Isn't it time for us to commit to the straight path and stay away from the crooked lines?!
News:
Holding the sixth parliamentary elections after 2003, on November 11, 2025.
Comment:
With all the media hype that usually accompanies elections, and with the political actions carried out by the powerful and statements and oppositions aimed at covering up the reality of such elections in Muslim countries, including Iraq, and in light of a constitution and systems that do not implement God’s law and do not make it the judge in their affairs, it is necessary to place the straight line next to the crooked lines, so that the truth becomes clear from falsehood, the lawful from the forbidden, and the good from the bad. God Almighty said: ﴿And, [moreover], this is my path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow [other] ways, for you will be separated from His way. This has He instructed you that you may become righteous.﴾.
Knowing the Sharia ruling requires verifying its predicate, and its predicate here is electing members of the House of Representatives, the nature of the Council’s work and its powers, and then applying the Sharia ruling to it.
In a democratic system, the House of Representatives performs tasks and functions, most notably: enacting legislation, granting confidence to the government, holding it accountable, approving the general budget, swearing to uphold the man-made constitution, ratifying agreements and treaties, and electing the head of state.
As for the reality of elections in Sharia, it is an authorization and representation in the matter for which the election is being held. Accordingly, the Sharia ruling on elections takes the ruling of agency. If you are authorized to do a lawful act, the agency is lawful, and if you are authorized to do a forbidden act, the agency is forbidden.
As for legislation, it is an act that a Muslim is not permitted to practice, neither by legislating nor by voting on legislation by negation or affirmation, even if this legislation agrees with the rule of Islam; the credibility and reference of the legislation is that it has evidence from Sharia, whether the people agree to it or not. Legislation belongs to God Almighty alone, and no one has the right to share God Almighty in it. God Almighty said: ﴿The decision is only for Allah﴾.
As for granting confidence to a secular government that does not rule according to what God has revealed, it is not permissible for a Muslim, just as it is not permissible for him to ratify agreements and treaties that are based on the laws of disbelief, let alone agreements that give the disbeliever a way over the country and the people. God Almighty says: ﴿And never will Allah give the disbelievers over the believers a way [to overcome them].﴾.
As for swearing to uphold the constitution and loyalty to the nation, the constitution is a man-made law that it is forbidden to resort to, and loyalty is only to God, so how can a representative swear by God, by the Book of God, to disobey God and resort to other than His law?!
As for the issue of accountability, there is no doubt that it is an important and necessary requirement, and it is one of the acts of enjoining good and forbidding evil, which is an obligation, but is accountability in the House of Representatives based on Islam or on the basis of the constitution and man-made laws?
As for approving the budget, it is invalid for everyone with eyes, as the budget is based on taxes and usurious loans in line with the capitalist economy.
After this statement, it becomes clear that these elections are held according to a man-made constitution that contradicts Islam, so they become forbidden, and they are false testimony aimed at reinforcing the idea that change is impossible, portrayed by the ignorant, the cowardly, or the scholars of the rulers, and they have other goals.
But change is within the power of the Islamic nation if it relies on God Almighty and adheres to the method of His Messenger ﷺ, then joins hands with the sincere, and they are many, praise be to God. We invite you to this good, and God is behind the intention.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir
Dr. Abd al-Ilah Muhammad – Jordan Province