12.  At this stage, it must always be realised that the society in its entirety is the main school of the Hizb. At the same time, however, we must keep in mind the differences between the school and the Hizb with respect to its culturing circles.

Realising that the entire society is the Hizb’s school stems from the nature of the Hizb’s task at this stage, which is to awaken the true ’Aqa’id (convictions) and produce the correct concepts. This task can only be achieved through an educational process where the Hizb’s ideology is the teacher, that is the source from which the ideas are taken, and where the Hizb’s culture is the subject being taught. The ideology and the culture of the Hizb would be manifested in those whom the ideology is completely embodied in. These individuals would be the direct instructors in the society. The local committees with their circles would serve as society’s classrooms, and the entire society would be the school. This teaching process necessitates that the Hizb’s members, and those who adopt its concepts, must maintain a profound study, so as to develop a correct understanding, and must continuously learn the Hizb’s culture at all times. In addition, they are required to memorize the constitution, the important rules, and the general principles adopted by the Hizb. This necessitates a learning process similar to that in a school, and it is imperative that every person who joins the Hizb adheres to this process, including the one who is educated, as well as the one who is not educated but has the potential to be educated. It also does not matter as to what level of education a person has, whether it is university level or elementary one. Any leniency in the culturing process with any individual will leave this individual outside the Hizb, even if he has joined it, and this may harm the Hizb structure.

It is important at this stage for the Hizb not to get involved in any action until the Hizb has cadres who have acquired the Hizb’s culture before involving in any action. Hence this stage would only be a culturing stage.

Realising the difference between the school and the Hizb in terms of culturing will prevent the Hizb’s culture from turning into academic culture and thus losing its effectiveness. Therefore, it is important to place a thick screen between the Shabaab of the Hizb and the academic aspect of the Hizb’s culture, and to recognise that the objective of the Hizb culture is to change the concepts, to work in the realm of life and to carry the intellectual leadership in the Ummah. One who carries the Hizb culture must not hasten towards the academic aspect. If one is in need of just academic knowledge, then the appropriate place is the school and not the Hizb. Taking the culture towards the academic aspect would take away the quality of the work and would delay the Hizb from moving towards the second stage.

13.  The second stage of the Hizb is the stage of interaction with the Ummah, which invloves struggle. The second stage is very delicate. Its success would attest to the correctness of the formation of the Hizb, while its failure would prove there is a defect that should be addressed. Since this stage is built upon the preceding one, success in the first stage is a pre-requisite for success in the second stage. However, the mere success in culturing in the first stage is not sufficient to bring success in the second stage. The success in culturing must be made known to the people, and they should know that there is a functioning Da’wah and should know that the Hizb’s member carries a Da’wah. Furthermore, it is necessary for the members to have developed the collective spirit during their cultural transformation in the study-circles and by their contact with the society they live in, and through their attempts to influence that society. This collective attitude will be present when they move to the second stage, which will facilitate their interaction with the Ummah.

14.  The Hizb’s member does not proceed from the culturing stage to the interaction stage until he has matured culturally. Maturity in culture makes him an Islamic personality by conforming his Nafsiyyah (inclinations and feelings) to his Aqliyyah (mentality). The Messenger of Allah (saw) said:

“None of you will have real belief until his inclinations conform to what I came with.”

In addition to maturity in the culture, the Hizb’s member does not proceed to the interaction stage until it became known to the people that he is carrying an Islamic Da’wah. The collective attitude should have been strengthened in the member through his presence in the circles and his communication with society, to remove from him any tendency towards isolation. Isolation is a blend of cowardice and despair, which must be uprooted from the individuals and society.

