Individual Excellence is good but Allah's blessing is for
the Collective.
"From ibn abi Khalid from Qais : Once Abu Bakr, r.a., stood
up to give the khutba. After praising Allah and Hus
messenger, he said 'O people! you recite this verse of the
Qur'an : 'O you who believe, Guard your own souls. . If you
follow right guidance, no hurt can come to you from those
who stray. The goal of you all is to Allah. It is He that
will show you the truth of all that you do.' I heard the
messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be on him,
say: When people see wrong doing and do not try to change
it, ALL of them will be covered with punishment from
Allah.
[Hadith #1 in Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal. Also in the Sunan
of Abu Dawood and Tirmidhi.]
Comment by Kaukab Siddique:
Islam works both ways. At the individual level we must pray
and fast but it will not save us if we do not try to change
the society in which we live and in which evil is rampant.
Work together. Join an Islamic organization. Charitable
activities are positive but not without opposition to wrong
doing.
Note: The verse quoted by Abu Bakr, r.a., is 5:105
Jamaat al-Muslimeen Activity in Newark, Delaware.
53 People given 6 Page Document.
Khutba on knowledge.
On October 21, after Juma' at masjid Ibrahim in Newark, a
6-page Jamaat document was given to 53 Muslims, mostly Arab
Americans and Bangladeshi Americans.
The khutba was about the Islamic teachings on seeking
knowledge. The imam, Arabic speaker with reasonably good
English, pointed out that we are sending our children to
achieve scientific and worldly knowledge but we are
neglecting the acquisition of Islamic knowledge.
As most people here come in their cars, city police actively
help with the traffic. The policemen are quite popular with
the worshippers because the police help them to cross the
street which has fast moving traffic.
After prayers one can go for lunch to a Pakistani halal
eating place run by a Punjabi widow which is rough and ready
or a Bangladeshi fancy halal restaurant which is owned by a
strictly hijabi sister.
The 6-page Jamaat document given to 53 contained the
following items:
Russian bunker bombs shake Aleppo. Turkey attacks ISIS.
Near Damascus and Homs, ISIS advancing.
Iraq: Massive Shi'ite and Kurdish Communist armies
attacking Mosul with US and British air forces.
Spoof on elections. Is America so sexually pure that it
can attack Trump on his loose talk?
Nadrat Siddique in Baltimore marathon supports Black
victims of police. Black lives matter.
Khutba on sects among Muslims & how the West labels
Muslims: [Dr. Kaukab Siddique]
Visiting a friend from Pakistan and the special gift of
books he brought.
Media can Slander you Easily: Getting Ready to "Elect"
Hillary: Zionists Lining up against Trump
If you want some attention from the media like CNN or the
Washington Post, all you need to do is make an accusation
against Donald Trump.
The media is making it hard for people to vote for anybody
but Hillary Clinton. A vote for Donald Trump will look bad.
The media portrays those voters of Trump as bigots and
racists.
30 years of working in public offices taught Hillary how to
be a woman with too many faces. She is willing to say
anything to get elected.
The forces against Donald Trump are growing and they are
willing to say and do anything to make sure that Trump
loses. Look at the statements and those who are voicing them
- from Madonna and Hollywood actresses to leaders within the
Republican Party and rabbis from Israel. What are they
afraid of? They only want to protect their own interests,
which is why they want Hillary to become President
Hillary will protect all of those who have been in power for
a long time. Hillary will protect the oppressors , users and
abusers of the system.
This election is going to contribute to changes of politics
and elections in the future due to the means, tools and
approaches which have been used by the politicians and the
parties.
It is strange that Clinton is so deeply loved by the
mainstream media that even when she is caught in the midst
of a lie, they will not challenge her but instead make up
excuses for her.
The media is supposed to present unbiased facts but we are
seeing Hillary Clinton receiving free passes for her email
scandal and various lies that continue to pile on top one
another. It is easy to see the propaganda and the mind
tricks the media continues to play with the American
people
-Imam Badi Ali leads a large Muslim community in
Greensboro,NC
PAKISTAN
Huge Jamaate Islami Rally.
Followed by Large Women's Gathering
by Qaiser Sharif
LAHORE, Oct. 22; Ameer , Jamaat e Islami, Pakistan, Senator
Sirajul Haq, has said that the Prime Minister was shedding
tears not on the despondency of the masses but on his
fate.
Addressing a historic Ijtema organized by the JI Khyber P.
at Aza Khel, Naushera on Saturday, he however said that if
the Prime Minister's hands were clean, he had no reason to
be worried. He wondered why the Prime Minister did not think
of the lot of the masses during the last thirty years.
The JI chief said that for the last seventy years, the
country had been ruled by the corrupt elite who had
plundered trillions from the public money while the man in
the street remained did not get clean drinking water.
He said the entire system of accountability was ineffective
as the NAB laid hands on the small fish while the big guns
went scot free. He said that the solution of all the
problems of the nation and the country lay in the adoption
of the Islamic system. However, he said, that the Islamic
system could not be brought about through wishes and hollow
slogans, as it required sacrifices and sustained public
struggle.
Earlier, while addressing a large women gathering at the
spot, Sirajul Haq said that Islam alone has the message of
freedom for the women folk as the West had deprived the
women of all her rights and made her a market commodity. He
said that while all other civilizations treated the
womenfolk as the root cause of evil and agent of Satan and
treated them with hatred, Islam gave them respect and
dignity as mothers, sisters, daughters and queen of the
house.
The gathering was also addressed by the JI women wing chief
Durdana Siddiqui, Member, Islamic Ideology Council, Dr
Samiha Raheel Qazim, MNA Aisha Syed and others.
Sirajul Haq said that the womenfolk had an active role in
the establishment of Pakistan. However, he said, the women
were being exploited in the country even now and they did
not have right to inheritance, education, employment and
health. There was none to raise voice for the women. He said
the westernized NGOs were trying to demolish the Islamic
culture and civilization in the name of women emancipation
and driving them out of homes and Hijab.
