On Sunday 8th April 2012 the registration for the candidacy of the Egyptian presidential election was closed. The requirement for registration to become endorsed as a candidate required either 30,000 voter signatures or 30 MPs. The numbers of candidates have been numbered at 20 so far ranging from ex-regime, socialists, nationalists and “Islamists”.

The question that needs asking is not who is the right candidate but what is right for Egypt as a Muslim country with a population of 83+ million to move forward?

What are the aspirations of the people? The people want freedom which is what exactly? Is it an accountable leadership? Is it an economic infrastructure that provides them with jobs and means to provide for their families, educate their children and give them security? Or is it a land that is reliant on hand-outs from the IMF and World Bank, and shackled under structural adjustment policies so that it becomes like a cat chasing its own tail?

We need to be clear that it is the sum of the above and many other factors which in the end will culminate in one document which is the ‘Constitution’. If this constitution doesn’t embody the needs of the people as the subjects of the state and legislation is from other than the creator of the world’s Allah سبحانه وتعالى, hen either we are naive or have been politically manipulated as there is no other way to state this.

There is a huge push from the West in its carrot and stick approach to push ‘Democracy’ as some universal charter for all states to adopt. Let’s be under no illusion the West only uses ‘Democracy’ as a tool to secure its interests and nothing more.

Let’s highlight a few examples in the West:

1. What happened in the US when the floods heavily damaged the southern states? Have the hundreds of thousands of people returned to normalcy or have they been neglected and continue living in squalor several years on. What happened to their constitutional rights that the US harks on about when referring to the Muslim countries?

2. In the current economic crisis who bears the main brunt of these austerity measures? Is it the people who voted in the political parties upon the manifestos? Or is it the economic system which emanates from the constitution that allowed the banks to create the gigantic black holes? This is the fruits of capitalism.

3. The West is in bed with the likes of Karimov the butcher of Andijan who has boiled people alive to remain in power and the ruler of Bahrain who with the aid of Saudi violently stamped out the recent uprising using the tools of small arms and tear gas provided by none other than the West.

The main political players who are vying for presidency are the Muslim Brotherhood under its political name ‘FJP’ which only last week was in the US on a charm offensive for its image of ‘moderate Islam’ and foreign policy. During the visit FJP member Abdul Mawgoud Dardery stated to a large audience that “Jihad, was an internal process and even eating was a form of jihad”.

In the same week the FJP presidential candidate was cited as saying he agrees to the IMF loan but not to the terms of giving it to the transitional government but instead it should be given to the ruling party after the Presidential elections.

Thus it is clear that the FJP and other “Islamists” are unfortunately taking part in a system which exists solely to make you sell your soul to the devil through compromise. This system rejects Allah سبحانه وتعالى legislation and accepts man as the sole arbitrator in all aspects of the state.

وَإِنْ كَادُوا لَيَفْتِنُونَكَ عَنِ الَّذِي أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ لِتَفْتَرِيَ عَلَيْنَا غَيْرَهُ ۖ وَإِذًا لَاتَّخَذُوكَ خَلِيلًا

وَلَوْلَا أَنْ ثَبَّتْنَاكَ لَقَدْ كِدْتَ تَرْكَنُ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْئًا قَلِيلًا

“And their purpose was to tempt you away from that which We had revealed to you, to substitute in our name something quite different; (in that case), behold! They would certainly have made you (their) friend! And had We not given you strength, you wouldst nearly have inclined to them a little.” [Al-Isra 17:73-74]

The same system allows members of the old regime like Omar Suleiman who was exposed in cables released by Wikileaks for being the first line of defence for Israel and was the CIA’s point man in Egypt for renditions—the covert program in which the CIA snatched terror suspects from around the world and returned them to Egypt and elsewhere for interrogation, often under brutal circumstances. Also Amr Moussa who was Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs under the reign of Mubarak and Secretary-General of the Arab League. The same Arab League that stands and claps in happiness as the Jewish State makes Palestine into a prison to humiliate the Muslims of Palestine and desecrates Al-Aqsa Masjid.

Omar Suleiman, Amr Moussa and Ahmed Shafik the ex-PM are all from the era of Mubarak. The only positive thing they did was expose themselves whilst in the regime as those who supported the Pharaoh Mubarak in bringing tyranny to the people of Egypt.

The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said:

لاَ يُلْدَغُ الْمُؤْمِنُ مِنْ جُحْرٍ وَاحِدٍ مَرَّتَيْنِ

“A believer is not bitten from the same hole twice.” (Bukhari/ Muslim)

Egypt should shun the IMF and World Bank loans and all foreign aid. Egypt has the means and ability to become industrialised and self-reliant through its gas and oil reserves. Its natural waterways have given water for hydro-electric power and vast fertile lands for agriculture. The Suez Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world for transportation of commerce. The list is endless to prove that Egypt is self-sufficient and the potential it has to become a powerhouse for the Muslim world and is ripe for the re-establishment of the Khilafah state.

Thus in conclusion it’s not about which presidential candidate to vote for but the hundred billion gold dinar question should be which political party is going to work for this and how? As the current political mechanisms are not in favour of the people of Egypt but in the favour of a handful and the ones external to the country who are the most manipulative in securing their interests.

The people of Egypt today stand at a crossroads after 30 years of a West backed tyrant now have a grand opportunity to take matters into their own hands. They overthrew Mubarak but they shouldn’t stop there they should continue pulling down all remnants of the old regime and negating external factors that solidified the old regime and promotion of any other state i.e. The West.

They should in one unified clear voice say no to a nationalistic democratic civil state and yes to the Khilafah state as that and only that is the true liberator of mankind from the tyranny of any other state.

It is said that ‘after chaos comes the calm’ which can be the case if the people of Egypt choose to re-establish the Khilafah state.

وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَىٰ لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا ۚ يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا ۚ وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ

“Allah has promised, to those among you who believe and work righteous deeds, that He will, of a surety, grant them in the land, inheritance (of power), as He granted it to those before them; that He will establish in authority their religion – the one which He has chosen for them; and that He will change (their state), after the fear in which they (lived), to one of security and peace: ‘They will worship Me (alone) and not associate any with Me. ‘If any do reject Faith after this, they are rebellious and wicked.” [An-Nur, 24:55]