dismal scholarship that still exists in the world
of Islam on the subject of Dajjal (who is the subject of this book), one cannot
but respond with a summary dismissal of the expected objections and sarcastic
comments that the above statement concerning the republican State will
inevitably provoke from secular scholarship in and out of Pakistan.
Muslim India’s Khilafat
Movement, with all its defects and deficiencies, represented the last effort on
the part of Muslim India as well as the rest of the world of Islam, to remain
faithful to the political philosophy and model of a State which was located in
the Qur’an. Britain, on the other hand, wanted to embrace all of British India,
Hindu as well as Muslim, and then the rest of the world, with the new model of
a republican State which had emerged in Dajjal’s western civilization. One
misguided sentence (quoted above) from India’s most illustrious Islamic scholar
was sufficient to nail a final nail into the coffin of Islam’s Khilafah State, and
pave the way for the birth of a republican State of Pakistan, and for the
subsequent embrace of the rest of the world of Islam in Dajjal’s secular
world-order of republican States. For this alone, Dr. Iqbal richly deserved the
knighthood which Britain conferred on him—in consequence of which he became Sir
Muhammad Iqbal.
(Readers may wish to
read my essay entitled: Can Muslims Vote in Elections of the Modern Secular
State?)
http://www./articles/islam-and-politics/85-can-muslims-vote-in-elections-of-the-modern-secular-state.html
The Qur’an went on to
warn that those, such as the Republican secular State, who rule over the earth
or any part thereof, and do not do so with al-Haq, i.e., Truth, would face an
awful doom on the Day of Reckoning. This will be because any rule, other than
that based on al-Haq, would lead the ruler (and hence the people as well) away
from Sabil Allah, i.e., the Divine Way or Path:
(Qur’an, Sad, 38:26)
And it was said unto
him: O David! Lo! We have set thee as a ruler in the earth; therefore govern or
rule over mankind with al-Haq, i.e., Truth, and follow not your own secular
agenda, for such would lead you away from the way or path of Allah. Lo! Those who
depart from the way or path of Allah have an awful doom, in consequence of
having forgotten the Day of Accounts, i.e., Judgment Day.
If a Khilafah State, or
Pax Dei, is to be established, and if it is to survive, then it must have power
to resist those who will seek to attack and destroy it. Hence, when Nabi Daud ʿalayhi
as-salām established the Holy State of Israel, Allah Most High also blessed
it with power, thus clearly confirming that such a Holy State must have the
power with which to establish itself as Pax Dei:
(Qur’an, Sad, 38:20)
And Allah Most High
strengthened his Kingdom, hence Pax Dei, and bestowed upon him wisdom and
sagacity in judgment.
A Khilafah State would
thus have an obligation to build military power to the maximum extent that it
can be built. The Qur’an explains, however, that such power is to be used to
deter aggression, and not to commit aggression or to establish a hegemonic
dominance over others:
(Qur’an, al-Anfal, 8:60)
Hence, make ready
against them whatever military force and war mounts you are able to muster, so
that you might deter thereby the enemies of Allah, who are your enemies as
well, and others besides them of whom you may be unaware, but of whom Allah is
aware; and whatever you may expend in Allah’s cause shall be repaid to you in
full, and you shall not be wronged.
We can see quite clearly
that if Korea had not faithfully followed this command of the Qur’an, it would
have already become a client-State of the present Zionist Judeo-Christian
world-order—which is the fate that has already befallen the southern part of
the Korean peninsula. Dajjal’s modern West not only succeeded in embracing all
of mankind in a United Nations Organization with a Security Council dominated
by the oppressors of the modern world, i.e.,Zionist western Judeo-Christian alliance, but also forced upon the world
a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT) which prohibits member States from
building the power that the Qur’an has demanded. If India had not demonstrated
integrity in resisting membership in NNPT, it is certain that the so-called
Islamic Republic of Pakistan would have acquiesced with docility to NNPT
membership.
Whenever a Khilafah State
is established, and it struggles to build power in conformity with Allah’s
command, Divine assistance will always come to such a State, as it came to
Solomon’s Holy Israel:
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:69)
...and remember how Allah Most
High made you rulers on earth after Noah's folk, and gave you growth of
stature; and remember all the bounties of your Lord, that you might be
successful.
The Qur’an reminded the
Israelites that Allah responded to their plight of suffering by extricating
them from that distress, and replacing it with rule on earth (through a
Khilafah State):
(Qur’an, al-Naml, 27:62)
Is not He best who
responds to those who are wronged when he such a person cries out unto Him and
he removes the evil, and has made you rulers on earth? Is there any God beside
Allah? Little do they reflect!
The above verses of the
Qur’an disclosed that it was by Allah’s leave that the Israelites remained on
earth as rulers for long years. But at no time were they able to restore Holy
Israel as Pax Dei. This was because Nabi Daud’s son, Nabi Sulaiman, ʿalayhi
as-salām, prayed that his Holy State of Israel could not belong to anyone
after him, i.e.,none could succeed in
restoring Holy Israel after him. He made this prayer after he was shown the
vision of a Jasad sitting on his throne:
(Qur’an, Sad, 38:34)
Allah Most High caused
distress to Solomon by placing upon his throne a Jasad, or body without a soul;
and thereupon he turned to Allah in prayer.
The prayer was made
because he recognized the Jasad to be Dajjal, and he knew that Dajjal would
attempt to rule over Holy Israel. Hence he prayed as follows:
(Qur’an, Sad, 38:35)
Solomon prayed: O my
Lord-God, forgive me my sins, and bestow upon me a kingdom which cannot belong
to anyone after me. Verily, You are the one who bestows such!
Allah
Most High obviously answered his prayer since Holy Israel collapsed after
Solomon’s death and has never since been successfully restored. Hence Dajjal’s
present effort to restore Holy Israel in order to convince the Jews that he is
the true Messiah, is bound to fail.
