Double Mistake

DIALOGUE, NOT WARS another major event of this kind happened when a group of Indian Muslim scholars launched an armed jihad against the British. Since then, non-governmental organizations have continued a long series of failed attempts using the monarchical model, which persists to this day. In places like Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Chechnya, the Philippines, Arakan, and many others, violent armed conflicts are occurring in the name of jihad. These illustrate the second type of experience with the Sultanate model. This second type, which began through non-governmental organizations using guerrilla warfare, proxy wars, and similar tactics, proved to be even more deadly than the first. It involved two errors at the same time: first, the anachronistic attempt to apply the old conflict-based model in an age of peaceful dialogue and negotiation; and second, and more serious, mistake was that this approach was entirely wrong under Islamic law (Shariah). This is because it is well-known that only an established government has the right to conduct armed warfare. Non-governmental groups are not permitted to declare someone an enemy and start armed conflict against them. If the Sultanate model in the first case was simply ignorance, then in the second, it represented ignorance combined with a clear violation of Shariah. This double mistake explains why recent armed jihad led by Muslim leaders has completely failed. The cause is not a foreign conspiracy, as many scholars and intellectuals often claim without