"Trials will continue to befall the believing man and woman,
with regard to themselves, their children and their wealth,
until they meet Allah with no sin on them."
(At-Tirmidhi)
Comment: [by Selma Cooke via Adam Sait in India]:
The great scholar, Ibn Taymiyah said:
"A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you
than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of
Allah."
So, our success in this life and the next depends on how we
react to what happens to us. The most important thing we
have to learn is to trust in Almighty Allah. We must be sure
that along with the hardship and troubles, He gives us His
mercy, help and support. Everything in life has meaning and
every lesson we learn can bring us closer to Almighty Allah
and all the peace of mind and insight which that
entails.
National Islamic Shoora of Jamaat al-Muslimeen.
Suffering of Black Community has Remained Consistent under
all Regimes.
Why Hispanics and Muslims are Mistreated? Neither Trump nor
Hillary are relevant to our Reality.
Zionist Control and Hidden Agendas must end.
On November 12 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Jamaat
al-Muslimeen's Central Planning Committee met for about 8
hours.
The program was mostly chaired by Imam Badi Ali and in part
by Sis. Ashira Naim.
Delicious Arabic style lunch and dinner were catered by
local Muslim community restaurants. Prayers were led by Br.
Abdul Rahman.
Br. Robert Solano spoke at length about the history and
plight of the Hispanic community and the social factors
which influenced its up and down role in the presidential
elections of November 8. Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and
central Americans are quite different from each other though
all are labelled as "Hispanics"
Br. Benjamin Harris used a power point illustration to
highlight statistically the fact that the conditions of the
Black community have not improved under any of the parties
and regimes which have dominated America including that of
Obama. He used the narrative of 19th century missionary
Edward Blyden to counter the propaganda accusing "Arabs" of
slavery. He emphasized that ONLY under Islam, Black people
have prospered.
Br. Kaukab Siddique taught from sura al-Balad [chapter 90 of
the Qur'an] that the most essential aspect of the Qur'an is
its attack on slavery, physical and mental, and the
mistreatment of women especially female captives. Br.
Kaukab, ameer of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, urged that America's
Muslims must focus strictly on Qur'an and hadith and not be
influenced by the powerful negative forces which have been
uncovered by the presidential rivalry of the two parties
dominating America. Be the slaves of Allah, not of the
American power structure.
Sis. Ashira Naim, Secretary General of Jamaat al-Muslimeen,
recited sura Maun [chapter 107] and emphasized the need to
help the weak, the poor and the exploited masses. She
recounted her impressions of Ethiopia, which she visited for
5 months, and the importance of Africa where children are
suffering from lack of basic necessities while the great
wealth of Africa remains beyond the grasp of its people.
With the support of Imam Badi Ali, sis. Ashira launched a
campaign to make the Jamaat's masjid in Baltimore
self-sufficient.
The entire Shoora committee agreed that the issue of
Palestine is linked to the situation of hidden agendas and
the censorship of American realities by the media. Zionist
forces have made it impossible for Americans to know why
their country constantly meddles in the Muslim world and
tries to stifle the movements for independence.
The games of the two parties which fought the elections were
analyzed and the great dangers Muslims faced if Hillary had
won were explained and highlighted.
Resolutions Passed by the Natonal Islamic Shoora of Jamaat
on November 12.
There was no "lesser evil" in the presidential elections
of November 8.
Major corporate media have spread chaos and confusion and
failed to provide objective and accurate reporting on the
elections.
Protests and demonstrations are valid but should not be
violent.
America should take in more refugees from the tragic
situation in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and African countries.
Those refugees who have already arrived should be provided
financial, cultural and linguistic resources to be able to
settle down.
Palestine is the central and crucial issue for America.
The systematic efforts to exclude it from the national
narrative clouds the information horizons for the American
people. The intricate disinformation about Palestine and
support for its occupiers makes truth and accuracy in the
media impossible.
America is holding many innocent Muslim political
prisoners such as Imam Jamil al-Amin, Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman
and Dr. Aafia Siddiqui. They have suffered tremendously and
should be released without further attempts to isolate and
abuse them.
