The Qur’an clearly and directly asks all human beings to surrender to God(Allah) in 
complete submission and accept His guidance in every field of activity. “Oh you who 
believe! Enter into Islam fully and whole-heartedly, and follow not the footsteps of Satan, 
for he is to you an avowed enemy,”(2:208). Because Islam is a complete way of life this 
Divine Guidance is for all matters private and public, political and economic, social and 
cultural, moral and legal.

In the Godless secular nations they require a separation of religion and state. Politics is to 
be made free from religious influence. In Islam politics is a necessary element of the 
religious domain. Allah has told us He is to be the sole determiner of what is right and 
lawful. “Command is for none but God; He has commanded that you obey none but Him 
– that is the right path,”(12:40). And, “If any do fail to establish and rule by what God has 
revealed, they are the unbelievers, the unjust or the evil doers,”(5:44,45,47)

What has a secular political system given the Western world? Admittedly, it has allowed 
them to gain great wealth, power and technological expertise; but, at what expense? 
Their secularism has brought with it skepticism in thought, confusion in values, 
expediency in standards, vulgarity in behaviour, and opportunism in diplomacy. Modern 
man has learned to fly through the air like a bird and swim through the oceans like a fish, 
but he has failed to learn how to live on the Earth like a human being.

The political system in Islam is to help those it governs be successful in the practice of a 
right Islamic way of life. “And grant from Thee a ruling authority as an aid for 
me,”(17:80). An Islamic world society cannot have a secular political system. For the 
Islamic world to exist there must be an Islamic State.

It is not difficult to define an Islamic State. An Islamic State is one, which opts to conduct 
its affairs in accordance with the revealed guidance of Islam, which accepts the 
sovereignty of God in all matters, and devotes its efforts and resources to ensuring the 
existence of a right society living in accordance with the Will of God.

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