Democracy – basically the process of asking the people what they want to have in the country, and then putting it in place because those people voted you into office – isn’t just inconvenient for one hardline Islamist group, it’s “haram”.
Diving headlong into the current debate on Islamic hudud law, the Malaysian chapter of Hizbut Tahrir insists that introducing hudud by way of the democratic process is sinful, demanding instead that Syariah law be instated in Malaysia without the approval of Parliament or state legislative bodies.
Hizbut Tahrir’s reasoning is that debating such Islamic laws in federal and state legislatures is tantamount to seeking man’s approval for the word of God.
“This is categorically haram because the authority to make laws is vested only upon Allah and man is ordered to implement them, not vote to decide on their implementation,” said Hizbut Tahrir spokesperson Abdul Hakim Othman in a statement quoted by The Malay Mail Online.
He added that vetting hudud and other Islamic laws democratically also opens the doors for non-Muslims, liberals and secularists to insult and attack those laws.
Hizbut Tahrir is of the position that the Federal Government must implement all aspects of Islamic law, and not just hudud, encompassing every facet of Malaysia’s economic, social, education, and foreign policy fields.
“The government is obliged to implement the laws of Allah comprehensively in every inch of the land under its authority and not absconding itself from the responsibility, while asserting that the undertaking rests on the state or province,” Hakim said.
“It is about time that Muslims unite and intensify efforts to re-establish the Caliphate upon the way of the Prophethood which shall implement not only hudud, but the Shariah in its entirety and shall exalt Islam and its followers and abject disbelief and its followers.”
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