PROPOSAL FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ISLAMIC PUBLISHING COMPANY BASED ON MUSHARAKA OR MUDARABA
We propose for the
consideration of Muslim entrepreneurs, wherever in the world this book may
reach, the establishment of an Islamic Publishing Company which would publish
strategic literature on Islam such as books on the prohibition of riba.
The establishment, Islamic publishing companies, would be scared to publish
Islamic books which reveal the true nature and mission of modem dominant
godless European civilization and its war against Islam.
Books on Islam, to be
published by this publishing company, would fulfill the following very specific
needs:
1. Defending Islam and
Muslims against attacks which are increasingly being launched by an essentially
godless and largely Jewish-controlled media and publishing industry;
2. Defining Islam authentically
and thus protecting Muslims from being misled by revisionist and modernist
interpretations of Islam. An excellent book, which performs precisely such a
function, is the two-volume work entitled: “The Qur’anic Foundations and
Structure of Muslim Society” by Maulana Dr. Muhammad Fadlur Rahman Ansari (may
Allah him mercy on him).
3. Articulating Islam to the
modem secularly educated world in a manner which would demonstrate Islam's
capacity to solve the most serious and dangerous problems facing all of
humanity (and in particular families) today;
4. Introducing the Qur’an in
a manner which would conclusively demonstrate to non-Muslims as well as to
secularized Muslims that it is the Word of Allah the Most High, - indeed, that
it cannot be other than the Word of Allah the Most High;
5. Using the city in which
the publishing company is located as a base for guiding public opinion to
facilitate the effort of protecting the faith of the believers and for
restoring the jama'ah and Imam/Ameer who must he obeyed;
Such an Islamic Publishing
Company would also perform the crucially important function of providing an
avenue for local Islamic scholars to conduct research and to write books which,
will be highly relevant to local challenges. No such avenue exists today. Such
a publishing company can be established as a commercial venture and should
yield a positive return on investment. Local laws should permit such a venture
to be established. Eventually, of course, Muslims will no longer have this
freedom. But while still the freedom lasts it should be used.
THE STRATEGY OF PUBLIC CONFRONTATION
After a program of public
education has been effected, a mobilization of the latent faith in the bosom of
the oppressed masses should be the next goal of the revolutionary Islamic
movement. The oppressed have to be roused to participate in a mass struggle for
liberation from economic oppression. When that struggle is led by Muslims it
will lead to the restoration of the sovereignty of Allah the Most High, over
territory and that would be Dar al-Islam, and a rejection of the false claim to
sovereignty of the modem secular State.
There is, I believe, much
which we can learn from the strategy of mobilizing the oppressed displayed in
the success of the call for a million-man march of the oppressed to Washington
DC in October 1995. The oppressed responded to the call of Louis Farrakhan because
he was perceived to be someone who had established credentials for making such
a call. Farrakhan, like Imam Khomeini, stood outside the system and denounced
it! He did not form part of the system. No one else in USA could have made the
call for a million-man march of the oppressed and succeeded because no one,
including the so-called leaders of the Muslims, have worked for or earned such
credentials. Fidel Castro succeeded in his struggle against the oppressors in
Cuba because the oppressed masses responded to his call. They did because he
also did not form part of the system, and he opposed it from outside.
The Islamic movement cannot
earn the revolutionary credentials necessary for successfully mobilizing the
masses if it functions as part of the political system created and sustained by
the oppressors. We have great respect for Maulana Abul 'Ala Maududi (may Allah
have mercy on his soul) but we must direct attention to the disastrous mistake
which he made when the revolutionary Islamic movement which he created, i.e.,
the Jamaai-e-lslami (of Pakistan), was registered as apolitical party and then
operated within the political system of Pakistan in a futile attempt to bring
about revolutionary change to Pakistan. The Jamaat-e-Islami and other such
revolutionary Islamic movements as the Tanzeem-e-Islami (led by that
outstanding Islamic scholar. Dr. Israr Ahmad), have to earn such credentials as
would result in them being perceived by the oppressed masses as fortes which
can liberate the oppressed from oppression. Those credentials cannot be earned
without the following;
1) Scrupulous adherence in the
command of Allah the Most High, in the Qur'an prohibiting relationship of dependency
on, and subservience to, Christians and Jews. (Qur’an; al-Mai’da:-5:54). This
implies that we, Muslims, must not submit to the dominant Judeo-Christian Western
civilization and must carefully guard our independence from their dominance and
influence. The monarchy and government in Saudi Arabia committed treason against
Islam by talking the Arabian heart-land of Islam into a client State
relationship with the Judeo-Christian West. One of the criteria by which we can
recognize the true guides and scholars of Islam today is that they
unequivocally denounce the treason of the Saudi regime, and of all other such
regimes which today control the world of Islam on behalf of their western masters.
Western civilization has all but declared war on Islam. Allah, the Most High,
responds in the Qur’an by wanting:
Oh you
who believe! Take not My enemies and yours as protecting friends, offering them
your love, even though they have rejected the Truth which has come to you . . .
(Qur’an: al-Mumtahinah:-60:1)
2) Making the straggle for
the liberation of the oppressed their first priority. This can never be
achieved if they become part of the system of politics and economic oppression.
Islam cannot be accommodated within a system of oppression.
3) Educating the oppressed
so that they will understand the nature of the political, economic and religious
oppression to which they are subjected. The most important element of this process
of education would be education concerning riba.
4) Confronting, denouncing and
challenging the oppressors, in particular those engaged in the economic oppression
that is riba.
5) Waging an armed struggle for
the liberation of the oppressed within the world of Islam (after exhausting all
peaceful efforts to achieve that goal).
That armed struggle for the
liberation of the oppressed who reside outside the world of Islam cannot be
waged until the world of Islam has itself been liberated! And so the strategy for
the Islamic movement outside the world of Islam is the same as that which was
adopted in Makkah prior to the Hijrah, i.e., passive resistance with the
greatest effort possible to ensure that faith in Allah the Most High, is not
corrupted and destroyed.
If anyone entertains any
doubts concerning the legitimacy of waging an armed struggle for liberation
from the oppression of riba, he should recall the very last
revelation of the Qur’an, sent down when the Prophet (s) was about to
die, and sent down after Allah the Most High, had announced the perfection of
religion and the completion of his favor to the believers, in which Allah the Most
High, and His Messenger (s) declare war for that very purpose!
