Do you have any observations regarding the book "The Muslims and Political Science" by Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khalq and the topics it contains?

The questioner : There is a treatise by the pen ofThe Shaykh : 'Abd al-Rahman 'Abd al-Khalq - may Allah have mercy on him and preserve him - its title is: "The Muslims and Political Activity." Many young Salafis found in it what they sought, and an answer to the issue of their collective departure: what is their position on political activity? So the question we direct to the scholar of the era, Al-Albani: Do you have any observations regarding this treatise, and the topics it contains? If the answer is yes, what are these observations, with an explanation, or even if you only point to them so we may know, O honorable one?The Shaykh : ? And what is your view regarding political activity?

The Shaykh: Of course, my acquaintance with the treatise and its contents is distant, but something remains in memory that must be pointed out, even if some of it is understood from my previous answer. To clarify: political activity, while it is a matter that does not conflict with Islam, and is in fact part of Islam, my previous words make it clear that Muslims engaging in political activity before they unite in understanding Islam correctly, and embodying it in their real lives, and ensuring they have been raised with a correct Islamic upbringing; I see it as an error of the utmost gravity for Muslims to engage in political activity while they have not yet achieved the first stage we referred to during our discussion of the previous verse: . Especially since some Islamic parties have entered this experience for many years, yet they have not succeeded or prospered; rather, they have regressed, and many of them - meaning - have turned on their heels, becoming as if strangers to Islam in their ideas and their actions.
And whoever sees the lesson in others, let him take heed. If we have found that some Islamic groups - which are older in origin, larger in number, and better prepared for political activity - have not succeeded in it in any way, but rather it appeared to them that they have lost many benefits for themselves regarding becoming acquainted with many aspects of the Islamic Shari'ah, of which they were unaware due to their preoccupation with what is called political or social activity or the like, for this reason we say: political activity is a step that must be preceded by steps from which political activity follows. I do not believe that a group that has a da'wah and an impact in some Islamic countries, noted for correcting concepts and correcting ideas, should turn to political activity, especially since this political activity is surrounded by a law and a system that is not based on the Book of Allah or the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), nor even on a school of the followed Islamic schools of jurisprudence; because the matter is, as we always say: "O my soul, some evil is less than some," so the Ottoman state - for example - was a state that ruled by the Hanafi school, and in the Hanafi school there is great good, but in ...