The Lost Sharia Rights Under the Rule of Tyrannical Regimes
and How the Rightly Guided Caliphate State Guarantees Them
Under man-made systems and imported laws, many of the Sharia rights guaranteed by Islam are wasted, and full justice can only be restored and achieved under the Rightly Guided Caliphate state on the Prophetic method, which applies Islamic Sharia in all its details. The following is a statement of the most important of these lost rights and how the Caliphate guarantees them:
1- Political Rights and Justice in Governance
In Man-Made Systems:
Ruling elites control power, and people are denied the right to choose their rulers through legitimate consultation. Dictatorship and corruption spread, and people are wronged in the judiciary and courts.
In the Caliphate State:
The ruler is chosen by legitimate pledge (Bay'ah) to rule according to the Book and the Sunnah, is subject to accountability, and rules with justice without favoritism, as Omar bin Al-Khattab said: "When did you enslave people when their mothers gave birth to them free?"
2- Economic and Financial Rights:
In Man-Made Systems: Usury and monopoly spread, workers and farmers are wronged, and the nation's wealth is plundered for the benefit of a small group, while most people live in poverty.
In the Caliphate State: Prohibition of usury and monopoly, and application of one of the reasons for ownership and how, and explaining how to dispose of money, how it grows, and dividing ownership into three types: public ownership, state ownership, and private ownership, and clarifying Zakat, spoils of war, and Fay' to ensure fair distribution of wealth, prohibiting permanent taxes that are taken unjustly, and prohibiting customs duties taken from the subjects of the Caliphate state.
3- Rights of Women and the Family
In Man-Made Systems: The rights of wives to maintenance and housing are violated, and the rights of divorced women and children are lost. "Tourism marriages" spread, in which women are exploited, as in the case of unregistered marriage, which deprives women of their rights and treats women as commodities.
In the Caliphate State: A woman is considered a mother, sister, housewife, and honor that must be protected, and the rights of women are preserved in terms of waiting period ('Iddah) and inheritance.
Marital life is a life of reassurance, and the companionship of spouses is one of friendship. The husband's guardianship over the wife is guardianship of care, not guardianship of rule, and she has been obligated to obey him, and he has been obligated to provide for her according to what is known to be appropriate for her.
4- Security Rights:
In Man-Made Systems: Arbitrary arrests and torture spread, as in the prisons of oppressive regimes in Muslim countries, and mouths are silenced. People are tried by unjust man-made laws, and people are even imprisoned without trials, even in violation of their own man-made laws.
In the Caliphate State: The principle is the presumption of innocence, and no one is punished except by court order, and it is not permissible to torture anyone at all, and anyone who does so will be punished.
5- Educational Rights:
In Man-Made Systems: Sharia education is neglected, and secular curricula are imposed that distance young people from their religion. Moral seditions and corrupt media spread, and curricula make the character of the disbelieving West the role model.
In the Caliphate State: The basis on which the education curriculum is based is the Islamic creed, so the study materials and teaching methods are all placed in a way that does not cause any deviation in education from this basis.
The education policy in the Caliphate state is to form the Islamic mentality and the Islamic psychology, so all the study materials that are to be taught are placed on the basis of this policy.
The goal of education in the Caliphate state is to create the Islamic personality and provide people with the sciences and knowledge related to the affairs of life. Therefore, the methods of education are made in a way that achieves this goal and prevents any method that leads to other than this goal.
Conclusion: Why are these rights only achieved in the Caliphate? Because the man-made systems:
Prioritize the interests of the rulers and the interests of the major powers to which the client rulers in Muslim countries owe allegiance and prioritize them over the interests of the Ummah, and follow imported laws that contradict the Sharia and lack the justice that the rightly guided rulers apply.
As for the Caliphate state, it: rules according to the Book and the Sunnah, restores rights to their owners, and achieves the justice that God promised to the believers: ﴿Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth﴾.
O Allah, show us the truth as truth and grant us its following, and show us falsehood as falsehood and grant us its avoidance, and keep us steadfast on the truth and let us see with our own eyes the state of truth and justice, the state of the Rightly Guided Caliphate.
Written for the Central Media Office Radio of Hizb ut Tahrir
Fadi Al-Salmi - Wilayah Yemen
