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THE RELIGION REFORMERS: CHAPTER 2


2 - The reformer says:

"Hadrat Prophet rejected the dictatorial regime and sovereignty. Nevertheless, Islam was convenient for the establishment of such a regime. So it happened."

The reformer is very wrong in this idea of his. While the constitutions of European kingdoms regard the kings sacred and unquestionable. Islam, with the hadith, "Each of you are a shepherd. All of you are responsible for the people you rule," holds rulers equal to average compatriots, and it does not give place to dictatorship or sovereignty. The law of Islam is Divine. The ruler also has to adapt himself to Islam and to maintain it like every compatriot. The rulers who turned dictators were those who departed from Islam and misused their powers. Hadrat 'Umar al-Faruq (radi-Allahu 'anh), the Caliph, who was questioned on his excess fabrics which in fact he took from his son's share in the equally distributed booty taken in war, and Hadrat 'Umar ibn Abd al-'Aziz, who, on the day he became the Caliph said to his wives, "I undertook a heavy task. Maybe I will not have time for you. If you wish, you may get your mahr (marriage settlement) and alimony and go," were the precise exemplars of Muslim rulers. Islam cannot be blemished if such people are few.




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