Dear brothers and sisters, if you have read my posts you would have come to realise what islam is all about. I would try and condense that just for reminder.
Islam is all about turning us all from worst than animals to humans for our own good.
Just search for meaning of word islam. It means peace, peace in what sense ie what defines this word? The quran and what is quran? The divine constitution for islam=peace and prosperity of mankind to form a human society on its basis as a one single family working hard for all of its members so that it is at peace within itself.
The question is, what is definition of a constitution or what purpose it is supposed to serve and how it is structured or laid out and what it ought to contain?
We know islam means peace ie Allah set for us a purpose in life and that purpose is living in peace and ensuring others too are living in peace. Since peace cannot be achieved by an individual on his own therefore need for inviting everyone to come and join. This is struggle for peace and this is jihad for peace=islam.
Now if people come together on basis of peace or for the purpose of peace then they need to organise into a community or society. If that is the case then we will need terms and conditions for unity and rules and regulations as well as rights and responsibilities so that we each who have joined this big human organisation for creating peace in the world could keep our relationships with each other on equal and understood footing so that there is peace between ourselves to begin with. We cannot have peace in the world if we are fighting between ourselves as to what islam is or what is part of islam and what is not. Therefore such an important basis or foundation could not be left out of the quran to people because people would not know what to do, especially 15 centuries back. Though quran tells us God told people same message right from the start. So people who think quran is mullahs mumbo jumbo need to wake up because how do you explain the very concept promoted by the quran that the constitution is supreme? This is why law and order and economic and everything related is discused in the quran within quranic context. Our problem is that we do not bother to read the quran for understanding but for useless point scoring against each other trying to show we are superior to each other just like kids fighting in the playground. Unless we realise that we must read the quran to see what it might have to tell us we are just not going to get its message rather we are going to see in it what we want.
Regardless if we want to be a community then we also need an administration so that all of us and our resources are managed in such a way by this administration that it helps us achieve our set out goal ie peace. Moreover peace is not possible unless we meet our all essential needs and additional desires within set limits of human progress and prosperity.
This means we need each other’s cooperation, help and support and so our organisation is a kind of supportive network for us whereof we should be able to derive our strength as a one big family working very, very for betterment and development of each other.
Now read the so called DROOD verse in the quran 33/56.
It is telling us that Allah and the administration=authorised people support the prophet in his divine mission=goal so you too the believers in the mission support the prophet as you ought to.
Can you see what the quran is telling us? It is not about sitting idle doing nothing useful just uttering some magic words and thinking you have done a lot of help to the mission of the prophet. This is how ignorant and arrogant enemies of islam have turned us into useless people. We have become just zabaani kalaami muslims ie mazhabi muslims, who think islam is all about saying some words and that is it.
Please try to understand the actual message of the quran by making some effort towards it. The quran’s main stress is that it is constitution for organising people into a good community that is peaceful, progressive and prosperous.
This means quran ought to be a book of goals, rights and responsibilities, rules and regulations, procedures for setting up administration and running it and changing it etc etc. This is what I find in the quran which our mullahs have covered up for obvious reasons that if islam is taken as ruler in form of laws then all people will be under the law ie living by same standard for all. This is why kings and their mullahs changed islam in to mumbo jumbo and if anyone stood in their way, they killed him ie try and understand killing of grandsons of the prophet so soon after his death.
So quran clearly states aims and objectives, terms and conditions, rules and regulations, rights and responsibilities, systems, structures and procedures and practices etc etc regarding forming communities and administrations so we have nothing essential left out of the quran to fight over.
You ask any molvi sb tell us how to organise and run our organisation according to quran, he will tell you there is nothing in the quran about it. This is because either molvi is a mullah type or has not yet thought about it. He is just following what he learned from his childhood and remains childish. The quran is not for babies but for grown up people ie people who enable themselves to be able to understand its message. A street map is only useful for people who can read the map. You cannot give it to a baby and ask him to guide with it himself and others. The very same is situation with mullahs, they are bunch of uneducated people trying to control others like bully kids do to other kids in the playground.
So wake up! wake up! my dear brothers and sisters and start thinking that if quran does not tell you how to organise as a human society then what purpose does it really serve? Nothing because human organisation is the fundamental problem for humanity and if the quran had ignored this very essential part then it would be a useless book not a book of wisdom from the all knowing.
This is where in come people like sir syed, iqbal, jinnah, parwez and many others. It is educated peoples’ understanding of the quran versus uneducated peoples understanding of the quran.
The difference is obvious that whereas educated muslims try to unite people in the name of islam, the mullahs are busy dividing them.
This is why we need education and not weapons for islamic imperialism. Jihad in islam is all about promoting islam and defending it. It is not at all about killing and destruction of humanity but to make man see his rightful place in this world of Allah as his servant who lives to serve fellow human beings in his name.
So islamic economic system is based upon this concept and it is discussed in the quran throughout ie man is not allowed to take over anything at all as his but as a servant of Allah all Allah has created belong to him if he uses it for the betterment of the whole mankind. In other words Allah allowed people only the use of things for people for their own good and not at all for use and abuse of each other. This is termed in the quran as BAEE and RIBAA and one is opposite of others. Allah allows trade not in sense of business for profit but exchanging things for the benefit of each other. If it is business for the profit then it comes under unlawful because in that case the basic intention of benefiting others is missing because the main incentive in there is profit not the sense of trying to provide something for someone because it will be good for him/her. You do not put profit before your family members ie you do not talk business because that is your family. if you put profit before you family then you are worse than animals. So that should make clear what is meant by trade in the quran.
The mullah created definition of profit and interest is totally wrong and out of context. Their mistake lies in their understanding of word trade. It simply means division of labour in muslim society like a family ie you do shopping for family, I clean the house for it, someone makes food for the family and someone looks after the kids and someone does this and someone that. The administration has a job to do in order to keep family regulated and progressive and prosperous ensuing there is no disturbance of peace in the family/community.
So the ideas islam gives in the quran are very simple as well as very complex. It is people with harmful and destructive interests against humanity that deliberately fuel misinterpretations of the quran and misrepresent it and thereby take advantage of those who are uneducated or not sufficiently educated.
So if we want to stop bad elements of our human society then we need to join together and not let such mentally ill people do to us what they are doing by fooling us in the name of making world a better place. The quran clearly deals with such people right in the beginning by exposing them to us ie actions speak louder than word. They say we are peace makers but they end up creating wars. The quran tells us be careful regarding such devils.
The question is, how to change the system? Very easy ie educate people that they are one family ie brotherhood. If they accept they are one family then things can be initiated over night for change. So the difficult bit is to unity of humanity on a formula that is equally acceptable to all. So if we are not worst than animals then we should not go for anything that shows from our actions that we are worst than all creatures. It is because no other creature can be as destructive or as constructive as ourselves.
We all come from families therefore if we accept that we are a family then we already have a perfectly working model for us to design our systems and structures upon ie we need to do is to make it all inclusive.
regards and all the best.