The JI chief said that the women folk had great role in the
human culture and history and their role in all historic
events was prominent. He said that the ritual of SAEE in
Hajj was actually following in the footsteps of a lady. He
said that right from the story of ADAM, up to the Karbala
tragedy, and in the creation of Pakistan, the women had
distinct role. The women were playing leading role in
Kashmir, Palestine and Afghanistan, he added.
He said that the JI on coming to power, would set up women
university at division level and all those who did not give
their womenfolk the right of inheritance would be sent to
jail. Interest free loans would be advanced to the women to
enable them look after their children and earn their living
in a respectable way. He said that the respect and dignity
of the women folk would be fully protected and the President
and the Prime Minister would be the custodian of their
rights.
Sirajul Haq exhorted the JI women worker to carry Jamaat's
message to every house. He said that the west wanted to
demolish the mosques and madrissahs, therefore, the Muslim
women should convert their homes into madrissahs for the
teaching of Islam and the Quran. He said that if the
womenfolk continued their struggle, the Khyber province
would be centre of an Islamic government.
RASHID
Islamic movement's success not a distant dream
LAHORE, Oct. 21; Deputy chief of the Jamaat e Islami, Rashid
Naseem, has said that the Islamic movement's success in the
country was not a distant dream as an overwhelming majority
of the population desired the enforcement of the
Shariah.
Addressing an Ijtema of the JI Women wing from Lahore at
Mansoroa, he said that according to the survey by PEW and
PILDAT, eighty per cent of the people in the country wanted
the Shariah rule. Besides, 65 per cent of the youth wanted
supremacy of the constitution which declared Allah Almighty
as the Supreme Sovereign and also ensured that no law
repugnant to the holy Quran and the Sunnah would be
enacted.
War News
Syrian
Alawite-Russian Bombing of Civilians Renewed, Battles around
and in Aleppo.
IS fighting Hizbullah/Shias near Homs and Deir ex Zor. Jaysh
al-Islam fighting Assad's troops near Damascus.
FSA volunteers reject Russian "invitation" to leave
Aleppo.
After two days of a bombing pause by Russia, the bombing of
civilian populations in Islamic areas has been renewed.
Every air raid results in civilian deaths and injuries. The
Russians after publicizing its "cease fire" propaganda did
not allow any food supplies or medicines to enter
Aleppo.
Areas of complete Islamic control in Idlib and Hama province
and in southern Syria like Daraa and parts of Quneitra
province are now coming under heavy Russian bombing.
Hizbullah and the Iranian led Shias are trying to invade the
Islamic areas of Aleppo but have again been forced to
retreat. Within Aleppo the Alawite Shias and the Communist
Kurds, who have enclaves in this vast city, are clashing
with FSA volunteers in eastern and southern Aleppo.
Assad very much wants the populations and the Islamic
fighters to leave Aleppo so that he can proclaim victory. To
this end Russian jets and Iranian artillery have hit
hospitals, bakeries , electricity centers and water works,
bringing civic life to a halt. Hundreds, including children,
have been killed in the bombing; however the people refuse
to leave and are supporting the FSA volunteers.
Meanwhile in north central Syria, after hitting Islamic
State centers, Turkey is hitting the SDF, a Kurdish
communist and secularist Syrian organization. More than 200
SDF fighters have been killed in heavy Turkish tank and
artillery fire.
Turkey is setting up a safe zone in northern Syria and is
crushing all who come in its way, be it Islamic State or the
SDF. FSA's factions in Merea are advancing under Turkish
fire cover.
Heavy fighting is also reported from around Damascus as the
Assad regime keeps trying to advance. The latest Assad
advance was met by a counter thrust by Jaysh al-Islam group
which forced the Alawites to retreat but caused casualties
on both sides.
IS has the upper hand in Der ez Zor and Hasakeh but no
significant advances owing to Russian bombing in the South
and American bombing in the north.
Iraq
Second Invasion of Iraq: Mosul under Assault. Only 4000
defenders but they are fighting back.
From October 17 to 23, a huge Shiite army from the south and
thousands of Kurds from the east attacked Mosul. With
America bombing Mosul around the clock, it looked like a
walk over but the ISIS mujahideen are putting up stiff
resistance. They have ceded three small towns where they
were very open to American air attacks but the invading
armies are still nowhere near Mosul.
On October 21 and 22, a small ISIS mujahideen unit entered
Kirkuk and wrought havoc, killing 80 and wounding 135
Baghdad security forces, police, militia and officials. The
regime is in shock.
On October 22, Turkey stabbed the Islamic State in the back
and used its artillery to help Peshmarga Kurds to capture a
small but strategic town to the north of Mosul from where
reinforcements could have reached ISIS defenders.
Hardly any civilians have left Mosul despite the daily
bombing.
ISIS seems to be playing with the Kurds, sending up tiny
drones to surveil the attacking forces.
Afghanistan
Two Americans killed by Taliban infiltrator
Yahoo.com [October 19]
A gunman in an Afghan army uniform has opened fire on a
group of US soldiers, killing at least two Americans,
including a civilian, in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
NATO said in a statement later on Wednesday that "one US
service member and one US civilian died as a result of
wounds sustained in Kabul".
The shooter was killed after an exchange of fire in the
Rishkhor neighbourhood of Kabul, which houses an Afghan
special forces training centre, according to NATO and
Waziri.
[NT note: Americans working with the military are listed as
civilians. Civilians working with the Taliban are listed as
"militants" and killed. ]
Nigeria
Boko Haram hit Nigerian army, Hard! [October 23]
Yahoo News
Officers: 83 Nigerian soldiers missing in Boko Haram
attackSome 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since
Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a remote military
base in the northeast, senior army officers said Sunday. The
soldiers were unable to fight back and fled because Boko
Haram had superior fire power, the officers told The
Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because
they are not authorized to give information to reporters.
Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman reported last week
that "some" soldiers were missing and 13 wounded when the
insurgents on Oct. 17 attacked their base in Gashigar
village, on the border with Niger.
News Within the U.S.
New York
Public Prosecutor who was unjust dies:
Should we learn from Prosecutor's death or Mourn?
Learnig from Obama's Election Legacy.
by Sis. Aisha [Jamaat al-Muslimeen]
New York City - It was announced on public access cable show
Community Cop that controversial District Attorney Kenneth
Thompson passed away from cancer at the Memorial Sloan
Kettering Hospital on October 9th. He kept his battle with
cancer a secret but, he remained away from his office for
over two months during treatments. He was 50 years old.
Although members of the Community Cop panel were respectful
of Kenneth Thompson's passing, they stood their grand with a
caller who criticized their lack of praise for some of his
other accomplishments. Panel members have always been
critical of how he (mis)handled the circumstances
surrounding his client, the sexual assault victim of
International Monetary Fund leader, Dominique Strauss Kahn
and how he never challenged Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance's
prosecutorial misconduct, as well.
The biggest stab to the back was when DA Thompson
recommended probation, not jail time, for former Police
Officer Peter Liang in the killing of young father Akai
Gurley, whose only crime was walking down a dark stairway
with his family.
Out of respect for his family panel members did not
vehemently question or attack his decisions. He had done
some good in overturning the convictions in cases involving
crooked police detectives. But, I lament the fact that no
charges have been filed against these detectives for
betraying the public's trust and robbing young men of so
many years of their freedom.
We will see if his Chief Assistant, Eric Gonzalez, will work
for the people and defend them against tyrant police
officers as interim district attorney. Governor Cuomo has
the power to choose a permanent replacement but, will
hold-off on that decision, for now.
(Source: Abcnews.go.com and NYTimes.com)
What ALL Voters Should Learn From Pres. Obama's Political Campaigns
One thing we should all learn is how corrupt politics in
America really is and has become!
Pres. Obama used the Black vote twice and NEVER gave
anything back to his voters. While Blacks were being lynched
all over America at the hands of rogue police officers,
President Obama was working tirelessly to make sure that
(White) gays were getting what they wanted: Gay marriage
rights.
Why? Did that many gays vote for Pres. Obama? No! The Black
vote ALONE secured Obama's legacy in the White
House...twice!
But, it is no longer the voter the politician is loyal to
anymore. It is the campaign contributors politicians are
loyal to nowadays. These are the people paying for those
political campaign ads, among other things.
Once people realize that Israel will always be the focus,
they should understand that division among party lines is
just a smoke screen. Every politician, regardless of party
affiliation, must support the Welfare State of Israel.
What about the Electoral College? Many Americans do not
understand how the voting process works. No matter who gets
voted in by the popular vote, the electoral votes ULTIMATELY
decide who becomes President and Vice President. What is the
electoral college? It is a process set up by the "Founding
Fathers" where select politicians vote separately for the
President and Vice President. There are a total of 538
electorates and there needs to be 270 electoral votes for
one to become President.
These electors represent every state in the Union. How the
elector is selected differs from state to state. This
process makes voting in America rather murky, especially
since the electoral vote has so much power. The "Founding
Fathers" wanted to prevent uneducated voters from choosing a
candidate simply because of looks or anything else
superficial, such as race. A prime example of the electoral
vote determining the President of the United States was in
the year 2000, when people became angered over George W.
Bush becoming President over Senator Al. Gore, who won a
majority of the popular vote.
The electoral vote takes away the people's voting power or
threatens it if it does not agree with the popular vote.
Yet, you still have Old Negroes such as Sirius Radio show
host Joe Madison cursing at Blacks, such as Sean "P. Diddy"
Combs, who question voting in America. There is still an
effort to push Blacks to register to vote when it has
already been demonstrated that our voting power, which is
already very strong, especially for the Democrats, has not
helped us at all. This is a sad case of following tradition
and believing in some one else's power rather than your own
abilities.
(Source: archives.gov and huffingtonpost.com)
RESEARCH
Shiaism came from Ibn Saba's Cult,
not from Quran and Authentic Hadith.
by Kaukab Siddique, PhD
As we look at the Quran and the authentic hadith in Sihah
sittah, it is obvious that shia ideas of the superiority of
Ali, r.a, over other sahaba is nowhere to be found. The
Quran and authentic hadith were accepted by thousands of the
sahaba and the two generations of Muslims who followed,
known as the tabain and the tubba tabain. Nowhere do we find
the divine and superior attributes of Ali propagated by
shias. All the thousands of sahaba could not have united to
start a conspiracy against Ali. It was physically impossible
in that age and time to communicate on such a large scale.
Even travel from Makkah took three days and nights.
So why is there such a huge difference between shia and
sunni doctrines and worldview. The Islamic narratives,
particularly the carefully scrutinized sahih hadith, do
project Ali, r.a., as a brave and pious supporter of the
Prophet, pbuh, similar to many other Companions of the
Prophet, pbuh. No hadith, among the thousands which are
known as authentic refer to Ali as superior to all the
sahaba .
So from where did the miraculous personality of Ali come
into circulation when no agreement or conspiracy among
thousands of Sahaba leading to that conclusion can be traced
by any scholar.
The most tragic event in the history of Islam, the murder of
Usman, r.a., led to upheaval and tumult and war among the
Muslims themselves. The "rebels" who murdered Usman, r.a.,
were well organized and they came from several cities on the
margins of the Islamic domain. Tabari, the great Muslim
historian wrote about a shadowy figure of Jewish origin who
had taken a Muslim name and was known as Abdullah ibn Saba.
He was busy moving from city to city and spreading rumors
and outright lies against Usman, r.a. The ideas which came
to be known in their totality as "shiaism" apparently came
from Ibn Saba and his supporters, a cult which came to be
known as the Sabaiyyah.[2]
Shias are aware that if Ibn Sabah is recognized as the
originator of Shia beliefs, at least in the seminal form, it
would destroy Shiaism, coming from a probable Jew who tried
to start a religion in total opposition to Islam.
