DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS AND THOSE WHO PERMITTED THEM pdf

Democratic elections and those who permitted them

DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS AND THOSE WHO PERMITTED THEM

He say,

I also know that some students of knowledge and ‘ulama had an incorrect impression and understanding of these types of elections, due to some shubuhat (misconceptions) and tawlat (interpretations), that made them pass various fatawa on the permissibility of participating in said elections.

We know for certain that their speech is batl (falsehood) and their shubuhat don’t stand up under pressure and scrutiny and that much fasad (corruption) came from them.

But at the same time, the “ama who view democratic elections as Rufr do not see them as having fallen into kur for saying it is permissible because of their Jahl of the hagigah (lit. transl: ignorance of the true nature) of democratic elections and not intending the Aw meaning that their speech and fatawa imply or might look like. What is meant here by the saying “jahl of the haqiqah”?

 What is meant by jahl, which is translated into English as ignorance, is “conceptualizing something