15.  The Hizb should move from the cultural stage to the interaction stage naturally. If it tries to proceed prematurely, it will not be able to. During the cultural stage, the Hizb passes the starting point. During this stage, the culture makes the ideology embodied within the individuals, and makes the society clearly feel the presence of the Da’wah and the ideology. Once the ideology is embodied within the individuals, and the society feels the presence of the Da’wah, the Hizb will pass the starting point and the Hizb should move towards the launching point (NuqTat al-InTilaaq). In order for the Hizb to proceed towards the launching point, it must address the Ummah. The Hizb must first make many attempts to address the Ummah before it will be successful. The Hizb addresses the Ummah through concentrated culturing in circles, mass culturing of the people wherever possible, exposing the plans of the colonialists, and adopting the interests of the Ummah. When the Hizb succeeds in these four tasks, it moves towards addressing the Ummah, and proceeds to the launching point naturally. This natural progression carries the Hizb from the first stage of culturing to the second stage of interaction. Furthermore, this natural progression ensures that the Hizb begins to interact with the Ummah only at the right time and in a natural way.

16.  This interaction with the Ummah is essential for the Hizb’s success in its duty. The Hizb’s members must interact with the Ummah, because they, by themselves, will not be able to carry out an action, regardless of their number or strength, unless the Ummah worked with them. They will not also be able to motivate the Ummah to work with them nor she will work them unless they succeeded in this interaction. The interaction does not mean that the members gather a large group of people around them, rather it means that the Ummah adopts the ideology of the Hizb, which is Islam, as her own. This ideology already exists in the cultural and historical heritage of the Ummah, and in her sentiments. It is the feeling of the Ummah that evolved into a thought, which has been crystallized in a select group of people that the Hizb has emerged from. The basis of these feelings, that thought and action must be for a specific objective, represents the true expression of the ideology. Hence the ideology - Islam - is the inner feeling of the Ummah, and the Hizb is the expression of this feeling. If the Hizb is clear in its address, eloquent in its language, and honest in its expression, the Ummah will quickly understand the ideology and interact with the Hizb. As a result, the entire Ummah will be considered as the Hizb, and the select group will carry the leadership of the movement through the Hizbi structure. Through this movement, the Ummah, led by the Hizb, will proceed towards the third stage. This is the stage of comprehensively implementing the ideology by the Hizb, by acquiring the authority. The implementation of the ideology by the authority is the only method to implement the idea, and it is part of the ideology.

However, there are several obstacles in the way of such interaction. It is necessary to be aware of them and to know their nature in order to be able to overcome them. The obstacles are numerous, the most important of which are:

A.   The contradiction between the ideology and the system being implemented in society.

The Hizb’s ideology will be a new system for life compared to the prevailing system in society. It will contradict the existing system that the ruling class implements upon society. Hence, this class will regard this ideology as a threat to itself and its entity, and will inevitably confront it and fight it through various means, such as propaganda, harassment and physical persecution of the Da’wah carriers. Therefore, while working for the interaction with the Ummah by calling for their ideology, it is essential for the carriers of the ideology, to protect themselves from harm by all possible means, and to counter the misleading propaganda by explaining their Da’wah, and to endure all kinds of hardship in the process of achieving this.

B.   Another obstacle would be the cultural difference.

In addition to disparate thoughts in the Ummah, there exist various cultures in society. The Ummah however, has one feeling. The various cultures, especially the culture of the colonialists, are the antithesis of these feelings, while the ideology’s culture, the Islamic culture, is the true expression of the Ummah’s feelings. However, public opinion in society regarding the culture, the curriculums in schools, institutions and cultural centres, as well as political and cultural movements, are all made to conform to foreign culture. Therefore, it is necessary for the Hizb, with its own culture, to struggle against other cultures and other thoughts to make visible the true expression of the Ummah’s feelings and sensations, which would lead the Ummah to proceed with the Hizb. While the Hizb, with its culture and thought, will inevitably enter into a conflict with other cultures and thoughts carried by the Ummah, the interaction should not take the form of futile arguments. The members of the Hizb should draw the straight line alongside the crooked line and avoid engaging in futile arguments that could lead to egoism and could obstruct the person from seeing the truth. Instead, the thoughts of the Hizb should be explained, and the error of other thoughts, the falsehood of other cultures, as well as the dangers of their consequences, should be exposed. Eventually the Ummah would turn away from the falsehood and incline towards the Hizb’s culture and thoughts. Even the people carrying the foreign culture and false thoughts would eventually turn away from them, if they were sincere, aware and objective, once the foreign culture’s fallacy becomes apparent to them. This task will be one of the most difficult ones for the Hizb. Interaction with the Ummah in places where foreign culture is strong will be more difficult than in places where the influence of foreign culture is less. Also, the likelihood of revival in places where those educated with foreign culture are few would be greater than in places where their number is high. Therefore, the Hizb should be aware of the community with which it aims to interact, so that it can proceed in a course that is most suitable for that society.

