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The Department of Finance (Bait al-Maal) 12

The Department of Agriculture 13

The Jurisdiction Department 14

The Department of Education and Culture 16

The Department of Information 18

The Health Department 19

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The Department of Finance

The Khaleefah will appoint a director-general of finance with an appropriate headquarter known as Bait al-Maal. He will be in charge of financing the army and government officials, as well as compensating the people in authority who are kept away from their business, and the Islamic message campaigns abroad and the ambassadors. The department will collect funds necessary to launch machine manufacturing and arms technology programmes. It will at first rely on the funds available to the treasury of the former government and on the confiscated riba (interest) from banks and public companies. It will also rely on profits made by companies and institutions that cannot be privately owned like oil companies, cement and other mining companies, it will also rely on the confiscated funds of former rulers and of insurance companies, public properties or habous (unavailable properties and estates). Taxes will be imposed on the wealthy if necessary, these will be taken from Muslim citizens and not the dhimmis (Christians, Jews and other non-Muslims living in the Islamic State). A special unit will be set up to issue gold and silver coins and bank notes. Gold will be bought from the world markets with hard currency available in the country. The gold will be deposited in the state's treasury and its equivalent value will be issued in notes and coins. Old bank notes and coins will not be devalued, but will be exchanged with the new notes which replace gold and silver reserves, so that the Khilafah state currency does not get minted and used for other purposes because it belongs to the Ummah and the State.

And since the strength of the state depends on its economy, it will not be allowed for the treasury to be completely emptied like it was the case in the times of Imam Ali and other Righteous Khaleefahs. Money shall always be provided according to the treasury regular incomes. A unit of this department will manage the awkaf assets, ranging from estates and buildings etc. Some existing units of the ministry of finance will be abolished such as pensions and social security and the huge number of employees will be reduced especially those working in the central bank. Another unit will be set up which will represent the bank of the financial department, or the State's bank. No other bank will be allowed to operate; the bank will lend money to people according to the shari'ah rules. Its aim will be to encourage foreign trade and imports. The budget will be set up according to the shari'ah rules.

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The Department of Agriculture

The Khaleefah will appoint a director-general for this department which will replace the ministry of agriculture in the democratic system today. The work of this department will be to launch an agricultural revolution according to the available means, which will aim at improving elementary produce, industrial agriculture and exports. This will be by enhancing and improving farming techniques, using modern technology, and by expanding the farming lands in order to be ready in the face of possible economic embargo by the colonial powers. The department will survey the farming lands and allot the state's lands to farmers. It will also confiscate the lands which are left barren by their owners for three consecutive years according to the shari'ah. It will also assist farmers unable to buy fertilisers or seeds, by offering them grants, loans and technical advice. Some farming land should be allocated to industrial farming, like cotton, silk, linen, and hemp.

A special unit will be set up to deal with waters, this will involve working out a strategy to provide irrigation for farming, drinking water and energy generating. This unit will also aim at expanding the areas of irrigated land, and deal with potential problems emanating from dams and waterways and rivers. Another unit will deal with animal farming sites that aim at achieving self sufficiency in fish, lamb, beef, poultry and other animal produce. The transforming of the present ministry will be first by changing its name to the Department of Agriculture, and by studying all information available to the former ministry. Advantage should be taken from past experiences, plans and surveys; agricultural experts' suggestions and recommendations will be closely studied. Woodlands will be transformed into fruit trees like olives, pine trees, pistachio trees etc. A research centre will be set up according to funds available, and no machines will be imported for this purpose lest the efforts of the state deviate from concentrating on heavy industry. It is believed that what is actually available in terms of machines is sufficient for starting. It will be also suggested to the Department to coordinate with the Institute of Agriculture so that studies become more practical rather than academicals.

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The Jurisdiction Department

The Khaleefah will abolish the ministry of justice with all its various units. Courts of appeal and court of cessation, county and magistrates will all be abolished. The Khaleefah will establish instead the Department of Jurisdiction with its three units:

- The Court of Madhalim (complaints)

- The Judges

- The Judges of Hisba (public order judges)

A president of this department will be appointed by the Khaleefah and will be known as the Supreme Judge (or attorney general/Judge of Judges). He will be in charge of appointing judges. This process should be speedy and should take effect immediately. A fiqh book would be adopted at the begining by which disputes between people will be settled like the book of Al Sorkhosi entitled Al-Mabsut which belongs to the Hanafi school of thought, or like the book of Ibn Qudama entitled Al-Mughni, which belongs to the Hanbali school, this will be until such time when a constitution is laid down for the judges to be used as a guide-line in settling disputes. The present judges will be laid off, so would the lawyers, for they rule by the laws that do not have Islam as origin. No justice or piety are to be found in those laws, and besides they do not possess the fiqh with which they have to rule between the people. Since the judges verdict in Islam is not open for criticism or review, therefore, appeal courts, courts of cessation and high courts will all be abolished. Positions will be allocated with immediate effect and special intensified courses will be held for those who show the aptitude for such position. The following initiatives will be taken in consideration:

1. Judges will have to be posted at every village and suburb so that people will not have to travel to settle their disputes.

2. Disputes will have to be settled quickly so that people's affairs are not stalled.

Cases will have to be settled in over sessions except in special circumstances on which the divulging of truth may depend.

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3. The media have to report only from the courts proceedings. They are not allowed to express any particular position towards any case presented to the court.