Shias have spent their energies in trying to discredit Ibn
Saba and sometimes to even deny his existence.
Shias attack Sayf bin Umar from whom Tabari narrated the
report on Ibn Saba. They use the criticism of Sayf by the
scholars of hadith who do not accept his credibility. The
problem with this argument by Shias is that historical
narrations are not judged by the strict standards of hadith.
Sayf cannot be accepted in hadith narration but as a
journalist he was found acceptable by Tabari who was himself
a top notch scholar. Tabari also narrated the story of
Karbala and by strict standards of hadith, the Karbala
narrative cannot be accepted.
It's essential to note that Tabari was writing in the
Abbasid era which was very friendly to Shias and the Ummayad
rule was over. So, Tabari was not under anti-Shia pressure
from any ruler to accept the narrative of Sayf. [1]
He is known for his honesty as a historian.
Also, Sayf himself was not narrating his own views but was
simply transmitting what was known of the Sabaiyyah myths
from his sources and from the pro-Ali cults as such.
What was spread about the cult of Ali, r.a., by Ibn Saba was
developed by others after Karbala, such as by Mukhtar who
spent his resources and his life in taking revenge for the
tragic murder of Hussain, r.a., ibn Ali, r.a.
After Mukhtar came others who developed shia myths seminally
touted by Ibn Saba and his followers, the Sabaiyyah.
These myths are now central to Shiism and are totally
foreign to the Quran and authentic hadith narrated by
sahaba.
Here are some of them:
Ali did not die but was taken up God. Some shias believed
that he was God.
The hero not dying will come back to fill the world with
justice.
The disappeared hero who will come back is now known to
all shias as the Mahdi who will reappear at the end of
time.
The myth makers who came after ibn Saba and Mukhtar
developed the idea that the Imam in the next generation must
be appointed by the Imam In the existing generation. All
these imams were supposed to be infallible.
One of these ibn Saba type activists secretly gave shia
support to the Abbasids who later destroyed the Ummayad
dynasty. Most of the imams were protected by the Abbasid
caliphs. Thus support for despotic rulers became typical of
shiaism.
The followers of ibn Saba wanted a leader divinely appointed
or prophetic. Mukhtar claimed that the surviving son of Ali,
r.a., Muhammad ibn al-Hanfiyyah was that divinely appointed
leader. Muukhtar called him the Mahdi, an appellation which
would become central to Shi'aism with the passage of
time.
The idea of Ibn Saba that Ali, r.a., did not die was
continued by Mukhtar. He obtained a chair in which, he
claimed, a whiff of the spirit of Ali was still there.
[3]
The Shias being followers of a jew Ibn, Saba, openly
borrowed from Judaism and this borrowing came out openly in
the case of Mukhtar who stated clearly that the chair of Ali
was like the Ark of the Covenant God had with the Jews.
Ibn al Hanfiyyah did not affirm the claims Mukhtar made in
his behalf but that did not bother Mukhtar who continued
with his claims. [Notice that Ali, Hasan and Hussain, r.a.,
too did not preach anything called Shiaism. The Shias like
to tie their cult to prominent religious figures.]
Mukhtar came near to claiming to be a prophet himself and
his followers looked up to him because he was able to kill
the murderers of Hussain, r.a., However when Mukhtar defied
the Caliphate established by Abdullah ibn Zubayr, r.a., , he
was badly defeated. Unfortunately for him he had promised
that God would give him victory over the caliphate of
Zubair, r.a. When he was badly defeated, he came up with the
theory that God had told him that He [God] had changed his
destiny. Thus he came near to, if not actually,proclaiming
his prophethood.
After Mukhtar, the ideas of Ibn Saba were continued by a
Shia sect known as the Kaisaniyyah, one of the names of
Mukhtar, who also proclaimed that Ali's son Ibn al-Hanfiyyah
was the Mahdi. [4]
Mainstream Islam has deep respect for Ali, r.a., and his
sons owing to authentic hadith narrations, some of them from
Abu Huraira, r.a., whom the Shias hate in an irrational way.
[5] However no Muslim in the early generations believed that
Ali and his sons were superior to the sahaba, r.a.
{To be continued, inshaAllah.]
References.
Abbasid rule began in 750 c.e. Tabari was born in 838
c.e., . and lived for 86 years.
Tabari was not the only scholar who affirmed the
existence of Ibn Saba and his influence among the shias. See
this independent scholar: Ibn al-Jahiz in Kitab al-Bayan wa
al-Tabyin.
Tarikh al-Umam wa al-Muluk by Tabari.
Murawuj al-Dhahab by Masudi. , a shia scholar. The
concept of Mahdi does not exist in the Quran. There are 13
"hadith" in Sunni narratives all of which have been debunked
as fabricated by Ibn Khaldun in his Muqaddimmah. Of course
these do not teach the Mahdi concept as taught by the
Shias.
See the collected hadith of Abu Huraira, r.a., in the
Musnad of Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
VIEWPOINT
Institutional Collapse of the Muslims & the Worst Betrayal of Islam
Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal
Muslims' vision and institutions
Making a man proper human has always been the most difficult
as well as the most massive task in human history. An animal
can be a full animal on its own; it doesn't need any
institutional care or education. But a man can't grow up as
a true human in an institutional void. In deprivation of
humanising intervention, man turns animal, too. Hence, it is
very crucial to build humanising institution. Only a
value-adding institutional process can help men and women to
grow up with human values. Humanity, morality, spirituality
and other higher values rise or die in people depending on
the quality and intensity of investment on such
institutions. Families, mosques, madrasas, schools,
universities and other institutions can't do the job
properly unless the state institutions and those who run the
state play the role with higher conscience, knowledge and
morality. The ruling elites are the people who drive the
institutions. They can restrain, enhance, corrupt and stop
the inputs; thus, they play the decisive role. The quality
and intensity of the humanising process depend entirely on
the political and ideological motive of these ruling elite.