C.   Another major obstacle would be those individuals within the Ummah who adhere to the status quo (pragmatists).

Due to the poisoning by the foreign culture, and the prevalence of ignorance, two types of pragmatists exist in the Ummah. The first type accept the status quo and surrender to it as an inevitable matter, because they adopt the situation as the source of their thinking and take solutions to their problems from it. Overcoming this group requires deep discussions, after which they would realize that the current situation should be taken as the subject of thinking in order to change it. As a result, it would be possible for them to abandon their current thought. The second type is the “Adh-Dhalaamiyyeen” section who refuse to open their eyes (live in the light), because they have become accustomed to living in darkness, triviality and superficiality. In addition, they suffer from physical laziness and mental lethargy and cling to the old ways which they found their forefathers adhering to. They are the true pragmatists, because they are of the same nature as the status-quo, and their thought is stagnant. Therefore, this group requires more perseverance. Overcoming such people requires culturing them and striving to rectify their concepts.

D.   Another major obstacle in the path of the Da’wah is the attachment of the people to their interests. Human beings are by nature tied to their personal interests in life while simultaneously attached to the ideology. It may happen that one’s interests conflict with the Da’wah, and one may attempt to accommodate both. Overcoming this obstacle requires every person who embraces the ideology to consider the Da’wah and the Hizb as the focus around which his personal interests revolve. Therefore, he would not allow anything which contradicts, hinders, or makes him forget the Da’wah. By doing so, he shifts the Da’wah from revolving around his interests to making his interests revolve around the Da’wah.

E.   Another obstacle that stands in the way of the Da’wah involves the difficulty in sacrificing matters of worldly life, such as wealth and business, for the sake of Islam and for carrying its Da’wah. To overcome this obstacle, the believer is reminded that Allah (swt) has bought from the believers their lives and their wealth in return for Paradise. This reminder should suffice, and the choice should be left to the individual to sacrifice these matters without any coercion. The Rasool Allah (saw) wrote in a letter to ’Abdullah Ibn Jahsh, when he sent him to lead an expedition to keep an eye on Quraysh at Nakhlah, between Makkah and Ta’if:

“Do not coerce anyone of your companions to proceed with you, and go forth with my order with those who follow you.”

F.   It seems that one of the difficulties will be urban differences within societies. The environment in cities is different from those in villages, which in turn differs from the environments of the Bedouins. As a result, the degree of material progress in the city is different than that in the village, which differs from that in the Bedouins’ sites and tents. Therefore, these differences in patterns of material aspects of life, may suggest to the Hizb the notion of a difference in the culturing or in the ideological orientation towards each setting. This is a very dangerous fallacy because the Ummah, regardless of her patterns of urbanization, is still one Ummah with the same feelings and ideology. The Da’wah to the Ummah should be the same in a city, a village, or in a Bedouin camp, and similarly the work towards interacting with her should be the same.

17.   The Hizb itself may face two dangers during this interaction stage: an ideological danger (a danger to the ideology), and a danger of elitism.

