IWF

Author(s):
Mubarak Abiodun YUSUFF, almubaraklory@gmail.com, 08139038295

Abstract: The problem facing Islamic Theocracy emanates from the Muslims themselves. There is an obvious lack of seriousness on the part of the Muslim scholars to focus on the implementation of an ideal Islamic way of life among people at every place and time. The challenges faced by the Islamic world as regards the struggle of other civilizations, nations and institutions against Islam might not have held water if there are no Muslims fueling it; Muslims who are misrepresenting Islam through their misconducts and atrocities. If the Muslim world keeps quiet and enjoys watching, as some of the callers to Islam indoctrinate Muslim youths with misinterpret quotes of the Islamic traditions, the rest of the world will not. In places where such extremism is not found, the problem of total disregard of Islamic doctrine is the order of the day. The bastardized western influences have torn Muslim homes apart and turned abnormalities to trending norms. Parents of such community often keep quite when Islam is disregarded in the dressing, talking and other behavioural aspects of their children’s way of life. Clerics of such towns and localities only focus on problem solving prayers and sadaqah money, taking little or no note of the norms of the attendants of their weekly prayer group’s gathering, especially, the women’s mode of dressing. Therefore, considering the scope of Islamic theocracy as a concept that is not restricted to a nation with Islamic system of government but largely concerned with the implementation of Islam in every sphere of the lives of the generality of Muslims, then the solution to the above analyzed problems will be to re-strategize our Da‘wah methodology. This study aims at doing a content analysis of a book titled Hākadhā Nad‘u (this is how we should call). Among other findings, the paper finds out that if Nigerian Muslims are well informed by the callers who call to the middle course between extremism and complacency, Islamic theocracy can still flourish in such democratic nation as Nigeria, and in such modernist world as the one in which we live today.