WILL IT BE POSSIBLE FOR THE NEW SYRIA TO APPLY THE LAWS OF ISLAM?
While Muslims around the world are celebrating the political changes in Syria – the fall of the tyrannical regime, and wishing a bright future for the Syrian people because we all love Shām, the question that is arising these days is: will the new Syrian leadership apply the laws of Islam which they’ve fought for?
I think the answer to this questions consists of two parts:
First, this shows the importance of what kind of law a country applies. Governance is not much about the type of individuals who rule more so than what kind of laws it adopts. Laws represent the political power. They can affect the economy, people’s properties and wealth in general, the social fabric of the society, and the political outlook of a country.
Second, in order for a country to be able to apply whatever law its people want, in this case, the laws of Islam, they need first to win the war against the political power that controls that country. At best, the Syrian people have managed to get rid of a dictator, but they have not won the war against the USA and the British Empire, and they’re not claiming that.
So, the simple answer to the above question is: neither the Syrian people, nor the people of any other Muslim country have adequate freedom to apply whatever law they want because we live under the global British-American occupation. This is a fact, not an opinion.
Strategically, the new Syrian government might be able to make many positive changes, including legal ones, even though the West will do everything possible to cause the failure of the apparent Muslim new leadership so they can prove to the world that “Islamists” aren’t able to rule, but Syria doesn’t have the political right to apply any kind of laws its people want, whether this is stated officially or not.
Likewise, other Muslim countries don’t have the right to apply the laws of Islam wholesomely. Certain countries, such as Saudi Arabia, have been allowed partially by the West to apply the laws of Islam, but this is the result of the political calculations or dynamics of the war against the Ottoman Empire; it is not the result of a battle won against the real enemy, i.e., the occupying British Empire and the US Government.
In this regard, we should expect from the new Syrian government what’s realistic, not what we dream of.
The British and American enemies have won the war against us a century ago. They won’t let us apply our laws because they are the enemies of Islam. They have the military power at the moment and they are controlling our Ummah militarily, economically, and politically. Simply speaking, the Muslim Ummah is occupied by the British and American pagans.
However, we must never cease fighting intellectually against these unjust western pagans, against the British tyranny and the US Government’s injustice and exploitation. This must be the role of all Muslims, including the Syrian scholars and intellectuals.
Sabri Lushi
January 2025