The ideological danger may surface from the underlying currents within the community, as well as from the desire to respond to its persistent and immediate demands, and from the dominating residual opinions of a section in the community over the ideas of the Hizb. Such a danger may arise because as the Hizb interacts with society, it will communicate with the masses in order to interact with them and lead them. At that time, the Hizb will be equipped with its ideology, whereas the masses will have many old, contradictory and reactionary thoughts, legacies from the past generations, dangerous foreign ideas, as well as the people’s imitation of the disbelieving colonialists. When the Hizb interacts with the masses, it will provide them with the Hizb’s opinions and thoughts and will strive to correct their concepts, to awaken the Islamic ’Aqeedah within them, and to produce the correct traditionss and standards. This requires Da’wah and propaganda, so as to gather the Ummah around it on the basis of the ideology in a way that strengthens in the Ummah her belief in the ideology, provokes in her confidence in the Hizb concepts, builds respect and appreciation to it, and makes the Ummah ready to act under the leadership of the Hizb. At that time, the duty of the Hizb will be to increase its members who are trusted by the Ummah so that they will have full command of the Ummah, like the general in the army. If the Hizb succeeds in this phase of interaction, it will then lead the Ummah towards its objective within the boundaries set by the ideology, without being derailed or deviated. However, if the Hizb were to lead the masses before the interaction is completed and before the public awareness amongst the Ummah is generated, the leadership of the Ummah by the Hizb will not proceed according to the ideology. Rather, the leadership will be by diagnosing what is simmering in the Ummah’s mind, by tickling her sentiments, and by falsely portraying the Ummah’s aspirations as being at hand and within her grasp.

However, in this case, the masses will not have lost their previous emotions, such as patriotism, nationalism and priestly spiritualism, and the ‘mob instinct’ will stir such emotions. Thus trivial traditions, such as sectarianism and “madhabism,” old thoughts such as independence and freedom, and corrupt chauvinism such as racism and tribalism, will re-emerge amongst the masses. The contradictions between the masses and the Hizb will begin to surface, and the masses will assume for themselves demands which do not conform to the ideology. They will call for short-term aims harmful to the Ummah and become enthused over these demands, and their rage will increase in order to achieve these demands. In this case, the Hizb will have to choose between two difficult options: either to face the anger of the Ummah and her resentment and thus destroying all that the Hizb had built in order to dominate the society; or to face a deviation from its ideology and become lenient towards it. Either of these two options poses a great danger to the Hizb. If the masses and the ideology come into conflict, it is imperative for the Hizb members to adhere to the ideology alone. Even though the Hizb members would be subjected to the Ummah’s resentment, for this negative feeling would only be temporary. Their adherence to the ideology will win them the trust of the Ummah again. Hence, the Hizb should always caution itself not to contradict the ideology or deviate from its essence, even slightly. The ideology is the life of the Hizb and the guarantor of its survival. In order to ward off such grave situations and to prevent such a danger, the Hizb should endeavor to cultivate the ideology in the Ummah, to maintain the clarity of the Hizb’s thoughts and concepts and to work towards maintaining the predominance of its thoughts and concepts over the Ummah. All of this will be facilitated by being careful in the culturing stage and mass education, by meticulously exposing the colonialists’ plans, by constantly watching over the Ummah and her interests, by melting the Hizb with the ideology, by constantly examining thoughts and the concepts of the Hizb so that they remain clear, and by expending every possible effort in achieving all of this, no matter how much effort and suffering this may cost.

