“Tyranny will not remain subdued after me but for a little while, until it ascends and all that prevails of injustice will expel justice until the one who is born in the tyranny will not know other than it. Then Allah the blessed and Almighty will give justice and all that will come within justice will expel tyranny, until the one who is born within justice will not know other than it.” [Ahmed]

Indeed, Muslims today know nothing other than tyranny, oppression and usurping of their rights and yearn for justice, prosperity and security. But, Zardari’s government, like Musharraf’s before it, has squandered the huge potential of Pakistan, reducing Muslims to the status of orphans at the tables of misers.

With regards to the wealth of the people, Zardari’s government is stubbornly pursuing the policies of the Western colonialist institution, the IMF, plunging the Muslims into severe hardship. After the IMF demanded a rise in taxation to well over a trillion rupees, the government promptly implemented a carbon tax on petrol. When this was struck down by the Supreme Court, Zardari merely replaced it with another tax called the Petroleum Development Levy (PDL) by presidential order. Even if the PDL is abolished, it will merely be replaced by other taxes to fulfill the IMF demands. As for electricity, Muslims are left to live in darkness and unbearable heat, whilst industry and business collapse, because the government has defaulted in its payment to the private companies that produce electricity (IPPs), as admitted by the Minister for Water and Power, Raja Pervez Ashraf, on 11 July. And the government has devalued the currency in accordance to the IMF dictations, so the Rupee has become of little worth, leading to huge rises in prices of basic needs, such as food, at a time when most of the world is in the grip of deflation, with prices falling.

Zardari’s government’s actions are criminal because Pakistan is not poor, in fact, Allah سبحانه وتعالى has blessed Pakistan with wealth that even some of the major powers do not possess. To mention just a few of the blessings- Pakistan has the fourth largest coal reserves in the world, it is seventh in the world for copper production, the Reko Deq reserves in Balochistan have revealed over eighteen billion dollars worth of gold so far, Pakistan produces more wheat than the whole of Africa and as much as the whole of South America, it ranks in the top ten in the world for over twenty agriculture and livestock items, with only three quarters of its 29 million hectares of arable land currently cultivated. Yet, the Zardari government does not lift a finger to make the Muslims strong and self-reliant, but instead travels around the Western world at great tax-payers expense, with a begging bowl, so that there are more funds for them to loot and embezzle.

All that is required to change the situation of the Muslims is a sincere leadership that will govern by Islam. In the Khilafah, electricity and petrol will no longer be exploited by private interests, such as IPPs, but will be a public property which will be provided at the cost of its production and supply, without any taxation, providing cheaper energy for agriculture, industry and transport.

RasulAllah صلى الله عليه و سلم said,