Every year of delay compounds vulnerability. Gaza shows the price of disunity: when Muslims lack an authority capable of command, they can only plead while others decide their fate. Neutrality in the face of annihilation is complicity; division is surrender. The Caliphate, rebuilt on justice and consultation, is therefore not a utopia but the minimum condition for collective survival.
The Existential Choice
Israel today embodies the triumph of Western unity. It is built by Britain, armed by America, nuclearized by France, bankrolled by Germany, integrated by Europe, and protected by NATO. Its endurance is guaranteed by the collective political will of the West, even against its own publics. It is the West’s non-democratic fortress in the Muslim world.
Opposite it stands a Muslim civilization shattered into protectorates, ruled by elites who equate survival with subservience. The imbalance is not merely military but civilizational: one side acts as a coherent bloc, the other as disconnected fragments.
For Muslims, the question is no longer one of sympathy for Palestine but of self-preservation. Either they rebuild the Caliphate-a political union that embodies justice, accountability, and unity-or they will remain indefinitely governed by others, their resources extracted and their future mortgaged.
Gaza’s ruins are therefore more than a humanitarian catastrophe; they are a mirror of the Muslim condition and a warning of what awaits any nation that abandons political unity.
The West built Israel to last a century-and it has. Unless Muslims now match project with project, system with system, and unity with unity, Israel will endure as the fortress of their humiliation and the monument of their failure to act when history demanded courage.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Whoever parts from the Jama’ah (the unified community) even a handspan, dies the death of ignorance.”
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Book 88, Ḥadīth 264; Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Book 20, Ḥadīth 4559
This ḥadīth captures the moral and political essence of unity – that disunity is not simply weakness, but a regression into ignorance and chaos.
Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406) wrote in his Muqaddimah:
“The appointment of a single leader is necessary to uphold the Sharīʿah, to protect the community, and to prevent its members from attacking one another.” (al-Muqaddimah, Chap. 26)
Al-Māwardī (d. 1058) affirmed in al-Aḥkām al-Sulṭāniyyah:
“The Imamate is established to succeed Prophethood in protecting the faith and managing worldly affairs; it is obligatory by consensus of the scholars.” (al-Aḥkām al-Sulṭāniyyah, p. 5)
