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I have linked this talk by Dr Israr Ahmed in another thread too.
Here I would like to focus on another very serious and useful obaservation.
Dr Israr Ahmed says that a genius usually focuses on analysis and pondering over issues.
He does not take to the field for its practical implementation.
This is a very serious point to note.
Only Prophets (AS) take to the practical ground work.
Genius people have very serious limitations.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a brilliant theoretician, a genius, but he committed extremely serious mistakes on practical level.
After praise of Allah (SWT) and peace and salutations on beloved Prophet.
This post is about people from last one hundred years whom I love.
I declare my love and respect for the Elders of Deoband.
I declare my love for my beloved Shaikh (HA).
I declare my love for Pir Zulfiqar Ahmed Sahab Naqshbandi (HA).
I declare my love for Maulana Tariq Jameel Sahab (HA).
I declare my love for Maulana Rehmatullah Kairanvi (RA), Dr Wazir Khan (RA), Shaikh Ahmed Deedat (RA).
I declare my love for Dr Zakir Naik (HA), Ustadh Ali Ataie (HA), Shabir Ally (HA).
I declare my love for Shaikh Hamza Yususf (HA), Abdul Hakim Murad (HA), Yasir Qadhi (HA) and Nauman Ali Khan (HA).
I declare my love for Dr Israr Ahmed (RA).
I declare my love for the brothers and sisters from SF as well as MS.
An Indian-American professor of media studies in US, Deepa Kumar, wrote on twitter:
Quote:
Yes ISIS is brutal, but US is more so, 1.3 million killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan #NoToWar," Deepa Kumar, an associate professor at Rutgers University tweeted on March 26, in a broadside consistent with her anti-US and anti-war critiques.
And she spoke the truth but all hell break loose.
You have to see the tweets to believe them.
There are a huge number of lessons to be learnt here.
This freedom of speech thing is there as long as it suits the western interests.
Do not get carried away and start using it for your personal growth. They will get back to you sooner than later.
Lesson number two is that this only shows there extreme insecurity.
Lesson number three is that just because they are very insecure it does not imply that they can be ignored.
They are amicable, accommodative and understanding as long as you surrender your Islam to their designer Islam.
White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz argued during Wednesday’s briefing that the United States can negotiate prisoner swaps with Taliban members, because the Taliban is not considered a terrorist group.
ABC News reporter John Karl asked the press briefing rookie whether the Jordanian government’s trade with the Islamic State was similar to the United States trading five Taliban members for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
“As you know, this was highly discussed at the time and prisoner swaps are a traditional end-of-conflict interaction that happens,” Mr. Schultz said. “As the war in Afghanistan wound down, we felt like it was the appropriate thing to do. The president’s bedrock commitment as commander in chief is to leave no man or woman behind. That’s the principle he was operating under.”
“Isn’t that what the Jordanians are operating under?” the ABC reporter argued. “The Taliban are still conducting terror attacks, so you can’t really say the war has ended as far as they’re concerned.”
Mr. Schultz explained: “I would also point out that the Taliban is an armed insurgency. [Islamic State] is a terrorist group. So we don’t make concessions to terrorist groups.”
“You don’t think the Taliban’s a terrorist group?” Mr. Karl interjected.
“I don’t think that the Taliban — the Taliban is an armed insurgency,” Mr. Schultz corrected. “This was the winding down of the war in Afghanistan, and that’s why this arrangement was dealt.”
Three Companions (RA) of Badr were absent from Tabuk expedition.
And the all hell broke loose. Allah (SWT) made the earth very constrained for them.
It was a very strange situation.
There was no battle and hence absence of three people on ground was immaterial but Rasoolallah (SAW) was asked by Allah (SWT) to adopt the most strict posture towards them.
The signal is very loud and clear.
Business is business. It was the business of the universe and the the instructions were clear and stiff.
My personal feeling is that today all of us are in the same situation as those three Companions (RA) of Badr who absented themselves from the expedition of Tabuk. No excuses were heard at that time and no excuses might be heard this time.
They were forgiven ultimately but we do not know in advance who amongst us will be forgiven.
There is no expedition from Allah (SWT) where we might be help responsible for dereliction of duty.
It looks like there is displeasure of Allah (SWT) in the offing. A great trial that is about to knock at our door - if it has not already done so.
I got the feeling today that we are going to be held responsible for being Muslims.
