The Error of Political Islam

INTERPRETATION OF THE ISLAMIC MISSION corruption in the world, considers ways to fix it, and strives to the best of their ability to do so. But if someone claims that this is the primary mission of the faithful—the very purpose for which all the Prophets were sent—then I would argue that such a claim is just as misguided as asserting that the moral and social decline of society has nothing to do with a Muslim and that he should not concern himself with it at all. If you walk into a house filled with filth and garbage everywhere, then clearly, the cleanliness demanded by faith would make you very aware of this and motivate you to clean it up. But if you start to say, “The true purpose of faith is to clean houses,” then this statement would be completely absurd and deserving of rejection. This is why, despite being a well-known issue, social reform and civilizational revolution do not stand as the core Islamic mission. The idea that Islam is the best political and social system and that implementing this system is a task given to us by God is a concept of the Islamic mission that the Quran does not support. I have not found a single verse in the Divine Book from which this idea can truly be derived. The verses typically cited in support of this will be presented in the following pages, along with a brief discussion of each. Arguments from the Quran 1. The first verse is: “And thus We have made you a middle nation