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THE QURAN AND GOVERNMENT Those wanting to impose their own personal opinions have exploited God and religion in order to be able to seize the political power. Despite the fact that women also can rise to power and become president within the framework of the Quran, the traditionalist Islam introduced something that did not exist in the Quran and deprived women of this right. Another lie concocted was the fact that the Quraysh tribe was to be the sole place where leaders would come from. Later, the Ottoman caliphs had sheikhulislams (religious leaders) issue fatwas suiting their ends and exploited the sects they belonged to so as to consolidate their position on the throne. An example of the corruption under the Ottomans is the qualification of the sultans as being “God’s Shadow, Caliph, our Lord”. This was more than a mere embellishment! BASIC PRINCIPLES NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION SULTANATE NOT RECONCILABLE WITH THE QURAN GREATEST ENEMIES OF ISLAM AS DESCRIBED IN THE QURAN BASIC PRINCIPLES Decisions about subjects left to our discretion without going beyond the general limits set in the Quran were supposed to be reached by those in power. Yet, in practice, things were different, since acts purely human came to be considered derived from divine revelation. The principles laid down in the Quran have a general application; they are universal and Muslims cannot dodge them. For instance, the institution of caliphate may be abolished since it does not figure in the Quran, but adalat (justice) and shura (consultation) cannot be done away with regardless of any change in time and place. 38 - Who decide their affairs by mutual consultation. 42 Consultation, 38 159 – Therefore, you shall pardon them, and ask forgiveness for them, and consult them. 3 The Family of Imran, 159 Consultation was imposed even to the Prophet. This meant that no individual could have absolute power. The consultation was to be accompanied by mercy. It should be interpreted in present day terms as direct democracy or representative democracy. Justice is one of the basic principles of the Quran: 8 - O you who believe! Stand up as a witness for God in all fairness, and do not let the hatred of a people deviate you from justice. Be just. 5 The Feast, 8 8 - God does not forbid you from being kind and acting justly towards those who did not fight over faith with you, nor expelled you from your homes. God indeed loves those who are just. 60 The Tried, 8 The affairs of the community shall be entrusted with qualified people, ordains the Quran. 58 - God commands you to render back your trusts to those to whom they are due; and when you judge between man and man, that you judge with justice. 4 The Women, 58 The person to govern the believers shall be chosen from among the believers. 59 - Obey God, and obey His messenger and those charged with authority among you … 4 The Women, 59 NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION One other point of divergence between the Quran and traditionalist Islamists is the latter’s application of severe penalties to people reluctant to follow the precepts of Islam. This is against the Quran: 256 – There shall be no compulsion in religion; the right way is now distinguished from the wrong way. 2 The Cow, 256 The Quran, whose clear precepts have been brushed aside, became some sort of a talisman wrapped up and hung on the walls of houses to keep off evil; a brief portion of Its contents is now recited during daily prayers and in graveyards for the souls of the departed. People who did not perform the daily prayers and keep fast were subjected to severe punishments, in total disregard of the verse that announces that there is no compulsion in religion. A consequence of this approach has been the progressive estrangement of a category of people from religion. SULTANATE NOT RECONCILABLE WITH THE QURAN Royalty and sultanates are regimes not favored by Islam. The Quran dictates that the authority be entrusted with the person (man or woman) qualified for the office. Administration of the state is entrusted not with the competent and qualified in the traditional system of succession from father to son. The system of a republic conforms much more to the Quranic mentality. There is no trace of caliphate in the Quran. What people conceive as shariah today is not Islam as such, but Sunni and Shia sects. The name of the religion is Islam. All other denominations such as Sunna, Hanafi, Shia, Shafii or Alawi are heresies. GREATEST ENEMIES OF ISLAM AS DESCRIBED IN THE QURAN Those determined to perpetuate their own authority, their exploitation of women and whose motto is shariah are the archenemies of Islam as outlined in the Quran. Their regime is based not on the precepts of the Quran but on traditions, whims of the moment and Arab customs. Their existence is filled with harrowing experience of the risk faced once they stand deprived of what they conceive to be religion, the only means of exploitation. They accuse their enemies of favoring Semitism, and as being Freemasons, heretics, trying to cover up realities. Today we see the angelic faces of the Sunni and Shia sects. If they find the right medium and favorable milieu they shall not delay in showing their true faces. We can expect to see the occurrence of events similar to those we have witnessed in Afghanistan. The recent atrocities committed by Hizbullah in Turkey will not be uncommon. Enslavement of women, prohibition of music and drawing will follow. The Afghans have not invented a new sect. The regime they tried to impose was simply the application of sunna. According to the Hanafi sect, a person who does not perform his daily prayers is flogged until he resumes his prayers, while in the other three Sunni sects anyone who rejects performing his daily prayer is put to death. All atheists as well as those who make the apology of Islam as propounded in the Quran will be killed. Fasting shall be compulsory. Women shall cover, most probably, every inch of their body…