If this knock comes to your door then than the best answer, in my view, is to say that yes I am a Muslim and I do want to live according to Islam, that is my desire and I would like to regain my social, cultural, economic, business, commercial, scientific, technological, political, military and religious space upon which there has been encroachment.
This is very safe, legal, logical and fair but still might require all of our will power, mental strength and moral courage to say it.
If you do not assert then the powers that you face will simply not understand your stand and in their confusion will surely end up hurting you. we are living in very strange times.
Remember after 1857 the British kept killing Muslims for long even after their complete surrender. The British simply could not understand that we were subdued. This point was very poignantly brought to the fore by Scottish journalist and writer William Dalrymple in his book the Last Mughal.
Brothers will ask me why am I saying these alarming things. Here is the reason. The article is from October 2014. The idiotic anti-Muslim writer doesn't know that SF was defunct for more than a year by then. It is strange how a discussion that was completely academic was used to send out an impression as if the forum was so called Islamist.
The lesson is clear even your being a Muslim is less than acceptable to the powers that be.
This perhaps also gives us some clue as to why the Islamic Awakening forum has become dull. That forum was infested with loud mouth uncouths. there was lots of good academic discussion there but the detractors of Islam and Muslims must have focussed on the loud mouths and must have had hardly any patience for the academics.
It is unlikely that the over zealous operatives of Taghoot will have much patience with our academics. Hence utmost care is advisable. So in spite of our academic interest in many topics we got to curtail our curiosity and restrict trictly to those topics where we talk about regaining our living space upon which there is near complete encroachment.
What might have happened is that following that the idiot Praveen Swami must have googled Saraya e Hind, use another word for Saraya in your mind, and must have ended in this thread at SF. The quote used in Indian Express article occurs somewhere in the middle of the discussion but that was the best opportunity for the writer to raise sentiments.
One more request please allow the sleeping lions to lie. Read the links and move on after taking mental note of the situation and do not continue the discussion.
As I understand today the external world has imposed complete gag orders on Muslims. You may not open your mouth in case you want to live your life as a Muslim. You can Muslim name but do not talk of Islam and uttering the word Shariah is not politically correct. There another concurrent reality. The same world is completely clueless as to what is going on not only in the Persian Gulf but even at their homes in their so called comfort zones. Why are the European populations falling? What is the way out of Greek financial crisis? Why are American people shooting randomly? Why is Muslim youth not overwhelmed by the glamour of western life? Who should sacrifice his life to protect the illusionary US interests in the so called middle east?
Do we have any voice of Muslim Ummah today?
Muslims are being cheaply killed today at so many fronts but do we have any voices that are concerned?
In retaliation to disappearance of three Jewish youth Israel decimated one percent of Gaza population but no one could put a break on the Zionist juggernaut.
No one has time to bring the Burma Rakhine monks to justice for committing untold atrocities on Rohingyas.
Heavy military operations are underway in the Levant and Gulf region but we are supposed to just wait and watch the show.
Muslims are dying in scores but we are supposed to consume the version served to us by the completely western controlled info.
Communists and capitalists have joined together to kill people in Arab world but you do not have the option to question any one.
They know better for they are in control.
As if Muslims have nothing at stake.
Zaid Hamid is a Pakistani political commentator bordering on non-serious approach.
Obviously we oriental fools indulge in this freedom of speech thing thinking of it as some sort of God given blessing.
The western intelligentsia, where the freedom of speech concept originated, are little bit more conservative in exercising their tongue.
We, on the other hand, have been warned by Imam Ghazali (RA) and originally by beloved Prophet (SAW) to guard our tongue with utmost care.
What is the result of lack of care on our part?
Well let us take the specific example of Zaid Hamid.
The news a month back or so was that he was arrested while on a eprsonal visit by the Saudi police and was put in a prison.
The other piece of news was that he was sentenced to eight years in prison and a thousand or twelve hundred lashes.
This later piece of punishment was later informed to be not true.
But he, anyway, is in prison.
A bit eerie news.
The media is more or less silent on the issue. that is understandable. No sane person would like to spoil the case for him even if he was not the most responsible opinion holder. Plus everyone is stunned into silence. honestly speaking no one saw it coming.
So what to do now that it has happened?
As usual there is no magic potion here.
Of course God given answers are there - if we will take heed.
We are responsible for our actions - including speech.
And we got to exercise that responsibly.
There will be any number of Wise people advocating complete silence.
But anyone with even passing acquaintance with Ahadith will know that
above is merely the lowest level of faith, belief, Iman.
