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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
The System of Islam
by Taqiuddin an-Nabahani
Hizb ut Tahrir
1422 AH - 2001 CE Updated version 20/11/2019
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | |
| The Way to Belief | 5 |
| Al-QaDaa wal Qadar | 21 |
| The Intellectual Leadership of Islam | 33 |
| The Way to Carry the Islamic Da'wah | 73 |
| The Islamic Civilisation (al-haDarah al Islamiyyah) | 81 |
| The System of Islam | 87 |
| Hukm Shar'ai | 95 |
| The Types of Ahkam Shar'aiah | 99 |
| Sunnah | 101 |
| Emulating (at-tassi) the Actions of the Messenger | 103 |
| Adopting Divine Rules (Ahkam Shar'aiah) | 105 |
| Constitution and Canon | 109 |
| A Draft Constitution | 115 |
| Morals in Islam (al-akhlaaq fil- Islam) | 165 |
Introduction:
The Way to Belief
(Tareeq al-Iman)
Man achieves revival (Nahdhah) according to what he carries of thought (fikr) about life, universe and man, and about their relationship, as a whole, with what preceded this worldly life and what comes after it. Hence, in order for man to achieve revival, it is necessary to radically and comprehensively change his current thought and generate another thought for him. This is because it is the thought (al-fikr) that generates the concepts about things and consolidates them. Man shapes his behavior (sulook) in life according to his concepts (mafaaheem) about it. So, man’s concepts about a person he likes, shape his behavior towards him. This is in contrast with his behaviour towards a person he dislikes and holds concepts of hatred towards. Also he will exhibit different behaviour towards a person he neither knows, nor holds any concept about. Thus, human behaviour is related to man’s concepts and when we want to change the low behaviour of man, and make it elevated, it is imperative to change his concept first. Allah (swt) says: “Allah does not change the circumstances of any people until they have changed what is within themselves.” [TMQ 13:11]
The only way to change man’s concepts is by generating thought (fikr) about this worldly life, in order to generate the correct concepts about it. Thought about this worldly life will not be productively consolidated, unless the thought about the universe, man and life, and about what preceded this worldly life, as well as what comes afterlife and its relationship with what is before and after it, is generated. This can be achieved by giving the universal idea (al-fikrah al kulliyah) about what exists beyond the universe, man and life, because it is the intellectual basis (al-qaa’idah al-fikriyyah) upon which all thoughts about life are built. Giving this universal idea about these matters is the solution to man’s biggest knot (al-‘uqdat ul-qubra). Once this knot is solved all other knots are solved, because they are either partial relative to it, or branches from it. This solution wouldn't lead to the correct revival (Nahdhah), unless it is a correct solution, which agree to man's innateness (fiTrah) and convinces the mind and thus fills one’s heart with tranquillity.