From shura to interface democracy: the journey of false concepts ✍️ d. ALAA IMAD AL -DIN AL -BADRI
When democracy is mentioned in political forums or intellectual circles, opinions differ between those who consider them most of political development and whoever believes that it is only a camouflage tool for projects that do not serve peoples, except that this word on the meanings it carries is not a strange concept of our culture and or the improvisation of our cultural heritage.
In fact, we can say that the essence of democracy based on the principle of participation, justice, equality and freedom of opinion has clearly obviously obvious Islam since its first dawn, but under the name of more spiritual and transcendence (Shura).
Said all-powerful) and he ordered a shura to them between them (and this generous Koranic text cannot be interpreted or diluted in its importance. He decided that the principle of consultation as a basis for managing the affairs of society. Precise questions and adopting the opinion of the majority even if he violated his opinion.
When the concept of democracy is presented in the Arab and Islamic world, it is not often intended to participate in a real popular participation, but is used as coverage to dismantle societies, make divisions and form rival parts that only serve those who manage the sons of the game from afar. The integrated values system that Islam has brought and has become natural that you see a Muslim sanctifying a system that has been placed by human beings while questioning the program of the Creator of Man!
The previous religions were cut with the same tools of “reform” and “liberation” which are presented today, so why are we surprised if modern democracy is used in our region to repeat the same scenario? The problem is not in democracy as a general concept, but rather so as to promote it as a single global system which is valid for all peoples and at all times, logic is rejected in mind and reality.
The Shura is no less important than democracy, but rather the most beautiful and the most complete than. It has a balance between the freedom of the individual and the responsibility of the group and between the voice of the people and the limits of Sharia law, and this is what many democratic models have turned into dissolution and chaos.
When we talk about democracy in Sudan, we are talking about a dream that has become a generation, but when we tried to apply it on the ground, we collided with a bitter reality that does not have the most fundamental intellectual and cultural elements which allow a real democracy and experiences have proven that democratic transformation is not made by slogans alone, but which requires collective awareness and and democratic responsibility.
Freedom and chaos are two very parallel lines, which are difficult to distinguish with each other if consciousness is absent, and what happened in Sudan during previous democratic experiences, is that freedom was interpreted as an escape and empty of its real content, and it turned into complete chaos, hute and a loss of national composition, so experiences have collapsed before finishing and freedom in the national discourse and Conflicts of national discourse.
The painful is more painful than this chaos was not always a spontaneous result, but rather came in a regional and international context which feeds on the weakness of the peoples and invests in their differences, and that the most dangerous thing that occurred in these stadiums is that the foreign powers which have long been preached to democracy and human rights were only to the illusion that Suppose in front of fate in the face of fate that we left in the spell. While she calmly harvested the gains.
