Some may find Hazrat's tone a bit harsh but he is one of the great Hanafi Ulamah and I am glad that we have someone in our times who is prepared speak for Islam!
18 Rabiuth Thaani 1433 – 12 March 2012
The honourable Shaikh Al-Maiqily, one of the Imaams of Musjidul Haraam in Makkah Muazzamah will be visiting South Africa on 19 March 2012. The Shaikh will be visiting a few Musaajid and most probably will be leading the Salaat.
The first issue to take note of is that in all probability the Sheikh will be a musaafir. The Imaams from Saudi Arabia generally perform the full four raka’ts. Therefore, the Salaat of the Hanafi Muqtadis will not be valid behind him should he be performing four raka’ts instead of two.
It is not a secret that the Imaams of the Haramain Shareef when visiting countries do so in the capacity as ambassadors of the faasiq Saudi Arabian regime. The honourable Sheikh is not on a holiday or sight-seeing mission. He is an express messenger of the Saudi regime. It is no secret that the objective of the Saudi regime is to extend its hegemony over the Muslims of the world. Whilst the hegemony of a single Muslim ruler (the Khalifah) over the entire Ummah of the world is a fundamental political and religious requisite of Islam, the Saudi king totally lacks the Shar’i qualification for such a lofty position.
If the Saudi king had been an Islamically qualified man, the entire Ummah of the world would gladly have submitted and would have offered allegiance to him. Unfortunately, the Saudi king is plodding the path of dhalaal (deviation) and has drifted far, very far from Siraatul Mustaqeem. In fact, his direction is the antithesis of Islam. However, in view of seeking to extend his hegemony over the Muslim nation of the world in the name of Islam, he has become a mudhil (one who leads Muslims astray from Siraatul Mustaqeem).
It is not a secret that Saudi Arabia is the slave of the U.S.A. The king being the surrogate of America is currently holding about 40,000 Muslims, including numerous Ulama, in his detention facilities where torture is a confirmed measure of the Saudi authorities. These horrendous crimes are committed by command of the U.S.A.
The list of Saudi crimes is long and heart-rending. It actively aids the U.S.A. in the furtherance of American plots against Islam and the Ummah. Thus, Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in the kufr interfaith movement which is in negation of Islam’s Da’wah Movement. Whilst the king proclaims himself to be Khaadimul Haramain (The Servant of the Two Holy Cities), his whole life and policies of government are in diametric conflict of a man who is supposed to be holding this lofty pedestal.
There is nothing in the Saudi king for Muslims to be proud of. He is viewed by the vast majority of the Ummah as an American lackey, a Zaalim (Oppressor) and a liability to the Deen. The honourable Imaam, Shaikh Al-Maiqily’s visit to South Africa should be viewed in the light of the aforementioned background. We are not asking Muslims to disrespect the Sheikh. However, it is a grave error to host the Sheikh and to ask him to lead the Salaat in the Musaajid.
It is an established fact that the Saudi regime does not attach itself to any of the Four Math-habs. In fact, they are anti-Math-hab. As such, by giving him prominence, Muslims here are displaying short-sightedness. They will be aiding the Salafi movement which Saudi Arabia is promoting. In terms of the beliefs of the Salafis, Muslims who follow the Math-habs, especially Hanafis, are kaafirs. However, the current atmosphere does not permit them to openly proclaim that we all are kaafirs. Salafis and Shiahs have in common the doctrine of Taqiyah (Holy hypocrisy) which condones, in fact promotes lies to conceal their true beliefs from the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama’ah which is confined to the Four Math-habs in this age.
Salafis claim that our beliefs are akin to shirk and in conflict with Tauheed. But the political scenario in the world does not permit them to honestly declare their fatwa of kufr against Hanafis in particular.
By hosting the Saudi sheikhs, Muslims are undermining the Deen. While the freelancing methodology of the Salafis may be appealing to modernists who loathe the fetters which Allah’s Deen imposes on Muslims, the Ulama are expected to act with circumspection and not to embark on any action which undermines Taqleed of the Aimmah-e-Mujtahideen.
We must admonish and warn the Ulama to exercise restraint and not to fall into the snare of material and monetary gains offered by the Saudi regime in lieu of allegiance. Perks in the form of free Hajj tickets, 5 star accommodation, visas, cash, etc. are, sad to say, tempting to many sheikhs and molvis of this age. For the acquisition of such perks, some Ulama are prepared to barter away the Haqq by hosting the ambassadors of Saudi Arabia and promoting its objectives.
The Madaaris should exercise extreme caution in this matter. When a Madrasah hosts a Salafi or an ambassador of the corrupt, treacherous Saudi regime, the students are deflected from the Haqq. Salafi’ism will simply be regarded as not only another math-hab, but as the math-hab to follow. The nafs always inclines to ease and detests the chains of the Shariah. Many of these divinely imposed chains of the Math-habs are unshackled by Salafi’ism.
The shallow-mindedness of some Ulama is indeed lamentable. Despite being aware of the oppression, brutality and torture committed by America in the Lands of Islam – in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. – they feel no qualms about hosting a representative of a regime which aids and abets the U.S.A. to the hilt in the perpetration of its horrors on large segments of the Ummah. That Saudi Arabia is openly in collaboration with the U.S.A., is no secret. That Saudi Arabia extracted from a panel of establishment Ulama a fatwa to cloak the American invasion and destruction of Iraq with Shar’i acceptability and respectability, is not a secret. In all the haraam and brutal adventures of the U.S.A., Saudi Arabia has been its supporter. It is the duty of Muslims to clearly inform the Saudi authorities, their representatives (the Saudi Embassy) and their ambassadors such as the honourable Imaam of Musjidul Haraam, that Muslims view with concern and abhorrence the Saudi marriage with the U.S.A. The time is not far that this very master of Saudi Arabia (the U.S.A.) will be the cause for the dismantling of Saudi Arabia. The West has created Saudi Arabia and the West will destroy it.
The Saudi ambassador should be made aware of the disgust of the South African Muslim Ummah on the issue of the total destruction of all Islamic and holy relics in the Haramain Shareefain. Whilst all relics and historical signs of Islam have been demolished and the demolition is still in progress, the palace of the Yahudi, Ka’b bin Ashraf has been left intact by the command of America via UNESCO. The palace of the Yahidi is an ‘historical monument’ for the kuffaar, hence the Saudi regime has been ordered to retain it and treat it as such. On the other hand, the sacred homes of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam), of the Sahaabah and many other holy relics have been destroyed.
Another disgraceful feature of the Hajj landscape, to which the attention of the honourable Shaikh should be drawn, is the filthy, immodest, western-style standing urinals in Mina and Muzdalifah for the Hujjaj. Whilst it is haraam for Muslims to urinate standing like asses for no valid reason, the Saudis are increasingly westernizing the already totally commercialized Hajj. These vile urinals are polluting the sacred aura and spirit which should accompany the important act of Hajj. Whilst the totally westernized brains of the Saudi king will not comprehend the abhorrence of the standing urinals, perhaps the Imaam will. In all likelihood the Imaam may be unaware of the existence of the abhorrent contraptions. His attention should be drawn to this very important issue. When the last Saudi Sheikh had visited South Africa, we had prepared a letter for him. However, the South African poodle attached to the Saudi embassy had refused to hand the letter to the Imaam.
For the sake of the Deen, it is incumbent on the trustees of all Musaajid to refuse the requests of the Saudi embassy for hosting the honourable Sheikh.