The second danger to the Hizb, namely elitism, may penetrate the members of the Hizb themselves and not the Ummah. When the Hizb represents the Ummah or the majority of the Ummah, it enjoys an exalted position, a respected place, and complete admiration from the Ummah and the influential people, and this position may arouse arrogance. Hence the Hizb’s members may consider themselves to be superior to the Ummah, and to believe that their role is to be leaders while believing that the role of the Ummah is to be led. Thus, they may look down upon the Ummah or her individuals. If this were to happen, the Ummah will begin to feel that the Hizb is a class different from her. The Hizb will also begin to perceive itself as a different class. This feeling will mark the beginning of the collapse of the Hizb, because it will weaken the Hizb’s concern about the ordinary individuals of the masses, and it will undermine their confidence in the Hizb. The Ummah will start to turn away from the Hizb, and once the Ummah has turned away from the Hizb, the Hizb will collapse. Restoring and re-gaining the Ummah’s trust and confidence will require a great deal of effort. Therefore the Hizb’s members should proceed through life as simple individuals of the Ummah and not think of themselves as anything but servants of the Ummah. They should realize that their role as Hizb’s members is to serve the Ummah because this guarantees them immunity and will benefit them not only in maintaining the confidence of the masses, but also in the third stage when they will have acquired the authority to implement the ideology. As rulers they would remain servants of the Ummah in the eyes of the people, which would make it easy for them to implement the ideology.

18.   The third stage is acquiring the authority.

The Hizb acquires the authority through the Ummah and the works of seeking Nusrah. It implements the ideology in its totality, which is known as the radical method. This method does not allow sharing authority in government, but seizes complete power and uses it as a method to implement the complete ideology. It implements the Islamic ideology in a comprehensive manner and does not accept the gradual method, regardless of existing circumstances.

Once the state has implemented the ideology completely and comprehensively, it should then proceed to carry the Islamic Da’wah. Hence it should assign in the State’s budget a special fund for propagating the Da’wah. The State will oversee the Da’wah either through the State’s international relations, or through the Hizb, according to the circumstances. Despite the Hizb’s acquisition of authority, it will continue operating as a Hizb and its apparatus will also remain as such, whether its members are holding ruling positions or not. The authority is considered as the first practical step towards the implementation of the Hizb’s ideology in the state as well as in every part of the world. These are the steps in which the Hizb proceeds in life in order to transfer the idea into practice, which include transferring the ideology into the life by resuming the Islamic way of life, reviving the society, and carrying the Da’wah to the world. At that time, the Hizb would begin the practical role for which it was founded. Hence, the Hizb is the true guarantee of establishing the Islamic State, maintaining it, implementing Islam, enhancing its implementation, continuing this implementation, and carrying the Islamic Da’wah to the world. This is because, once it established the State, it will act as a monitor (raqeeb) over the State. It will hold it accountable, and it will lead the Ummah in this mission. At the same time, it would carry the Islamic Da’wah in the Islamic countries and all other parts of the world.

The Hizb proceeds from a structural point of view in the following manner:

1.  A person possessing an outstanding intellectual capability and a keen perception is guided to the ideology. The ideology interacts with him until it is crystallized and becomes clear to him. At this point the first cell of the Hizb has formed. This cell will begin to multiply shortly after its emergence, but this multiplication will be slow. Nevertheless, more people will join, thus establishing more cells. Those people will be bound completely by the ideology. Hence the first circle of the Hizb, or the leadership, will emerge. The ideology must be the sole pivot of structuring amongst these individuals and the sole force that attracts them to it.

2.  This first circle will naturally consist of few in number and will initially be slow in its motion. Although it will express the feelings of the society in which it lives, the Hizb leadership will deliver this expression in terms and meanings unfamiliar to what the society has accustomed itself to. It will have new concepts that will be different from the society’s prevailing concepts, even though it represents the society’s emotions. Therefore, the first circle will appear unusual to the society, and will attract only those individuals who possess strong feelings. The strong awareness within these individuals will attract them to the ideology that the first circle embodies.

3.  The thinking of this first circle (the leadership) will be deep, and its method of revival fundamental, which means that this circle will start from the basics. This will enable the first circle to stand taller, and be able to look farther. Thus, it will rise above the bad circumstances in which the Ummah lives. It will also have foresight and a clear vision of the situation which it aims to transform the Ummah to, and it will clearly see the method to change the present situation. The majority of the society where this circle lives will not see farther than its current status. Because of the attachment of the people to their circumstances, they cannot rise above the situation, and they cannot comprehend the situation correctly. Due to the declined society’s primitive thought, this society visualizes things with respect to the status quo, which causes it to generalize issues in a distorted way, so as to adapt to the status quo, and to conform its interests to the status quo.

