WHY
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN TO VOTE IN ISLAM
· Muslims
believe that only Allah i.e. God has the right to legislate laws. In other
words only God can make things lawful and unlawful. If a human being does this,
he or she associates with God with this unique right/attribute of Allah’s and
this is considered the most heinous crime known as “Shirk”. Allah says
in the Qur’an that he will forgive anything except for those who do Shirk.
· When
a person votes they are asking their representative to act on their behalf in
the Parliament. The voter is the delegator and the MP is his/her delegatee. In
other words the Aseel (himself) is asking his/her Wakeel (the
representative) to be their representative in Parliament. In Islam if the
Wakeel commits a crime, the Aseel will share the sin. Hence when the Wakeel
plays God by legislating and makes, for example, same gender marriage lawful or
the national lottery or 24 hour drinking etc or votes to bomb Muslims in Syria,
it will be on the neck of both the delegator and the delegate, who are
considered jointly liable.
· The
system of voting is part of the ideology of secularism where the people have
sovereignty. This is why democracy is known as ‘the law of the people for
the people’. The people then transfer their sovereignty into the hands
of MP’s who then manifests that by making laws on their behalf. In Islam
sovereignty belongs solely to Allah and the leader of the Islamic State (who is
called the Khalifah) has the duty to implement the laws already contained in
the Qur’an (the actual word of Allah) and the Sunnah (the divinely inspired
sayings and actions of the Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ)).
· The
Democratic system of governance is a legislative system, where laws are decided
by majority vote within Parliament once the people delegate the MP’s to do this
job on their own behalf. In Islam Muslims have the Khilafah system
of governance which has an administrative role only, not a legislative role.
This is because the Khalifah already has the laws he needs contained in the
Qur’an and Sunnah.
· The
Democratic system believes that people decide how society should function based
on what the majority decide (or vote for). This is in stark contrast to Islam.
Allah says in the Qur’an that the majority of the people are ignorant, that the
majority are ungrateful and that the majority are disbelievers etc.
Hence in
Islam the Muslim scholars and reputable Muslims leaders amongst the masses (Ahl
ul Hali Wal Aqd) will nominate someone to be the Khalifah and the rest
of the Muslims will obey him once the contract has been made with him to
implement the divine laws.
· The
Democratic system of governance in the West today is the result of an uprising
against the hegemony of the Church and its oppression during the middle ages.
Whereas sovereignty before belonged to the clergy, it now belongs to the people
and Parliament. This is known as the separation of the Church from the State or
secularism. In contrast Muslims have never had the need for this separation as
Islam covers every matter one can imagine from ruling to inheritance, from the
judiciary to the economic system. The word Deen is
used to describe Islam as this complete way of life.
· When
the Prophet lived under non-Islamic laws, such as those in the UK, far from
giving them any recognition or voting for the Quraishi leaders to make laws in
their Parliament (the Dar ul-Nadwah) he invited them to Islam as a
way of life and commanded them good and forbade them evil until eventually he
was given authority by Muslims in Madina when he implemented the laws of Allah.
The Prophet never accepted to abide by or accept or recognise the non-Islamic
regimes and their own culture. He interacted to change society
as opposed to integrating into the non-Islamic way of life!
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