Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Opiate of the masses?

Ramadan during the time of the Prophet (saw), the Sahaba (ra) and the early generations was often a time in which the Ummah had to fight battles to liberate lands from the oppression and tyranny of man made laws, to protect the honour and lives of persecuted Muslims.

These days, Ramadan is only talked about in the context of fasting, praying, reading Quran and donating to charities. The comprehensive ideology of Islam is being reduced in peoples minds to an ascetic religion of apologists and pacifists, also known as "moderates". A religion in which they lie that the word 'Zakah' is charity, even though the Prophet (saw) made it a tax and NOT charity. A religion in which they use twisted words to suggest that Jihad, especially "greater jihad" is the battle against the self even though the term Jihad in the context of Quran and Sunnah frequently refers to fighting wars with swords and arrows; in fact in the Quran, the term 'Qitaal' is also used, which is even more explicit.

The ideology (complete deen) of Islam can lift the scourge of misery that the Ummah currently faces; whether it is genocide in Burma and Central African Republic, or the occupation of Palestine, or the drone bombings against Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan etc. On the other hand, the "religion" of Islam is merely an opiate of the masses.

TMQ 2:217 They ask thee concerning fighting in the Prohibited Month. Say: "Fighting therein is a grave (offence); but graver is it in the sight of Allah to prevent access to the path of Allah, to deny Him, to prevent access to the Sacred Mosque, and drive out its members." Tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter. Nor will they cease fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can. And if any of you Turn back from their faith and die in unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein.

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Elle est Charlie

After the Paris March became old news and the dumb selfies holding up pens are long forgotten; suddenly, defending #freespeech and "the right to offend" aren't looking so trendy right now. Welcome to the face of what Charlie Hebdo truly represented- not looking like such a pretty picture anymore is it?



Thursday, 26 February 2015

At war with Islam

The pic is my response to the following quote from US president Obama "The notion that the West is at war with Islam is an ugly lie," Obama said. "And all of us, regardless of our faith, have a responsibility to reject it."

You don't have to look far to see who is coming out with the "ugly lie". Obama's response to last year's Gaza massacres (that Israel "has a right to defend itself") was enough to give carte blanche to the IDF who went on to bomb schools, hospitals, homes, even fields (to destroy the crops) and has since prevented building materials and medical supplies from being sent in. On top of that, Obama (knowing full well that these massacres were deliberately targeting thousands of innocent women and children) went on to supply the IDF with even more weapons when their supplies ran low. This is not an isolated case either but in fact a pattern of atrocities that appears across the Muslim world.

Saturday, 10 January 2015

Je ne suis pas Charlie

This post has not been made as an endorsement of the recent Paris shooting. This post has been made to highlight the media double standards used to manipulate the public to view Muslims in a bad light, especially Muslims who do not advocate such disgusting so called "free speech". If you find this image offensive, then bear in mind the images published by Charlie Hebdo were FAR more offensive than this in their depiction of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as they depicted him undressed with genitalia on display.

Friday, 26 December 2014

Who destroyed Jamal's house?

WHO DESTROYED JAMAL'S HOUSE?
(Part 1)

This was the house that Jamal built.

This was the bulldozer that knocked down the house
that Jamal built.

This was the man who operated the bulldozer that
knocked down the house that Jamal built.

This was the order given by the Yehudi "authorities"
to the man who operated the bulldozer to knock down
the house that Jamal built.

These are the weapons of the Yehudi "authorities" that
keep them in power to give the order to the man who
operated the bulldozer to knock down the house that
Jamal built.

This is the British and American government that
supply the weapons of the Yehudi "authorities" that
keep them in power to give the order to the man who
operated the bulldozer to knock down the house that
Jamal built.

Understand what this means? Where do Muslims fit into this equation
at the moment? Well, I'll go into that in part two
inshallah.


WHO DESTROYED JAMAL'S HOUSE- PART 2

I could continue discussing this same scenario, by
outlining how Muslims have used haram methods thinking
that their actions would be of 'benefit' to the Ummah.
For example, I could go on to say:

"This is the vote that the Muslims gave to George Bush
who supplies the weapons of the Yehudi "authorities"
to keep them in power to give the order to the man who
operated the bulldozer to knock down the house that
Jamal built."