After that , I expect, soon we Muslims will be asking each other and wise people as to what can we do.
The feeling in the heart of this sinner at the moment is that these are the best times for believers after beloved Prophet (SAW)'s times. Th reason is just the sheer force of the realization of end times being very near. ( Of course we have to keep in mind that this is at best an educated guest.) I am saying the best times because Rasoolallah (SAW) said that if you, the ompanions (RA), get the times of Hazrat Mehdi (AS) then join his troops. If i get his times then I shall join his troops. This is just such a cute sentiment that I can not express the feeling of joy hidden in these words. Will the times in which beloved Prophet (SAW) wanted to live in not be the best.
I am a slave of Shams Tabrez
Like a vagabond I wander
Maulana Rum is pleading to Allah (SWT) to forgive him for he is a servant of Shams Tabrez (RA) and he is a Qalander.
Allah (SWT) according to a Hadith acts according to our expectations.
So if we assume that He will forgive all associates of pious people like saints then we can supplicate to Him to forgive us in the names of the pious people whose company we keep.
That is what Maulana Rum (RA) did in above statement.
But why should Allah (SWT) forgive a vagabond, a Qalandar?
It is not that vagabond is only a rough translation of Qalandar, though that too is true.
Qalandar does have in it a poignant content of lack of responsibility.
And this life, The Test, is all about responsibility.
If Allah (SWT) will start forgiving those people who abdicate responsibility then whole purpose of the creation of this universe including the troubles born by the Prophets (AS) will be lost.
Meaning of life will be lost.
So what is happening?
Well Maulana Rum is simply admitting is inability to take care of responsibilities - he is admitting his weakness.
Allah (SWT) is Rahman and Rahim - we can appeal to Him to ignore our weakness and inability and lack of competence.
A mixture really, it could be the best of times and it also could be the worst of times
Worst of times in such a way, the oppression and the atrocities that we see against muslims on a global basis, the targetting, the hate, the rise of islamophobia, the drunken nature of our own very rules and the biggest of all the blind eye they turn to their own people, this is probably unprecendented and history has probably never witnessed this before (do correct me if im wrong)
We see the rise of new and new fitnahs, reminds of the ahadith to the nearest meaning that a fitnah will come and man will think that's it this is the end of me, no hope of getting out of this one or surviving it , and that fitnah will pass and he will think he is safe and then another fitnah will come that will be even tougher than the one before....and this will carry on
The positives are there is more of a revival towards Deen and a lot of people are going back to the roots to learn it, many global efforts are taking place, a huge surge in charitable events another surge is different scholars from different groups getting together and sharing one platform (whether that shoulf be done or not is debateable), so we are seeing a rise in islam too, tablighi jamaat has been dominant over the last few decades and a lot of good has taken place due to it and people are still changing and reverting their lives due to these brothers, other efforts are also taking place due to this effort, but this effort has been the most sucessful of them all. Tasawwuf has taken off a lot as well over the past few years with other efforts and maybe a factor for this is the rise of social media and brothers making full use of it. Views are also out in the open now of who says what and where from so this leads to the individual to judge for himself, whereas before one could argue there wan't as much transparency now that lectures, talks, articles etc are avaialble freely and openly it has been a game changer. Also more and more classes are being offered online and offline, free courses have taken off etc etc
However a lot more is still needed, there is no guarantee that you or I or our children or their progeny will die as muslims, may we all die as muslims. But that guarantee is gone, today it not longer means that if you belong to the indian subcontinent or the middle east and due to your relatives being a muslim, you'll remain one too, that status quo has gone out of the window, the ahadith comes to mind, to the nearest meaning person will be a believer in the morning and a disbeliever at a night ( may Allah protect us ) So no guarantee of iman, need to work on it to preserve it.
Also in regards to end of the world it is said that there will be no person on the face of the earth who will remember Allah, alhumdulilah we have many revival efforts of Deen taking place however the signs of the end of times have virtually all come, all that remains is the big major ones.
A mixture of thoughts so walahualam, if we live in the best of time or the worst of times, but one thing is for sure if we work in deen and help it then the rewards will be phenomenal due to the era of fitnah that we live in.
Walahualam and may we all die as muslims and be raised with the righteous
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to the nearest meaning that a fitnah will come and man will think that's it this is the end of me, no hope of getting out of this one or surviving it , and that fitnah will pass and he will think he is safe and then another fitnah will come that will be even tougher than the one before....and this will carry on
