2. Establishing the Caliphate that follows the example

of the Prophet . Our aim is Allah's command: "Establish the religion." 42 We aim to establish Allah's religion in its entirety, in every soul and upon every inch of this earth, in every home, institution and society. To achieve this, we must first succeed in: 1. Bringing people to the worship of their Lord, and 2. Establishing a Caliphate based upon the foundations laid down by the Prophet . These are then the two objectives that we aspire to achieve in order that we may fulfill Allah's command to establish the religion of Islam. We have said many times before that all human beings are the slaves of Allah and that the earth belongs to Him. Therefore, all people are required to enter the religion of Allah and the entire earth should be under the authority of Islam. We aim therefore to return the wandering people who have strayed from the path of Allah back to their pure nature and bring them back to their senses. This is what we meant by 'bringing people back to the worship of their Lord'. That is in everything: their creed, rituals, conduct, dealings, judgements and customs. This requires that the ruling political system which governs people and their communities should in turn be submissive to Allah. It should implement the Islamic laws and act upon them; a system which rules by Islam, safeguards the religion of the people and protects them against all the devils, be they human or jinn, who strive to take people outside the religion of Allah. Living under a non-Islamic system means that people will not refer to Islam as a judge in their disputes and that they will not establish their religion in its entirety. This also means that there will be an authority which will divert people from the religion of Allah and absorb them into its own Jahiliyyah system, using all means at its disposal. One of the foundations of establishing the religion is to bring into being a political system by which to rule the people and guide them, because religion can never be complete without such a system. Ibn Taymeeyah said, "It should be known that ruling people and governing their affairs is one of the greatest obligations of Islam without which the religion can never be established." Therefore it is our aim to establish a Caliphate following the example of the Prophet . To this end, we are using all the ways and means that our religion taught us: dawah, enjoining good and forbidding evil and conducting Jihad in the way of Allah. Each one of these 42 Surah Ash-Shura (42), Ayah 13. 44 rulings. A detailed discussion of these points is to be found in the chapter entitled 'Our Way'.