Re: Khilafat-need to know more
I’m not trying to get the ulema to give bayah to anyone en masse … They will start to do it themselves and you would be surprised to see how much agreement there is among the scholars … Rib’a is interest or usury … it is a penalty or additional amount expected on top of the sale value which is variant by time or calculated to be so. So a person buying a house outright from a person buying a house over time should be giving out the same money. If they don’t it is called rib’a in the greater amount. There are various concessions that some fuqaha give that makes operating with usury acceptable they lean on the side of paying certain amounts for law based insurance … but an allowance does not deem the core matter halal - it is merely an allowance. I’m not even talking about the high street molvies … If there is going to be mass unification under a single head it will not come from the people who reject scholars - it will come from the people who are already familiar with bayah; naturally those inclined to submit are already submitting. And by their sheikhs/peers/murshids combining to place their allegiances in a leader then all the people whom they lead automatically get included. This is the quickest and most pragmatic way to appoint a leader for the ummah.