In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
ISLAMIC FRAMEWORK
First: At State Level:
THE ISLAMIC UNION: Compromises all Islamic States at governmental level,
and structured as follows:
a - Supreme Council: representation by Heads of States or Heads of
Governments.
b - Councils at Ministerial Level: Covering all fields, except the
military.
c - General-Secretariate: the Secretary-General shall be appointed
by the Supreme Council upon the nomination of a candidate by the state chairing
the Council on a rotating process. The Council defines the credentials,
duties and the duration of his post.
d - The Defence Treaty Organisation: Members of the Union shall sign
either a separate treaty or an appendix to the Union Agreement, on Heads
of States level. Delegates to the Council of the Organisation shall be the
Ministers of Defence of the Union's member states. The Supreme Council shall
appoint a secretary general of the Organisation in the same manner as the
Union Secretary General is appointed. The prime aim is to establish a defence
pact to prevent any military threat or aggression against member-states
that would enable it to execute its role decisively. The Organisation must
take all necessary collective measures to achieve this position.
e - Islamic Commission of Arbitration: The General-Secretariate draws
down the conditions, descriptions and credentials of members of the panel
to be approved by the Council of Ministers of Justice, and then to the Supreme
Council for final endorsement. The highest Islamic Fatwa Organisations and
scholars of Shari'ah jurisprudence in all member-states will submit a list
of candidates to their government, who in turn will introduce it to the
Supreme Council, to choose the first panel of the Commission.
The Supreme Council shall also decide the number of the members of the panel
and the period of their membership. The main duty of the Commission is to
examine all applications referred by the General-Secretariate of the Union.
All applications are voluntarily submitted by the disputing parties. The
ruling of the Commission is absolute, and will be referred to the Secretariat-General.
If the disputing parties follow the ruling, the Secretariat- General is
to be informed. If they refuse the ruling, the General-Secretariate will
submit the matter to the Supreme Council who will adopt measures to implement
the ruling. All resorts must be used even the use of force through the Defence
Treaty Organisation when necessary.
f - Advisory and Guidance Commission: The Ministerial Council concerned,
which is a part of the Supreme Council, shall provide the Commission with
the most able scholars in Islam and experts in appropriate fields who can
offer the concept of Islam to reach all Muslims by means of new scientific
and guiding technology.
g - Development Body: This will embrace existing organisations, such
as The Islamic Bank for Development and will study the possibility of creating
a Central Bank, that can be partly financed by private capital. It must
also establish a centre for research and planning in various sectors and
fields on an international level seeking data on existing Islamic potentials
and prepare development programmes based on the best exploitation of all
resources available within the Islamic World and how best to use them effectively
for the good of all Muslims in the future.
CLARIFICATION:
1 - The hosting country shall chair the meeting.
2 - The provisions of the Union to be drawn in the conference.
3 - A resolution to be adopted regarding the rotation of the chairmanship
of the conference, The Ministerial Councils, including the Defence Treaty
Organisation.
4 - The General-Secretariate for the Union and that for the Defence
Treaty Organisation, shall be appointed, and the period of exercising their
duties will be defined.
5 - To draw the text of The Defence Treaty Organisation.
6 - To decide on the headoffices. Maccah Almukkarramah for the central
head offices; Al Madinah Almunawwarah for the Advisory and Guidance Commission;
Pakistan for the Defence Treaty Organisation; Albania for the Development
Body; Egypt for the Islamic Commission of Arbitration. Other future branches
of the Union may be established in other countries.
7 - The ISLAMIC UNION is the best and ideal alternative, in
modern times, for the Islamic State.
The Supreme Council is the alternative to the 'Khilafa'. The Union Ministerial
Councils and its organisations are the replacement of The Central Government
'in the old Islamic State'. The Defence Treaty Organisation is the substitute
of the 'Islamic State Army'.
