Is Saudi Arabia an Islamic state?

A state is a body that looks after people by implementing laws. Islam is a comprehensive deen and therefore tells us what rules people should live by and and what rules are to be implemented in society. ibn Taymiyah (rha) said "Yajib an yo'rafa anna wilayaa amr in-naasi min a'thami wajibaat id-Deen, Bal laa qiyaamu li-Deen illa bihaa". "It is obligatory to know that the office in charge of commanding over the people (ie: the Khilafah post) is one of the greatest obligations of the Deen. In fact, their is no establishment of the Deen except by it... this is the opinion of the salaf, such as al-Fadl ibn Iyaad, Ahmed ibn Hanbal and others." (Siyaasah Shariyyah - chapter: 'The obligation of adherence to the leadership'.) Islam mandates that the whole of Islam is implemented upon people. There is no difference on this issue. A state which rules by shari'a is one which applies the Islamic ruling system, the Islamic economic system, judicial, social and foreign policy. All and every rule based upon Islam. Abdullah ibn Umar (ra) said "The people in the Ummah will not suffer even if they were oppressors and sinful if the rulers were guided and were guiding. But the people in the Ummah will suffer and perish even if they were guided and were guiding if the rulers were oppressors and sinful."(Abu Nu'aim narrated in 'Hulayat Awliyah.) A state becomes Islamic when its rules and policies derive from the Islamic 'Aqeeda (creed) i.e. when their basis is the Qur'an and Sunnah; meaning the sovereignty lies with the Shari'a. That is why obedience to the rulers is restricted and not unqualified. Allah (swt) says: "O you who believe! Obey Allah, Obey His Messenger and those in authority from amongst you; and if you differ, then refer it to Allah and His Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is the best thing to do and gives the best result." [al-Nisa: 4:59] This noble verse in Sura al-Nisa comes after verse 58, which focused on the rulers when they were enjoined to rule by justice - which is nothing other than what Allah has revealed (i.e. the Qur'an and the Sunnah). This ayah is explained as follows: The ayah (verse) begins with the imperative (command) form verb ati'u ('obey'): the subject of obedience (i.e. those who obey) is in plural form, meaning 'ALL those who believe in Islam'; and the object of obedience (i.e. the one who is obeyed) is Allah . The verse then repeats the command ati'u (obey) and this time the object of obedience is the Messenger . The repetition of the word 'obey' and the order indicates the two basic reference points that Muslims have: the Qur'an and Sunnah. Therefore anything in contravention of Qur'an and Sunnah must be disobeyed and anything from the Qur'an and Sunnah must be obeyed. This is the principle upon which Muslims are told to live by and this is the principle on which Muslims are instructed to view their rulers. Here the word for rulers, or those in authority, is ulul- amr (literal translation: 'the people of Command'). It is not restricted to the Khalifah, but also includes the wali's (governors), wazirs (assistants) and all those who have authority, especially since the word has been used in the plural form (ulul-amr and not the singular waliyul-amr). It is significant that the ayah does not repeat the verb ati'u when it comes to the Rulers, as it did in respect to Allah and His Messenger; this is an additional indication alongside the clear verses and hadith that state that rulers must obey Allah and His Messenger in their ruling and exercise of authority. For example the Messenger said: 'There is no obedience (when this results) in disobedience of the Creator.' [Sahih Bukhari] Here the mantuq (directly apparent meaning) is an absolute prohibition of following an order that goes against the order of Allah - whosoever makes that order. This hadith came specifically in the context of authority and ruling. Its mafhum (implied meaning) indicates that just as the person cannot obey a ruler who commanded disobedience to Allah; so in the same way, a ruler or amir cannot order, enact laws or rule by anything that is in violation of what Allah has ordered. The Saudi state from inception Despite the differences amongst the Kuffar over the division of the Muslims' lands, they were in full agreement of the idea to destroy Islam. They pursued several methods for this purpose. Initially, they aroused the feelings of nationalism and independence in the European countries. They incited people against the Islamic State and they supplied them with weapons and money in order to revolt against it, as was the case in Serbia and Greece. In this way, the European countries tried to stab the Islamic State in the back. France invaded Egypt and occupied it in July 1798, then marched onto Palestine and occupied it. France wanted to occupy the rest of Al-Sham in order to deal the Islamic State the fatal blow, but was however defeated, later being forced to leave Egypt and surrender the lands she had occupied back to the Islamic State. Saudi does not implement Islam - its foreign policy has been to protect Israel and western interests since its formation after having fought the Ottoman caliphate. The brokerage and loyalty of Al Sa'ud to the British was a well known matter to the Khilafah state and to the major powers such as Germany, France and Russia. It was also known that they were steered by the British. The British themselves never used to conceal the fact that they supported the Saudis as a state. Furthermore, the huge arsenals and equipment which reached them via India and the finance to cover the war effort and to equip the armed forces were but British weapons and money. The ruling system is Islam is the khilafah system Naf'i said 'Abdullah Ibnu 'Umar told me: I heard the Messenger of Allah say: "Whoever takes off his hand from allegiance (Bai'ah) to Allah, he will meet Allah on the Resurrection Day without having any proof to show for himself; and whoever dies while having no allegiance (Bai'ah) on his neck he dies the death of the days of ignorance (Jahiliyya)", narrated by Muslim. Ibnu 'Abbas reported that the Messenger of Allah said: "If anyone sees in his Ameer