Women's rights are sacred but are being blatantly
violated in America. They are mothers, wives, daughters,
persons and should be treated as such and not as objects and
items for commercial consumption.
The shameful existence of poverty, hunger and
homelessness is a blight on the richest country in the
world. The approach of winter should signal the urgency of
dealing with this unnatural situation.
Medical coverage and health resources should be available
free of charge to the entire nation. There is no valid
excuse for turning this lifeline of the people into business
and part of profit making.
The flood of drugs and related crimes is now visible from
coast-to-coast. The drug situation should be treated as a
national emergency.
Native Americans who do not have proper documentation
for their presence in America should not be treated as
"illegals." After all this is their land,
Islamic Movement in America from Coast-to-Coast, inshaAllah!
On November 12, the National Islamic Shoora of Jamaat
al-Muslimeen unanimously approved a motion by Dr. Kaukab
Siddique to rename Jamaat al-Muslimeen as Islamic Movement
in North America.
This idea was initiated by Br. Shamim Siddiqi of Long
Island, New York long ago.
The purpose is not just a name change but to reach out to
the entire Ummah of Muslims in America with the pristine
message of Islam.
Jamaat al-Muslimeen is reaching more Muslims in America than
any other Islamic organization.
An effort is needed to bring all masjids and organizations
into alliance with an Islamic movement which is purely
Islamic and not national, racial or limited in its reach and
ideology.
A methodology will be devised, inshaAllah to be inclusive
but without watering down the focus on the Qur'an and
authentic hadith.
Our "ambassadors" will be visiting the Muslim communities
across America, inshaAllah, to make the Islamic movement
real.
Already Jamaat al-Muslimeen is the only organization which
addresses the entire spectrum of Islamic issues without
trying to please the power structure of this country.
First Khutba after Trump Victory. Addressing about a 1,000
Muslims in Greensboro, North Carolina. How to be Muslims in
these troubled times? Message for our children. Give up
culture: Accept the holy texts.
[Photo right: Big Juma crowd listened to Dr. Siddique.]
[Photo Br. Kalim.]
"If you trust Muhammad, pbuh, Allah will put your destiny in
your own hands." {Allama Iqbal ]
On November 11, Br. Kaukab Siddique gave juma khutbas in
Greensboro, North Carolina. Numerous ;people came to him and
thanked him or simply shook hands with him after the
prayers.
The community in this city is lead by Imam Badi Ali, a
distinguished Palestinian American Imam. He is a very loving
and influential imam leading the Muslims towards change
through peaceful means based in authentic Islam.
The prayer hall was packed. The crowds were from all the
Arab countries and many African countries with a sprinkling
of Pakistanis and African Americans.
Text: أَلَّا
تَزِرُ
وَازِرَة¢ وِزْرَ
أُخْرَىٰ
"No bearer of burdens shall bear the burden of another."
[The Quran, 53:38]
It is our obligation as Muslims to take the message of
Allah to our spouses, then to our relatives and then to our
communities, "tribes" and nations. That is the Sunnah of
Muhammad, pbuh.
We should have absolute certainty of the Hereafter. On
the Day of Judgement we will be standing alone and will have
to answer individually for our deeds.
It is a living miracle from Allah that He has brought
Muslims from 54 countries together in America. We might
think we are here for jobs or owing to economic and
political pressures but Allah is the Best of Planners. He
has given us the opportunity to get rid of our national
divisions and strive to spread the message of decency,
compassion and humanity.
Even before prayers and fasting and zakat, Allah has
commanded us to stand up for right and against wrong
doing.
Our existence in America has validity if we give an example
of high morality and superb values. Da'wah or calling people
to truth and goodness is required.
Muslims should not be on drugs, or liquor or cigarettes
or gambling or indulging in haram sexual activity. Prayers,
fasting and zakat should be translated into good
behavior.
There are rules for giving the message of Islam to those
non-Muslims interested in Islam. Only if we study the Quran
on a daily basis and read hadith to some extent every day
should we do dawah. When we don't know, we should honestly
tell inquirers that we don't know.
Remember that if we knowingly attribute to the Prophet,
pbuh, what he did not say, we are earning the fire of
hell.