Second: At Individual Level:
The Supreme Council Of Islamic Jurisprudence and Fatwa: members will be
chosen by the highest advisory, legal and fatwa official authorities in
every one of the member-states in the ISLAMIC UNION, so that everyone
of them will be represented. Their task will be to research and seek means
of narrowing the gap between the different opinions of the scholars explaining
the texts, i.e., the issues that concern the Muslims in present and in future
wherever they are. The aim is to reach a unanimous resolution in all essential
issues. These reaching the Secretary General of the ISLAMIC UNION,
who in turn will circulate them through the different Ministerial Councils,
educational, justice and endowment. Also through the Advisory and the Islamic
Commission of Arbitration, and the Advisory and Guidance Commission for
general application of the Shari'ah Islamic culture. If the Council decides
that certain issues are in need of more research and investigation, it will
undergo treating them individually with extensive research and intensive
debate until consensus is reached. The result will then be referred, following
the same procedure. Part of the council's duties is to receive inquiries
from individuals, governments, councils, scientific or religious institutions
and even from the General-Secretariate of the Islamic Council itself. Answers,
at all times, should be unanimous to achieve the most important aim of establishing
the Council which is consensus.
Moreover, the Council has the responsibility of co-ordinating with The ISLAMIC
UNION Supreme Council through the General-Secretariate simple practical
meetings with Christian religion representatives finding where Islam and
Christianity meet, the common beliefs and principles, publishing them at
their religious and educational institutions. If in disagreement, the issues
can be discussed and debated logically and scientifically, until a positive
resolution is reached, then it can be published as in the previous method.
The aim is firstly: to correct how they see Islam, and secondly: to narrow
the difference between the two beliefs.
THE ISLAMIC CONSULTATIVE ASSEMBLY:
Members are every male and female of the Islamic faith, regardless of nationality,
state, organisation, school of thought or political party. The definition
of a Muslim, who wishes to be a member, should be stated by the Supreme
Council for Islamic Jurisprudence and Fatwa.
Members who attend the first meeting may:
1 - Select a chairman for the meeting, a procedure to be followed
in every future meeting.
2 - Select a General-Secretariate from the attending members.
3 - Draw a Covenant of Honour to be signed which should include:
- Membership is open to any person who is a Muslim.
- A different chairman to be selected at every session.
- Absent members cannot authorise anyone to represent them ,but they can
send what they wish to propose to the General-Secretariate.
- No member is to praise or slander a ruler, state, regime, political party,
group or an individual during the session.
4 - The importance of the member's attendance , is to make the effort
to reach the best for the Muslims, discussing and
underlining the problems,solving them and making the resolutions.
5 - During the session, time must be consumed for serious practical
and informative programs to reach the members' efforts to improve The Muslims'
state of affairs. These programs must be detailed.
6 - Meetings shall be considered in session with whoever is present.
Absent members can write to the General-Secretariate. This is to ensure
equality for all members is guaranteed without disrupting the Council's
work.
7 - Although the Assembly's resolutions cannot be dictated to the
Supreme Council and the member states within the ISLAMIC UNION, they
all work towards the general Muslim welfare. In the reasonable framework,
and due to the media's reaction and the Muslim public opinion, these resolutions
will be considered.
8 - The Assembly can consult the Supreme Council of Islamic Jurisprudence
and Fatwa if necessary.
9 - The Assembly can apply-through its General-Secretariate to the
General-Secretariate of the ISLAMIC UNION, demanding information
that can be useful for their discussions, or statistics that might help
their programs. The General-Secretariate of the Assembly is to refer all
the resolutions, programs and recommendations to the ISLAMIC UNION.
10 - The meetings of the Assembly take place according to what has
been decided in previous meetings.
The date and place of the first meeting are to be decided by the host person
by the various media means. The General-Secretariate will accept donations,
gifts, presents and whatever the members might decide to contribute unconditionally.
The cost and expenses of the first meeting will be met by the host.
ISLAMIC SALVAGE FOUNDATION:
An expansion of the existing association, connected to the governments and
accepting unconditional grants. The Foundation is to be supported for improvement,
to be more effective, experienced, active, honest and efficient. No need
for more staff. The Councils emerging from the Supreme Council of the ISLAMIC
UNION, i.e. The Economy and Finance Council, the Justice Council, the
Social Affair Council, and the Interior Affair Council, are to nominate
the top management of the Foundation. The Supreme Council is to select the
management. The management is then free to elect the necessary experts from
Muslims and non-Muslim communities, guided by previous conditions.
The management is to establish an investment administration, experienced
to invest the funds from the aids and donations. The proceedings to go towards
aiding The Muslims of the world suffering from natural disasters, diseases,
homelessness, drought, famine, and post-war disasters, also launching projects
for rehabilitation of the victims of such disasters and training programmes
to enable those eligible to help themselves.
THE ARABIC FRAMEWORK
First at the State Level:
THE ARAB UNION: Membership for all the states who are members of the
' the Arab League', with stated conditions for any other country willing
to join.