The Hizb’s first circle will have surpassed this primitive thinking and proceeded towards comprehensive thinking. Hence, it will make the current reality the object of its thinking, rather than making the situation the source of its thinking. That is, it will attempt to change the situation to conform to the ideology and will not change the ideology to conform to the status quo. Hence, by attempting to change the situation, reshape it, and keep it under its control, the Hizb will seek to change the situation to make it conform to the ideology, rather than changing the ideology to conform to the situation. As a result, there will be a difference between how the society views life and how the Hizb’s first circle understands life, and therefore there will be a need to bridge this gap.

4.  The thought of the Hizb’s first circle (the leadership) will be based on a firm principle, that thought must be linked to action, and thought and action must be for a specific objective. Because of the fact that the ideology is embodied in the Hizb’s first circle, and that its thoughts must be linked to the aforementioned firm principle, a constant atmosphere of Iman will be produced. This atmosphere will help in controlling the situation and changing it. This thought will not conform to whatever it encounters, but instead will mould the situation to conform to the thought. In contrast, the society, having no basis for its thoughts, does not know the objective for which it should think and work, and its members’ objective is immediate and selfish. As a consequence, the society has no atmosphere of Iman and the society is forced to conform to its circumstances. As a result, contention will occur between the first circle of the Hizb and the society where the first circle will first emerge.

5.  The duty of the Hizb leadership will be to create the atmosphere of Iman, which will induce a certain way of thinking. In order to build its body correctly and at a spectacular speed, the leadership should initiate some actions in order to develop itself rapidly and to thoroughly purify its environment. The Hizb’s first circle should also transform itself at a rapid pace from a Hizbi circle into a Hizbi bloc and then into a fully-fledged Hizb, which will establish itself in the society in such a way that it will affect the society, rather than being affected by it.

6.  These deliberate actions will be developed through a careful and meticulous study of society, its individuals, and the present reality, and by cautiously safe-guarding against infiltration of any incorrect elements into the Hizb’s entity and against the occurrence of any error in the set-up of the Hizb’s apparatus. This is because any error may deviate the Hizb from its correct direction and cause the Hizb to split.

7.  The deeply rooted and firm ’Aqeedah, as well as the Hizb’s culture, must form the bond between the Hizb members and the law that directs the Hizb, rather than the written administrative law. The method to strengthen this ’Aqeedah and the culture is to study and think in order to develop a specific mentality, and to generate thought that is linked with the emotion. The atmosphere of Iman should constantly prevail in order to maintain the two factors that bind the Hizb, its heart and its mind. Therefore, it is essential to believe in the ideology in order for the heart to start binding the Hizb’s members. The second factor that binds the Hizb, i.e. the mind, will then be formed by deeply studying the ideology, learning it, memorizing it and understanding it. As a result, the Hizb will be correctly prepared, and its bond will be strong in a way that enables it to resist all shocks and challenges that come its way.

8.  The Hizb leadership (qiyaadah - the first circle) is similar to a combustion engine in some aspects. For example, in a combustion engine, a spark ignites the gas. This ignition generates thermal energy. This thermal energy causes the internal pressure to increase. The pressure pushes the piston. The piston imposes its motion upon the other parts of the engine, thus causing the machine to run. If the motion of the engine stops, all the other parts will stop. Therefore, the spark, the gas and the motion of the engine must exist for the engine to run the machine. Similarly, with the Hizb leadership (the first circle), the idea is the spark, the feelings of the aware persons of the leadership is the “gas,” and the person whose feeling is affected by the idea is like the motion of the engine. When the idea comes into contact with the person’s feelings, energy is generated, which drives the leadership into motion. Its motion is transferred to other parts of the Hizb, whether these parts are individuals, circles, local committees or others, all of which are affected by its warmth. Hence they all move and function as the machine functions, and the Hizb starts its course and begins growing.

