Declaring His Pledge to the Mu’mineen, Allah Ta’ala states in the Qur’aan Majeed:

“Allah has promised those who have accepted Imaan amongst you and practise righteous deeds that He will most assuredly establish them as rulers in the earth just as He had made rulers those before them.” (Surah Noor, aayat 55)

“All the armies of the heavens and the earth belong to only Allah. And, Allah is The Mighty, The Wise.” (Surah Fatah, aayat 7)

“If the kuffaar wage war against you, they will turn their backs (on you and flee). Then they will find neither friend nor helper.” (Surah Fatah, aayat 22)

“Then We made you the rulers in the earth after them (the kuffaar who had ruled), so that We could see how you (O Believers!) will acquit yourselves.” (Surah Yunoos, aayat 14)

“Their Rabb (Allah) revealed to His Rusul (Messengers) : ‘Most certainly, We shall destroy the oppressors, and We shall establish you (O Believers!) on earth (i.e.grant you political control) after them (i.e.after the destruction of the kuffaar). This (Promise) is for those who fear My Rank and they fear My Warning.” (Surah Ibraaheem, aayat 14)

“(O Allah!) You bestow sovereignty (political power and control) to whomever You wish and You snatch away sovereignty from whomever You wish. You elevate whomever You wish and You disgrace whomever You wish. In Your power is all goodness. Verily You have power over all things.” (Surah Aal-e-imraan, Aayat 26)

“Verily, the earth belongs to only Allah. He grants it (i.e. its control) to whomever He wishes among His servants (whether they are Muslim or kaafir).And, the ultimate success (and victory) is for the Muttaqeen.” (Surah A’raaf, aayat 128)

“He (will grant you) something else which you love, (namely) help from Allah and a quick victory (over the kuffaar). (O Nabi!) Give the glad tidings (of these bestowals) to the Mu’mineen.” (Surah As-Saff, aayat 13)

“Allah strengthens whomever He wills with His aid. Verily in this is a lesson for the people of wisdom.” (Surah Aal-e-Imraan, aayat 13)

* “Soon will your Rabb destroy your enemies and establish you the rulers on earth. He will then observe how you act (i.e.how you will rule the land).” (Surah A’raaf, aayat 129)

“And it is He (Allah) Who has made you to inherit their lands and their homes and their wealth and (even) such lands on which you had not set foot. Allah has power over everything.” (Surah Ahzaab, aayat 27)

“And if they (the kuffaar) plot to deceive (and trap) you, then (know) that, verily, Allah suffices for you.. It is He Who had fortified you (O Muhammad!) with His aid and with the Mu’mineen.” (Surah Anfaal, aayat 63)

“It is He (Allah) Who had made you the rulers of the earth. And He elevated some of you over others in ranks so that He may test you with regard to the (Favours) He had bestowed to you.” (Surah An’aam, aayat 165)

The aforementioned Qur’aanic declarations should be more than adequate to convince all true Muslims that the only Administrator of the heavens and earth is Rabbul Aalameen , Allah Azza Wa Jal - The Creator and Sustainer of all the worlds, the known and the unknown. These Qur’aanic verses as well as many others, and also many Ahadith of Nabi-e-Kareem (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) proclaim without the slightest ambiguity that political control on earth is bestowed by only Allah Azza Wa Jal. Regardless of the way a ruler, government, king, dictator, autocrat, just ruler, unjust ruler and oppressor gain power or usurp power, whether peacefully or by violence, and whether by any means whatsoever, in the final analysis, in terms of the Qur’aan and Hadith, it is Allah Ta’ala Who appoints the ruling authority.

REVILING

Precisely for this reason did Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) warn Muslims against the futile exercise of reviling the rulers. Villification of rulers serves no beneficial purpose. It will not produce a change of government and regime. That is the prerogative of the One Being Who has elevated the ruler to his position of authority and government, be the rulers fussaaq or pious.

Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) had made it categorically clear that rulers are the reflections of the deeds and misdeeds of the masses over whom they are appointed to rule. A pious population will be blessed with benign, pious and just rulers. An evil people will have evil, oppressive and unjust tyrants imposed over them to drive them along brutally.

OUR ATTITUDE

When things go haywire in the land, when calamities befall people, when anarchy and strife prevail and when the nation is pulverized and disgraced by external enemies, then people react emotionally. They are quick to villify the rulers and place all the blame for the calamities at the doorstep of the rulers, forgetting themselves and their rebellious and immoral conduct which occasions such disasters.