The Union consists of:
a - The Supreme Council: representation by heads of states or governments.
b- The Councils at Ministerial levels in different sectors.
c - General-Secretariate: the Secretary-General to be appointed by
the Supreme Council, following nomination by the country chairing by rotation.
The Supreme Council states his duties, nature of work and the term of office.
d - The Union's duties is to study and resolve the projects proposed
by the members for narrowing the gap between the different systems in education
and culture, internal security, economic and commercial systems, exchanging
of experiences, co-ordination to avoid duplicating projects of the single
product for a single market. Members must co-operate in development spheres
encouraging investments, united officially and firmly facing any international
issue. If international circumstances change, it may be studied and faced
anew.
The issue, at all times, being the welfare of the Arab citizen, security,
stability and flourishing of the Arab World.
Thus the strategy of the Union should be grounded on comprehensive and effective
sincerity and good will to succeed, following the different stages of the
development within the framework of practical and flexible plans, applied
with full co-operation and sincerity, employing every available resource
within the framework of ISLAMIC UNION or outside of it.
CLARIFICATION
1 - The host country of the first summit conference, chairs the meetings.
2 - The Provision for the Union may be drafted and signed.
3 - Agreement on rotating the chairmanship of the conference and
the councils emerging from it, and defining the period of chairmanship.
4 - The first Secretary General to be appointed and the period of
his practice to be defined.
5 - Announcing the headquarters of the Union - an intelligent choice
for practical reasons would be Bahrain.
6 - Other Associations will be situated in different Arab Cities
- e.g. Culture Art and Archaeology Association in Cairo - Association for
Preserving the Arabic Language and the Academy of Arabic Language in Damascus
etc.
7 - Note that the ARAB UNION is the only alternative to the Arab
Unity, and that the Supreme Council is the saviour. Let the Union be the
Arab State and let the supreme Arab Welfare be the leader as a substitute
to the one single leader for all the Arabs, a fact which may have been the
only obstacle in the path of Arab Unity. As long as the Ultimate Arab welfare
is the objective of Arab Unity, then where is the necessity for an impossible
Arab Unity under an individual leadership?
Second: At Individual Level:
THE ARAB ASSEMBLY has absolute independence of the ARAB UNION and the
member states, in constitution, freedom, discussions and resolutions. Membership
shall be available for every Arab man or woman, wherever they may be, as
long as they can prove their Arab descendency.
The Council consists of :
1 - The Secretary-General for drafting summary records co-ordinating
dates and places of meeting without chairmanship.
2 - The chairman of the meeting: to be elected from the attending
members to chair that meeting on that date only. The First meeting to be
chaired by the inviting individual.
3 - Members: every member attending the meeting is equal in the rights
and duties. No one can authorise another member to speak for him, but has
the right to write with his proposals to the Secretary General.
4 - Membership available after signing Covenant of Honour defining,
no favouritism praise or slander of a leader, state, party, organisation
or individual.
5 - The motto of the council is 'the Arab Role' - it proposes an
accurate study, by different experts, to be agreeable by all parties to
achieve and to practice 'The Arab Role'.
All information, statistics, data studies and research to be at their disposal.
The Covenant of Honour, forbids any interference of the Assembly in internal
affairs of any state. The Assembly cannot dictate its resolution on any
state. It is a means of spontaneous and effective opinion when resolutions
are made, by the Arab Union and in the response and support of the Arab
Public opinion represented in the Arab Assembly.
6 - Invitation for the first meeting, by the first individual that
adopted and advertised the scheme. The place, time of the meeting to be
defined in the media. He also provides all expenses needed. He chairs the
meeting taking the responsibility of introducing and explaining the aims
and conditions of the scheme.
7 - Attendants of the meeting meet their own expenses all costs and
expenses of General-Secretariate are met by voluntary work, or partly from
the Assembly funds from donations, gifts and presents from institutions,
organisations or individuals and companies with no effect or influence whatsoever
on the Assembly's neutrality.
CLARIFICATION
Arab Individuals must take this opportunity to be able to decide their future
and the future of generations to come. In the making of the future of our
history we must be participants and not spectators.
This is the chance .......... Anyone for it ?!
The responsibility of the ARAB POSITION is theirs.
The place to exercise that responsibility is the ARAB ASSEMBLY
As for their motto, it shall always be the ARAB ROLE