Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Islam and Democracy January 23, 2011

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Habakkuk 3:6
Musnad al-Shihab al-Qudai, Hadith no. 577
Quran 42:38 · Ash-Shura
Quran 4:48 · An-Nisa
Futuh Mist by Ibn Abd al-Hakam, p. 195
Musnad al-Shihab al-Qudai, Hadith no. 577
Quran 12:40 · Yusuf
Quran 12:40 · Yusuf
Sahih al-Bukhari, Hadith no. 4993
Quran 7:110 · Al-A'raf
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43 sec
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Man rejects Islam believing it opposes democracy
“A man I met left his faith over democracy”
34 sec
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Claim that Islam opposes democracy is factually wrong
“This is completely wrong — democracy is Islam's own outcome”
2 min 21 sec
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Kingship froze human equality and progress for millennia
“Before Islam began in 610 CE, the whole world had kingship”
5 min 58 sec
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Full history: Islam ended kingship, seeded democracy's rise
“Before Islam began in 610 CE, the whole world had kingship”
3 min 51 sec
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Islam split personal character from social system for the first time
“Before Islam, people couldn't distinguish two very different things”
44 sec
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Freedom ends where the next person's begins
“Famous story of American democracy and a man's fist”
2 min 35 sec
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Belief is absolute, political system is not, proven historically
“Study early Islamic history — the Prophet drew this line clearly”
3 min 1 sec
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Islam popularized education, taking it from clergy and royalty
“Before Islam, only clergy or royalty could read and write”
3 min 49 sec
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Umar's justice story: the whipped Coptic man and free men
“Umar Farooq was the second caliph in Islamic history”
30 sec
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Umar's rebuke: God made men free, not slaves
“Since when did you enslave men God made free?”
1 min 56 sec
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The flawed theory that Islam's whole system is absolute
“Political interpretation says Islam is one complete system to implement”
6 min 1 sec
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Debunking 'political sovereignty belongs to God alone' claim
“Political interpretation says Islam is one complete system to implement”
44 sec
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Why God cannot literally hold political power
“Can God sit on a throne and rule politically?”
3 min 32 sec
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Belief came before law in revelation, so law isn't absolute
“Bukhari: the first verses revealed were about heaven and hell”
2 min 31 sec
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Prophet refused kingship because society wasn't ready
“He never once asked for a share of political power”
5 min
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How ideological obsession twisted two Quranic verses politically
“Obsession bends the mind — watch this Quran misreading”
2 min 46 sec
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What Tunisia's revolution got wrong strategically
“I think this exact mistake is what happened in Tunisia”
2 min 13 sec
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Democracy in practice means majority rule, not everyone's rule
“Early idealists thought democracy meant every voice in government”
41 sec
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Islamization of government is an impossible ideal
“Can Islamization of government ever be possible anywhere?”
2 min 57 sec
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Debunking claim that a killing was about insulting the Prophet
“Kaab bin Ashraf was a Jewish leader in Medina who committed treason”
47 sec
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Umar admits an old woman knows more than him
“Every man knows more than Umar, he said”
54 sec
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An ideal society is impossible outside paradise
“This idea is completely wrong — ideal society is only in paradise”