Ummah’s Fall and Disgrace- The Problem Is Not The Kuffaar |
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There is no
gainsaying that the Muslim Ummah of this era is a fallen and downtrodden
people wallowing in disgrace and misery. This miserable condition of the
Ummah is up for public display. Self-appointed physicians are trying to
diagnose the ills of this Ummah and prescribe remedies and solutions. But
these physicians, themselves corrupt and part of the disease, have no
understanding of the problem, hence the solutions they offer for the cure
of the Ummah’s maladies of disgrace, weakness and cowardice, are
completely ineffective. When they lack understanding of the problem and
the malady, how can they correctly prescribe? Their erroneous diagnosis
followed by harmful remedies serve to only complicate the already
humiliating situation of the Ummah. OBLIQUE
VISION
The squint-
eyed self- appointed physicians, looking at the ills of the Ummah with
their oblique vision, have diagnosed the malady of the Ummah to be the
superior technology of the kuffaar. In view of the superiority of the
kuffaar’s technology and sophistication in every sphere of mundane life,
the misguided doctors of the Ummah have concluded that the tyranny and
oppression of the kuffaar (the U.S.A., Britain, Israel, and the West in
general) are the cause of the misery of the Muslim community world- wide.
But this diagnosis is seriously flawed. In fact, it is utterly baseless
and in conflict with the Qur’aan Majeed’s and the Ahadith’s
diagnosis and with the remedy which Allah Ta’ala and His Rasool (sallallahu
alayhi wasallam) have prescribed for the Ummah when it finds itself
suffering from the present type of cancer. DIVINE
MANIFESTATION
The kuffaar
with all their superior technology and sophistication are the creations of
Allah Azza Wa Jal. Those who attribute the disgrace and misery of
today’s Ummah to the kuffaar are unable to understand that the kuffaar
domination over the Ummah and their oppression of Muslims are the
symptoms, not the causes of our malady. Those Muslims
who emulate and follow the kuffaar lack the intelligence to comprehend
that kuffaar domination and the havoc it wroughts when it goes beserk in
the lands of the Muslims is similar to the effects and consequences of an
earthquake, volcano eruption, hurricane, flood or any other disaster
descending at the command of Allah Azza Wa Jal. Just as it is absurd and
utterly stupid to criticize and villify an earthquake which has caused its
havoc, so too is it Islamically irrational and downright stupid to blame
the U.S.A. and other kuffaar for the oppression, brutality and tyranny
which they are wroughting in the lands of Islam. The defective
thinking of Muslims and their baseless diagnosis and harmful solutions are
the product of a kind of mental derangement which allah Taa’la afflicts
the mind with as a form of punishment. In this regard the Qur’aan
states:
“
And He (Allah) casts filth on those who lack intelligence” (Aayat
100, surah Yunoos)
“….
Verily there has settled upon you from your Rabb rijs (filth) and ghaadhab
(wrath)…” (Aayat 71, Surah An’raaf)
“
Similarly does Allah afflict with rijs (filth) those who lacks Imaan….”
(Aayat 125, Surah An’aam) On account of
this mental derangement caused by a Divine affliction on the minds of
those who have appointed the kuffaar as their guides, they are unable to
understand what ails the Ummah inspite of the clear directions and
unambiguous diagnosis offered by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). Kuffaar
domination is a manifestation of Allah’s Attribute of Wrath (Mazhar-e-Ghadhab)
in exactly the same was as an earthquake or a hurricane is a manifestation
of Allah’s Wrath. Such manifestations of Allah’s Ghadhab is punishment
for our trangression. When the transgrsseion exceeds all bounds and the
point of no return has been reached, Allah'’ Athaab descends on the
Ummah. Kuffaar domination is one such form of Allah’s Ghadhab.
Confirming this fact, the Qur’aan Majeed
states:
“…. We sent against you Our servants who were powerful in
warfare. Then they penetrated the homes (of the Believers). And that
(calamity of the kuffaar on you) was a promise decreed (by Allah).”
(Aayat 5 Bani Israaeel) …….”
(Then on the second occasion of the trangression)… they (the kuffaar
army) disfigured your faces and penetrated the Musjid (I.e.
Musjidul Aqsaa) and they utterly destroyed everything they overran.”