If we know how to give the message of Islam, based on
knowledge of the authentic texts and a compassionate
character, we should go forth to give the message wherever
we can, be it on line or in discussion groups or to
colleagues or employees. If our character is way above
average, people will want to know our beliefs and motivating
factors.
Do not invite non-Muslims into our mosques and prayer
gatherings. Remember that they take various abominations as
normal. Notice how they lambasted each other on a national
level during the last few weeks and during the last few
years. They should not be seen as people who can teach us.
Go to them, not vice versa.
Khutba number 2.
We must differentiate between our opinions and the holy
texts of Islam. We must never create the impression that our
viewpoints are interchangeable with Islam.
We must be careful with our children that we do not give
them the impression that our opinions are Islam. If we don't
know, we should tell our children that honestly "I don't
know. I'll look it up in the Quran and hadith."
Remember that our children are very sharp. Sooner or
later they will find out that we are presenting our opinions
as "Islam." The result will be that they will become unsure
about what Islam really teaches and might stop respecting
us.
The recent upheaval in values during the opposing
election campaigns have surely created much confusion and
anxiety among our children. We must sit down with the
children and explain to them what Islam really teaches and
why they should not take as genuine what is going on in the
media.
The first generation of Muslim immigrants in America
often are influenced by the culture, traditions and behavior
of the countries they came from which they present as
"Islam." They can even take Islamic texts and twist them to
fit into their cultural standards, This is where our Imams
must interfere and not allow nationalism to be passed on as
Islam.
Our children face a daily dose of MASS CULTURE which has
affected just about every young person all the way from New
York to Chicago to Los Angeles. Our youth are seminally
taught that Beyoncé, JZ and other entertainers are
wonderful role models. There is almost worship of the very
rich in our country. This has to be reversed with examples
from the life of the Prophet, pbuh, and the lives of his
Companions [sahaba].
There are good role models among our Muslim communities.
In this very city there are young people who in school,
dress, behave and express themselves as Muslims. We should
support and honor these young people.
There is no need to emphasize the sects and schools of
thought prevalent in our countries. Look at what is
happening here and give da'wa within that context.
As Allama Iqbal pointed out, miraculous transformation is
possible even today if we accept the love and leadership of
Muhammad, pbuh.
War News
Iraq: Week 4.
Mosul: Islamic Fighters Inflicting Serious Losses on Regime
troops in Marginal advances by Shia Armada
ISIL fighters have launched several fierce counterattacks
against Iraqi forces on the eastern outskirts of Mosul city,
underscoring the intense battle ahead as government troops
and their allies push into densely populated
neighbourhoods.
An ISIL suicide car bomber targeted Iraqi troops in the
city's eastern Qadisiya neighbourhood early on Saturday,
setting off heavy fighting that involved mortar rounds,
gunfire, and rocket-propelled grenades.
Iraqi officers told the AFP news agency fighting was also
under way in the adjoining Arbajiya area.
"The fighting is intense this morning. We're trying to
fortify our positions in Arbajiya before continuing our
attack into al-Bakr," Colonel Muntadhar Salem of the
counterterrorism unit said. Salem later clarified the aim
was to surround the al-Bakr neighbourhood, but not to
assault it for now.
To the south of the city, militarised Iraqi police said they
had come within 5km of Mosul's airport, which satellite
images show has been heavily fortified by ISIL.
The images, taken earlier this month by US-based private
intelligence firm Stratfor, showed ISIL fighters having
cleared terrain and leveled buildings around the airport and
a nearby former military base on the west bank of the Tigris
River. Rows of concrete barricades, earthen mounds and
rubble could be seen blocking key routes into the city
centre.
Thousands of Iraqi regular troops and special forces, Shia
militias, Kurdish Peshmerga, and other groups in an alliance
of 100,000 fighters.
The nearly four-week campaign that began on October 17 to
drive Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant out of the
biggest city under its control is also backed by thousands
of Western personnel on the ground and US-led air power,
including fighter jets and Apache helicopters.
The International Organisation for Migration said on
Saturday more than 49,000 people had been displaced since
the operation began.
