Question
In the article I am sending you, the author, Anwar al Awlaki answering a question regarding the way of re-establishing the Khilafate states that the only way is by Jihad. He explains that the two Islamic movements, the Taliban and the Islamic Courts of Somalia, were on the right track, and that they did not fail. Their collapse was because the "Ummah had failed them". He says: "Both movements reached to power not through elections or debates but through war. They did not fall because they were failures but because the Ummah had failed them." Please comment.
Answer
While the author of the article has commented correctly regarding the initial success of the Taliban and the Islamic rule in Somalia, and the reason for their failure, he has no solution to offer. Hence, it is clear that he himself is in a quandary. He says that the two movements had failed "because the Ummah had failed them". This is correct – "the Ummah had failed them". So what is the solution? The author does not know despite the fact that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) had provided the solution and left the solution in his Sunnah.
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- Awake! 2010
- PDF page
- 9