A record of Shaykh Al-Albani’s session with Algerian youth calling for the establishment of an Islamic state in Algeria

The Shaykh : ... but they cannot establish a Muslim state. Why? One who lacks a thing cannot give it. I have a new experience now in Algeria. There is a very fervent Islamic awakening, with surging emotions. One of them said there are five million Muslims around him, and they want to establish the Islamic state. In a modest session, with a number smaller than this blessed gathering, I asked them: The Algerian people—I do not know, twenty or thirty million in total—but the chosen ones among them who have banded together around a good Muslim people who wants to establish the Muslim state, out of these twenty or thirty million, there are five million. I said to them: If these five million were to fall ill with a physical illness, how many doctors do you think they would need? Would five, ten, or a hundred be enough, or would they need thousands upon thousands? They said, yes, we need thousands upon thousands of doctors who treat physical illnesses. I said to them: How many scholars do these five million have? There was no answer. And this is something we must know. Who is it that establishes the Muslim state, my brothers? Who is it that drafts the constitution? Who is it that details the constitution with laws? The scholars or the ignorant? Therefore, I return to say, and the search is long and drawn out, as I said before:
"Sa'd brought it, and Sa'd was wrapped up. This is not, O Sa'd, how camels are brought in."
The Muslim state cannot be established except in an Islamic society, and an Islamic society cannot be established except upon correct knowledge and education based on this correct knowledge.