Ruling System of Muslims
Source: www.khilafah.com The Existing Ruling System of Muslims
In the past, the ruling authorities were always situated on the same side as their people against the enemies. Even if they were defeated, the rulers would work with their citizenry against the enemies. The current situation is unique because the efforts of these authorities are directing the political, economic, and military resources of their people in the interest of other countries and, hence, they are the eyes and ears of their colonial masters against their own people. This situation is one of the greatest calamities facing the Ummah as it keeps the sleeping giant in a feeble state. When the colonial powers occupied the Muslim lands, they were very cautious not to let the Ummah feed on the thought that its rulers are agents. If they allowed the Ummah to sever its relationship with these puppet rulers, then the colonialist countries would be compelled to engage the recalcitrant nation and thus expose its own people to peril and loss of life in order to maintain their dominance over the Ummah. The best scenario for the colonialist powers was to install their agent in authority and act as if they were forced to leave by the agent's influence. They would also provide their agents with weapons to arm some mercenaries within the Ummah in order to secure and maintain the interests of the colonialist countries by the blood of Muslims, rendering a brother to fight his own brother.
The colonial powers were cautious not to disclose their agents, until the day came when the agents would stand beside their masters in broad daylight. The agents confronted the real Islamic da'wah carriers, who were, and still remain, the only real threat to Western influences in Muslim lands. Other movements did not show enmity to the West, but only served to deceive some Muslims for a short period of time.
Even during times of severe fighting among the agents, the agents did not disclose each other's treachery, except in small portions. During the most critical times of conflict among the agents, they did not reveal the facts to the Ummah in order to conceal the truth that such conflicts among the agents were only intended to serve the interests of their masters.
The West and its agents deemed that the Ummah would forget how such states were established, and would forget that the rulers are running their countries for the interests of other countries. For example, the rulers now can claim that they are really ruling their people according to the people's best interests. They ridicule anyone who talks about colonialism and colonialists, as if he was telling a fairy tale. They accuse those who attack them and try to reveal the fact that they are agents as fanatics obsessed with the so-called "Conspiracy Theory" who try to smear their images. They claim that nothing has been planned for and plotted beforehand and that all political actions they embarked upon were decided by their own initiative, and that their decisions were based upon their ijtihad and the interest of the people.
The Muslims must not be deceived by the ploys of these agents, no matter how convincing their words may seem, no matter how hospitable they try to display themselves, and no matter how many tears they may shed. Those who are aware among the Ummah must constantly address this subject and keep it a live topic of discussion for the Ummah and must continue to disclose the agents implanted in the Muslim World and to reveal the truth of their existence as well as their actions. The difference between us and the rulers is not only ideological, but also sincerity, as they are nothing but traitors to Islam and the people they rule over.