(Aayat 7 Bani Israaeel). The Qur’aan
puts it very clearly. There is no ambiguity in these verses. The message
is stated explicitly that on account of the then Muslim Ummah’s
transgression Allah Ta’als sent His punishment on the Muslims in the
form of kuffaar armies which overran Palestine, brutalized its people,
penetrated and defiled Musjidul Aqssa, and flattered everything in an orgy
of anarchy and seemingly senseless violence. But all these episodes of
misery were by the Command of Allah Ta’ala enacted as a punishment for
the Ummah of Bani Israaeel which was the Muslim community of that time. OUR SERVANTSThe
Qur’aanic description, ‘Servants unto Us” or “Our servants” is
very significant. Inspite of the kuffaar being the enemies of Allah
Ta’ala, the Qur’aan describes them in this aayat as being Allah’s
servants. There are two reasons for this description: (1)
They are the creation of Allah Ta’ala. (2)
In the context of this aayat they were constrained to act against
the Muslims by Divine Decree which is mentioned at the end of aayat No.6
of Bani Israaeel. Since Allah
Ta’ala had despatched the kuffaar army ( in the way He had despatched
the Western Coalition and Alliance of the U.S.A.) against the Muslims, the
Qur’aan refers to them as “Servants unto Us”. In other words these
kuffaar are manifestation of “Our Punishment”. Just as the
earthquakes, the rain, the wind, etc. are Allah’s servants and act in
accordance with His command, so too does Allah Ta’ala sometimes harness
the kuffaar as a manifestation of His Wrath to punish Muslims for their
rebellion and transgression. This is exactly what is happening today all
over the Muslim world. THE
PRESENT SCENARIO
The anarchy
and misery presently reigning in Palestine, the humility defeat of the
Taalibaan, the surrender and imprisonment of the Arab Mujaahideen
laguishing in cages in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and the brutal
Hindu repression and murder of thousands of Muslims in India, and the
defeats which Muslims are suffering on all fronts at the hands of the
kuffaar are adequately explained by the two Qur’aanic verses of Surah
Bani Israaeel (Aayat 5 and 7). Muslims are
defeated, not because of the superiority of the American military power
nor because the Taalibaan lacked air defences, etc. But purely on account
of the Ummah’s trangression
and violation of the sacred Pledge of Imaan. PALESTINE
Allah
Ta’ala had bestowed to the Palestinian Muslims a good few years of
peace. During the peace treaty with Isreal regardless of the humiliating
terms of the pact granting, them limited independence and self- rule, it
was a golden opportunity to consolidate themselves and prepare. But
without Deeni progress- without moral reformation and spiritual
development- it is inconceivable that Muslims can ever consolidate their
position and prepare themselves to meet the kuffaar head- on. EMULATION
Instead of
emulating the sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) and
turning to Islam, they went overboard in their emulation of the American
life- style was adopted in entirety. More and more dens of vice mushroomed
in Palestine. Musjidul Aqssa was neglected and starved of Musallis. Only
on Jumuah would the musjid fill up. But for the five daily Salaat, the
Musjid stood a silent witness shedding its tears and invoking la’nat on
the Muslims who were desecrating and defiling it with their absence and
their evil which they penetrated right within the environment of the
Musjid. The Deen was
increasingly driven out and displaced from the lives of the Muslim
Palestinians. In almost aspect, they emulated the very Yahood and
Christians whom they were supposedly fighting and who were proclaimed as
their enemies. THE
DIVINE TEST
In Surah Bani
Israaeel the Qur’aan speaks of the defeat, disgrace and destruction of
the Ummah at the hands of the kuffaar sent against the Muslims by Allah
Ta’ala. After Bani Israaeel was thoroughly humiliated and punished
severely with kuffaar brutality, they repented and made many promises of
reforming themselves. Allah
Ta’ala accepted their Taubah, and granted them victory over the kuffaar.
But Allah Ta’ala along with bestowing His mercy on them, warned them of
dire consequences should they again lapse into transgression. Thus the
Qur’aan Majeed states”
“Soon will your Rabb have mercy on you. However, if you return
(to your transgression), then We too will return (to our punishment.” (Aayat Bani
Israaeel) OPPORTUNITY
Generally the
punishment which Allah Ta’ala inflicts on Muslims in this world is not
the ultimate punishment designed to eliminate them. It is a lesser
punishment brought to jolt Muslims into realisation, taubah (repentence)
and inaabat (turning to Allah Ta’ala in obedience). The Qur’aan Majeed
states in this regard:
“We
did not send a Nabi to a city, but We afflicted its inhabitants (on
account of their rejection and transgression) with calamities and
hardships, so that they become humble.”
