Islamic Socialism

“Islam came to the world to establish democracy, peace and justice; to safeguard the rights of the oppressed. It brought to humanity the message of equality of the rich and the poor, of the high and the low. The Holy Prophet fought for these ideals for the major part of his life. Is it not, therefore, the duty of every Muslim, wherever he may be, to do his level best to preserve the great ideals and the glorious tradition of Islam, to fight for the equality of mankind, the achievement of man’s legitimate rights and the establishment of democracy?”

File:IslamNat.png Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Islamic Socialism is an ideology that seeks to combine Islamic principles with socialism , designed to be compatible with the teachings of Islam and to address the economic and social issues that are faced by Muslim-majority countries.

Islamic socialists argue that the principles of Islam, such as justice, equality, and the File:Welf.png belief in a fair distribution of wealth, are compatible with the principles of socialism. They believe that the Qur'an and the Hadith, provide a basis for a socialist economic and political system that is just and fair to all members of society such as in Qur'an 9:60

Islamic Socialism has been advocated by a number of Muslim political parties and movements, particularly in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. It has various different interpretations and is often mistaken for Nasserism File:Absoc.png or Ba'athism due to overlap.

History

File:Cball-IRAfghanistan.png Afghanistan File:Cball-DRAfghanistan.png

• Mohammad Najibullah File:Najibullah.png

Mohammad Najibullah was the President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992, when the country was in the midst of a civil war. During his presidency, Najibullah implemented land reform, the nationalization of industries, and the establishment of a system of File:Welf.png universal healthcare and education.

Najibullah's government was supported by the Soviet Union File:Cball-USSR.png, which had invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and installed a pro-communist regime in the country. The Soviet intervention by Brezhnev File:Brezhnev.png, however, was deeply unpopular among many Afghans, who resisted the occupation and formed various armed resistance groups, known as the mujahideen File:Jihad.png

In the late 1980s, Najibullah's government began to lose support and control over various parts of the country to the mujahedeen. Despite efforts to negotiate a peace settlement, the civil war continued to escalate, and in 1992, Najibullah was forced to resign and flee the country. The mujahedeen then took control of the government, leading to a period of instability and conflict that persisted for many years

File:Cball-Iran.png Iran

In Iran, Islamic socialism was advocated by Mirza Kuchik Khan, who was a prominent figure in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the founder of the Jangali movement.

The Jangali movement was a political and military movement that emerged in the aftermath of the Constitutional Revolution. It was led by Mirza Kuchik Khan and was based in the province of Gilan in northern Iran. The Jangali movement was inspired by socialist and anarchist ideas and sought to establish a government in Iran based on Islamic principles.

Mirza Kuchik Khan and the Jangali movement were opposed to the centralization of power in the hands of the monarchy and sought to establish a decentralized, federalist system of government. They also advocated for the rights of peasants and workers and sought to reform the economy in a way that would benefit the lower classes.

The Jangali movement played a significant role in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and was instrumental in the establishment of the Persian Republic in 1921. However, the movement eventually lost power and influence and was suppressed by the government.

During the Pahlavi era, there were different ranges of Islamic socialists, and one of the most famous of them is Ali Shariati, who was a very Islamist of the Islamic socialists and examined the main foundations of Islam with respect to ethics and justice, and severely criticized Marxism. Another range of Islamic socialists who later found Marxist tendencies can be the example of the People's Mojahedin Khalq, which was led by Masoud Rajavi.

Variants

File:Islamic Marxism.png Islamic Marxism

File:Islamarx flag.svg

Flag of Islamic Marxism

Islamic Marxism attempts to apply File:Ormarxf.png Marxist economic, political, and social teachings within an File:Muslim 2.png Islamic framework. Traditional forms of Marxism are File:AntiSupernationalism.png anti-religious and support File:Atheism.png atheism, which has led many Muslims to reject Marxism. However, the affinity between Marxist and Islamic ideals of social justice has led some Muslims to embrace their own forms of Marxism since the 1940s. Islamic Marxists believe that Islam meets the needs of society and can accommodate or guide the social changes Marxism hopes to accomplish. Islamic Marxists are also dismissive of traditional Marxist views on File:Materialism.png materialism and File:Religious.png religion.

