Is there a valid difference of opinion on the question of voting for kuffaar candidates or for Muslim candidates who are fussaaq, but they fully suppo

Answer

Voting is not permissible. While many molvis say that it is permissible, they are in error. They have no valid Shar'i daleel for their stupid, baatil view. Voting for a kuffaar dispensation is to vote for Taghoot. The Qur'aan Majeed brands as 'kaafiroon' those who decide/adjudicate according to the law of Taghoot. The molvis here in South Africa are totally, in entirety, absolutely bereft of any Shar'i basis for their stupid opinion of permissibility.

Their only 'daleel' is what Mufti Muhammad Shafi (Rahmatullah alayh) had opined. Firstly, Hadhrat Mufti Shafi's opinion was for the setting in Pakistan which in his view could still be redeemed and saved from the brink of Jahannam if men of the Deen could seize the reins of power, become the government, abrogate the constitution of Taghoot and institute the Shariah as the Law of the Land. But that was a 'distant pipe dream' which was unattainable, but which the honourable Mufti Sahib could not foresee.

Secondly, western influences stunted the wisdom which stems from the stolid conservatism of the Ideology of the Sunnah, hence there was an interpretive mellowing of the rustic style of the Shariah to surrender to the demands of the crass kufr western code with its immoral social conventions.

It is most unfortunate, in fact tragic, that even our senior Ulama having fallen by the wayside of spiritual stagnation and retrogression which was the fatal consequence of the creeping disease of Imaani desensitization resulting from proximity and mingling with the fussaaq and kuffaar. Instead of Amr Bil Ma'roof and Da'wat, they surrendered with docility to kowtow and bootlick the political leadership which consisted of Munaafiqeen and Murtaddeen. They forgot that Hadhrat Umar (Radhiyallahu anhu) proclaimed on the occasion of taking possession of the City of Jerusalem: "We are a Nation whom Allah has elevated with Islam."

It is of the demands of the Office of the Ulama who are supposed to be the Representatives of Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to state their fatwas in the shadow of the Qur'aan: "Seek aid from Allah and have Sabr, for verily, the earth belongs to Allah. He apportions it to whomever of His servants He wills. And, the ultimate victory is for the Muttaqeen."

This Sabr and Divine Aid are the constituents of the Qur'aanic Code of life (the Shariah) which are the vital requisites for success and prosperity which cannot be acquired by watering down the Shariah for the sake of submitting to the law of Taghoot.

Should validity be eked out from the Shariah like blood from a stone for predicating Mufti Shafi's view with permissibility, then it has to be incumbently related to the then prevailing Pakistani scenario. It is absolutely ludicrous and glaringly haraam to cite Mufti Shafi's fatwa as the Maqees Alayh for transferring the ruling of permissibility to voting here in South Africa where all the candidates are the illegitimate progeny of Iblees, including those juhala and fussaaq who masquerade as Muslims when in reality they are Munaafiqeen.

Thus, we can state without hesitation and mildly that the molvis who promote voting for Taghoot are Juhhaal at the minimum.