As we remember Palestine in our prayers and thoughts, it is important to know about the devastating situation in Sudan as well.
SubhanAllah! Sudan is over 90% Muslim, yet the war is Muslims killing Muslims. Yeah! you read it right!
And innocent civilians are being slaughtered, starved, or displaced. Over 12–13 million people have been forcibly displaced, This is by far the largest displacement crisis in the world. Acute food insecurity affects 25–25.6 million people, with around 750,000 at catastrophic levels of hunger
SubhanAllah! Sudan’s crisis is a brutal reminder that masses having the same religion doesn’t guarantee peace when the political structure is a colonial-era nation state.
Even when Sudan had Islam-leaning governments in the past, they functioned more like authoritarian nationalist regimes than a system rooted in Islamic governance. The result is a state that claims a religious identity but runs on secular power politics easily hijacked by warlords and foreign sponsors.
So, yes. Sudan is another classical example of what nation state does to you. By “nation state,” I mean the modern post-colonial state model with borders, a secular-style governance and the basis for unity between people being a shared national identity. Sudan is a textbook case of why another nation state isn’t a solution to the problems.
Sudan has over 90% Muslim population, yet its governance has followed the nation-state model. It is of course not a unified Islamic legal/political system.
External meddling (UAE, Egypt, Russia, etc.) that fuels warlordism is common in fragile nation states.
The result? You get a Muslim majority country where the framework of governance is secular-nationalist, corrupt and power-centered, so political struggles aren’t resolved by shared religious principles but by brute force and alliances that don’t care at all about what happens to innocent civilians.
In short, Sudan shows that just being a “Muslim country” within the modern nation-state model doesn’t guarantee unity, justice, or stability.
The “state” just becomes another battleground.
Let’s come to Palestine now. There are many voices who are asking for 2 Nation model (2 state solution). First of all, it is against the very basic fabric of Islam,
وَمَن لَّمْ يَحْكُم بِمَآ أَنزَلَ ٱللَّهُ فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْفَـٰسِقُونَ ٤٧
“And those who do not rule by what Allah has revealed are ˹truly˺ the rebellious.”
(Surah Maaidah ayah 47)
And secondly, like Sudan, a hypothetical independent Palestine under a two-state solution would operate within the Western nation-state framework, which means borders, army, flag, and a government bound by their diktats.
In the Muslim world, this model, imported from colonial power often leads to power monopolies, factionalism, and foreign interference. Shared religion alone doesn’t prevent the state from becoming fragile or corrupt (Sudan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen are tales to tell).
Two state theory would face the same cycle of coups, factional conflict, and economic capture that’s eating Sudan alive.
So yes, if Palestine becomes just “another nation-state” in the current model, without solving its political philosophy and institutional structure as per Allah’s ahkaam (legislation as per Islam wholly systematically), it risks being another flag and anthem over the same kind of instability.
The more blunt way to say it all is if the operating system is broken, swapping the app on the desktop won’t fix the malware. When demaning a solution for Palestine and Sudan, we should call only and only for an Islamic system, and not another nation state. Otherwise, in Palestine, we would just end up replacing Zionist oppressors with a Muslim oppressor, while oppression would continue!