With the evil people in the helm of affairs, these
institutions too, turn into most corruptive and dehumanising
industry on earth. To run their evil operations, the wicked
rulers like Pharaoh, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George W
Bush and others got the supply of their required manpower
from these evil industry. Hence it was the greatest wisdom
of the prophet of Islam (peace be upon him) and his great
companions that they gave topmost priority on freeing these
institutions from the devilish occupation. Otherwise, all
the Islamising efforts of the prophet and the sacrifices of
his companions might have gone in vain -as happened with
many prophets and their companions.
Islam needs its own type of people and institutions to
promote its mission and vision. A plane can't fly with the
body of a bus. Hence, Islam has its own model of institution
at all levels. It has a specific model of state, too; it is
khilafa. It is unthinkable that a secular, tribal or
nationalist state will help do the job for Islam and the
Muslims. In fact, such de-Islamised states don't fit into
Islam's agenda. Rather, such states distract the Muslims'
attention to serve the selfish interests of the corrupt
rulers. Islam's past glory, rapid expansion and the security
of the Muslims' life and honour indeed owed to the
institution of khelafa. Hence, it wasn't the prime target of
enemy to destroy Mecca or Medina or any mosque, but to
destroy the khilafa. Intact Mecca, Medina and numerous
mosques couldn't save the Muslims from the enemy occupation
and its terrible tyranny. But the intact khelafa could do
the job -as it did for about 13 hundred years. Hence the
enemy didn't do any mistake to select the right target. With
the collapse of khelafa, the Muslims are now facing the
constant tide of enemy aggressions, deaths and destructions
-as currently ongoing in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Palestine, Kashmir, Libya and many other Muslim lands.
Constant humiliation has been the part of their life.
For the Muslim children, the institutional need is more
specific. Not only they need Islamic families, communities,
mosques, schools and universities; but also and most
importantly an Islamic state to grow up as true Muslims. In
such humanising cum islamising endeavour, the best and the
most decisive inputs comes from All-Knowing Allah Sub'hana
wa Ta'la. Because, only the Almighty is fully aware of the
inadequacies of the humans. And, addressing those human
inadequacies has always been His greatest concern and the
topmost priority. Hence, it has been revealed, "Surely Ours
is to show the way." -(Sura Lail, verse 12). So, He needed
to send down thousands of prophets, commission angels and
reveal Divine Books. Without the Divine inputs people may
make empires, construct roads and highways, build pyramids,
can fly in the space and drop nuclear bombs; but can't grow
as humans with higher values and morality. The history is
full of such failures. Racism, colonialism, imperialism,
ethnic cleansing, World Wars, dropping nuclear bombs are
indeed the symptoms of such catastrophic failures.
The prophets didn't come to teach agriculture, science or
technology. They came only to deliver the most crucial
humanising inputs -the Divine knowledge and guidance. It is
indeed the most essential ingredient to purify people's
belief, thoughts and character. Only with such purification,
a man and a woman can attain the status of his Lord's true
viceroy on earth. Only then, it becomes possible to raise
higher civilisation -as was raised by the early Muslims.
Otherwise, nations may show talents in making bombs,
building industries, invading countries, and killing
millions, but terribly fail to raise higher civilisation.
Even in modern age, the people will still live with ancient
ignorance vis-à-vis ultimate mission and goal of this life.
Hence, those who wish to grow up with the Divine Truth and
morality, they need to invest more on seeking Divine
guidance, thoughts and ideas. They should also engage in
enjoining the good and annihilating the wrong. This is
indeed the Divine roadmap of success both here and in the
hereafter. This is why, seeking Qur'anic knowledge and
guidance was made obligatory from day one of Islam -not any
prayer or fasting. It is the first and the most important
obligation in Muslim's life; and iqra (read) as the first
revealed word of the holy Qur'an, in fact, symbolises the
significance.
The infrastructure of moral and ideological death
In order to grow as a true Muslim, the individual effort of
a man or a woman is not enough. Such a massive and crucial
task of humanisation cum islamisation shouldn't put on the
shoulder of a lone un-enlightened individual. It is a huge
prophetic job; and has its own Divinely guided methodology.
In absence of a prophet, the head of the Islamic state and
all the state apparatus must work together on behalf of the
prophet -as happened in the early days of Islam. The laws
for running a just and effective judiciary are given only by
Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la; embodiment of such laws is called
sharia. A Muslim ruler doesn't own any sovereign right to
frame any alternative law as the substitute. Nor does a
rulers possess any right to appoint any of his inheritors as
the ruler. The prophet didn't do it, nor did the four
rightly guided early caliphs. Hence no one possess such
right either. Such monarchical practice is haram (forbidden)
in Islam; Islam replaced such autocracy with shura and
khelafa. Instead of claiming sovereignty, a Muslim ruler
must work only as the khalifa (representative) of the
prophet to continue with the prophetic tradition and the
Qur'anic roadmap. It is the key concept of Islam that got
corrupted later on by the power grabbing selfish rulers. The
key responsibility of the Muslim rulers is to generate
collaborative engagement of all the state and the non-state
institutions in the service of Islam and the Muslims. All
such institutions must work as the members of the same team
to promote the same Islamic cause -as demonstrated by the
rightly guided four caliphs. But such positive and
collaborative engagement for the Islamic cause doesn't exist
currently in most of the Muslim countries. Rather the Muslim
states and the state-run institutions are doing exactly the
opposite; they are taking the Muslims away from Islam. In
the Muslim World, thousands of red light areas, wine shops,
dancing and gambling houses, music concerts, obscene cinema
shows, nudity and obscenity at sea beaches, interest-based
banks and other evil practices operate under police
protection. In the name, even the wicked non-Muslims are
invited to Muslim countries to have their obscene practice
in their sea shores, clubs, pubs or casinos. Culturally and
ideologically the Muslim countries look little different
from a kuffar country. Was it possible to think about such
ugly things in prophet (peace be upon him)'s days? Mission
of a Muslim is to eradicate sins, not to promote. Such evil
deeds can only invite the Divine curse and calamity. Those
who turn away from Islam and align with the occupying kuffar
forces, how can they escape from the promised punishment? In
fact, the punishment for such noncompliance with Divine
decree has been much more severe in the past -as has been in
the case of A'ad, Samud and the people of Madayen. They met
total annihilation. Only because of the supplication of
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) for his ummah, the
Muslims could escape a total extinction.
