Salaam Alaikum,
This is an interesting thread...
Firstly, i know what im about to say will not sit well with many of my muslim brothers and sisters on the thread, maybe even the forum...
We know the Khilafah ended in 1924 and Islam suffered a great loss... we look down the path of history and we cant believe the state of the Ummah...Allah has destroyed many nations before for their 'disbelief, arrogance etc'...as we stand today...we are in jahaliyah, all we have to do is look around us, we have really loss the beauty of this Deen...we shed tears when we read about our sahabah, the great men that stood on the battlefield, the men that liberated Palestine, Khalid bin Waleed beheaded romans that were ready to rape nearly 2000 muslim women, and we praise that, afterall he was known as the Sword of Allah...we cry out to Almighty that we need men like Umar, men like Khalid...and you know what...Allah answers the call of the supplicant, we dont like what Allah gives (ungrateful)...do we physically want Umar here? We have men like that, we just refuse to acknowledge it, I always ask if Umar was here, what would the Ummah call him? Think about it! These men that we are crying for and asking Allah for, they were hard against disbelief and showed mercy toward the believer. Do you think in the period of the khulafah of any era, they did not have opposition?
Lets look at history...
Who spread Islam in Persia, Iraq, Shaam and drove out the Romans...the muslims
who spread Islam in India and Khorosan...the muslims
Who spread Islam in Egypt and Africa...the muslims
Who spread Islam in Europe and established an Islamic state in Andalusia...the muslims
Who spread Islam in Jerusalem...the muslims
Who spread Islam in Constantinople and established a khilafah there...the muslims
'When i sit and think those people of our Ummah that hate us and make duah against us, it brings tears to my eyes. We are hated even though we left everything and everyone we ever loved to please Allah, by raising His religion back to where it once stood. But i always find comfort in that through Islamic history those who were on truth were hated' -Isis Mujahid
If we read Surah Baqarah together with tafsir we will realise our error soon- walahi, it will change your life forever, Allah willing
I have read many scholars name branding them, we dont even cringe when the shia's slander the Rightly Guided, so how do we expect to sit at the same table now?
So...to usher in the Mahdi, we will need a khilafah, yes...he doesn't just appear on the scene and say 'right now this is the khilafah' no dear brothers and sisters, our situation will NOT get any better...
This can clearly be seen in the hadith narrated by Umm Salamah (ra) that the Messenger of Allah said:
"Disagreement will occur at the death of a caliph and a man of the people of Medina will come flying forth to Mecca. Some of the people of Mecca will come to him, bring him out against his will and give bay'ah to him between the Rukn and the Maqam. An expeditionary force will then be sent against him from Syria but will be swallowed up in the desert between Mecca and Medina. When the people see that, the God fearing people of Syria and the best people of Iraq will come to him and swear allegiance to him between the Corner and the Maqam. Then there will arise a man of Quraysh whose maternal uncles belong to Kalb and send against them an expeditionary force which will be overcome by them, and that is the expedition of Kalb. Disappointed will be the one who does not receive the booty of Kalb. He will divide the property, and will govern the people by the Sunnah of their Prophet (peace be upon him) and establish Islam on Earth. He will remain seven years..."
(Reported by at-Tabarani in al- Awsat. According to Ibn Hajar in his Majma' az-Zawaid the transmitters in at- Tabarani's narration are sound and authentic.)
We are being led astray, we are not using our intellectual intelligence to capacity...the media shouts out something and we swollow, the modern scholars says something and we swollow, some even uttering weak hadiths to justify themselves..the hadith of the long hair, the kunya and then further attributing that hadith to Imam Ali (r.a)... these make them khawarij?
So this Ummah is infact saying that imam bukhari is khawarij?, he was born in Bukhara what is now known as Uzbekistan...imam at tirmidhi from termiz, uzbekistan..khawarij? imam an nasai, nasa, turkmenistan...khawarij? brothers and sisters, we cant jump and call people names because we don't know them and what the MEDIA says about them...these are suppose to be our hero's, yet we slander them and jump on the band wagon and hurl abuse at them...
Allah (S.W.T) said in surat Al- Hadid, (Verses 25), what can be translated as, "Indeed We have sent Our Messengers with clear proofs, and revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance (justice) that mankind may keep up justice. And We brought forth iron wherein is mighty power, as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is that will help Him (His deen), and His Messengers in the unseen. Verily, Allah is All-Strong, All-Mighty." In this verse, Allah (S.W.T.) clarifies to us the mission of the messengers and those who come after them. Their mission is to establish justice amongst people and this can not occur unless with appointing a Khalifah who establishes justice. Imam Ibn Taimiyah says concerning this verse: "That is why the prophet (S.A.W.) ordered his Ummah to appoint leaders on them, and ordered those leaders to return the trust to the right owners and that if they rule, they are to rule with justice. The prophet (S.A.W.) ordered the people to obey those leaders as long as they obey Allah." {Book Al-Hisbah}
Imam Ibn Taimiyah also says: "It is essential that we know that leadership is one of the most greatest obligators of Deen. As a matter of fact, there is no Deen without it. The children of Adam will not fulfill their needs unless they get together for their needs. And when they get together, they must have a leader. For this reason, the Prophet (S.A.W.) says: "If three are travelling, there must be a leader amongst them." So, the Prophet (S.A.W.) mandated that one is to be appointed as the leader in a simple situation where three people are travelling. This is to make us aware of other important types of get-togethers." {Book As-Siyasah As-Shr'eyah, p138&139}
And for this reason it was important to implement and revive the khilafah again....
We have too many groups, one wanting to beat the other in everything, even simple organisations ie zakah finds, halal trusts etc...everyone wants to be better than the other...thats not Islam, we are one body and the khilafah abolishes all those organisations..is this the reason perhaps no-one wants the khilafah?
Brothers and sisters, may Allah guide us to truth, keep us on the path of the siratul mastaqeem (Al Fatihah)...Ameen Allahuma Ameen
Fi AmaanILLAH
