Truly Allah knows best. Brother Webb, wallah I love your lectures and articles and I frequently visit your website. I was doing a search for anything related to “istikhara” and this article posted and I couldn’t help but open it when I read the title to the article and the author.

Brother Webb, I hope that as a leader of the Muslim community in the U.S. you understand your influence and impact. You are very popular mashaAllah and influential.

I honestly hope that this year when you write an article about who you encourage people to vote for, that firstly you apologize to the Muslim community for encouraging a person like Obama and that you make a better choice.

I think its such a shame when leaders promote certain leaders and fail to realize two things. One, they don’t realize the power of their influence and the importance of it. Two, they have not done real diligent research into the candidates they endorse.

This is not a sports game where you go for the NYG or Patriots. These leaders literally have peoples lives in their hand and if you had a clue what goodness and justice meant you would not have encouraged people to vote for Obama or McCain. You would have realized that the only person actually talking about justice was Ron Paul. I don’t care what party he is from or what color his skin is. Or how cool it would be to have a black President because that is not what justice is about.

Wallah, I really thought hard about being diplomatic about this. I pray Allah forgives me if there is any harm in the tone I have taken. I also hope that you respond to this thoroughly. I have much respect for you, the level of knowledge you have of our beautiful deen, and how you teach it with such ease. You are a blessed brother and hate to loose respect over something you seem to know very little about, politics. Or at least that was the case when you posted this.

Please respond to me brother. Do not be like all the other leaders of the Muslim community who’s words are empty. By that I mean, you made a statement and made a stance, now either back it up or retract it.

Much love and peace,
As salamu alaikum

Jzk Abu Majeed for you kind reply.

I have never registered to vote before because all these politicians seem to be working for the same cause. The morality of the world is in decline, people are shooting eachother, the gap between the rich and the poor is evergrowing and muslim lands are under attack. Although it might seem the contrary, I am not a negative person, I do try to look at the bright side of things. Neither McCain or Obama have impressed me!

Its like, in the UK for example Blair and New Labour had promised so much – and people are still waiting 10 years later for the delivery! I have written to MPs about various issues, including Palestine, and they all say the same thing but in different ways.

I think the only way we are gonna have an impact on politics is if muslims have a lobby too. The Jewish lobby is probably one of the most powerful group on earth, because of this it doesn't matter how inhuman Palestinians are treated as no politicain is brave enough to stand up to the Jewish lobby.

Allah says that He does not change the state of a people until they change the state of thier hearts. There are so many muslims being oppressed, displaced etc, maybe we need to all work on our iman and look inwardly, as well as trying to contirbute to society in a positive way, and inshAllah then things will start to get better.

With the curruption in politics at the moment, is voting going to help?

I now strongly believe how naive people are, agreeing to a law other than shariah is kufr.Have people not learnt their lesson from the constant betrayal? Yet they continue to be loyal to a system which is a direct enemy of Islam.

Just a reminder, in the last two decades about 3 million people have been killed just in Iraq, due to these policies. The war, the sanction, the destruction of food factories, and the second invasion and the civil war.

The cause of misunderstood facts, blind by the bigger pictures some have by mistake opposed the shariah, thinking there is some greater benefit. But the real fact is, as Islam teaches us walaa wal baraa, a part of Aqeedah which is dropped hence the disunity amonsgt the muslims themselves.

Different face, same policy.

Stop being stupid.

Uk resident I would like to tell you that yes they are both ‘pro israel’ but mcain is worse because he does not support the peace process while obama does. Obama also visited israel and palestine while mcain only visited israel. another thing to note is that after a survey u will c that more palestinians have their hope on obama than mcain. so again it is imp for muslims to vote so the one that is worse for the america world or palestinians doesnt get elected inshAllah

wassalam

Asalamu alaykum:

It is available in a one of the Figh Council journals. They are published yearly and I have them in Cairo. Inshallah, upon my return to Cairo I will get the reference to you. Let me make clear that he does not mention any specific candidate, but his name is on every fatwa written in the texts as well as a brief introduction on the subject. It is an awesome collection with writing of some of the greatest fuqaha alive.

SDW