Not long ago, «The Voice of Islam» acquainted its readers with the struggles that erupted in Turkey in connection with calls for the restoration of the Caliphate (https://golosislama.com/news.php?id=39019). In particular, it was about such calls from people close to the ruling party establishment and the increasing interaction between the latter and representatives of the House of Osman, on which one of the possible projects for the restoration of the Caliphate is based. However, it is important that the thinking reader does not get the impression that this is the consolidated position of the current Turkish establishment, including its «Islamist» part.
To show that this is not the case, we decided to publish a new article by Yusuf Kaplan, one of the authors of the pro-government Turkish publication Yeni Şafak, whose publications we regularly acquaint our readers with. Its translation into Russian was kindly provided by the authors of the Russian-speaking Muslim Telegram channel Mad Mullah (https://t.me/mad_mullah/426). We suggest that you draw your own conclusions from this publication.
Yusuf Kaplan: The Islamic World Needs a Superpower
The caliphate is an Islamic state. It is a supranational umbrella organization created as a result of the free expression of the will of Muslims to guarantee their unity and solve their regional and global problems.
The caliphate is a multifaceted, multi-level, multifunctional institution that has not only political but also administrative, economic, cultural, and intellectual dimensions. Occasionally, it takes on a religious dimension.
The Caliphate can fulfill its provisions only where the right to property can be fully guaranteed, where freedom of thought prevails, where religion and worship are dominant, where life can be protected, i.e., in Dar al-Islam.
The Islamic world is enslaved by the imperialists.
There cannot be a caliphate where there is no Dar al-Islam. Dar al-Islam is the house of Islam, the land of Islam, but it is not a place where only Muslims live. Dar al-Islam is the House of Peace, the Land of Law and Justice, where peace, law and justice are established not only for Muslims but also for people who profess other religions, ideologies and philosophies.
In Islamic history, there are two important examples where the Caliphate protects and guarantees the regional and global rights of both Muslims and members of other religions across borders: the first is al-Asr al-Saada (the era of happiness, related to the prophetic era of Islam); the second is the Ottoman Caliphate.
The Caliphate cannot be realized where Dar al-Islam does not exist. Only where Islam is sovereign, where Muslims are free and independent, where they can determine their own destiny by their own will — that is Dar al-Islam. Only in such places can the Caliphate be established.
Dar al-Islam has been under occupation for the past two centuries; the Islamic world is mentally and physically enslaved.
The imperialists no longer invade the Islamic world as they did during the colonial period. They have remote control through their puppets, their satellites, and they exploit all the resources of the Muslim world. They are even enslaving the minds of the masses. The minds of the masses in the Islamic world are under occupation, as is the rest of the world; humanity as a whole is a voluntary slave to secular Western culture.
Can a caliphate be declared in an atmosphere of enslavement of the Muslim world, physically and mentally bound?
What power or who personally will declare such a caliphate and in whose name? Will it be a caliphate that includes all Muslims? Is it possible?
A caliphate declared at a time when the Muslim world is mentally and/or physically enslaved, as it has been for the past 200 years, can only be another slave of the imperialists.
It is enough to look at such formations in the Muslim world: for example, what is the purpose of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)? It is enslaved by the world powers. Isn’t that so? If we consider it as a preliminary attempt to create a caliphate — an institution that should take decisions to ensure the unity, peace, and integrity of the Islamic world, it looks pathetic because it is unable to take any significant initiative — this indicates that it is a controlled entity. Isn’t it?
One must be foolish to think that a caliphate created under these conditions will be independent from the control of the imperialist powers.
Of course, the unity of the Islamic world is the goal of the Muslims. Every Muslim is obliged to do his duty to achieve this goal.
In a period when the Islamic world is not free and dependent, the caliphate will immediately become a tool through which the imperialists will find it easier to control the Muslim world.
Finally, it should be known that the caliphate project today is rather a British project; they are using certain personalities and formations in the Muslim world.
The Muslim world needs a superpower.
What the Muslim world needs now is not a caliphate, but a global superpower for the transitional period.
This will be the basis for a civilizational breakthrough that will ensure the independence of the Muslim world in the true sense of the word. The true foundation for the Caliphate can only be laid with historical depth, intellectual wealth, and deep self-confidence that will enable it to move confidently into the future.
The superpower will know that its decisions will have an impact beyond its own borders, and since it will naturally assume the position of the leader of the Muslim world, it will act as its (Muslim world’s) defender, leading to intellectual, physical, and spiritual movements that will ensure the unity of the Muslim world.