Kategori: 2- Politics-Economics
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In Defence of Sayyid Qutb Against the Charge of Communism
A Man Hanged by Socialists and Accused of Socialism In the early hours of 29 August 1966, the Egyptian state hanged a sixty year old man who had memorised the Quran as a village boy, who had finished his tafsir of the Book of Allah inside a prison cell, whose…
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Taking Others as Lords: Parliaments
In every Muslim country today there is a building where a few hundred people vote on what citizens may do and what they must avoid, and once the votes are counted the result becomes law, enforced by police, courts and schools on everyone, whatever the Quran and the Sunnah say…
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The Burning Child and the Silent Pulpits
Look at her. A little girl from Gaza sits wrapped in a blanket while fire swallows the walls around her, and in the next frame she lies in a hospital bed with burns across her face, staring into the camera with eyes that ask the whole Ummah one question. Where…
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Palestine Belongs to the Whole Ummah
For more than a hundred years the land of al Masjid al Aqsa has been bleeding in front of the eyes of almost two billion Muslims, and for more than a hundred years those Muslims have been taught to watch it like spectators watching a match in a foreign league.…
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Selling the Cage as Freedom
To keep a bird in a cage you have two choices. You can catch it by force and shut the door behind it, and then it will beat its wings against the bars for as long as it lives. Or you can paint the cage in bright colours, fill it…
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The Necessity of Political Parties and Their Permissibility in the Sharia
Are political parties lawful in Islam? This article argues that forming and joining them is permissible in the Sharia, and in this age necessary. Building on Āl ʿImrān 3:104, the Pledge of ʿAqaba and the maxims of usūl, it answers seven objections in turn, including the verse “every party rejoicing…
