An Analysis of the Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate and the Transcendental Reality of the Age

An Analysis of the Abolition of the  
Ottoman Caliphate and the Transcendental Reality of the Age 
which is still witnessing the Most Monstrous Attack on the Ummah

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When viewed form an essentially Qur´anic perspective, the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate appears to have occurred at the same time that other events of supreme Qur´anic importance were unfolding. For example, the Ottoman Empire would not have been defeated and destroyed had the fundamental change not come to Europe, transforming European civilization into a major actor on the world stage. The French and the Bolshevik Revolutions marked the turning points in the transformation of Western and Eastern European civilization from those based on faith in Christianity to essentially godless civilizations. The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions and the emergence of the capitalistic economy resulted in those godless civilizations becoming predatory and having the power with which to prey upon all mankind. Those godless European civilizations then embarked upon the unholy mission to transform the rest of the world to godlessness! The Ottoman Empire stood in the way of Europe since it was established on foundations which were essentially sacred. The institution of the Khilafah established and legitimized Islam´s sacred model of a society and a world order. And so, the Ottoman Caliphate was targeted and destroyed.

With the destruction of the Khilafah, the last major hurdle in the way of those who were determined to reduce all of mankind to godlessness was now removed. The stage was thus set for the fulfillment of the words of Hadith Al-Qudsi, that 999 out of every 1000 persons (of this age) will eventually enter into the Hell. In other words, the destruction of the Khilafah by the modern godless world provided evidence that the age of Ya´jooj and Ma´jooj had commenced (See Qur´an, Al-Kahf 18:98-99).

At the same time that this objective of the destruction of Khilafah was being pursued by the modern godless European civilization, another more sinister revolution was taking place in the Jewish world. A godless Zionist Movement emerged among East European Jews. It declared that the Holy Land of Palestine belonged to the Jews because God gave it to them. It totally ignored the fact that Jews had both corrupted and betrayed the religion of Abraham and, as a consequence, no longer had any right to the Holy Land! Jews swallowed the bait of the Zionist Movement. The establishment of the State of Israel now became the goal of the Jews, regardless of the means which were to be employed to achieve it. Zionism was created by a truly evil force which set out to deceive the Jews and to take them for a ride. That ride would be the last ride they would ever take. At the end of the road, both Jews and Judaism now faced utter destruction. Allah (SWT) had warned of the release of that truly evil force (Dajjal), and of the release of Ya´jooj and Ma´jooj in a revelation which was ominously placed at the very end of the Qur´an:

Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the dawn, from the evil (i.e., evil forces or evil beings) which He created... 

(Al-Falaq 113:1-2)

And so we witnessed the amazing phenomenon of the destruction of the Khilafah and the restoration of the State of Israel as contemporaneous events. The same evil forces were at work in both cases. This was confirmed in Surah Al-Anbiya of the Qur´an in Aayat 95 and 96 where Almighty Allah (SWT) spoke of a qaryah (i.e., the city of Jerusalem symbolizing the State of Israel) which He destroyed and then pronounced the restoration of that qaryah (i.e., the restoration of the State of Israel) to be haram (prohibited) until the (commencement of the) release of Ya´jooj and Ma´jooj.

Since the Jews were now deceived and were put on a path which led, progressively, to the greatest oppression and wickedness in their conduct with mankind in general and with Muslims in particular, a third event now took place as just this same time. It was a sign form Almighty Allah (SWT) which was spoken of in the Qur´an, a sign which was meant to warn the Jews: If you live like Pharaoh did, you will die the way he died (See Qur´an, Surah Younus 10:92). That event was the discovery of the body of Pharaoh by Loret in 1898 at Thebes in the King´s Valley of Lower Egypt.

Three other related events took place and, indeed, are still taking place, all of which are directly related to the release of those evil forces created by Almighty Allah (SWT). They all flowed from the emergence of materialism and secularism as the philosophical foundation of the modern Western civilization. These were the events:

1.       The emergence of riba at the very foundation of the European economy, and the subsequent deadly embrace of the entire world economy by riba; the Ottoman Empire was the special target, however, and the decline of this great Islamic State began when it was penetrated by Jewish bankers with riba during the rule of Mahmut II (1808-1839). By 1896, the stranglehold of riba on the Ottoman economy had put the Sultan/Caliph in such dire straits that the Zionist leader, Herzl, could finally visit Sultan Abdul hamid II and play the card of financial diplomacy which riba made possible, i.e., blackmail. In return for Palestine, he offered “to regulate the entire finances of the Ottoman State.” Abdul hamid refused. He was overthrown. And the Khilafah was easily abolished. Mission accomplished for the Jewish bankers.

