Deen-e-Islam and Muslim country are TWO different things. Islam is more about Ibadah and Dawah than Khilafat and Peace is the necessary pre-requisite for both. That’s why, I feel, Arab countries need more of peace than so-called democracratic movements. Democracy was always there in Islam, but not this Electoral/America-imported democracy. Democracy should mean Rule by Representation of the Institutions, Individuals and different sections of society through debates and munaziras. It's main purpose should be delivery of a right balance of peace & justice, rights& responsibilities, security& liberty of all types: physical, economic and social. But liberty, in the name of experimentation and change, should not go beyond and breach the centuries-old Human Values. Constitution’s 'guiding' principles should be based on Divine Messages of Religion, which are ABSOLUTE, and not the ever-changing human sources of knowledge like Arts (five senses and feeling) and Science (logic and intellect). That does NOT mean that Religion is against all these faculties of human endeavors for gaining knowledge. In fact, the way Science is not against Arts/feelings, rather goes beyond it, Religion too is in line with Human feelings, intellect and introspection and furthermore it goes BEYOND them to tell us the truth and to provide the SENSE OF FULFILMENT, which today's Science may be incapable to recognize it. But the same may be proved in future by some new human faculty of tomorrow.
SOMEONE WANTED ELABORATION of my statement " Islam is more about Ibadah and Dawah than Khilafat", MY REPLY WAS as follows : Whatever studies of literatures of Hazraate Shah Waliullah, Sir Syed Ahmed, Abul Ala Moududi/Qutb Shaheed, Waheeduddin Khan, Ali Miyan Nadwi, Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind, I have done and many more like Mujaddid Alf-Sani's, Al-Ghazali's, Ibn-Sina's etc and read about lives of Our Prophet(s.a.w), his Sahaba (r.a.), four imams, four tareeqats etc, I could conclude that Khilafat has been MISINTERPRETED as "only political Government" through forceful implementation of Shariat by few of the above mentioned scholars/leaders of last century since 1920s after the fall of Ottaman Khilafat.
In fact, many of the above mentioned 'rightly-guided' Scholars/Ulema have understood the TRUTH that Khilafat means : "Being a deputy of Allah Paak for implementing Shariat first on ONESELF and in parallel through DAWAH, on his family, on the villagers/neighbors, on a region, on a country, then if possible globally within the laws of prevailing government or administration". Ahkaam of Shariat for each aspects of daily life (personal, marital, family, business, relatives, habits/manners, physique, time, money etc) as per Quran and Sunnah is nothing but IBADAH. And to bring these virtues/commandments and to keep these sustainable in our lives require DAWAT. Dawat can be done through speech, writting, touring, meeting and discussing with people, ulema, living with waliallahs, peers, murshids and also dawah by Ijtemaas, dawah by social-works etc.
Ibadah and Dawah are contineous processes whereas, the "establishment of Khilafat in a state" is only ONE of the Muslims' MANY objectives.
Now, for example, if a momin is on an island alone. There also he is supposed to establish khilafat on himself for that particular time and place, the khilafat will be Namaz, Zikr, Acts of Halal, control of Nafs, Sabr-o-shukr, etc and these are nothing but IBADAH. And if he happens to meet another human on that island, he should start DAWAT to him as well.
May Allah save the Arabs from chaos and from puppets-of-america. And may Allah lead us Muslims to Sirat-e-Mustaqeem through the "Prophet-like Approach and Activism". Aameen.