(Aayat 94 surah A’raaf)
“
Anarchy (and corruption) has appeared on the land and in the ocean because
of the (evil deeds) which the hands of people have earned, so that He
(Allah) causes them to taste (the consequences) of some of 9 their
mischief) which they had committed. Perhaps they will return (to the
obediance of Allah).” (Aayat 41 sura Room)
“And
We shall most assuredly afflict them with the lesser punishment before the
greater punishment, so that they return (to the obedience of Allah).”
(Aayat 21 Surah As-Sajdah) In the wake
of inordinate transgression comes Allah’s lesser punishment to jolt
people into realisation and to make them humble so that they submit to the
Shariah of Allah Ta’ala. But when they ignore this trial, Allah ‘s
Athaab settles on them permanently and effaces them. This was the fate of
great and powerful people and empires of the past. The same fate overtook
the the Empire and Ummah of Islam. Now in this era, Allah Ta’ala had
given some Muslim communities opportunities to reform themselves and turn
to Allah Ta’ala in submission. But the Palestinians turned their backs
on the golden opportunity which Allah Ta’ala had bestowed to them. PEACE
Their peace
pact with Israel had the ingredients of Rasulullah’s Treaty of
Hudaibiyyah. But they scattered it to the winds and they are today tasting
Allah’s punishment in the form of anarchy and misery stemming from the
brutality of Allah’s Servants” (the Qur’aanic description), the
kuffaar of Isreal. So utterly
demoralising and serve in this punishment on the Arabs that inspite of
their great numerical superiority (200 million Arabs compared to 3 million
Yahood), and inspite of their military superiority (the combined armies,
navies and airforces of a dozen or more countries), the Palestinians and
the whole Arab World lay prostrate in disgrace and defeat at the feet of
Israeli women. More than half of Israel’s armed forces consists of
women. Undoubtedly, the description which Allah Ta’ala Himself gives to
the kuffaar armies which He had despatched against the bygone Muslim Ummah,
i.e. the description of “Ulee ba’sin shadeed” (powerful in warfare)
fits the Israeli kuffaar. It now pays no dividends to hurl vituperation
against Israel. SELF-
CRITICISM
Rather, the
appropriate action in these circumstances will be self-appraisal, self-
criticism and shame for our own humiliation- that we have sunk to such
vile and pitiable levels of degradation and cowardice that, we whose
forefathers (the Sahaabah, Taabieen) had raised the Flag of Islam, on the
hilltops of the world and who had crushed the might of the Roman and
Christian empires, have become so important that we are unable to fight
and defeat a handful of Yahoodi girls. Shame on these disobedient servants
of Allah Ta’ala. We deserve the kuffaar spitting in our faces. When we,
ourselves, have become spineless, jelly-like cowards as a consequences of
Trampling on the Qur’aan Majeed and mocking the Divine Shariah with our
flagrant disobedience. We have no right to vilify those kuffaar whom Allah
Ta’ala has sent against us and whom He designated with the appelation,
“Servants unto Us”- to punish us, just as we have no right for
vituperation against an earthquake which strikes us as an act of Divine
punishment. Why? “ For perhaps you, O Believers, will get some sense,
open your eyes, return to Islam, repent and take up the Standard of Islam
and place it on the hilltops of the world from where kuffaar have torn it
off in disgrace and substituted it with their own flags of kufr. PAKISTAN
Allah
Ta’ala had presented on a platter a golden opportunity to Pakistan some
decades ago when this state was carved out from the Indian sub- continent.
The Pledge which ALL the Pakistanis (the religious and the irreligious),
had made at that time was that “ this land will be the Land of Islam in
which Allah’s Law and the Sunnah of His Rasool will reign supreme and
prevail.” BETRAYED
Both the
Ulama and the masses have violated and betrayed that sacred pledge. Today,
inspite of its military might and nuclear capability, Pakistan trembles
with fear over the noises which the Hindu idol-worshippers and the
dhotiwearers are making. It is utter disgrace. The shaitaani army of
Pakistan had all the ‘ courage’ and ‘power’ to brutalize their
Muslim Bengali bretheren when Bangladesh was still part of Pakistan. Then
Allah sent Hindu idol-worshippers to humble the Pakistan military. 90,000
Pakistani soldiers, fully armed bowed their heads in disgrace and laid
down their arms in a miserable and unparalleled episode of surrender at
the feet of the idol-worshippers. THE
TAALIBAAN
In this era
no one was given a better opportunity to raise the Flag of Islam than the
Taalibaan. It is cause for eternal regret and shedding of tears that they
had ignored this divine opportunity and have now tasted the consequences
thereof. Insha’ Allah, if Allah Ta’ala gives us the taufeeq and the
time, we shall deal wit this missed opportunity in a future issue of The
Majlis or Al- Haq. THE OPPORTUNITY When the
Sahaabah(ridhwaanullah alayhim ajma-een) were given the opportunity to
capture the kuffaar empires and to assert their political control and
domination over the lands of the kuffaar, they (the Sahaabah) acquitted
themselves admirably and honourably. We need not delve into their history.