In many Muslim countries, the de-Islamisation project is so
massive that the students are not taught even the meaning of
a single verse of the holy Qur'an in their 10 or 20 years of
student life. This is indeed the greatest betrayal of the
Islamic responsibility by a Muslim state. The worst victims
are the Muslims themselves. They are failing to grow up as
true Muslim. Thus, the Muslim states are working as powerful
instruments for pushing the citizens towards the hellfire.
Even the illiterate Arab shepherds of the early days could
memorise more verses of the holy Qur'an and learn much more
about Islam than the Muslim graduates or post-graduates of
the modern universities. Thus, the benefits of an Islamic
state and the calamity of a non-Islamic state get more
obvious. In an Islamic state, all the state and non-state
organisational premises turn by default into learning,
guiding and enabling institutions. Teaching and learning
massively happen in homes, mosques, offices and even in open
spaces. Every man turns into a mobile teacher or a student;
and sometimes turns into both. In such a learning
environment, the open mind, the open ears and the open eyes
of even an illiterate man or woman help him or her acquire
significant amount of knowledge on Qur'an, prophetic
tradition and other important life-skills. In the golden
days of Islam, there was no college or university; but the
most famous scholars of the whole Muslim history are the
products of those days. But now, the things are moving
exactly in the opposite direction. The state and its
institutions are working as the perfect infrastructure for
causing more ideological death. For example, the educational
institutions, media and the party outfits are being used to
immunise students against Islam. As a result, the so-called
educated class of the Muslim societies -with few exception,
has become extremely incompatible to Islam's fundamentals
like sharia, hudud, shura and khelafa. On the contrary,
their compatibility with the enemy agenda is huge; hence the
USA, Russia, India and the others easily get their
foot-soldiers and partners in Muslim cities. These are
indeed the signs of the institutional collapse of the
Muslims that has caused immense moral and ideological
deaths.
The culture of ignoring the Islamic obligation
It is the prime duty of a Muslim state and its institutions
to generate the culture of adherence to Islamic obligation.
Otherwise, an opposite culture develop to ignore it.
Awfully, such a cultural shift has already happened in
almost all the Muslims countries. And it has been the
constant priority of the government and the non-government
organisations in every non-Islamic Muslim country to
re-inforce or strengthen such a cultural shift. Therefore,
even in Muslim countries a true Muslim and his family feel
the toxic hit of anti-Islamic culture. Hence, in order to
continue with true Islam, building an Islamic state with its
full Islamic milieu has always been the topmost religious
obligation. Otherwise, the Muslims fail to discharge their
duty as a true believer; and can't work as a member of an
Islamic civilizational force. In absence of such a state,
they even fail to grow up as true Muslims. In the past,
Islam could make the best people and could build the best
civilisation on earth only because of such an enabling
environment of the state. These could only be done due to
heavy investment on moral, spiritual and conceptual
development of the Muslims. The whole state and the all
state-run institutions were engaged in that holy task. In
fact, what else could be best deed on earth? In those golden
days, the focus was never on building palaces, pyramids or
Taj Mahal, but on best form of value adding on the humans.
And they achieved the spectacular success in that field. So
in the whole human history, the best humans were made in
those days. Such a success can be easily judged by a
singular fact that the head of the world's contemporary
super power could pull the rope of the camel while his
servant enjoyed the privilege of sitting on its back -as
happened during the Caliph Omer (RA)'s about 600 miles
journey from Median to Jerusalem. Such an event never
happened in any other part of the human history. But if the
state is occupied by the evil forces, the history is then
made by committing the ugliest crimes. Then, state-run
education -the powerful tool of indoctrination, works as a
massive tool to dehumanise and deislamise the people. The
people then grow up with deep moral perversion. As a result,
the people then enjoy and celebrate the ugliest crimes on
earth. The US soldiers displayed such ugliest moral death
not only in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also in Abu Gharib
in Iraq, Bagram base in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
and now in Kobani, Ramadi, Fallujah, Mosul and many other
Syrian cities. Only because of such deep dehumanisation, the
brutality in Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan or Kashmir
is now getting nastier day by day.
The greatest piety and priority
Therefore, the danger of delegating state power to evil
forces is catastrophic. No amount of good words, good deeds,
prayer or preaching then help establish peace, justice or
tranquillity. So, the greatest act of piety is not building
mosque or give any charity, but to free a state from the
occupation of evil forces. No faith, nor any faithful people
can flourish under the evil occupation. Hence, from day one
of the prophet hood, the mission of Prophet Muhammad (peace
be upon him) was not only to convey the message of Islam as
the messenger; but also to work as a perfect liberator and
state-builder. He liberated the whole Arabian Peninsula from
the evil occupation of the pagan criminals. The main focus
of his mission was not to build any empire, but to construct
a perfect Islamic state to help spread Islam as an effective
global civilising force. All of his efforts and sacrifices
revolved around this prime objective. From day one of his
migration from the holy city of Mecca to Medina, the prophet
(peace be upon him) became the Head of the nascent Islamic
state, the Commander in Chief of its Army and the Chief
Justice of its court. The great prophet (peace be upon him)
raised his companions not only as devoted worshipper, but
also as deep thinkers, tough warriors and able
administrators. They showed their un-surpassed merit to make
the Islamic state stable, strong and prevailing over the
contemporary World as the number one global power. Within a
short span of time, the Roman and the Persian Empire -the
contemporary super powers were subdued under the Islamic
caliphate.
