Islamic Values and Political Influence

America, okay, if we don't want them to implement secularism,

so what do we want them to implement?

They say that America now, okay, there is not enough Muslims for them

to implement Islam, but now

it is our challenge as du'at, as intellectuals, as academic,

to present solutions based on Islamic values,

but in the second level degree,

not to tell them replace secularism with Islam, it won't work, yeah?

Presenting Islam as a civilizational alternative,

this needs from us

a different way of addressing

this generation, addressing in fact the whole world.

trying to get into key positions

where you are influencing the decisions, yani, decision-making.

If we are, whatever we do,

and we are not influential,

we cannot influence how politics is running,

we are not influence the decision-making processes.

We know that if we were to do this from 0 to 100,

the people are going to say, "We're not going to have this type. Look, look Afghanistan, look other places."

And people understand they're not going to go from 0 to 100 overnight.

Suppose a Muslim party, Islamic party,

comes in and they start changing, "You know what? We want to make sure there's no alcohol being sold."

So can we, for the time being,

because here's the point, any type of stuff we do,

it's not, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, to substitute the Sharia, no.

It's a program to eventually apply the Sharia, right?