In recent days the advance has slowed as they fight their
way into densely populated neighbourhoods, with the urban
landscape making defence easier for ISIL.
Iraqi armed forces do not release casualty figures, but
field medics have noted that dozens have been killed and
wounded.
Syria
Heavy Fighting as Hizbullah Tries to Stop Takeover of West
Aleppo by Islamic Fighters.
November 7-13. Heavy fighting continues in western Aleppo
after FSA and al-Nusra mujahideen entered the positions held
by the regime forces. Hizbullah is fighting hard to stop the
mujahideen advance.
The intensity of the fighting can be guessed from the
casualty figures release by SOHR for ONE DAY:
The bombing from the air has caused heavy Muslim casualties
but they have not retreated. All over the country, the two
sides are bombing and shelling but no serious advances.
Afghanistan
Martyrdom Operator Hits US Forces.
November 12: A human bomber killed 4 US forces and wounded
16 in an attack on Bagram airfield.
Earlier in the week, 2 CIA paramilitary were killed in a
Taliban attack. [Fox News]
Viewpoint
Betrayal of Islam & the Infrastructure of Failure
Dr Firoz Mahboob Kamal
[Dr. Kamal is a distinguished intellectual from Bangladesh.
]
The betrayal
Islam has its own mission, vision and objectives; there is
no obscurity or ambiguity on these basics. To be a true
Muslim, one needs to be strictly life-long adherent to those
Islamic mission, vision and objectives. Otherwise, he or she
becomes a kafir (disbeliever) or a munaifiq (hypocrite).
According to Islam, the worst category of humans are not the
kafir; they are the munfiq. In the hereafter, they will be
dumped in the worst part of the hellfire. Surprisingly, the
munafiqs are not the product of any kafir family, society or
state. These vilest creature come exclusively from the
Muslim families, societies or states. Because of these evil
people, a Muslim state runs the highest risk of turning into
the worst place on earth -as currently being evidenced in
many parts of the world. Millions of people of these Muslim
states are now giving preference to living even in kuffar
states. These evil peoples are produced through a process of
betrayal against Islam's core beliefs and agenda. They are
Muslim only by name; but their culture, politics, warfare,
education, law, constitution, banking and economics show
total disobedience to Qur'anic decrees. Such disobedience,
could only bring down the promised wrath of Allah Sub'han wa
Ta'la.
The last messenger of Islam Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him) not only showed the roadmap for getting a place in the
paradise, but also demonstrated how to attain peace,
tranquillity and success in this world. This is indeed the
sign of completeness of Islam and the greatest blessing of
Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la. The credit goes to the prophet
(peace be upon him) and his faithful companions that they
could prove the right worth of the Qur'anic guidance by
raising the best people and the finest civilisation on earth
in the whole history of mankind. The greatest shirk
(polytheism) is not mere adding some partners to Allah
Sub'hana wa Ta'la, but to believe that someone else can also
prescribe better laws, better norms and culture, and can
provide better inputs for higher morality, peace and
tranquillity. Such a belief recognises the superiority or
equality of some deities or entities other than Allah
Sub'hana wa Ta'la. It denies the Divine Truth that guiding
the mankind is exclusively His domain (inna alai'na huda).
Taking anyone as the law giver -be it parliament, ruler or
king, is in fact the overt betrayal against Almighty Allah's
Sovereignty. Hence, it is shirk. And, shirk is an
unforgivable sin. It makes entry to paradise impossible. But
it is awful that such shirk (polytheism) has achieved an
epidemic proportion in the Muslim World; and could dismantle
the fundamentals of Islamic faith. Such a shirk could
successfully disengage the Muslims from practice of sharia
and other decrees of the Qur'anic roadmap -on a fabricated
pretext that sharia laws are obsolete or impracticable! As a
result, out of 57 Muslim countries, none is sharia
compliant! Can a believer with an iota of faith in Allah
Sub'hana wa Ta'la be ever compatible with the laws that is
not taken from Qur'an?
