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In The Name Of Allah
Most Gracious Most Merciful
By Sharique Naeem To many Khilafah is a ‘dream’, a figment of imagination of extremist Muslims. However, if that is the case, then it is truly one unique dream. Khilafah happens to be the only dream, feared by so many in the western ruling faction; It is the only ‘dream’ dreamt by so many in the Muslim world; and It is the only dream, the dreaming of which is a crime in many of the Central Asian countries, where hundreds languish in jails, simply because of their verbal call for this dream. At the time of Prophet (pbuh), the 313 ill-equipped Muslims at Badr had a conviction for righteousness, and they achieved it against all odds. Our forefathers had dreamt of Pakistan, and they achieved it by defying all odds. Martin Luther King had a dream and the world saw it fulfilled to an extent. Nelson Mandela has a dream, and he saw it materialize with his own eyes when the apartheid regime came to an end.Today, there are Muslims who dream of the Muslim world, united under one Islamic Khilafah, a super state, where the rulers of the Ummah act as a shield of protection, a state which implements Islam in all spheres of life, and a state which will once again uplift the Muslims to the level of glory which they once enjoyed, and make Islam the international standard for human rights, and treaties. Those who ‘dream’ this will too -God willing- eventually achieve it no matter how massive the storms of time. PakObserver (24th March 2006)
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