Following are excerpts
from an interview with Saudi Islamic scholar Dr. Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif,
which aired on Iqra TV on February 25, 2011.
Muhammad Musa Al-Sharif:
These events are paving the way for a greater thing to come. They are
paving the way for a great Islam that is coming with force, because
the world is in need of leadership. The current leadership – Communism,
capitalism, and so on – has gone bankrupt. Only Islam is left to lead
the world. The Prophet Muhammad foretold this clearly in several
hadiths. Islamic leadership is coming whether people like it or
not. Therefore, we must become soldiers of this emerging leadership.
[...]
We believe in the principle
that Islam is suitable for any time or place. In addition, this religion
was put to the test, so to speak, and it established an empire, which
was magnificent in its power and greatness, as well in the compassion
it displayed towards the world, and in its best possible leadership
of humanity.
When after the 16th century,
the Islamic nation was removed from power – having been struck by
all those tragedies – and others took over the leadership of mankind,
we witnessed the worst possible results: oppression, global tyranny,
arrogance, and despotism. The only thing that the sheiks, preachers,
and scholars are demanding is that Islam rule the world once again.
[...]