If the Muslims could have achieved any success, peace, glory
or dignity by the current level of rebellion against sharia
and other Islamic principles, one could easily argue that
the Qur'anic road map is no more essential. One could also
claim that the prophet's tradition now stand irrelevant. But
the constant defeat, humiliation, tyranny and the down-hill
course of the Muslims as a whole do not provide any ground
to such claim. Rather, the current catastrophe in the Muslim
World tells a lot about the seriousness of the disease. The
Muslims have terribly failed not only in solving their own
problems, but also in understanding the root cause of the
problems. Their current level of failure and humiliation
does not owe to inadequacies of mosques, madrasas, colleges
or universities in the Muslim World; neither to the economy
or the industry. Today, the Muslims have thousand times more
mosques, madrasas, schools and colleges than they had in the
golden days. Their economy shows much prosperity than those
of the poor early Muslims. Today, they have more cantonments
and hundred times more soldiers in uniform. They have
nuclear bombs, too. But nothing is working to stop the
ongoing enemy occupation, subjugation, destruction and the
blood-bath. In fact, it is the huge deviation from the
Qur'anic roadmap that has brought them to the current
quagmire. Mosques, madrasas, schools, colleges, universities
and the government and non-government institutions of the
Muslim countries are not solving the problems; rather, they
are the integral parts of the problems. In fact, the crime
is being done by increasing the deviation from the Qur'anic
roadmap. To confirm the depth of deviation, one can easily
compare the contemporary policies of the Muslim countries
with those of the prophet (peace be upon him) and his
companions.
The misplaced priority
Success or glory never comes to a people while the most
important things get ignored. But it is a great irony that
the Muslims are ignoring the most crucial issue of Islam for
centuries. The prophet didn't come to teach how to make
national or tribal states; and neither to show how to build
mosque, madrasah, palace or monument. The prophet (peace be
upon him) of Islam gave the highest priority to build an
Islamic civilizational state. Such a state is indispensable
for practising full Islam -as indispensable for implementing
sharia and raising the Muslims as a force of righteousness
on earth. Hence, wherever there is no Islamic state, one
can't think of true and full Islam there either. So the
prophet's Islamic state became the common target of all the
infidels. There wasn't any iota of doubt about the
importance of such a state in the mind of the companions of
the prophet. Hence, after his death, the companions of the
prophet (peace be upon him) not only continued with the
mission, but also multiplied its strength and expanse. They
fought numerous wars and streamlined the whole energy of the
ummah to give a very powerful sustenance to the prophet's
state. Which is why the early leaders of the ummah are
called the rightly guided caliph (viceroy) of the prophet
(peace be upon him). The Islamic state of the prophet (peace
be upon him) continued to survive as the Islamic Caliphate
in later days; and quickly emerged as the number one global
power. Hence it was proven that only this way the Muslim
ummah can work as an effective civilizational force and as
the army of Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la to serve His Vision
(li'euzhirahu aladdini kullihi).
The down fall of the Muslims started at a time when they
moved away from the prophetic tradition and spent their
wealth, energy and intelligence for building tribal empires
or states. In fact, the ugliest betrayal of the prophet
(peace be upon him) didn't occur in five times prayers,
fasting, haj or other rituals, but in the arena of state
building. It is true that increased number of mosques can
provide more space for five times prayer but can't create
any political space, prestige or security for the ummah in
the world stage. It is indeed the job of a powerful Islamic
state with full compliance with the prophet's tradition. But
now the deviation of the Muslims is so huge, no more they
show any interest in the creation of an Islamic state; as
if, the concept of such a state doesn't exist in the
Muslims' political dictionary. Their perversion has reached
to a point that establishing an Islamic state on the
prophetic model and defending it appears no more a job of
the Muslims. Instead, they have joined the infidels' rank to
foil any such effort in any part of the world. To them, a
Muslim state means either a tribal or a national state to
pursue only some worldly gains. In the days of the prophet
(peace be upon him) and his companions, there was no dispute
on khelafa, sharia, hudud and jihad. To be a Muslim, one
needed to be 100% compliant to those core concepts of Islam.
