Peace and Democracy: or Surrendering to the Kuffar





If there are two words which summarize the aims and hypocrisy of the kuffar in respect of Islam, they are peace, and democracy.

As Muslims, the kuffar demand - note, demand - that we change our Way of Life, and adopt their ways of ignorance. To understand why this is the reality we are faced with, let us consider what these kaffir terms peace and democracy really mean.

By peace, the kuffar mean surrender to them. Thus, when the kuffar talk about such things as "a peace process", they mean the process whereby we surrender our arms, our resistance, our aims for an Islamic Way of Life, and accept the terms of surrender that they demand of us, one of which is that we accept "democracy" in place of the Islamic Way of an Ameer and bay'ah; another of which is that we accept the rule of kaffir law in place of Shari'ah; and another of which is that we accept their military and economic domination of us - for example, by agreeing that the kaffir United Nations organization has a world-wide mandate and authority, and can impose sanctions, and send its troops anywhere to impose the laws and way of life of the kuffar.

By democracy, the kuffar mean the system which denies one of the most crucial parts of Islam, which is that we, as Muslims, should bow down to, and submit to, only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and only obey those who rule or govern or lead in accordance with what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has decreed. According to the kaffir system of democracy, we are expected to bow down to, and obey, the authority of some ruler, some government, some leader or some functionary who has been elected according to the fallible desires and whims of some majority, just as we are expected to obey any and all laws which such a ruler, such a government, such a leader or their functionaries make, based on some person's idea, or whim, or desire, or theory. This, again, is a surrender to the ways of the kuffar - an outright denial of our Islam. Democracy is a Taghut - a type of idol that the kuffar have come to worship, and which they demand that we Muslims worship.


"Allah does not forgive that partners should be set up with Him to be obeyed, even though - if He pleases - He forgives whom He pleases everything else, for whomsoever sets up partners with Allah in obedience, has most certainly manufactured a grievous error. " [4: 48 Interpretation of Meaning]

"In truth We have sent Messengers to every people with a warning for them to submit only to Allah and so reject the Taghut." [16:36 Interpretation of Meaning]

We, as Muslims, should be quite clear - and not afraid to say and write - what Islam means in practical terms. Islam does not mean peace as the kuffar understand peace, as we as Muslims are not striving for some kind of "peaceful", non-violent society here on this Earth. Contrary to what some have said or written, Islam is not a "religion of peace". Rather, Islam means violence, combat, battle and war. Islam means us, as individual Muslims, striving to obey Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, striving to fight the enemies of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, striving to create an Islamic Way of Life and striving to make Islam triumphant in this world. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"And there shall be conflict between you while you dwell, resting for a while, on Earth which shall provide for you." [2: 36 Interpretation of Meaning]

"Prepare against them everything you can of Quwwah, including steeds of combat to bring terror to the enemy of Allah and your enemy." [8:60 Interpretation of Meaning]

"Fighting is prescribed for you, even though you may dislike it. But it is possible that you dislike that which is good for you, and that you love that which is bad for you. Yet although you may not know, Allah knows." [2:216 Interpretation of Meaning]

"You who believe! What is wrong with you that you did not rush forth when called [to aid] the Way of Allah? Or is it that you love this earthly life so much - that you crave its comforts so much - that you forget the next life where such earthly things are revealed for the insignificant comforts they are?" [9: 38 Interpretation of Meaning]

"If an injury has been inflicted on you, make certain that a similar injury has been inflicted, by you, on the disbelievers: there are good days, and bad days, which We give to each side in turn for thereby We know those who believe and choose from among them witnesses (to the Truth)." [ 3:140 Interpretation of Meaning]

"Fight against those who do not believe in Allah, or in The Last Day, and who do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, as well as those among the people of the book who do not acknowledge the Deen of Truth, and fight them until they pay the Jizya with willing submission." [ 9:29 interpretation of Meaning]

"In exchange for their lives and their goods, Allah has given those who believe Paradise. Thus will they fight in Allah's cause, and thus will they kill, and be killed." [9: 111 Interpretation of Meaning]



The peace which we as Muslim seek, in this brief mortal life of ours, is the peace that comes with obeying Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and the ultimate peace that is Jannah which we might attain should Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala so will it. This is real peace: and this and this only is what peace means to us, as Muslims. The peace, in this mortal world, that comes with obeying Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala can be manifest, and has been manifest in the past when, as Muslims, we live in a community ruled by an Ameer, or Khalifah, who rules according to Islam alone. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:


"And this (Islam and the Quran) is the straight path of your Rabb. For those who take heed of Our clear revelations there shall be that dwelling which is peace (Jannah). [6:126-7 Interpretation of meaning]

"Allah guides toward peace those who seek His pleasure." [5:16 Interpretation of Meaning]

"What your heart desires and your eyes delight in will be there in that Garden of Paradise you can inherit through your deeds in your life in this world." [Interpretation of Surah 43, v.71-72 Interpretation of Meaning]