Everyone, even the kuffaar, are aware of the noble and virtuous reign of
those noble and virtuous Sons of Islam. When Allah
Ta’ala bestows the opportunity of political sovereignty to a people, He
in fact, bestows to them the opportunity to establish Divine Justice (i.e.
the Shariah of Islam) and to raise the glory of His Word on this earth. He
then watches how we proceed in the wake of having been awarded political
control over a territorial region. The Qur’aan Majeed explicitly states:
“
He (Hadhrat Musaa- alayhis salaam) said (to his people): Soon will your
Rabb destroy your enemies and grant you sovereignty (or political power)
on earth. Then He (Alaah) will watch how you act on earth.”
(Aayat 129 Surah A’raaf) Bani Israaeel
(the Ummat-e-Muslimah of that time) – the enslaved, humiliated and
downtrodden people – were given the opportunity to rule. Their enemy
(Fir’oun with his army) was destroyed by Allah Ta’ala. bani Israaeel
was not required to even fight war against enemy. Allah Ta’ala directly
intervened and destroyed the kuffaar. When Bani Israaeel viloted the
scared Pladge and abused their political power, Allah Ta’ala eliminated
them and snatched away His bestowal of Political Power, and once again
reduced them to disposable objects for the kuffaar to handle and mishandle
at their pleasure. This is
the fate of the Muslim Ummah of this age. In the words of Nabi (Sallallahu
alayhi wasallam) we have become “the muck” which floods waters bring
down, and so we will remain until such time that we gain the intelligence
to cleanse ourselves of the spiritual muck which we have acquired from the
Western kuffaar. NO
THREAT
If Allah’s
aid is with us, the nuclear might and satellite technology and the vast
military arsenals of America, Britain, France and the kuffaar in general
pose absolutely no threat for an obedient and humble in their hearts and
obedient to the Shariah. The Qur’aan Majeed declares this truth and
issues the following ultimatum to the U.S.A. and to all kuffaar: “….”
And, never will your army avail you in any way whatsoever, inspite of its
numerical (and technological) superiority, for most assuredly, Allah is
with the Mu’mineen.” (Aayat
19 surah Anfaal). The
Mu’mineen refered to in this Aayat are such Mu’mineen who walk in the
shadow of the Sahaabah, not those who grovel at the feet of the kuffaar in
emulation of their kufr way of life. But at the
same time the Divine Association (ma-ayyat) stated in this Qur’aanic
verse is conditioned with obedience to the Shariah of Allah Ta’ala.
Hence, the Qur’aan Majeed says: “O
People of Imaan! If you aid (the Deen of Allah, He will aid you and plant
your feet firmly (against your enemies).” “And,
if Allah help you, then there is no one who can over- power you. But
should He withdraw His aid from you, then who is there besides Him to help
you?” Yes, who is
there to help Muslims when Allah Ta’ala has withdrawn His aid?
Withdrawal of His aid signifies disaster, disgrace and defeat for Muslims.
Our Taalibaan brethren had shifted their tawakkul to the U.S.A- to the
United Nations- to China- to the evil fassiq government of Pakistan. The
bitter fruits of such misdirected tawakkul (trust) and treachery have been
tasted by them and we all are still shedding tears and stunned by what we
thought would never happen. In their
dying moments, our brothers, the Taalibaan, were pleading with Allah’s
enemies- the communists of China- for missiles to knock out from skies the
warplanes of America. But this aid from the kuffaar was not forthcoming.
While they were pleading with kuffaar and clutching at miserable straws,
they entirely forgot that they had the power of Imaan and they had Allah
Ta’ala to aid them. But they missed that opportunity. May Allah Ta’ala
help us. May He once again give this Ummah an opportunity. May He wake up
this sleeping Giant- this Ummah- from its drunken stupor of disobedience
and kuffaar emulation. Perhaps this opportunity will come only with the
advent of Imaam Mahdi (alayhis salaam) and Hadhrat Nabi Isaa (alayhis
salaam). And, Allah knows best. MUJLISUL
ULEMA OF SOUTH AFRICA P.O. BOX 3393 Port
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