Therefore, the warmth of the leadership must spread to all other parts of the Hizb for them to function properly, because it is essential for the engine to move with perfect synchronization in order for the machine to function properly. In this aspect, the Hizb leadership bears similarity to a combustion engine. The leaders of the Hizb must understand this aspect and maintain communication with the other parts of the Hizb in order for the leadership’s warmth to affect everyone. If after several contacts the leadership finds that other members and committees are not functioning without the leadership’s movement, they should not despair. They should realize that this is natural because the machine does not function unless the engine functions and heat is emitted from it.

However, unlike the combustion engine, which imposes its motion upon the other parts of the machine, the leadership (the first circle) does not cause the other parts of the Hizb to move by the mere imposition of its motion upon the Hizb. This process of imposing the motion on the other parts, is necessary only in the beginning. But once the Hizb is set in motion, the other parts can function by themselves even without the motion carried to them from the leadership. In this respect the leadership differs from the combustion engine. The combustion engine is always the driving force of the machine and the machine would not function if the engine did not start the motion. However, the leadership is more like a social engine than a combustion one. The Hizb members, its circles and its local committees, are humans and not metal objects. They have life in them. They will be affected by the warmth of the leadership. This warmth stems from the warmth of the ideology, which is embodied in the leadership (the first circle). After the members and the Hizb organs digest the idea and interact with the warmth of the leadership, they become part of the engine that carries the motion of the leadership. Eventually, the mere motion of the leadership, due to this warmth, naturally spreads motion in the entire Hizb. The leadership of the Hizb, as a social motor, becomes one intellectual common whole throughout the Hizb. At this stage, the leadership is no longer the sole provider of the motion. With the growth of the leadership, and the completion of the formation of the Hizb, the whole Hizb becomes the provider of the motion. Thus, the Hizb does not need the motion and warmth provided by the leadership. Instead the ideology flows into the Hizb members. The Hizb, its circles and its local committees will automatically progress without depending on the motion provided by the leadership. That is because the warmth of each component of the Hizb is emanating from itself and from the cohesive intellectual whole which is common within the Party and naturally connected to all of these parts.

9. The ideological Hizb will proceed in three stages so as to start implementing its ideology in society:

First: The stage of study and culturing in order to develop the Hizbi culture.

Second: The stage of interaction with the society, so that the society becomes aware of the ideology, the (acceptance of the) ideology becomes the public traditions of the society, and the whole community perceives it as its ideology and defends it collectively. In this stage, the Ummah starts her struggle against those who stand as obstacles in the path of the implementation of the ideology, such as the colonialists and their tools such as the ruling classes, those who prefer living in the dark, and those fascinated by the foreign culture. The Ummah starts this struggle because the Ummah adopts the ideology as her own, and views the Hizb as her leader.

Third: The ruling stage, by acquiring the authority throughout the Ummah in order to implement the ideology upon the Ummah. From this stage, the practical aspects of the Hizb will manifest itself in life’s affairs. Calling to the ideology will remain the main task of the state and the Hizb. The ideology will be the message that the Ummah and the state will carry.

10. In the first stage, the stage of establishment, it is assumed that all the individuals of the Ummah are equally devoid of any correct culture. The Hizb begins culturing those who wish to join the Hizb and considers the entire society as a school. The Hizb seeks to build and prepare the group that is able to approach the public in order to interact with it in the shortest possible time.

It must be realised that this culturing process is not academic and that it differs completely from the schooling process. The culturing process must proceed with the understanding that the ideology is the teacher, (i.e. the source from which the ideas are taken.) The knowledge and the culture acquired must be restricted to the ideology and to whatever is necessary to proceed in life. Furthermore, in order to prevent the Hizb’s culture from becoming scholastic or academic, the culture must be practical, and it must be taken to be acted upon, and a thick barrier must be maintained between the member’s mind and the academic aspect.