In those days of the Muslims' glory, an iota of disagreement
on these core issues was enough to be perceived as a full
kafir -there was no dispute among the Muslim scholars about
such a diagnosis. But these Qur'anic concepts are made
controversial and blamed as terrorists' extremism. And those
who are known for dropping nuclear bombs, cluster bombs,
drones and missiles on civilian population and turning
cities and villages into rubbles are embraced as
civilizational force and labelled as the defenders of the
Muslims. Like the infidels, they also believe, it is
terrorism to create an Islamic state. And they also join
hand in hand with the non-Muslims to dismantle such a state.
These are indeed the vile efforts of the anti-Islamic
coalition to destroy the life line of Islam and the Muslim
ummah. If that had happened in the days of the prophet
(peace be upon him) and his rightly guided Caliphs, what
would have been the reaction against these deniers of
sharia, hudud, khilafa and jihad? There were the coalition
of anti-Islamic forces in those early days too. The early
Muslims could successfully dismantle them. But, if their
efforts had succeeded, could Islam reach to the current
stage?
It is noteworthy that Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
didn't build a single mosque or madrasa during his initial
13 years of prophet hood in Mecca. His main focus was to
build war-ready enlightened soldiers who would be ever-ready
to sacrifice their time, wealth, energy and even life to
establish and defend the Islamic state. And after his death,
they would be competent enough to discharge the duty as the
devoted khalifa (viceroy). For that, they needed one to one
close education, mentoring and monitoring. The prophet
(peace be upon him) worked as an all-time teacher,
role-model and mentor for the Meccan Muslims. In a period of
13 years, he could make only about 150 such people; each one
of them was fully imbued with the Qur'anic knowledge
-personally by the prophet (peace be upon him) himself.
Later on, they proved to be the best human on earth -not
only in the Islamic history, but also in the history of
whole mankind. They formed the rock-like solid foundation
for the Islamic civilization which could withstand all forms
of social and political upheavals. Thus, the last prophet of
Islam (peace be upon him) proved to be the best teacher in
the whole human history. After the migration to Medina, the
prophet (peace be upon him) continued with the same
methodology there. In the way of Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la,
the full readiness of the companions of the prophet (peace
be upon him) was always spontaneous. They never said like
the companions of Prophet Musa (peace be upon him), "O Musa!
Go ahead with your God to fight for us, and we stay here
waiting (till you clear the proposed land for us)." Rather,
they told, "O Prophet of Allah! you decide whatever you like
to decide. In the way of Allah, if you jump into the sea,
you will surely find us with you." Such self-sacrificing
pledge and fearlessness came out instantly when they were
asked about their opinion just before the highly unequal war
of Badar -when 313 of them confronted 1000 best infidel
warriors of Mecca. The prophet (peace be upon him) never
failed to anticipate the imminent wars of the enemies, hence
started the preparation from the day one.
The danger of meltdown
For a Muslim, the danger of living in a non-Muslim or
un-Islamic state is quite real and grave. The problem is not
economic or physical, rather spiritual and ideological. For
survival, a fish needs water, a Muslim needs an Islamic
environment. A Muslim can't be a full Muslim without
befitting Islamic institutional care. The un-Islamic state
institutions of the Muslim countries -even the religious
bodies of these states, have their own political and
ideological agenda inimical to Islam and the Muslims. These
are created not to help Muslims to grow up as true Muslim.
Rather such institutions do the opposite by limiting or
restraining the opportunities to know Islam. As a result,
the most important agenda of the Muslim life gets severely
compromised. Even the practice of full Islam get severely
restricted; banning head-scarf or hejab is just a symptom of
such hostility against Islam. So, the Muslims men and women
runs the risk of moral, spiritual and ideological meltdown
in a hostile political, educational and cultural milieu of
an un-Islamic Muslim state or a non-Muslim kuffar state.
What else would be worse than such a meltdown? This can only
expedite the joint journey with the kuffars towards the
hellfire.
