{"id":6780,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/responsibility-to-establish-islamic-political-system\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:20","slug":"responsibility-to-establish-islamic-political-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/responsibility-to-establish-islamic-political-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsibility To Establish Islamic Political System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Mr. Ghamdi is hard at work,  trying to promote Religious Darwinism. His total argument is \u201coffer  prayer, keep fast, pay zakah, do hujj and remember Allah. Do not try to  establish or do not strive for an Islamic socio political economic  system, but if it happens by itself then it is well and good.\u201d This is a  term like Darwin Theory of evolution that says: \u201cLet things happen as  they are happening and Islamic state may come in existence through  evolution. We really do not have to interfere with social evolutionary  process.\u201d As if Mr. Iblees is sitting dormant or as if all the Socio  political economic systems that have ruled the parts of the world in the  past or in present came into existence on their own. It is to suppose  that all the unbelievers who are <em>milat-e wahida<\/em> (singe community)  will allow this natural evolution of Islamic Socio Economic Political  system to happen on its own. To me this is flawed logic, basically  telling the Muslims all we are required to do is to do our rituals and  If Islamic state will come into existence by natural evolution then well  and good, else just be it.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Thank  you for sharing your views. However, would it not be better to  critically evaluate the arguments proffered by Ghamidi sb &#8212; arguments  drawn from the Holy Qur&#8217;an &#8212; on the issue under discussion and point  out their flaws?<\/p>\n<div>Muslims  should be very academic as well as sincere in their approach to  religion. If we think that there is something wrong in a viewpoint then  instead of emotional outbursts we should critically evaluate the opinion  and show how it is erroneously derived from the sources.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6780\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Ghamdi is hard at work,  trying to promote Religious Darwinism. His total argument is \u201coffer  prayer, keep fast, pay zakah, do hujj and remember Allah. Do not try to  establish or do not strive for an Islamic socio political economic  system, but if it happens by itself then it is well and good.\u201d This is a  term like Darwin Theory of evolution that says: \u201cLet things happen as  they are happening and Islamic state may come in existence through  evolution. We really do not have to interfere with social evolutionary  process.\u201d As if Mr. Iblees is sitting dormant or as if all the Socio  political economic systems that have ruled the parts of the world in the  past or in present came into existence on their own. It is to suppose  that all the unbelievers who are <em>milat-e wahida<\/em> (singe community)  will allow this natural evolution of Islamic Socio Economic Political  system to happen on its own. To me this is flawed logic, basically  telling the Muslims all we are required to do is to do our rituals and  If Islamic state will come into existence by natural evolution then well  and good, else just be it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1313,1544],"tags":[1545,1584,1318,1320],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-issues","category-preaching-directives","tag-dawah","tag-islamic-system","tag-political-system","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Responsibility To Establish Islamic Political System - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/responsibility-to-establish-islamic-political-system\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Responsibility To Establish Islamic Political System - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mr. Ghamdi is hard at work, trying to promote Religious Darwinism. 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