D O N OT L I S T E N TO T H O S E WH O S PE A K O F
D E M O C R AC Y !
BY: MAHDI_BIA AND MUFEED
Inspired by Yamani of Mahdi (atf)
When I read a book called, “ For the
Supremacy of God and Not Supremacy of
People”, by Imam Ahmad al Hassan (as), I
was suitably thrilled by the ideology presented
in it which fundamentally propagates the fact
that democracy is wrong and rulers are chosen
by Allah (swt) on His earth. Endeavors to
discuss this book and its concepts with others
resulted in their dissent, saying that the essence
of it is wrong because the world cannot
function without democracy. Now their main
argument was that Imam Khomeini (who we
love and respect) promoted elections and urged
people to vote in them. They asked me, “Was
he wrong?”
I have to say that I was briefly clueless to this.
Then I thought of asking Imam Ahmad al
Hassan(as) himself this question as he is the
best person to answer this, and Alhamdolillah
my understanding of the subject slowly grew.
Allow me to share it with you.
The fact that a government is needed to run a
country is true. A government is a service, as
are schools, hospitals, mosques and petrol
stations. People running it are servants of the
nation and cannot deem themselves higher.
The government has to be Islamic and not pro
American. It is a system of running the country
and not actually ruling it. NOT RULING IT.
Only Allah chooses who rules the world as
Allah did when He created Adam (as) and as
He did when He took Imam Mahdi (atf) in
occultation to keep Him safe and alive.The
Khalifa is Allah’s choice.
It is true that democracy is an illusion, a myth,
it cannot be practiced! Governments lie when
they claim that the public has the power to
choose. It only makes the public its slaves. It
abuses human beings. Crime, terror and
killings are justified in the name of democracy.
It makes people slaves of capitalism. Is that
freedom? So many laws