The Divine trial
Establishing and defending an Islamic state -as practised by
the prophet (peace be upon him), is in fact, the core
essence of a Muslim's survival mission. Without the support
of a powerful state-craft, how the revealed Qur'anic Truth
can prevail over the falsehood -as envisioned in the holy
Qur'an? In fact, only through establishing an Islamic state,
a Muslim can effectively contribute in fulfilling Allah
Sub'hana wa Ta'la's vision that entails annihilations of the
falsehood. But establishing an Islamic state is not an easy
walkover. It needs huge sacrifice of money, lives, energy
and efforts. It has been proven to be the costliest project
of Islam in its whole history. For that, most of the
companions of the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) had
to leave their homes, fight endless wars, suffer extreme
hardships and at the end sacrifice their lives. It is in
fact a bloody battle against the enemy's policy of wholesale
man-slaughtering -as was the policy of the Arab infidels in
the past. Even now, it is being executed exactly in the same
way by the US, the UK, the Russian, the Israeli, the Indian
and the French killers against the defenceless people in
many parts of the Muslim World.
Such a field of state building is indeed the true exam field
for the Muslims, too. Only in this field, the real Muslims
get correctly sorted out from the fake ones. More
importantly, Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la selects the martyrs
from this field of Islamic state building. Such a crucial
trial doesn't occur in five times prayers, month-long
fasting in Ramadan, alms giving to the poor and in
attendance in the mosques. Nor does it happen in the rituals
of Haj and in field of Arafah. Even the fake believers can
do these. The real test starts when it is asked to stand up
for Islam against the brutal armies. It is jihad in Islam.
The believers then face severe affliction and may even meet
death. But those who do not engage in state building, they
do not face threat from the enemies. Hence, they do not face
any trial either. Thus, the presence in the field of jihad
works as the process of purifying the believers. Moreover,
it is the only way to eradicate the enemies. Allah Sub'hana
wa ta'la is very explicit on this issue. So it is revealed:
"And, We bring these days (of harsh affliction) to people in
turns so that Allah may know who truly believe (in Him) and
(He) pickups the martyrs in His way from you. And so that
(through these harsh days of affliction) He may purify those
who believe and eradicate those who disbelieve." -(Sura
al-Irmarn, Verse 140-141).
The pathology of enmity
The enemies of Islam are not fool. They fully understand the
global impact of an Islamic khelafa. The issue of khelafa
has the spiritual and ideological force to move the
believers across the globe. So, it can draw warriors from
all over the world and can quickly turn a Muslim land into a
potential core state of Islamic civilisation -as happened in
the days of prophet (peace be upon him). Only such a state
can dismantle the divisive walls of the Muslim World raised
on racial, tribal and linguistic lines. The enemies of Islam
express their extreme regrets and frustration vis-à-vis the
political wisdom of the Persian and the Roman empires for
not extinguishing the nascent Islamic state of the Prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him) 14 hundred years ago. They
argue that if those two previous World Powers had
extinguished the Islamic state at its formative state, the
West's current predicament with Islamists couldn't crop up
at all -as being expressed by the Islamophobics in recent
years. The comments in the political columns of London's
Evening Standard, the Daily Mail, the Time and the Telegraph
and many others in the West is a clear testimony to that.
They argue that the US, the France, the UK, the Germans, the
Russians and all other non-Islamic powers should work
shoulder to shoulder to dismantle any effort of establishing
any Islamic state in any part of the world. So they are in
consensus to drop bombs on the Islamists in anywhere in the
world. Many of the Muslim countries have joined the
anti-Muslim crusade, too. However, such treachery is not new
in the Muslim history. When Palestine and Iraq were occupied
by the British in 1917, most of its soldiers were
non-British; and thousands of them were the Muslim.
In the past, such a consensus argument of the enemies worked
successfully to dismantle the united Pakistan in 1971.
Because, even in those days, Islam was an issue for them.
Now the Russians are bombing the Islamist positions in Syria
on the excuse of defending the legitimacy of the country's
ruling regime. They talk about the UN charter; being in
power by whatever means is claimed to be the point of
legitimacy for Basher al-Assad. But in 1971, the Russians
did not find any legitimacy of survival of Pakistan. Soviet
Russia then stood shoulder to shoulder with the aggressor
India to dismember Pakistan. It was again a war against
Islam. Pakistan has its own Islamic history of genesis.
After the collapse of the Osmania khelafa, the Indian
Muslims -the largest Muslim population in the whole world
(currently it is about 500 million), got united to establish
the biggest Muslim state of Pakistan in the contemporary
world. The united Pakistan could have the population of
about 360 million now; hence, it had the potential to become
the core civilizational state for the Muslims and the model
of Muslim unity amidst geographical gap and ethnic
difference. Living in Hindu majority India, it was
unthinkable to establish such a core civilizational state.
But it was unacceptable to the enemies of Islam -as it is
now. They didn't want such an Islamic state in any part of
the world; only few decades ago, they dismantled one (the
Osmania khelafa) in the Middle East after a bloody battle.
Hence, when Pakistan was created against their unanimous
opposition in 1947, they instantly turned the perpetual
enemy against its survival. Therefore, Pakistan didn't need
any al-Qaida or ISIS outfits in its midst; the declaration
of Islamic State of Pakistan was enough to invite the
combined wrath of the enemies from all over the world. This
is indeed the true pathology of the anti-Islamists
world-wide.
Islam is the complete and comprehensive code of life; hence
closes the inroads of ideological corruption of the Muslim
intellect by the enemies. It also works as the cementing
bondage between the people of different race, land and
language. According to the Qur'anic narrative, it is the
rope of Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'ala that binds the Muslims
together. Islam showed its wonderful strength to bind
together the people of different ethnicities like Arabs,
Persians, Turks, Kurds, Moors and many others for about a
thousand years. But whenever the Islamic faith got weaker,
the cementing force got eroded, too. As a result, the large
Muslim Ummah got quickly divided and almost decimated.