In which case, such Muslims are partly responsible for
their role in participating in the Kufr system because
voting in Kufr elections is haram, whether it is done
for benefit or not. Muhammad (saw) said:

"Allah does not punish the general public because of
the wrong doing of specific people until they see the
evil (committed) among them while able to stop it and
they do not. If they do that, Allah will punish the
specific people and the general public".

He (saw) considered that if a people follow someone
who rules with kufr and accept it, then the people are
partner to that sin as he (saw) says:

"Whoever accepted what they did and submitted to that,
then he would not be safe from the sin".

The whole purpose of writing this is twofold: one is
to illustrate that Jamal is not the only Muslim
involved in this story. This story is not about one
person, it is about the state of the Ummah as a whole,
that one Muslim can go through this, while others vote
and support the very system that caused Jamal to be
oppressed in this way.

The other reason for writing this is to illustrate
what the real problem is for the Ummah. The problem
for Jamal as well as most Muslims in the world, is not
a lack of resources. The Ummah is blessed with
resources of all kinds. Jamal's problem is not
homelessness. I recall one charity asking "how will
we house all these people?" when a block of flats were
destroyed in Palestine. The problem for those
residents was not lack of housing, before the
bulldozers arrived THEY HAD HOUSES!

The problem is the very system the people are living
under is kufr. The palestinians have housing and
food, but the Yehud have spent years destroying it and
keeping it away from them. The most obvious
conclusion to draw from this is that the problems of
people such as Jamal will not be solved by sending
food and building another house. It can be knocked
down as quickly as the previous one, besides, the
initial problem is not housing, it is the inherently
corrupt kufr system that operates to oppress the
Ummah. Get rid of the kufr system that caused this
problem, then Jamal's symptomatic problem of
homelessness would not have started in the first
place.

The kufr system was responsible for destroying Jamal's
house, as were the people, Muslim and non Muslim who
accept and/ or support such a system. The Islamic
system is the only system that can solve this problem
from the roots.

If the Muslims spend all their time lobbying the
oppressors themselves, or trying to rebuild the
demolished houses, the system responsible for the
homelessness and oppression will still be in place and
the Ummah's charity work in the hope of alleviating
these symptoms will never end, because the cause of
the problem is still there. If the cause of the
problem is not tackled, the Ummah will never attain
the Khilafah, the only possible solution. The only
solution that would rid the Ummah of the problem
itself and it's symptoms inshallah. This should be
the aim of the Muslims of today.

Islam is the deen, the way of life, not just a mere
religion. Just as Muslims are commanded to pray and
fast, the Ummah also have to implement Islam in
society. How is a Muslim supposed to flog a drinker
or escape the traps of riba whilst in poverty when
there is no Islamic system implemented in society to
protect the Muslims from oppression and sin? Islam
NEVER advocates "democracy", "capitalism" or other
ideologies to take it's place in ruling. As Muhammad
(saw) said:

"Whoever brings in our matter (deen) that which is not
part of it, it is rejected"

As the Quran says:

"And rule among them by what Allah has revealed and
follow not their desires away from the Truth which has
come to you" TMQ- Al Maida:48

Read the above ayah carefully. Notice it says to rule
by what Allah (swt) has revealed. Well face it, Allah
(swt) did not reveal capitalism or democracy as a
method to implement the deen. Democracy, like any
form of kufr, is just another method disuading Muslims
from living their lives according to Islam. The kufar
know they cannot disuade us from Islam completely, but
in some matters, they try to corrupt Muslims by
claiming that we can allow some forms of kufr in some
aspects of our lives. Allah (swt) says in the Quran:

"And rule among them by what Allah has revealed and
follow not their desires and beware that they might
seduce you from some of what Allah has revealed to you" TMQ Al Maidah:49

(Something I wrote back in 2001- permission to share/copy paste)