INTRODUCTION

Firstly: a reminder:

1- Before we have published this book in serialized articles before we grouped them into a book form, we have authored hundreds of researches and articles that now form the accumulated basis on which we build new researches and books; hence, newcomers to our website may get surprised by what they read and tens of questions naturally pops inside their heads, and answers would be provided only if they would be kind enough to read all of the previously published writings of ours. We will write soon a special lengthy article on researching the true story of Muhammad between the Quran and the writings of Muslims (whom we prefer to call as the Muhammadans to differentiate between them and Quranists who are, in our view, the real Muslims), in order to make it the final article to answer chronic questions repeated with every piece of writing authored by us tackling the analysis and criticism of the history of the four pre-Umayyad caliphs.

2- As for this book, "The Judicial authority between Islam and the Muhammadans", we assert in it how the judicial  system in a given country or State reflects the ruling system, whether it has been democratic or tyrannical. We begin our book with shedding light on the roots, which are how real Islamic countries should adopt ruling systems based on direct democracy, as we infer from the Quran, and how this ruling system contradicts the tyrannical states established in history by the Muhammadans. We have preferred in this book to use the word democracy instead of its Quranic synonym Shura (i.e., consultation), because the Quranic term has been misused and manipulated during the era of caliphs who were mostly tyrannical despots and used fabricated narratives and traditions to reinforce their tyranny using quasi-religious notions. Indeed, the modern term ''direct democracy'' is the very same thing as the Islamic Shura principle mentioned in the Quran. we refer readers to our previous articles in English about theoretical basis of this Quranic Shura and its mechanisms. Of course, theory and practice of direct democracy have been witnessed in the Greek history and during the short-lived Yathreb city-state of Muhammad that lasted about 11 years and ended when Muhammad died. This period of 11 years was like a parentheses within the Middle-Ages dominant culture of tyranny. Besides, when the early believers along with Muhammad established their Yathreb city-state based on direct democracy, the deep-seated tyranny was exemplified by the two most powerful States in the ancient world in the 7^th century A.D., namely, the Persians and the Byzantines, whose power and tyranny were firmly established centuries before the advent of Islam or the revelation of the Quran.

3- We assert also in this book that the politicized judicial authority reflects the power and authority of the tyrants to restrict and punish their foes and any opposition figures, and this caused justice to be lost for all people during  the era of caliphs. The notion of the ''just tyrant'' is a myth dispelled and debunked so easily, because tyranny of despots has restricted and prevented justice in the first place. We tackle in our book this politicized judicial authority from the era of the four pre-Umayyad caliphs until the reign of the Abbasid caliph Al-Maamoun who was the most tolerant and cultured of all Abbasid caliphs.

4- The methodology of research adopted in this book does not include details and descriptions usually written by ordinary researchers of judicial  systems in the Muslim history of the Muhammadans. We ling our methodology of research only to our call for reform on all levels; i.e., we try to make sure if any judicial  systems achieved justice or not and to what extent tyrannical ruling systems of the Muhammadans aborted justice, away from the big labels made holy by the gullible masses like 'Islamic' caliphate, 'wise' caliphs, and 'Islamic' Sunnite scholars' sharia laws. Such untrue labels have nothing to do with Islam (which is only the Quran), but they were sanctified notions and regarded as infallible and cannot be discussed, refuted, or questioned for centuries, until this is done by Quranists, who use the Quran and reasoning critical minds as the criteria to judge and measure these notions and labels. Only smart readers know that we write books and researches NOT to narrate history for amusement, but to seek to reform the Muhammadans of today to make them free themselves from dictatorships and theocratic rule of the present and the future.     

5- Typically, in all our writings and topics, and this book is no exception, we open up horizons and pave the way for young writers and researchers to delve deeper and explore other related areas of research in order to infer new ideas from the Quran in all aspects especially regarding traditions and history of the Muhammadans. This is one of the mean features of our methodology of research adopted in all our books and lengthy articles.   

6- Of course, nothing in our writing is deemed to be perfect or infallible; anyone who might have different views from ours should try to write and attempt to contradict us or prove us wrong if they can. We prove our views using the Quran and we prove our points by quoting authoritative books of traditions and legislations of the Sunnite religion that contradict the Quran.

7- We personally take pride in the fact that our writings in the past thirty years have encouraged others to write their own critical writings that refute and debunk Salafism and Wahabism in order to clear the name of Islam, and remove the tarnished reputation of our faith, from the Salafist backwardness, obscurantism, fanaticism, extremism, and bigotry. We have managed through our writings to remove the fake holiness and sham hallowedness of Muslim traditions and man-made inherited notions and legislations forced on Islam in the past centuries and to ascertain the contradiction between traditions (filled with discrepancies and illogical notions) and the Quran, and we have authored all our writings in our modern era when the dominant Wahabi culture intimidates and terrorizes every thinker – except for us.