Hence, it has always been the enemy strategy to replace
Islam with other ideologies to undo the Muslim unity. They
implanted secularism, socialism, nationalism, tribalism and
racism as the substitute of Islam. It worked successfully to
dismember Osmania Khelafat; and showed its success against
the unity of Pakistan, too. In both Pakistan and Turkey, and
in almost all Muslim countries, the political, intellectual
and academic elites and the civil and the military
bureaucracy have so much conceptual corruption that Islam
stands foreign and incompatible in their midst. In fact,
they feel more comfortable with working with the enemies.
Their working stations and residential enclaves are indeed
the cultural islands of the enemies. The USA and the
Russia-led enemies of Islam are reinforcing the same
strategy to sustain the same framework of further division
and decadence of the Muslim World. In order to eliminate the
sense of obligation to Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la from the
Muslim mind, the home-grown Trojan horses of the enemies are
promoting sports, music, TV shows and Indian or Hollywood
films in a massive way as the new morphine. Thus, the
process of de- islamisation and dehumanisation in the Muslim
World is getting new momentum.
Fighting the Islamists is the agenda
The Western and the Eastern enemies of Islam do not bother
about the barbarity of Bashar al-Assad, General Abul Fattah
al-Sissi, Narendra Modi or Shaikh Hasina; nor are they
worried about the death of more than 3 hundred thousand
Syrians and destruction of the Syrian cities and villages.
The US war planes carried out the same destruction in
Ramadi, Fallujah, Tikrit, Kobani; and now doing the same in
Mosul and Raqqa. The Russians did the same in Chechen city
of Grozny and in Afghanistan. How to stop the emergence of
an Islamic state in any part of the world is their only
worry. In fact, they are ready with huge prize money,
chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction if
the established criminals in power show their brutality
against the Islamists. They have already taken the
autocratic rulers of the Muslim countries as close partners
to sustain their policy of hegemony. In the past, the USA
and its partners were very happy with the brutal dictators
like President Husni Mubarak of Egypt, President Ben Ali of
Tunisia, President Hafez al-Assad and his son President
Bashar al-Assad of Syria for decades. In 1982, Hafez
al-Assad -the father of Bashar al-Assad massacred about 40
thousand people in the city of Hama. The US and its partners
didn't do anything against such brutality, because it was
done exclusively against the Islamists. Now they are equally
happy with the current anti-Islamic autocrats of Egypt,
Bangladesh and the gulf sheikhdoms.
When the Islamist stood up against these criminal rulers,
the imperialist powers like the USA, the UK, France, Russia
and others raised their own brand of terrorists both inside
the Army and among the rebels to fight exclusively against
the Islamists. The strategy worked successfully to overthrow
the first elected President of Egypt and now showing success
to decimate the Islamists in Syria. This way the enemies of
Islam are providing a new lease of life to their autocratic
comrades, and resisting the revival of Islam. The US army
has killed more than a million in Afghanistan and Iraq; and
turned hundreds of Muslim cities and villages into rubbles.
The US-led killings and destructions still continue. The
Russian Army has killed more than 1.5 million in Afghanistan
during their occupations in the eighties; and they are now
bombing the cities in Syria. The Indian Army has already
killed more than 100 thousands Muslims in Kashmir over the
years of its military occupation. Now the killing in Kashmir
has attained a new high. Bashar al-Assad has killed more
than 300 thousands. General Abdul Fatah Al Sissi of Egypt
has killed more than 1200 in only one night in the streets
of Cairo. Shaikh Hasina -the Prime Minister of Bangladesh,
has killed thousands of opposition activists to protect her
autocratic rule; and still continues to hijack, torture and
kill her political opponents. The Israeli killing machines
are relentlessly active in Palestine for more than 70 years
to kill or evict the original settlers. More than 5 million
Palestinians, 4 million Syrians, 2 million Afghans and about
half a million Rohinga Muslims still live as refugee in
foreign lands. In 14 hundred years of Islam's history, such
genocidal atrocities and eviction could be compared only
with the atrocities committed to the Spanish Muslims after
the fall of Muslim rule there.
The new low and the worst betrayal
To distract the public eyes from their own crimes, the
perpetrating state-terrorists of the West and Russia have
deployed an old malicious strategy. They have raised the
bogey of Islamists to scare the Muslims as well as the world
population. They always need some bogey to flex their muscle
and occupy new lands. The US-led coalition used the pretext
of al-Qaida to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq. Now using
presence of the Islamists to destroy and occupy Syria. As
if, the Islamists have killed more people than the USA, the
Russian, the Indian, the Syrian and the Egyptian Armies and
turned many cities to rubbles. The Pharaoh showed his
devilish skill to successfully sell lies to the Egyptian
people; he could project Prophet Musa (peace upon him) as
the evil magician and an enemy of the Egyptian people. He
could also justify the brutal slaughtering of the Banu
Israeli men and enslavement of their women. He could also
impose himself on the Egyptian people as a god.
The Egyptian people were not moron; they could build
pyramids and mummify people for thousands of years. But they
surrendered to lies. This is the magic manipulative power of
the state authority. And such state power of the US-led
coalition is far superior to Pharaoh. Pharaoh didn't have
drones, nuclear bombs, modern propaganda machines and a huge
army spread over the whole world. Therefore, the selling
power of lies of this imperialists' coalition is far
greater. So, is there any surprise that President Obama -
the drone-master cum the head of the most genocidal state on
earth would be given the Noble Prize and the defenceless
Islamists will be labelled as the global threat? This is the
lowest low of human civilisation. Only with such moral low,
people could deliver the perfect legality to the creation of
Israel on the occupied land of Palestine and eviction of its
people. It is also the new low of the Muslims. Instead of
spreading the Divine Truth to others, they too, stand fully
succumbed to the manipulative power of the neo-Pharaoh.
Therefore, along with the occupying kuffar forces, they too
stand against establishment of Islamic state in any part of
the Muslim World. What else could be the worst betrayal of
Islam?