The western countries have already shown their strength as a
powerful melting pot. But these are not the exclusive cases
of the western or the non-Muslim countries only; a Muslim
country under the infidel or the secularist occupation also
presents with the same consequence. For example, the
de-Islamised Muslims of the secularist Turkey, Bangladesh,
Pakistan is equally hostile to implementation of sharia like
the Hindu kuffars of India. To be a true Muslim, like
regular foods and drinks, he also needs regular inputs and
throughputs from the Islamic value-adding institutions. He
or she needs to go through a full refining process of
Islam's own educational and cultural system. To ensure such
an environment of ideological enrichment and to protect them
from meltdown in a kuffar culture and society, the prophet
(peace be upon him) of Islam and his rightly guided
companions needed to establish a full Islamic state from day
one. It is the most massive and crucial duty of an Islamic
state. As an individual one can bear the burden of getting
bread and butter for his family; he can also build a good
house for his family. But he can't build the most crucially
needed educational, cultural and spiritual environment for
his children. It is beyond his ability. It is the prime
responsibility of the Muslim state to protect his children
not only from protectable deaths from disease epidemics, but
also from spiritual, moral and ideological death. The state
that bears such responsibility through its state
institutions is called an Islamic state. Therefore it works
as the institute of Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la on earth. Hence
the enemies of Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la can never be ready to
tolerate the existence of such a state. Rather, to put an
end to it, they form global coalition.
The state that takes people away from Islam and its way of
life by its corruptive and manipulative education, culture,
media and deceptive politics is called an un-Islamic state.
Such a state is indeed the most massive devilish tool on
earth. If such a state becomes a World Power, the world
peace becomes the first and foremost fatality -as it is now.
Launching World Wars, dropping nuclear bombs, occupying
countries, destroying cities, massive genocide, ethnic
cleansing and vietnamisation of the countries like Iraq,
Afghanistan and Syria are not the only crimes of these
devils. They have also caused moral, spiritual or
ideological death of billions of the people worldwide. As a
result, the world body like UNO and its member states have
lost the moral power to condemn the ongoing worst crimes in
Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and many other parts of
the world. They do wars not only with bombs, drones and
missiles, but also with lies and the media cum propaganda
industries. Hence, it has been the greatest wisdom and the
most important sunnah of the prophet (peace be upon him) to
dismantle the core industry of these devils. It is also a
Qur'anic obligation in all ages. So, both the Roman and the
Persian empires were defeated by the rightly guided early
Muslims. In the whole history of Islam, it proved to be the
most costly project. But it is also the most beneficial
project in the whole history of mankind. Otherwise, the
mankind would have missed to see the best civilizational
achievement on earth. To defend and strengthen such a
crucial Divine institution, more than 70 percent of the
companions of the prophet (peace be upon him) needed to
sacrifice their lives.
The best model for the mankind
Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la has labelled His last prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the best model (us'watun
hasana) for the whole mankind for all times to come. More
than 100 thousands prophets came to this world, but why such
a special position for the last prophet (peace be upon him)?
For such an exceptional adoration, there are sufficient
understandable reasons. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him)'s distinctiveness from all other prophets lies in his
great success as a state and civilisation builder. He was a
complete man: laying foot-steps for others to follow in
every field of life. In annals of human history, there is no
shortage of people who could utter wonderful nice words on
equality, justice, human rights and higher values; but none
of them could put their words into practice. Prophet
Muhammad (peace be upon) is the only exception who could
transform his words into actions; hence could produce
enormous benefits for the mankind. He could build a powerful
state and its institutions to continue implementing those
principles. This is the reason that prompted even a
Christian scholar like Michel Hart to put Prophet Muhammad
(peace be upon him)'s life on the top of his selected one
hundred best people of the whole human history -as he did in
his famous book "The 100". Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him) is the only person who could lay the foundation of a
trans-ethnic civilizational state; and framed its judiciary,
administration and the welfare system based on equality and
justice. In his state, no one was discriminated on the basis
of skin colour, race, language or social identity. He raised
Islam not only as a faith, but also as the most powerful
civilising force that could mould people's belief, culture,
law and warfare according to the Divine guidance. There
exist many civilisations like the Western, the Chinese, the
Hindu and the Japanese ones; but none of these are based on
the Divine guidance. All these civilisations are based on
the ancient pagan or some idiosyncratic notions on the
creation of the world, the universe, laws, lives, states,
societies, castes and others.
