Islam. Islam mine. Islam yours. Real Islam. True Islam. And it goes on. While there maybe one Islam but the human ability to interpret things in million ways means often my take on Islam won't be same as the next guy. Indeed two people could end up up fighting and killing each other because they are so sure Allah is on their side. Whose actual side Allah is is never found out and something only to be seen in hereafter and since once you go over no one has yet come back to tell us "hey I was right Allah was on my side". Instead the two sides will keep praying on the graves of their dead and claim they died fighting for "the Islam". The only way out of this madness is everybody pulls back and instead focus on their own perspective of Islam and use that to better themselves as they will face account for their own actions. For instance when I leave the world non of you guys will be able to remedy or help the accountability I face. I will face it for my actions. NOT OTHERS.
What I am saying is we need to remove Islam from the dirty, grubby world of politics. Because when religion fuses with politics it only creates more schism and chaos. All it manages to do is turn Islam into a slogan. A cheap tool to be used for gread and power.
A great example of this can be seen by the Azadi March of JUI-F by Maulana Diesel. This is a man who claims to represent Islam and has considerable support in some parts of the country. Yet is he face of Islam? That can't be it. I know it is reasy to dismiss him but we can't ignore that he has plenty of support and will claim as vocally as any others that he is the carrier of the banner of Islam. You can say no but this only goes back to my opening paragraph.
Thoughts people?
You're right. Democracy and political Islam don't work. Democracy elects the most popular person for the job, not the best person for the job. From what I've read the best person for the job is someone who is pious, knowledgable but also politically and militarily powerful. Of course the political and military power can come from having strong allies, ultimately it's been a requirement that the Caliph controlled the strongest army, or his allies gave him control of their military. The concensus of other Muslim communities and leaders was also required for someone to be Caliph. Some understandings also suggest the Caliph has to be from the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).
In Islamic political systems the role of Caliph has always been supposedly for the best man for the job; although history tells us some Caliphs were mere puppets of Sultans. The political models of governance have also changed over time, The Ottomans didn't have the same political structure as the Abbasids.
Islam provides us social structure, there are some things that are obligatory upon a Muslim society, we have laws that ought to be enforced (Shariah), but the model in which we do so is pretty fluid. It does ultimately require a single authority figure though, it requires institutions under that persons control, empowered by their status as tools of the state under the figurehead (Caliph). Everything else is subjective.
I do know democracy is not the way to attain that figure head. Political concensus has a role to play, as ultimately people have to pledge loyalty to the figurehead (be it a caliph or a local governor or whatever) - but the way modern parliamentart politics works, it doesn't enable that.
There is a hadith that a leader is the reflection of his people. Our leaders are a reflection of us. The Prophet Muhammad pbuh didn't establish the state of Madinah immediately, he spent years preaching Islam privately and publically, correcting his peoples state before established a state.
We must correct ourselves, correct those around us, only then will we be able to think of having leaders we can trust to implement the islamic aspects of society. I don't trust Diesel, I don't trust Rizvi, I don't trust Qadri, I'm not sure I trust Imran Khan enough tbh.
Right now our awam is generally uneducated, easily manipulated, used to crooked ways, embedded into them actually. The leaders that will emerge from this are the same.