The Mojahedin Khalq can be mentioned as one of the organizations that have the tendency of Islamic Marxism and are known for the crimes they have committed.

File:PPP.png Pakistani People's Party

File:PPP Party flag.png

Flag of the PPP

Founded in 1967 by File:Bhutto.png Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the reign of File:AyubDictature.png General Ayub Khan (1958-1969), whose regime was blamed for widespread wealth inequality and poverty, this was also a time in which the Pakistani economy nearly collapsed due to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, where many scared investors pulled out and there was not much economic growth, the war itself was very unpopular especially considering that the war resulted in status quo antebellum when many Pakistanis wanted a conclusive Pakistani victory, Ayub File:AyubDictature.png fiercely defended the outcome of the war, saying it was the best for the people and his foreign minister (Bhutto) File:Bhutto.png spoke vehemently against this and said that he lost through negotiation, and in-turn resigned.

Upon his resignation, there was a kindled fire of leftist hatred File:Lpop.png against Ayub File:AyubDictature.png and seeing himself not having a fit position, founded the party.

• File:Lpop.png Populism

Bhutto 's message appealed to the masses, he promised economic equality, better education,jobs, abolition of the feudal system File:Feud.png, land distribution File:Mao.png, and an end to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few elites. File:Plutocrat.png He also promised to restore democracy and civil liberties, which had been curtailed under the military rule of Ayub File:AyubDictature.png. The party quickly gained popularity and support, particularly among the youth, urban workers, and poor farmers.

• Political Success: The party's first major electoral victory came in 1970, when it won a majority of seats in the National Assembly and formed the government. Bhutto became the Prime Minister and implemented many of the party's populist policies, including nationalizing key industries and instituting land reform. However, Bhutto's rule was also marked by widespread corruptionFile:Klep.png, nepotism, and authoritarianismFile:Authority.png, and he faced increasing opposition from within his own party as well as from the opposition.

• Dictatorship and Military Coup File:Strato-Antifurry.png: In 1977, Bhutto was overthrown in a military coup led by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq File:Zia.png. Bhutto was later tried and convicted on charges of conspiracy to murder and hanged in 1979. The party continued to be active in opposition to the military dictatorship, but it faced frequent persecution and harassment.

How to Draw

File:Islamsoc flag.svg

Flag of Islamic Socialism

1. Draw a ball
2. Fill it with green
3. Draw a golden Crescent Moon in the lower-middle, facing top-right
4. Add a gold hammer with it's handle going through the moon, also facing top-right
5. Draw a medium-sized five-pointed star close to the hammer head's end
6. Add the eyes

You are done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Green	#296609	rgb(41, 102, 9)
	Gold	#FDC82F	rgb(253, 200, 47)

Relationships

Halal

• File:Absoc.png Arab Socialism - Less religious sibling, but we still get along.
• File:Muslim 2.png Islamic Theocracy - Me but with less socialist thought.
• Socialism - I like how you benefit the people. Workers of the world must unite!
• File:Sukarno.png Marhaenism - Indonesian Muslim and Socialist!
• File:Gaddafi.png Gaddafism - My son in Libya applied my ideas quite well.
• File:3princ.png Tridemism File:3princ-col.png - My ally in China.
• File:Christsoc.png Christian Socialism and File:LiberationTheo.png Liberation Theology - The only Christian comrades that I like.
• File:Bundis.png Bundism - Jewish Socialist and Anti-Zionist? Based!
• File:Prout.png Proutism - A Hindu Socialist could we get along.

