[Mifsnavassy]

I wanted to raise this issue so that Muslims come to a realization about our present state of affairs and what to expect upon reimplementing Islam, as in an Islamic state and society.


The Reimplementation of Islam in an Islamic State

First, an Islamic state must fulfill these two conditions:

1. - the security, autonomy, and military capability must be in the hands of the Muslim Ummah;
2. - the Deen of Islam and the Shariah must be the foundation of the state and society;

The first factor is in regards to security as it exists in contemporary military power. Thus, a tiny nation state, ie. Qatar, could NOT be an Islamic state as it is unable to maintain its "amanah" against any of its neighboring nations. Rather it is dependent upon the GCC and America. Likewise, Gaza could never be an Islamic state as its security/amanah is controlled by Israel despite 99% of the people being Muslim, and Hamas controlling the govt. Rather, Gaza is an enclave/ghetto under Israeli military power.
However, nations such as Pakistan or Algeria or Egypt have the resources and capability of defending themselves and upholding their autonomy against their immediate neighbors.

The second factor does NOT recognize nationalism or any form of unIslamic political concept as a foundation of the state. Rather, it is solely based on Islam, more specifically, the Aqidah of Islam, and the Shariah is its pathway.

Based on these, the economy of the state would have to undergo a gruelling transition from its current state of dependency on capitalist global economy. My wife recently commented that America has smartly built ties with countries so that they share in the profit and risk. Thus, if America goes down, so will everyone else.


Economic Impact and the Transition to Being "Free" and Food

An Islamic state by definition is entirely autonomous, entirely "free" of all foreign and kufr powers. No country or power has the ability to control it's interests, such as how America is controlling Pakistan's, Morocco's, etc. However, foreign powers would be able to cut off its access to global markets which it may have previously depended upon, such as food markets.

Khaleeji nations enjoy inexpensive beef and grain as they are part of the global economy. If Arabia were to become an Islamic state tomorrow, the world would set up embargoes by 0900 which would cut access to beef and grain. Arabia has no cattle grazing potential, however it does have camels. There are also no wheat crops, though there could be other crops developed that are indigenous to Arabia, rather than depend on grain from Asia, Australia, or the West.

In fact, many Muslim countries have major trade relations mostly with foreign nations other than Muslim nations whereby they import foreign food. Thus, for Muslim countries to transition to an Islamic state and the cutting of foreign food imports due to soured relations (and the West's attempts to starve and weaken the Islamic state), they must expect for difficult food shortages.
It is possible that food would be rationed so that the amir could redirect food to the state's military forces.

Even if a the new state had advanced economic capabilities, such as being able to manufacture its own weapons, refine petroleum, generate its own energy supplies, etc., it would require a massive effort to transition the economy to be self sufficient.

Bread would no longer be so cheap.
Water would be a major factor that would likely be rationed.

As well, families would have to respond to the transition too.
More effort would be required to sustain the family such that the idea that there would be more need for women, even educated, professional women, to run their households. And that would lead to the state emphasizing work for qualified men and re education of men as primary providers of the family

[Pharmaciest2007]

Not a single reply in hours.
This reminds me of an obituary.
A well known jurist of India died. This happened many years back. Another jurist wrote his obituary and there was one point in that which I have not forgotten since then. The write said that drafting any act or a legal manual is a time consuming and lonely task. So to become known as a jurist one has to put years of lonely work. Perhaps the same is true for most of the real life problems. The real life problems are boring.
And they get solved when some is ready to put some long and tiring hard work. We Muslims have ignored such work for too long a duration.
And then we keep wondering as to why the things are not changing for the better for us.

Coming back to the topic of the OP - I feel there is a complementary approach. We can think of each and every Muslim society, separately and one at a time, and ask as to what shall be the Islamic approach to go further from the current situation.

[OwdBKKHO]

Assalamu alaykum

There are countries around the globe who are peace loving. Non-harmful to their neighbors, they are in no danger, the world community protects them. So, if our muslim countrymen turn back to islam and they demonstrate that they are different and are peace loving and they are contributors to world peace, then whole world community will take care of them.

[Wheldcobchoto]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjqlwGk3sCQ

[Hdzcxqoi]

Islamic state will kick out usury along with the banking cartels. Check this.

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