4. Appointing as many judges of hisba as possible and spreading them all over the Muslim household, for people in present times have got used to a life of unbelief, sinfulness, corruption and cheating. They have become used to violating the state's laws, because they are convinced that the state was sucking their blood and rule them by kufr laws. Once people mature and straighten up, the judges of hisba will be reduced, for by then people will base their actions according to the Islamic laws by themselves.

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The Department of Education and Culture

The Khaleefah will appoint a director-general for this department which will replace the ministry of education and the arts ministry in the democratic system. The director will immediately set out to prepare new curicula for the compulsory education and for the universities. Teaching will not commence until such curicula are introduced. Meanwhile, all students will undergo military training in order to form an army of reservists. The department will launch a cultural revolution engulfing the whole Ummah, and all the facilities of advertising will be put at its disposition by the Department of Information. An Islamic culture will be adopted from various books of fiqh and from books of Islamic political parties that worked towards establishing the Khilafah and have a political programme and a vision of how the system should operate. All books will be published and distributed among the Ummah. The culture will be taught in the mosques and by holding conferences debates, speeches, or simply by individual reading, in addition to all types of media such as magazines, newspapers, radio and television. A special course of action will be adopted in order to develop the distinct Islamic personality.

The department will pay a great deal of effort and attention to orientated education i.e. it will work towards educating future graduates whom the country will need most, such as doctors, civil engineers, industrialists, electricians, computer engineers, explosive experts. The orientation policy will also include astronomy, physics, and chemistry etc. The department will phase out subjects that are of no essential value to the Ummah such as modern languages, painting, sports, law, banking, and hotel and catering etc. Other specialised studies that the Ummah does not need such as philosophy, psychology, and sociology will all be abolished. Instead the department will devote efforts at opening public laboratories and libraries in every school, college and high street. All existing schools and universities will remain open and they will be increased by turning the present buildings which serve little purpose and which will be confiscated from the present governments. The education authority at present will be diminished and the huge army of employees will be greatly reduced. The same mandatory powers given to general department will be given to regional centres, this will be in accordance with the policy of decentralised administration. The department will appoint the head teachers who in turn will be left with the task of contracting teachers. The curicula will be designed with the aim of

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reducing the school terms and cycles. The department will take charge of the mosques, and the ministry of awqaf will be abolished. The mosques will take up the teaching of basics of fiqh, usool, tafseer, ahadith, sira and other shari'ah branches. Only the curicula approved by the state will be allowed to be adopted in state and public schools. Special prizes will be given for every publication and invention. The state will buy and publish whatever it deems beneficial. The department will coordinate with the department of industry especially in industrial sciences like civil engineering, electrical engineering etc. The Department of Industry will be responsible for all physical sciences. The faculties of medicine and pharmaceutical research will work closely with the department of health.

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The Department of Information

A director-general will be appointed by the Khaleefah to run this department. Television, radio, media, and video companies will be merged, and publishing houses and the board of censorship will be under the departments control. All films, videotapes and cassettes considered to be corrupt and immoral will be confiscated, so will all pornographic material. Books, magazines and newspapers that spread Communist and Capitalist concepts will all be confiscated, so would any literature to do with rotten concepts like secularism, democracy and socialism. All media publications will be devoted to the da'wa, and to developing the Islamic personality and society thriving with Islam. The department will follow a general policy based on the promotion and the teaching of the Islamic Aqeeda to everyone, listeners, viewers and readers, home and abroad. The department will play an active role in launching a campaign towards all neighbouring Muslim countries to prepare them for the reunification, and against all other existing ways of life and social trends, in order to demonstrate their rottenness and highlight the greatness of the Islamic concepts. Therefore, a close coordination is needed between this department and the Foreign Department and it will also coordinate with the Department of Education and Culture in order to promote and launch the cultural revolution at the early days of the Khilafah State.

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The Health Department

The Khaleefah will appoint a director in charge of this department, it will replace the ministry of health. All units that serve little purpose will be abolished. The department will devote its efforts to treating the people and inventing medicine. It will encourage scientists to carry out research to find cures for various diseases. The department will spare all doctors the administrative work and will aim at making all medical equipment available to them. Following the policy of orientation, sufficient number of doctors will be posted all over the country. Their salaries will be substantially increased in order not to let them resort to private medical profesion like is the case nowadays. Doctors nowadays do not even show enthusiasm towards their profession because of the overload they have to deal with and the huge number of patients each doctor has to treat. All this will be sorted out in the Khilafah State.

Doctors will be posted in all villages and suburbs in order to relieve pressure off cities and towns and to provide villagers with easy access to medical services. All necessary equipment will be provided to doctors in villages and cities equally. Medical laboratories and X-ray equipment will be made available in all suburbs. The department will supervise doctors' work until mismanagement and malpractices are eradicated, and to make sure that patients get proper treatment. Government hospitals will be increased, so will the number of resident doctors. Medical shelters will also be built to treat the injured and war casualties in times of Jihad. The Islamic culture will be implanted among the medical staff in order to revive their dedication. Humanitarian concepts will also be focused among doctors. The department will encourage doctors and researchers by offering prizes and bonuses. It will also coordinate with the faculties of medicine and pharmacy in order to increase practical experience among future graduates, so that their studies become more realistic and practical rather than merely academical. A prevention policy will be pursued by the department in order to protect people against fatal diseases by promoting awareness among them. This department will also be in charge of social security, which will include looking after the elderly, needy and handicapped.