For far too long we as Muslims have been on the defensive in the war against the kuffar. We are not of them; and they are not of us. There is a clear and complete distinction between Haqq and Baatil - between us, and them. Our Way of Life has been given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and, as such, it is complete and perfect. But the kuffar - in their deceit, in their ignorance, in their arrogance, in their dishonourable desire to usurp that which rightly belongs to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - are intent on subverting, changing, weakening and trying to destroy Islam. One way they try and have tried to do this is to produce and aid and support so-called moderate Muslims - by which they mean Muslims who have sided with the kuffar against their brothers and sisters, and Muslims who have exchanged the promise of Jannah for the promises of the kuffar, for the pleasures and wealth and luxury of this world, provided to them by the kuffar. It is these so-called moderate Muslims who bleat about Islam being a "religion of peace", who surrender to the kuffar by insisting on only "peaceful protests" and who imitate the kuffar by declaring their support for the kuffar idea of "democracy". It is these so-called moderate Muslims who think, who write, who speak, using the terms of the kuffar.

As Muslims, we must reject the very words - the very ideas - which the kuffar use to try and distance us from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. The kuffar want us to think, to debate, to write and speak, in their terms - terms which pollute our thoughts, our life, our deeds, and which distance us from Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and our beloved Prophet, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). For these very terms are an imitation of the kuffar. Thus, instead of "politics" we should write and talk and think about Siyasah. Instead of "peace" we should write and talk and think about Jannah - and how we can attain Jannah. Thus, instead of "democracy" we should write and talk and think about an Ameer, about bay'ah to an Ameer, about Khilafah, Shura, and Shari'ah. We are not interested in the happiness of the greatest number, as the kuffar demand we should be. Instead, we are interested in obeying Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - in the gift of Paradise. For us, as Muslims, this life - as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has informed us - is only a stage, a means, a test.

This total rejection of the kuffar in our thoughts, words, deeds, in our heart, is important, for us - a sign of our Islam, of our complete submission to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Thus, we should stop, for example, saying and writing and thinking that Siyasah is "politics": that it is just the Arabic word for what the kuffar call "politics". It is not - Siyasah is Siyasah, and this is Islamic, a sign of Islam, a manifestation of Islam. Politics is a sign of Ignorance, of the kuffar. One represents Haqq; the other Baatil. Siyasah, as Ibn Taimiyyah wrote, is a divine Siyasah - a manifestation of the Islam given to us by our beloved Prophet Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam). We have no need to compare Siyasah with any kaffir idea, any kaffir system - for we reject the ways of the kuffar, the terms of the kuffar. To follow the kuffar in such things as this is to obey them. As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:

"If you obey the Kafiroon, they will turn you away from your Way of Life and your own life will be a failure.” [3: 149 Interpretation of Meaning]

"Whomsoever seeks a Way of Life other than Islam, it shall not be accepted, for in the life to come they shall be the ones who have lost." [3:85 Interpretation of meaning]


"Haqq has been distinguished from Baatil - and those who renounce and denounce Taghut and then believe in Allah have grasped that trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks." [2:256 Interpretation of Meaning]


The hypocrisy of the kuffar in respect of "peace" and "democracy" is obvious in their actions, and in the state of their own lands. The kuffar of the West - who demand we surrender to what they call "peace" - are now and have been for well over a hundred years the greatest destroyers of stability. In their colonialism, in their plunder of this Earth, in their pursuit of wealth, they have invaded and occupied many, many lands, and oppressed their peoples, as they in their ignorance and pursuit of the kaffir idea of "nationalism" have caused two world wars. From Vietnam to Africa; from north and south America to Korea; from Afghanistan to Iraq, from the torture chambers at Abu Gharib to the camp at Guantanamo Bay, the actions, the history, of the kuffar prove their words, their promises, their so-called ideals, are false.

"Do they seek honour from the kuffar? In truth, honour is with, and from, Allah alone." [3: 139 Interpretation of Meaning]

The kuffar of the West - who demand we adopt their "democracy" - cannot even solve the inequalities, the injustices, the crime, the addiction, the poverty, of their own lands, just as their much-vaunted "democracy" is, in truth, the rule of a privileged and often morally corrupt elite who, in their pursuit of power, privilege and wealth, strive to keep a majority of their own peoples ignorant and entertained, knowing as these hypocrites and their lackeys do that an ignorant well-entertained public will keep working to pursue the illusion of worldly wealth and happiness and in the process keep paying the taxes and keep supporting the overseas oppression and plunder that keeps the whole rotten kaffir system going.

"Those who have experienced the beauty that is Al-Eeman are those who are content with Allah as their Rabb, with Al-Islam as their Way of Life, and with Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) as their Messenger and Prophet." Narrated Al-'Abbaas bin 'Abd Al-Muttalib (Shahih Muslim)



May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala forgive us for our mistakes, may He guide us to and keep us on the Right Path, and may He give victory to the Mujahideen.

Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt