[Ibn Abu Ibrahim]

Originally Posted by m_ali_qazi

let me ask you something

don't fiqhi rulings depend on the cultural and social context of the environment? I mean, we hear things like, "imam fulan changed his fatwas when he moved from egypt to syria or hijaz to basra" etc etc.

well why is it that the ulema still rule in favor of establishing the khilafa when the imperial system does not exist anymore. Modern systems are all about nation states. So why khilafa? the most you can probably have is unions of nation states.

The nation-state model was developed by Europeans for Europe. It does not and cannot apply to the Muslim world because of the pluralism Muslims enjoyed under previous khilafah's.

The nation-state model goes hand-in-hand with nationalist model of governance, both of which when applied to the Muslim world result in death craters like Iraq. The nationalist nation-state model is developed for a single nation, so imposed on the Muslim world, by necessity the minorities of each state will be subject to oppression.