We (and we include ourselves), tend to react emnotionally and hurl epithets of villification against Mr.Bush, Mr.Blair and Mr.Musharraf. We entirely forget that Mr.Bush, Mr.Blair and Mr.Sharon are manifestations of Allah’s Athaab (Punishment). The Qur’aan states with clarity that the kuffaar are “Our servants ” appointed to punish the Believers for their rebellious transgressions against Allah Ta’ala.

THE MIRRORS

Since according to the Qur’aan and Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), the kuffaar who are placed in domination over the Ummah, are the mirrors of our misdeeds, Muslims react unintelligently when they condemn and villify the mirrors which display their own ugly forms. Once an extremely ugly ignoramus who had never seen a mirror in his life, was passing through a wilderness. He saw something glittering on the ground. It was a broken piece of mirror. He picked it up and saw his own ugly image in the mirror. So appalled was he by the looks of the image that he threw the mirror with great force on the ground shattering it. He then commented: “You are so ugly. No wonder they threw you away in this desolate place.”

Our reaction is similar to the understanding and outburst of the ugly ignoramus. We fail to understand that the ugly rulers and tyrants ruling us and driving us along oppressively as if we all are asses, are in fact the images of our own ugly deeds.

Consider Mr.Musharraf, the president of Pakistan. Everyone blames him for the debacle and disgrace which the Taliban suffered. No one blames the people of Pakistan. Yet, these very people who lambast Bush & Co., including Musharraf, have appointed this kaafir to the seat of government. While it is Allah Ta’ala Who has confirmed and established the regime of Musharraf, He has made the vile people of Pakistan do their own dirty work, He has left them to set up their own mirror in position so that they may view their own ugliness therein and be tortured by the visions of their own ugliness.

In the recent referendum, approximately 45 million people voted to decide if Musharraf should be retained as president. Forty four and a half million so-called Muslims voted the kaafir to power. Who should now be blamed? Musharraf or those who have confirmed the tyrannical and un-Islamic regime of the kaafir?

It should be abundantly clear that the Muslim masses, not only in Pakistan, but all over the world, are not at all interested in the rule and law of the Shariah. While they fear to say this in so many words for the fear of displaying their kufr, they demonstrate their hidden kufr by appointing as their rulers those who will steer them along like cattle with the whip of kufr and tryranny.

LESSOR OF THE EVILS

For the masses of today’s Ummah, the lesser of the evils is to appoint fussaaq and kuffaar to rule over them. The first ‘evil”, which they dare not proclaim, is the Law of Allah —the Shariah of the Qur’aan. The second evil is oppressive and tyrannical rulers -frauds, robbers, scoundrels and debaucherers - who parasitically milk the resources of the land, who pillage the honour of the population, who rob the people of their wealth and who commit indescribable acts of brutality, immorality and villainy in the land. But, since the Muslim masses of today are averse to Shariah law, they rather choose the latter evil which for them is tolerable, but Shariah law is intolerable.

They want their evil television. They want brothels. They want liquor stores. They want night clubs and casinos. They want to deal in interest. They want to ape western styles. They want to be like a drunken consumer-mad society like the western kuffaar. In short, they want all the haraam, fisq and fujoor which the West projects as enlightment, progress, science and technology. To obtain this ruinous and haraam life style, it is better in their concept of life to suffer under the yoke of evil kuffaar than to submit to the Divine Shariah of Islam. May Allah Ta’ala save us from such mental derangement.

ALLAH’S AID

Since the Shariah of Allah has become detestable to Muslims, we should not expect His aid. There is no surprise in the victories which the kuffaar achieve over Muslims. The Ummah has become the scum of the nations of the world because they treat the Shariah as scum. May Allah protect our Imaan. The epithet of “scum” for Muslims of these times, was coined by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). He said that a time will dawn when Muslims will abandon the Qur’aan and Sunnah. At that time the Ummah will become like ‘ghuthaa’ -muck brought down by floodwater in its surge downwards to the sea. Muslims should sit up and heed what Allah Ta’ala warns in the Qur’aan Majeed: “If Allah helps you, then no one can conquer you. And, if He withdraws His aid from you, then who is there besides Him Who can help you?”