Are we obligated to establish a caliphate?

Reference: Al-Fatāwa al-Jaliyyah Vol 1 P 27

Question: What is your opinion regarding a person who says: ‘our responsibility  is to strive to establish an Islamic caliphate.’ Is this advice correct or wrong?

Response: We have not been made responsible for calling to [the establishment of] a caliphate. We have only been made responsible for calling to Tawheed (to single out Allāh in Worship).

Whoever calls to the caliphate has actually left calling to what Allāh has obligated upon him, and instead he calls to what his Hizb (group) have obligated upon him.

Allāh, the most-high, said

{Or have they other deities who have ordained for them a religion to which Allah has not consented?} [42:21]

So the caliphate is from Allāh, the glorified and most-high, He is the one who decrees it for the person from Ahl al-Bayt – the family of the Messenger of Allāh. He is the promised Mahdi, who will come in preparation for the descending of ‘Eesa (alayhi as-salām).

Yes, this is the caliphate which will be established.

Thus, the caliphate will occur when Allāh decrees it, not when we want it.

To say that people are “working towards the caliphate” – then this type of objective is falsehood. This is a false intention – it is not permitted. In reality, they have corrupted the [true] Da’wah due to them intending a political Da’wah, they only intend the chair [to authority].

We belong to Allāh, and to Him we shall return.

 

هل نحن مكلفون بالخلافة

المرجع: الفتاوى الجَلِيَّة ج1 ص27ّ١

السؤال: ما رأي فضيلتكم فيمن يقول نحن الآن الواجب أن نسعى، وأن نكرس جهودنا لإقامة خلافة راشدة، فهل هذا التوجيه صحيح، أم أنه خاطئ؟

الجواب: نعم يجوز لنا أن نطعم الكافر المعاهد والأسير لسنا مكلفين بالدعوة إلى خلافة وإنما كلفنا بالدعوة إلى التوحيد
ومن دعا إلى خلافة فقد ترك ماكلفه الله به وأتى بما كلفه به أهل حزبه والله تعالى يقول :

{أم لهم شركاء شرعوا لهم من الدين مالم يأذن به الله}

فالخلافة لله سبحانه وتعالى هو الذي يقدرها عندما يقوم ذلك القائم من أهل بيت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وهو المهدي الذي يوطئ لنزول عيسى عليه السلام نعم هذه الخلافة التي ستكون . إذن فهي تكون متى شاء الله لها لا متى شئنا والقول بأنهم يعملون من أجلها فالعمل من أجلها  عمل باطل

و هذه نية باطلة لايجوز لهم أن يزاولوا الدعوة من أجلها  فإنهم قصدوا بدعوتهم هذه السياسة فقط وقصدوا الوصول إلى الكراسي.

 وإنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون .

http://www.MasjidSunnahNelson.org/

He is a graduate of the Islamic University of Madeenah, having graduated from the Institute of Arabic Language, and later the Faculty of Sharee'ah in 2010. He currently resides in Nelson, Lancashire and is the Imam of Masjid Sunnah.

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