Summary of My Purpose, Once Again
I praise Allah SWT and send peace salutations on beloved Prophet.
I would like to live my like according to the way of life brought to us by our beloved Prophet (SAW).
From India to the rest of the world the environment is against it to varying degrees.
There is encroachment upon our personal space.
I would like that space back.
For myself, my family, friends and the whole of Muslim Ummah.
I also believe that it will be better for the mankind as a whole if the affairs of the world are managed according to the tenets of Islam.
I say it not because of a theory or imperical evidence but outrightly out of my faith for the way of life preferred by the Lord of the worlds will be vastly better than any way of life designed by us to the best of our abilities and perfection.
I also assert that out of so many interpretations of islam available to us the best is offered by the Elders and Scholars of Deoband.
Those who do not agree with us are of course free to do that. We do not impose our views on others.
But we would like to be left alone to live our life the way we prefer it.
The environment today is by and large Islamophobic and there are reasons for that.
We got to hold on to this info for the sheer complexity of political environment today is so complex that without paying enough attention to these bitter realities one is at the risk of being left completely clueless.
In India the environment is anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic for from 771Ac upto 1857 India was rules to smaller and larger extents by Muslims who were a numerical minority and Islam originated outside India and hence the majority still takes it as a foreign religion, an imposter.
In the rest of the world the environment is Islamophobic because that environment is largely decided by the western Christian mindset that has been anti-Islamic from the days of infancy of Islam. Though the west has to a very large extent moved away from Christianity but their mindset continues to be anti-Muslim and Islamic due to ideological inertia.
Muslims are by and large aware of both of these situations but they are too wary and scared to even state the truth. To ask for their rights, natural rights, would be the next step but that at the moment of writing is a much bigger problem.
There will be people wo now will argue that why aim for the impossible.
I am against them.
Every Friday sermon exhorts us to believe that this world was created for us believers and we were created for the hereafter.
If this world was created for us then we have all the freedom to live our lives according to Islam.
Our problem is compounded by the fact that so many Muslim countries are ruled by such people who will not like to hear the name of Islam. These rulers might be seen praying in the mosques and fasting but they really are against Islam and indeed scared of Islam more than US President or British Prime Minister. I personally know stories from Iraq and Libya of yesteryears where a youngman sporting a beard or appearing in the morning prayers would by hinted ina non-subtle manner that he should enjoy life. that he should not take Islam seriously.
Do we Muslims have a comprehensive programme or a proposal to take our space back from those agencies who have encroached upon it? Here I have to repeat once again that let alone taking steps to regain our space even acknowledgeing this state of affairs is a risky step in many places. But this task of liberating our personal space from encroachment has to be taken.
In this regard there is a false hope. There have been several tall religious figures who wanted us to believe that the current sorry state of Muslim Ummah is due to lack of Islam in our lives and due to our distance from Qur'an. On the face of it this looks like a wonderful diagnosis but it is patently false. When such people talk about sorry state they certainly mean the worldly state of Ummah. the materialistic angle is in their mind. While proposing the solution the prescription is completely religious. That the diagnosis might be right but the cure is false can be seen from the fact that societies that are not religious are today very affluent.
There is clear case of wrong mixture of the religious and secular in these discussions. Problem of Muslim Ummah is to prosper worldly without giving up Islam. Clergy knows it but they are scared that Muslims will give up Islam in pursuit of worldly life. They are not very forthright otherwise they would tell us directly to go for the worldly means without compromising on Islam. There are exceptions of course but over all clergy does not realize that our worldly problems have worldly reasons and solutions. Our Ulama have been advocating Makkan solutions to Medinite problems. This is the third major obstacle in our path to solutions to the problems of Ummah.
Fourth problem is of internal divisions. Shias, Barelwis and Ghair Muqallids of various uncountable variety for every Salafi is an institution in himself and I do not deliver this as a complement. Dividing Ummah is a heinous act and that is what these people are doing. Personally I am not hopeful of any agreement with the Shias. With Barelwis and each class of Ghair Muqallids we must actively try to secure an agreement towards taking out our Ummah from the current mess. If we can secure agreements with all of them then we can focus our energies on the creative side rather then on internal fightimg.
For the time being this much of musings should be sufficient.
taught, is this what his Sahaba رضي الله عنه were about?
