Dr. Abdullah bin Musa Al Tayer
Samuel Huntington, in his book “The Political System of Changing Societies,” states that people “may have order without freedom, but they will not have freedom without order, because power must exist before it can be determined.” Authority, and Huntington’s words, is “rare” in some troubled countries, where “government is at the mercy of disenfranchised thinkers, stubborn officials and riotous students.”
By downloading this description in countries that were affected by the Arab Spring and its aftermath, we will find that people seek independence before the establishment of power, and they fall into the trap of thinkers, academics and elites Those who wish to expand what they have established in their mind about the principles of democracy, and are in power under the pretext of not repeating past experiences of tyranny, but they actually put the cart before the horse, since the restriction of power. cannot begin before existence. At a time when intellectuals, officials and elites throw society into chaos so that they can articulate their right to align their moods and interests, youth and tribal people work in the streets to increase the chances of power formation .
Authority is a concept and application that varies from one society and culture to another. Certainly, the US mediator who leads negotiations in one of the faltering Arab countries would be no more busy building authority than banning it. An extremist who fights the central authority and works against it, while most Arabs who have been ravaged by anarchy believe that anyone who dies without a pledge of allegiance on their necks dies of ignorance, and obedience to the ruler is obligatory, and that the evil of evil is a country with no rich.
The problem with “outcast” thinkers is that they are like people who place a polar bear in the middle of a blazing sandy desert, and so they take to heart the theories, arguments, and hypotheses of Aristotle, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carl remember from Marx, and Jurgen Habermas, and they dream of a right that ideally satisfies imported needs at the expense of the oppressed. from his absence as they are accustomed to.
There is no doubt that democracy is a system that has achieved success in many countries around the world, but it has come about as a result of social and political interactions that were integrated according to the extended temporal and spatial conditions, and that was influenced by intellectual, cultural was based. Democracy, the economic and educational basis laid down for this type of government. The options are; Authoritarianism is not bad, and we see how it took China from the bottom of poverty and backwardness to economic leadership, and with its rule the most attractive industrial and economic model in the world today.
Many Arab thinkers who are interested in politics and political theory proudly review the experiences and sayings of liberal democracies, and this is an indisputable right, but is it not justified that they are concerned about the components of power in Islam? Do more research and expand the experiences of the good. Rule in Islamic history, in Muslim blogs, and their sacred references from the Qur’an and Sunnah. Instead of recycling the words of John Locke or Jean-Jacques Rousseau, they could offer a theory of governance between absolute authoritarianism and liberal democracy.
Islam did not bring much in terms of governance, and did not restrict any means of achieving good governance on the grounds that “you know the affairs of your world”, but it laid down three pillars of good governance, which are justice, Equivalence and Counseling.
Just as Washington, London, Berlin and Paris have turned into centers of research and promotion of liberal democracy, why not turn into Arab capitals, or some of them, into research centers that offer an alternative on the grounds that individuals are God’s The front is responsible and has an allegiance on his neck, and he is forbidden to rebel against the ruler, while at the same time ruling with justice and equality and Shura.
We will continue to be a target for studies, policies and reports from human rights groups, organizations and countries that advance liberal democracy and no one will pay attention to our circumstances and experiences until we present an alternative to governance . From our experiences, environments and circumstances, and we can market it and place it in the choices we offer for good governance. I firmly believe that the experience of governing in the state, which is about to change in a century since the unification of the state, has much that can be exchanged with the world, especially countries mired in anarchy. , waiting for the nails of an authority that is not yet born, and cultivating freedom in countries where there is no authority.