Islamic Revival

The following is an article from the Wikileaks website. By Richard Smallteacher, Wikileaks staff 1 February 2011 New cables released by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. government has been quietly anticipating as well as cultivating Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy chief, as the top candidate to take over the country should anything happen to President Hosni Mubarak. On Saturday, this expectation was proved correct when Mubarak named Suleiman to the post of vice-president making him the first in line to assume power. An intelligence official who trained at the U.S. Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, Suleiman became head of the spy agency in 1993 which brought him into close contact with the Central Intelligence Agency. Recently he took up a more public role as chief Egyptian interlocuter with Israel to discuss the peace process with Hamas and Fatah, the rival Palestinian factions. In recent years most political analysts have assumed that the heir apparent was Gamal Mubarak, the pre

The following is a chapter from the English translation of 'The Islamic State' by Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabhani. It is useful to read especially due to the recent events in Egypt. Reestablishing the Islamic State is by no means an easy or straightforward task. There are several colossal obstacles facing the re-establishment of the Islamic State which first need to be removed and dismantled, and there are several major difficulties standing in the way of the resumption of the Islamic way of life which also need to be overcome. This is so because the issue is not merely the existence of just any state, nor the founding of a state simply calling itself Islamic. The issue is in fact the existence of the Islamic State which implements Islam as a system emanating from the Islamic ‘Aqeedah, a State which implements Islam according to the Shari’ah rules, since these are the rules of Allah (swt). Thus, the Islamic way of life would initially be resumed at home and the Islamic Message wo

The following is a translation of an Arabic leaflet. 1- Islam had been up until the middle of the 18th century like a magnificent tree, with strong branches and verdant twigs, glowing with vigour, freshness and splendour, and bearing with abundance the most scrumptious of fruits. The Islamic Aqeeda would be portrayed as the seed which germinated this tree, whereas the thoughts of Islam and its rules which deal with life's affairs would be the roots of this tree, while the lofty trunk which sprouted from these roots would be the rule, i.e the authority. The solid branches and the verdant twigs would be the Ummah's engagement in upholding the Islamic way of life and in carrying the Islamic Da'awa to the whole world. 2- In the middle of the 18th century, Europe witnessed the industrial revolution which upset the scales of power, thus causing a shift in the international scene. As a result the Islamic state, who happened to be the world leader, lost her position and under