What does liberation mean in Islam?

Muslim Liberation Theology begins from a simple conviction: that the message of Islam speaks directly to conditions of domination, injustice, and human suffering. It reads revelation and the Prophetic tradition not as an escape from the world, but as a summons to transform it.

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The theological coordinate

Liberation, in this reading, is grounded in tawḥīd — the affirmation that ultimate sovereignty belongs to God alone, and therefore to no worldly power that claims to stand in God’s place.

Not simply a theology about liberation, but an Islamic mode of thought and praxis that emerges from within struggles for justice.

The political coordinate

From this foundation follows a commitment to solidarity with the oppressed, and to forms of practice that confront domination rather than accommodate it.