2.       The emergence of shirk at the very foundation of the new European political philosophy. Allah is no longer the sovereign. The modern secular State is now sovereign. That modern European model of a State then embraced all of mankind in its deadly embrace; but the seat of the Caliphate was the special target. After the Khilafah was abolished, the new modern secular State of Turkey emerged with that shirk at its very foundation. Form Turkey it went to Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud who then transformed the heartland of Islam into the modern State of Saudi Arabia based on the same shirk. Pakistan followed in tame imitation and the great effort of Iqbal became an exercise in futility.

3.       The emergence of a new philosophy of feminism at the very heart of the new European secular society. It brought in its wake a sexual revolution which dismantled the edifice of sexual morality. Sexual freedom resulted in an unprecedented explosion of promiscuity and perversions. This was the Kathr Al-Khabaith which the Prophet (SAW) had declared to be the sign of the release of Ya´jooj and Ma´jooj. This destructive sexuality now targeted all of mankind, but the special target was again the world of Islam.

Just before these events took place, or just as they were taking place, the world of Islam witnessed the emergence of by far the most dangerous of the dajjals, or false prophets, to have so far appeared. He was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the false prophet of Qadian (India) and founder of the Ahmadiyyah Movement. He appeared at the very time that the stage was being set for the attack on the institution of the Khilafah. And his primary role was one of corrupting Muslim thought and belief, especially as it related to the accurate perception of the transcendental reality which was now unfolding in the age of fitan. Mirza was a tool of the forces which were at work planning the destruction of Khilafah, and his primary role was one of diverting Islamic thought from the supreme attack which was being launched on the Ummah, and reducing the Islamic intelligentsia to a state of intellectual confusion.

Iqbal recognized all the above events for what they were. He recognized the evil forces which had been unleashed into the world and the supreme danger of he moment in which he lived. Indeed, he lived in Sialkot (Pakistan), the same city in which that cunning dajjal, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, lived for some time. Iqbal saw through the devilish schemes which had been planned for destroying the Ummah but he lacked an authentic Jama´ah through which he could respond appropriately.* He condemned Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and warned the Muslims of the great threat coming from the sinister dajjal of Qadian. He denounced the modern godless European civilization and warned the Muslims of the every grave danger which they faced from the West. And he forewarned the new ominous direction in which the Jewish world was heading.

If it was thought that the All India Muslim League and its leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, could function as the Jama´ah through which the renaissance of Islam in South Asia could be pursued, then this was a misconception. The League was not an authentic Jama´ah, nor was Jinnah an authentic Ameer/Imam. To his credit, Jinnah never claimed that status. The All India Muslim League and Mr. Jinnah had nothing of the Qur´anic understanding of the ominous nature of the reality of the modern age which was Iqbal´s forte. The League could neither respond appropriately to the collapse of the Khilafah, nor could it understand the dangers of the godless age. As for the dajjal who was sent to dupe the South Asian Muslim intelligentsia, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad´s success was such that Mr. Jinnah appointed Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, one of the most versatile and brilliant of all the followers of Mirza, as the first Foreign Minister of Pakistan.

We embarked on this cursory analysis in respect of the transcendental dimension of the historical reality which witnessed the abolition of the Khilafah, in order to demonstrate that its restoration was not possible during these last 73 years. After all, some of those who are hesitant about giving the Baiy´ah have asked the question: Why was the Khilafah not restored somewhere else after it collapsed in Istanbul? Why have we had no Khilafah for more than 70 years now? The reason for this is the nature of the age in which we now live. This is the age when the greatest force of evil ever created by Allah (SWT) has commenced its release. (The evil force will eventually appear as a human being.) This is the age of Dajjal and of Ya´jooj and Ma´jooj. The Islamic revolutionary movement which is struggling for the restoration of the Khilafah cannot possibly succeed in that effort unless it first has an accurate perception of today´s objective reality and recognizes this age as the age of Dajjal. That authentic Islamic revolutionary movement, or Jama´ah, with Iqbal´s accurate Qur´anic perception of contemporary reality, did not exist in 1924 and has not existed since 1924. How, then, was it possible to wage a successful struggle for the restoration of the Khilafah?

Alhamdullilah! The authentic Islamic revolutionary movement is now emerging in different parts of the world of Islam.

Source: One Ameer, One Jama'ah

To be Continued....