 Movladi Udugov’s answers to Alla Dudaeva's questions
SIA CHECHENPRESS November 7, 2007
In view of the fact that the Head of the National Information Service of the ChRI Movladi Udugov could not answer the questions posed by Alla Dudaeva, the office of Chechenews.com has decided to fill this gap by publicising the Draft Proposal for the Construction and Security of an Islamic State, drawn up by the Islamic Centre for Strategic Studies and Political Technologies under the editorship of M. Udugov
Draft
Proposal for the Construction and Security of an Islamic State
This proposal is based on the Nisam (Constitution) of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya (CHRI) with Sharia amendments and additions of 4 July 2002, as well as the official interpretation of the fundamental matters of foreign and domestic policies of the Chechen state, and of the reform of the form of government of the CPI of 13 February 2006, given by the President of the ChRI, by the Emir GKO-Majlisul Shura of the ChRI Sheikh Abdul-Khalim.
"Strength and Flexibility"
Preamble
The proposal on the construction and security of an Islamic State (referred to from now on as ‘the Proposal’) is a fundamental system of political and ideological principles, which form and determine the strategy and tactics in the areas of construction and consolidation of an Islamic State and its security.
The proposal formulates the main components of an Islamic State’s policies.
An Islamic State is a state, based in Sharia, where Allah is the sole source of power, and the Koran and the Sunna of the Prophet Muhammad are the sole sources of laws.
The security of an Islamic State implies security of its subjects – the Islamic religion, its citizens, the Sharia government institutions (the Sharia order) and the state sovereignty (the dependent Islamic territories).
« If any do fail to judge by (the light of) what Allah hath revealed, they are (no better than) Unbelievers» (Koran, Al Maida, 44).
The State
Only an Islamic system creates such an order where the only Feasor for everyone – be it a ruler or a subject, black or white, rich or poor, close or far – is God the Almighty and all are equal before His Laws and all are obedient before him. With all other types of organisation people spend their life serving their like and following laws created by other people.
Law making – is one of the prerogatives of supreme authority. He who takes it upon himself to write laws for others, in reality claims supremacy whether he openly declares it or does not. He who allows such an impostor to lay down laws at his whim, in fact recognises the other’s right to supremacy, whether he calls things by their proper names or invents other terms for them.
Said Kutb
15 years on after the restoration of its independence on 6 September 1991 the situation in the ChRI is characterised by an overall crisis of government institutions as well as of the state itself – caused by the military intervention and occupation.
At the same time the external military aggression was a mere catalyst of the critical processes which had affected the Chechen state even before the war.
The source of the crisis in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya was the historically determined fact that no authority had ever been considered legitimate in Chechnya unless it was a medium for Sharia.
The half hearted nature of the steps to implement the Sharia reform in 1996-1999 did not allow stable Islamic state institutions to take root before the beginning of the Russian military aggression.
This was the reason to call together on 4 July 2002 an extended meeting of the Majlisul Shura of the ChRI (which had acquired the status of the Constitutional Assembly) with the participation of all of the branches of power (The ChRI President Aslan Maskhadov, the Chairman of the ChRI Parliament Dardail Khiryaev, MPs, members of the government, the leadership of the Supreme Sharia Court, commanders of the fronts and branches of the ChRI Armed Forces), NGOs and djamaats, who introduced the Sharia amendments and changes into the ChRI Constitution on the basis of the ChRI Presidential decree on the Sharia reform of 4 February 1999.
Article 1 of the ChRI Constitution was changed to read: «The Chechen Republic of Ichkeriya is a sovereign independent Islamic state governed by the rule of law, and created as an expression of the self determination of the Chechen people. The Koran and the Sunna are the sources of all decisions adopted in the ChRI».
Therefore the legal Sharia reform , declared by Djohar Dudaev during his speech in the Shalin mosque in March 1995 and interrupted by Russia’s new military campaign against Chechnya in 1999 has entered its final stage and has come close to Allah’s Sharia being adopted as final, complete and unique law and guidance for Muslims.
In this respect it is important to realise that a state is not simply a social and political entity on a certain territory but first and foremost an ideological construct.
Religion is the basis of any state. It is religion (ideology) that cements the foundations of a state.
According to the Sharia principle, there is not a multitude of religions but only two faiths – Islam and Paganism. In the same way there is not a multitude of different states but only two types – a state based in the authority of God and a state based in the authority of Ta’gut (in its different forms, from dictatorship to democracy).
All the rest of the names and titles aim to obscure this simple truth.
The names of different types and the structural organisation of a state reflect the ideology and the world view of a given society.
The structural and functional organisation of a state is as follows:
Religion (ideology) – laws (code or corpus) – authority (hierarchy and institutions) – subordination (if a ruler does not depart or digress from religion) and the sovereignty area.
A normal functioning of a state assumes compatibility and interaction of its constituent elements.
1. Religion (ideology) as a fundamental element, underlying the entire foundations of a state.
2. A code/corpus of laws, which is derived from religion (ideology) and which regulates the life of the entire society in a state.
3. Authority organised into a certain hierarchy and institutions in order to control the implementation of laws and to ensure social regulation in society.
4. Subordination of the population to the authority as an indispensable aspect of the normal functioning of a state, with a proviso that the authorities’ actions are not in conflict with religion (ideology) and provide for equality of all before law, irrespective of their social status.
5. A particular territory which this authority extends to.
It is therefore clear that the idea of according Islam the status of a state religion instead of making it the basis of the state, is a clear departure from Islam and is not acceptable to us.
The full acceptance of Sharia means bringing the ideology, the terminology, the forms and the structural makeup of the state in line with Sharia. What is more important, it means the restoration of the proper legitimacy of the state.
The full acceptance of Sharia assumes a radical reform of the system of state in the ChRI (taking on board the changes in the military and political situation in the North Caucasus, the broadening of the jihad territory and responsibility) and the final transition to an Islamic state – a Sharia form of government with the restoration of all sharia government institutions, its terminology, structure and policies.
Thus the full acceptance of the Sharia means that Ichkeriya is an Islamic state, open for voluntary affiliation of other Muslim peoples and territories with the purpose of rebuilding a unified (single) Caucasus Islamic State (the Caucasus Emirate).
The supreme authority in an Islamic state is the Majlisul Shura, which is formed on the basis of the Sharia principle of choices ‘Ahlul Khalli val ak’di’.
The head of an Islamic State is an Emir.
Peoples of the Caucasus have a common religion – Islam, a common history, a common struggle for freedom and independence, common ideals and values and a common experience of a unified Islamic State.
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The Draft “Proposal" has been drawn up by the Islamic Centre for Strategic Studies and Political Technologies under the editorship of Movladi Udugov
4 January 2007
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