Social security, welfare state and social justice are related ideas in origin and in consequences. Not all the people of the state have conditional right to some benefits. Some benefits are made mandatory on the employer, such as pension and health care, and some on the state, such as education. In the era of the intellectual decline of Muslims, some shortsighted intellectuals adopted these ideas as Islamic. They connected the…

This Ramadan, 1441 Hijri, falls upon the world in an unprecedented situation. An affliction in the form of one of the smallest of the creations of Allah (swt), a virus, has exposed the falsehood of Capitalism and the secular creed upon which it is built, the detachment of religion from life.

We are now weeks into the coronavirus pandemic and with much of the world in lockdown. One aspect which had been glaringly missing is global leadership by the global superpower. America’s absence has been so notable that some have called the US leadership to be in decline, others called it knock, knock, who’s there?

 Dr. Nazreen Nawaz, the Director of the Women’s Section in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir The talk explains how real change for women in the Muslim lands cannot be delivered through partial change or following the same path of adopting further gender equality legislation. Rather it requires a radically alternative vision for the Muslim world and its women. She illustrates how the principles, laws and systems of…