Caliphate Contentions (8): “We Don’t Need a Caliphate As I can Practise Islam in Safety Today”

To say “we are safe, so we do not need the caliphate” is to confuse the individual's luxury with the community’s duty. It is to claim sufficiency in fragments of the deen, while neglecting its collective expression and divine mandate. It is also complacency and a failure to recognise that their individual circumstances may be in relative comfort due to the space afforded to them by a kufr regime and ideology today, that can be easily taken away tomorrow – leaving them with no recourse to anyone to stand up for them on the basis of Islam either.

الأنظمةُ العربيةُ: القُبَّةُ الحديديَّةُ الحقيقيةُ لحمايةِ إسرائيلَ

والسؤالُ الحقيقيُّ الذي يهربُ منه الجميعُ هو: إذا كان القادةُ هم العائقُ أمام تحركِ الجيوش، فما هو واجبُ المخلصين من أبناءِ الأمة، ومن قادتِها في الجيوش، وعلمائِها، وصفوتِها؟

Betrayers of the Inheritance (2) – Resistance Scholars vs Regime Scholars

The difference between the scholars of resistance and the scholars of the regime is not one of interpretation. It is one of allegiance. The scholars of the regime have allied themselves with the nation-state, with its borders, treaties, and strategic partnerships. They invoke fiqh only to neuter obligation, to convert jihad into illegal activism, and to criminalize solidarity as sedition. Their invocations of "wisdom" serve only to excuse cowardice.

Implications of Selling Oil for Gold (1/3)

Shifting oil sales from the Petrodollar to gold would drastically alter global financial dynamics. Nations would accumulate gold instead of US dollars, possibly devaluing the dollar and boosting gold demand and price volatility. This could challenge US economic hegemony and introduce global economic uncertainty. There might be a push towards a new gold-based trade standard, affecting trade balances, monetary policies, and potentially leading to more stable but expensive oil prices. International trade agreements would likely need renegotiation to adapt to these changes.