11. The Hizb is a structure based on an idea and a method, which together constitute an ideology that its members believe in. The Hizb oversees the thoughts and feelings of the society to uplift them, and to protect the society from the degeneration in thoughts and feelings. The Hizb is the school for the Ummah, which cultures, prepares, and drives the Ummah to get involved in the global arena. The Hizb is the true school that can accomplish this, while all other schools cannot, no matter how diverse, numerous or comprehensive they are. However, there are differences between the Hizb and a school which must be understood:

A.  The school, regardless of how good its program is, cannot guarantee the revival of the Ummah. Revival is possible only if there is a Hizb established in the society to act as the school for the society. This is because, any other school, by its very nature, is monotonous. Regardless of how unconventional it is, the school assumes a specific pattern and character. Thus, it loses the ability to adjust itself to respond to the changing events. Restructuring a school is a complicated process and requires a certain period of time before the desired change can actually take place. Furthermore, the school prepares people based on a very rigid model that is resistant to change.

B.  If the Hizb is based on a correct program, it will have the following characteristics:

1 Vitality, hence it grows.

2 Progress, allowing it to advance from one stage to another.

3 Dynamism, enabling it to deal with every aspect of society, and to move to any place in the country.

4 Sensitivity, enabling it to sense and feel all that happens in society and to influence society.

The culturing process in the Hizb prepares individuals to enable them to respond to the continous changes in life and emotions. The Hizb does not proceed in a monotonous manner, rather it is evolving continuously and always keeps itself current and dynamic. It proceeds in life in order to shape it with the Hizb’s atmosphere of iman and therefore the Hizb changes the status quo to make it comply with the ideology.

C.  Schools are set up to teach, refine and educate an individual in his capacity as a particular individual. Although the school itself can be considered a small group, its approach remains individualistic from a teaching perspective. The results therefore are also individualistic and not collective. For example, if there were a town which had ten thousand inhabitants, and it had enough schools to accommodate one thousand students, these schools would still not be able to achieve any collective revival in that town.

D.  As opposed to the school, the Hizb is established to educate and culture the community in its capacity as one single community, regardless of individuals in the community. The Hizb considers the individuals as members of the community and not as specific independent individuals. Hence the Hizb cultures them collectively so that they live as part of the community and not just as individuals with their individualism. Therefore the Hizb’s impact is collective and not individualistic. For example, if a country of one million people had a Hizb with a hundred members, this Hizb would create a revival that a school could not, regardless of how much effort and time the school may spend and how many people it may educate.

E.  Schools are set up to prepare an individual so that he influences the community in which he lives. However, his influence will be partial, because his own feelings as an individual, compared to the overall feelings of society, are too weak and inadequate to influence the collective feelings of society and to stimulate the thoughts of society as a whole.

F.  In contrast to the school, the Hizb is established to prepare the community so that it influences the individual. The community can produce a comprehensive effect because its feeling is strong and capable of stimulating the thought. Its effect upon individuals is strong, and induces revival in them in a very short time with the least amount of effort. It is feeling that stimulates thought, and the interaction between emotion and thought will initiate the move towards revival. The main differences between the Hizb and the school can be summarized in the following three points:

1.  The school is monotonous and static, and is unable to adjust itself, while the Hizb is costantly progressing, dynamic, and capable of responding to changes in life. Hence it shapes life according to its atmosphere of Iman.

2.  The school cultures the individual to influence the community and its results are individualistic; whereas the Hizb cultures the community to influence the individual, and its results are collective.

3.  The school prepares the feelings of the individual in order to influence the feelings of the community. However, the individual is not capable of either influencing the community or stimulating its thought. Whereas the Hizb prepares the feelings of the community as a whole in order to influence the feelings of the individuals. Consequently, the common emotions of the community will be capable of influencing the individuals and stimulating their thoughts effectively.