Since Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) or Prophet Jesus
(peace be upon him) couldn't build any state either, the
Jews and the Christians stand in darkness vis-à-vis guidance
on state building and running its judiciary, warfare or
administration. So, like any other unguided ignorant humans,
the followers of Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) and
Prophet Jesus (peace be upon him) invented scores of wrong
and evil ideologies to add more disastrous havocs on earth.
So, the Judo-Christian world could easily turn into fertile
breeding grounds for racism, slavery, nationalism, fascism,
Nazism, capitalism, colonialism, communism, imperialism and
other highly toxic ideologies. These could cause horrific
mayhem by causing wars of occupation, colonisation, ethnic
cleansing, slave trading and mass scale hijacking of
non-white people of Asia and Africa to feed their slave
markets. They could also set a new high of barbarity by
installing gas chambers, making holocausts, creating World
Wars and dropping nuclear bombs. In the name of culture,
heritage and religious festivals, they could blend the
ancient pagan beliefs and practices of the Greek and the
Roman with the corrupt perception of Christianity and
Judaism.
The infrastructure of failure
Civilisation can't be built on a small patch of tribal or
national landscape; it requires a much bigger trans-national
and trans-ethnic territory. So, tribalism and nationalism
have no place in Islam[FK1] ; they are the serious obstacles
in the way of Islam. Hence, it is a civilizational need to
abolish the restrictive tribal, ethnic or national
boundaries. So, the early Muslims didn't make any delay in
dismantling the tribal, geographical or linguistic walls of
separation. They needed to reclaim the occupied lands of
Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la from His enemies' illegal
occupation. So, they quickly went far beyond the boundary of
Arabian Peninsula. But the priority of the leaders of a
national and tribal state is different; they do research for
discovering even the faintest fault line of tribal or ethnic
divisions among people and fortify the divisions. They
totally ignore the Qur'anic decree that such division is
haram (forbidden) in Islam. Due to these self-serving
deviant leaders, the Islam's heart land in the Middle East
is divided into more than 20 tribal states. Thus, they have
successfully blocked the growth of a pan-Islamic core Muslim
state.
Now the Muslims do not need any infidel enemies to stop
their emergence. The leaders of the tribal and national
states are enough to do that. They provide the perfect
recipe for further failure and catastrophe. They have forged
close coalition with the enemies who in the recent past have
dismantled the khilafa and mutilated the Muslim heart land
into pieces. Because of them, the US, the French, the
British and the Russian bomber jets now enjoy full freedom
to bomb any Muslim city they wish. Due to these opportunist
rulers, the civilizational growth of the Muslim ummah meets
the total failure. Although they could create 57 tribal or
nation states, but failed very badly to build a single core
civilizational state. This is indeed not only a failure;
rather, it is the deliberate betrayal of the assigned
responsibility. In fact, here lies the core pathology of all
political, cultural, ideological and civilizational collapse
of the Muslim world.
In the whole length of human history, Islam is the only
religion that could successfully purge the ancient pagan
ignorance from the statecraft, religious rituals and
culture; and could raise a civilisation exclusively based on
the Divine laws and guidance. Instead of pagan culture and
heritage, they gave birth to new culture of monotheism,
trans-ethnic brotherhood, jihad and self-sacrifice. Hence,
the distinctive superiority of Islamic civilisation does not
rest merely on its beautiful grand mosques, minarets,
cities, gardens, public baths, dresses, costumes, potteries,
literature and arts. Rather, the most defining features are
the rule of Divine laws (sharia), nourishing cultures,
enlightening education, ethnic tolerance and the universal
cosmopolitanism. They could conquer many countries, but
unlike others they didn't cause holocausts or ethnic
cleansing in any of the non-Muslims countries for making
space exclusively for them. They preferred to remain as
religious minorities in those newly conquered countries for
hundreds of years -as seen in the Balkans, Spain, Africa and
India. Therefore, the Islamic civilisation of the past still
stays unique and unparalleled in the whole human history. It
was only possible because of a huge Islamic Caliphate which
took part in the humanising cum civilisation building works
with its massive infrastructure and state institutions. Now,
the Muslims are deprived of such a state. Instead, they now
possess more than 50 corruptive, divisive and dehumanising
tribal or national states. These states could generate a
perfect infrastructure only for failures. [November 5]