Mixed

• File:Islaman.png Islamic Anarchism - Based Islam, cringe Anarchism.
• Marxism–Leninism - You supported me in Afghanistan. But many countries controlled by you persecuted their Muslim population. Your YouTube channel is based though.
• File:Khomenewicon.png Khomeinism - Mahmoud Taleghani was one of your students, and you respect Ali Shariati, and in general, my type of religion is on your side, but my type of Marxism is against you.
  • File:MEK.png File:LBubble.pngAnyone who is a true socialist must be against Khomeini.File:RBubble.png
  • File:Islamic Socialism.png File:LBubble.pngIt is better to say that anyone who believes in Marxism is against Khomeini. Because a socialist who uses Islam as his model will never commit murder and crime like you, stupid Marxist.File:RBubble.png

• File:Kemal.png Kemalism - I worked with him in the Turkish War of Independence to chase out foreign imperialists, but he later betrayed me by abolishing the Caliphate.
• File:Buddhist Socialism.png Buddhist Socialism - Don't know about you, but a fellow religious socialist.

Haram

• File:IslamCap.png Islamic Capitalism - Oxymoron! Capitalism is the enemy of Islam!
• Capitalism - GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST YOU PIG!!!!
• File:Dengf.png Dengism - Fake socialist, who persecutes our Uyghur brothers!
• File:Zio.png Zionism - FUCK OFF YOU GENOCIDAL PIG!
• File:Anjew.png Jewish Anarchism - Same with Above
• File:Necon.png Neoconservatism - Are you not just that File:Zio.png Zionist pig again?!
• File:Labzion.png Labour Zionism - Why are you not liberating Palestinian comrades? Zionist scum!
• File:StateathFedora.png State Atheism - GODLESS TYRANT!!!
• File:Imp.png Imperialism - FUCK OFF COLONIAL PIGS!!!
• Anarcho-Capitalism - Capitalist and Anarchist? Double cringe.
• File:Jihad.png Jihadism - FUCK YOU FOR OVERTHROWING ME IN AFGHANISTAN!!!
• File:Black Islamism.png Black Islamism - YOU KILLED ME! Or maybe File:CIA.png he did...
• File:Macron.png Macronism - Stop using me as a straw man and insulting my prophet! I don't even have power in France at all!
• File:Trumpism.png Trumpism - I AM NOT File:Obamium.png OBAMA!
• File:Plcn2.png Paleoconservatism - For the last time, File:Obamium.png Obama is neither a Muslim nor a socialist, OK?! (At least you hate the zionist entity)
  • File:Plcn2.png File:LBubble.pngWhere's your proof he's not Musl*m?File:RBubble.png
  • File:Islamic Socialism.png File:LBubble.pngIs drinking beer and eating bacon things Muslims do?File:RBubble.png

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Islamic Socialism
• Wäisi movement
• Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
• File:MEK.png People's Mujahedin of Iran
• File:PAS.png Malaysian Islamic Party under the presidency of Burhanuddin al-Helmy (1956-1969)
• Persian Socialist Soviet Republic

Notable Islamic Socialists

• File:Cball-Palestine.png Yasser Arafat File:Arafat.png
• File:Cball-Libya.png Muammar Gaddafi File:Gaddafi.png
• File:Cball-Indonesia.png Sukarno File:Sukarno.png
• File:Cball-DRAfghanistan.png Mohammad Najibullah File:Najibullah.png
• File:Cball-Indonesia.png Agus Salim File:Panc.png
• File:Cball-Malaysia.png Burhanuddin al-HelmyFile:PAS.png
• File:Cball-Pakistan.png Zulfikar Ali Bhutto File:Bhutto.png
• File:Cball-Mauritania.png Moktar Ould Daddah File:MoktarOuldDaddah.png
• File:Cball-Iran.png Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani File:Taleghani.png
• File:Cball-Iran.png Ali Shariati File:IslamSocLeft.png
• Malcolm X File:MalcolmX.png
• File:Cball-Somalia.png Siad Barre File:SiadBarre-SRSP.png

Gallery

Portraits

• File:Islamic Socialism art.png

Alternative designs

• Islamic Marxism
  Islamic Marxism
• Alevist Theocracy
  Alevist Theocracy

Comics and Artwork

• "Assad stayed...if only the others could too" by u/fruitrollupgod, Source
  "Assad stayed...if only the others could too" by u/fruitrollupgod, Source