Is there a divine method to re-establish Khilafah?

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Is there a divine method to re-establish Khilafah?

Rational necessity coupled with the undisputable evidences in the Islamic texts makes the existence of the Caliphate obligatory for all Muslims. Therefore, in the absence of the Caliphate, its restoration is also an obligation.

Only the Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb-ut-Tahrir) has made the claim that it has extracted the divine method from the Islamic texts through the process of Ijthad (scholarly exertion). The method, meaning that one must undertake the steps as part of an obligation to re-establish the Caliphate. This article disputes this, the points listed below elaborates upon this.


1) The method has been built entirely upon the evidences related to how the first Islamic State was established by the Prophet (SAW) and His companions. Naturally, the pool of evidence extends from how the Prophet (SAW) and His companions took the various steps from the beginning of the divine revelation in Mecca to the migration (Hijra) to Medina. First point to note is there is no evidence in the Hadiths or the Quran that explicitly or implicitly states how the Islamic State should be re-established.


The method is primarily built on extracting the evidences that led to the changing of the non-Islamic system to the Islamic System that manifested in the Islamic State in Medina. Those acts are applied to our current situation to re-establish the Islamic state by changing the non-Islamic system prevailing over Muslims. The common factor being that we are trying to change the political system governing a society. However, reason dictates that one must also look at the differences as well as the similarities in making an analogy between two different scenarios. There is a fundamental difference between the Prophet (SAW) establishing the first Islamic State in the primitive Arabian society, and of our situation of re-establishing the Islamic State amongst Muslims.

Since the two scenarios are so different, one would argue the differences outweigh the similarities thus the evidences extracted from the Seerah (Life of the Prophet) is not even applicable, let alone binding. Hence, one can argue that the establishment of the first Islamic State cannot be a reference point as we are re-establishing the state amongst Muslims.

There is a further significant problem in that the non-Islamic system of Medina was changed and not Mecca, thus the focus should be on those acts related to Medina and this is elaborated in the next point.

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