Amidst the genocides happening in Gaza and Sudan, the murdering and abusing of our brothers and sisters in Uyghur camps and the mutilation of women, children and the elderly, one thing has remained the same: Muslims around the world have raised those flags and demanded that those countries be liberated, or they have ignored the cries of the martyred because their pain does not reach them.

The most dangerous diseases that afflict the body are those that attack the immune system. When the immune system is weakened, the body’s pathways open their gates to hordes of germs, which wreak havoc without restraint or countering. Among the most prominent features that distinguished life under the Khilafah (Caliphate), and whose loss we suffer and bitterly endure today, are two:

Today we live in an age of “materialistic supremacy,” in which Western civilization has reached its technological zenith, while, at the same time, sinking into a state of “moral bankruptcy.” The predicament confronting the world today is not a shortage of resources, but a malfunction in the minds and systems that have managed those resources. The Westerner has buried his intellect in the “dust of materialism,”

Muslims are one Ummah, distinct from other peoples; their Lord is one, their Deen is one, their Prophet (saw) is one, their Qibla is one, and their Book is one.