Re: A GREAT Loss (Are you involved)
Brother STP:
I am not any scholar nor I am well versed in Islamic knowledge. I am just a faulty sinner muslim who sometimes even misses a lot of faraaidh in his daily life.
I can tell you briefly what I have understood and what Allah has made me understood about the matter in my struggle to get the knowledge about this matter.
Please, bear with me if it gets long for I am going to write whatever comes in my mind at this point. May Allah forgive me for any mistake I make Insha Allah. Aameen.
First, I strongly believe that the Muslim Ummah is suffering in these times because we are under a punishment from Allah. Why do I say that? Simple. I refer back to Quran which tells me that Wa Iz Qaalaa Rabboka Lil Malaaikate Inni Jaa’iLun fil ARrd-e-Khalifah that is *Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: “I will create a vicegerent on earth.” *
And there is no place in the whole world where we can show the model of Allah’s Law/Kingdom. We have forgotten our collective mission of Qaaim’am BiL Qist. This is our faith that without Allah’s permission, no super power can harm us but that faith is often dictated by logic and too often get rejected in the frame of reality. Know that, the punishment we are under in, is also there because of the Permission of Almighty…
Quaid-e-Azam had said: **We need Pakistan because we want to show this world, a working model of Islamic Principles of Freedom, brotherhood and equality. **The same was the idea of Iqbal Rehmaullah.
Whereas, we look at the current situation and realize how the super powers of this world DO NOT want a Islamic Sharia’ System to be implemented anywhere in the world. There are mass number of public with same mindset behind these forces and this is the same thing that Iqbal has said in Iblees’s tongue:
As’r-e-Haazir kaY Taqaazaa’oN saY hai, laikin yeh KhoF
Ho naa jaaye Aashkaaraa Shara’-e-Peghambar kaheeN?
The fear among these forces is that the must conclusion of Jaa’ Al Haq is nothing but wa zahaq Al baatiL… In Arabian Peninsula, Jaa’ Al Haq wa Zahaq al BaatiL was created about 1400 years ago because Allah had said Innal Baatilaa kaanaa Zahooqa. But, how can it be achieved now? This is THE MILLION dollar question that we are discussing…
Here comes your understanding of Jihaad Bil Hikmah…
But where to get this Hikmah from? Are we going to look back French Revolution, which only changed the Political Structure without touching upon the SOCIAL or RELIGIOUS structure of the society? Or we will consider Russian Balshwek (sp?) Revolution of 1917, which only changed the Economical Structure?
Or rather we want a Revolution in the whole Politico-Socio-Economic Structure? That can only be done through the implementation of DEEN of Allah on the land… and that Revolution is brought only once in the history of the World and it was by Prophet:saw2:…
It means Hikma will come from the Way of Prophet:saw2: for these matters and as Imaam Maalik (RA) has said: The Last part of this Ummah will not be Corrected but the way the First part of this Ummah was.
If we do not implement the correct Hikmah, then our example will be like:
Nishaan-e-Raah dikhaataY thaY jo sitaaroN ko
Taras gaye haiN kissi mard-e-raah daaN kaY liye
So in order to bring changes and extract the Hikmah, one must look into the Uswa-e-Rasool:saw2: Laqad kaanaa lakum Fi Rasoolilaahe uswatun hasanah. That is In the Life of the prophet:saw2: is the best example to follow BUT there are THREE(3) conditions to follow: Liman kaanaa Yarjullaaha wal Youm Al aakhira wa zakarallaaha Katheeraa. : meaning the beneficiary of the Uswa-e-Hasana are those who 1) look forward to meet their Lord. 2) Believe in the day of Judgement, 3) Those who remember Allah in abundance.
I think it is going to be long so I will summarize the rest in next few lines:
Based on the above introduction, if we look at the life of prophet:saw2: … He presented:
1) Mission statement first (Say there is no worthy of worship but Allah and you will succeed) … For this, he (SAW) tried every medium from going to individual-to-individual to Mountain of Safa to Taaif to festival of Ukaaz, etc.
Mission statement followed:
**2) Disciplined Organization.. **Therefore, we see very few people coming into the fold of Islam but they were very well disciplined.
3) Training … the training of those few sahaaba was done on the basis of Sam’enaa wa Ata’anaa as poet as said:
Hum bhee Tasleem kee Khu daalaiN geY
Bay niyaazi teri aadat hee saheeh!!!
This is not easy because EGO comes in between… This is where training must be based on the “Jazba-e-Qurbaani” … as Iqbal has said:
Tu bachaa bachaa kay naa rakh issaY, tera aainah hai woh aainah
kaY shikastaa ho tau azeez tar hai, nigaah-e-aainah saaz maiN!
4) Passive Resistance … the first 13 years of Makkah were the toughest where Quranic Command of Kuffo be ayedikum that is Tie your hands was there and there was no conflict but WORKING on individual on their training and character building.
5) Active Resistance … was in Madinah when Sirayaa were launched… these were “Chaapaa maar” groups blocking the economic pathway of the Makkans.. (This stage is normally very critical because the timing has to be CORRECT otherwise, in either case, it will bear no fruit…)
it lead to the the almost final stage of the revolution:
6) Armed Conflict … Started from the battle of Bad’r … and the rest we know the history..
This all has one fundamental behind and that is Tawheed.. as Iqbal said:
Zindah quwat thee zamaanaY maiN yeh Tawheed kabhi
aur abb kiyaa hai? faqat ik masla-e-Ilm-e-Kalaam!
This is the hikmah I understoodafter reading the seerah, quran and from various scholars and I may be completely wrong in my understanding but I know ONE thing and I am not wrong in saying that:
Sarwari Zeba Faqat Uss Zaat-e-Bay Hamta ko hai
HukumraaaN hai ik wohi, baaaqi butaaan-e-zaree
will come and Khilafah will be established again so why work for it…