Ameer al-Mumineen Hosni Mubarak in good health

Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif today announced that Ameer al-Mumineen Hosni Mubarak is in good health and will continue to rule Dar al-Islam, the Islamic state of Egypt.

In recent weeks there have been rumours that Ameer Hosni has been in bad health and would not be able to contest party elections in November.

This announcement will put the minds of many at rest - the Ameer will now be able to stand for the elections and once again be chosen by the popular mandate of the masses.

NB: for any who doubt that Ameer Hosni is the Ameer al-Mumineen presiding over Dar al-Islam in Egypt like Amr ibn al-'As before him, please see the view of the independent Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa who writes: "This flexibility is present in the Islamic political sphere as well, but this is a point that is often missed. Many assume that an Islamic government must be a caliphate, and that the caliph must rule in a set and specific way. There is no basis for this vision within the Islamic tradition. The caliphate is one political solution that Muslims adopted during a certain historical period, but this does not mean that it is the only possible choice for Muslims when it comes to deciding how they should be governed. The experience that Egypt went through can be taken as an example of this. The period of development begun by Muhammad Ali Pasha and continued by the Khedive Ismail was an attempt to build a modern state. This meant a reformulation of Islamic law. This process led Egypt to become a liberal state run by a system of democracy without any objections from Muslim scholars. Muslims are free to choose whichever system of government they deem most appropriate for them."