something that displeases him let him remain patient, for behold! He who separates himself from the Sultan (authority of Islam) by even so much as a hand span and dies thereupon, he has died the death of Jahiliyya", narrated by Muslim. Imam Muslim narrated from Abu Hazim who said, "I was with Abu Hurayra for five years and I heard him narrate from the Prophet (saw) that he said: "The Prophets used to rule Bani Israel. Whenever a prophet died another prophet succeeded him, but there will be no prophets after me; instead there will be Khulafaa' (Khalifahs) and they will number many". They asked: what then do you order us? He said: "fulfil allegiance to them one after the other. Give them their dues. Verily Allah will ask them about what he entrusted them with."" These Ahadith demonstrate two important matters: - firstly the Khalifah only takes the authority by this Bai'ah, - secondly the messenger of Allah has commanded his obedience: "Whoever pledged allegiance to an Imam ... shall obey him." So, the Khalifah is appointed through the bai'ah and his obedience becomes compulsory because he is a pledged as a Khalifah. Thus he took the authority from the Ummah by giving her bai'ah and her obedience to the one whom she pledged to i.e. to the one who has a bai'ah on her neck. Does Saudi rule by Shari'a? Saudi has riba based banking system, a compliant western foreign policy, protects Israel. Accepts nation-states, ignores Jihad and doesn't stand up to anything in the name of Islam.It allies with the Kuffar against the Muslims eg Iraq, Syria and other conflicts. We can summarise these as: Permission of usury (riba) and banks trading in usury, which is category prohibited in Islam Submission to man-made international law as members of the UN and other international bodies, whose charters and rules are not in accordance with Islam. The flagrant and persistent violation of Shari'a by the Saudi regime, even after having been accounted by the 'ulama and the da'wah carriers means that the above constitute explicit kufr (kufr buwah).

SAUDI ARABIA: KUFR SYSTEM (DAR AL-KUFR) Saudi Arabia is home to the birth of Islam and the establishment of the first Islamic State in Madinah by the Messenger (PBUH). It is from this state that Islam spread and expanded the borders. Formally known as Najd and Hijaaz, the country was renamed after Abdul-Aziz Bin Saud, who with the support of the British, established himself as King in 1932, making it the only country to be named after its ruler and setting the precedence for a kingdom of western puppet rulers. Today Saudi Arabia has a population of over 35 million Muslims. It is a monarchical system which is based on the principal that sovereignty and authority is for the monarch King Salman, who also holds the position of legislator, i.e. the self-styled king and his brothers. They claim to implement Shari’ah law; however, the reality is far from it. They are known to contradict the core principles of the Shari’ah by their very nature. As a monarchy, they violate the principle that sovereignty belongs to Allah and that the source of legislation is the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Furthermore, the people have no right to account or advise the regime, which again contradicts the Shari’ah. The regime is therefore free to impose whatever rules it pleases, and as such, is viewed as one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. The economic system in Saudi Arabia is tightly controlled by the royal family who own most of the major companies in the country. Consequently, most of the wealth in the country remains in their hands, leaving the majority of the remaining citizens in poor conditions. In the major cities in particular, there are poor neighbourhoods that resemble shanty towns, with whole families living in one room. The injustice of the system is clear when we look at the amount of Muslims who have been arrested and beheaded without a fair trial and in the absence of evidence. People have been imprisoned, murdered, tortured and have disappeared without trace and whoever tries to trace them has the same fate, while thousands of the Saudi royal family are above the law. Sermons at Friday prayers are not allowed to mention anything about the American presence in the region or of wars and oppression against Muslims around the world or their effects. Since the events of 9/11, the relations between Saudi and Western governments have become much closer. Saudi officials have shown their full support in fighting the Americans war against ‘terror’ by arresting, torturing and abusing scholars, as well as harassing their families and supporters. Saudi Arabia hosts 1000’s of U.S. military personnel and warplanes bases inside the country from which America launch attacks on Muslims, for example in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan. Furthermore, the state also provides cheap fuel for them. There are many prisons in Saudi Arabia, not all of them publicly known. These prisons are oversubscribed with Muslim expatriates who have worked to build the country and some Saudi prisoners even known to be held at irregular detention centres. Scholars including Sheikh Nasir Al-Fahd (imprisoned 2003) have been imprisoned in the dungeons of Saudi Arabia, often tortured with threats made against their wives and families. Sadly many Saudi women have protested for the release of their husbands and children who were also kidnapped. The regime has not even spare them, instead arresting them for protesting. The Saudi government has always been legitimised on an Islamic level by the many famous scholars who teach at its Islamic universities and the harams. These so called scholars refuse to declare the Saudi Monarchy to be a Kufr (non-Islamic) structure and refuse to declare the ruling king as Taghout (anything that is served, obeyed or followed other than Allah), thereby ensuring and instructing Muslims in the country to accept him as a legitimate Islamic ruler that must be obeyed. These scholars create a major obstacle for those people who want to remove the kufr regime of Saudi Arabia and replace it with the true Islamic system of government where legislation only belongs to Allah.