Removal of Despotic Political Regime: The Abū Dharr’s Legacy and Its Legitimacy

Abstract

Abstract: This article is a humble attempt at highlighting the controversies
regarding the legitimacy of popular resistance or revolutionary movement to
bring down Muslim political regime that claimed to be despotic, unjust and
even un-Islamic. Having the fact on the existence of another view by majority
scholars that more inclined towards pacifist ideology which stressed on
political stability as a prerequisite to prosperity, the article emphasizes more
on the revolutionary school, while the second shall be highlighted when it is
necessary for comparison. Employing qualitative method of study, the article
seeks to examine the arguments provided by both movements. This will be
done by analyzing their textual and rational grounds of evidences used by
the two schools to legitimize their political stance. Associating with what is
happening in Muslims nation nowadays, current study compelled to review the
radical revolutionary movement from the perspective of moderate Islam school
of thought.