Arrogance in Awwal Al-Zaman

 

Dajjal (Anti-Christ), the Qur’an and the Beginning of History

Chapter Five

Arrogance in Awwal Al-Zaman

 

(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:30)

And Lo! Thy Lord-God said unto the Angels: Behold, I am going to establish upon earth one who shall be a Khalifah, i.e., who would govern or rule .   .   .

 

A Khalifah (or Ruler) on Earth   

The Qur’an has disclosed in the verse above, that Allah Most High addressed the Angels in Awwal al-Zaman and informed them that He was going to place on earth one who would be a Khalifah, i.e., he would rule or govern on earth (Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:30). This declaration constitutes the foundation on which the entire edifice of Islamic political philosophy, as well as Islam’s model of a State, is built. 

 

The Qur’an went on to disclose that when Allah Most High appoints a Khalifah on earth, his function would be to govern or rule with al-Haq i.e.,  Divinely-revealed ‘Truth’, and hence to establish a Holy Khilafah State or Pax Dei, which would enforce Allah’s Law as the Supreme Law. The modern West, created by Dajjal, effectively denies any State the freedom with which to establish Allah’s Law as the Supreme Law. All States must belong to the United Nations Organization and, as a consequence of membership in that organization, must accede to the UN Charter which has, in effect, imposed the UN Charter, and the resolutions of the UN Security Council, as the Supreme Law. The modern West also demonizes the Khilafah State as a theocratic State, and indoctrinates all of mankind to so despise and reject a theocratic State as to banish it to the museums of history. 

 

In its place the West has delivered to the world the modern republican State in which the supreme law is the law of the State rather than Allah’s law. A republican State, such as Pakistan, cannot be a Khilafah State, since the highest law in a republican State is always the law of the State, and not Allah’s Law. Dr. Muhammad Iqbal appears not to have been aware of this elementary fact when he wrote the following in his Magnum Opus, ‘The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam’:

 

The republican form of government is not only thoroughly consistent with the spirit of Islam, but has also become a necessity in view of the new forces that are set free in the world of Islam. 

(Essay entitled: The Principle of Movement in the Structure of Islam)

 

A republican form of government requires the prior establishment of a Republic, and the ‘new forces’ to which Dr.Iqbal referred above were, of course, the modern secular republican State which was created by Dajjal, and was introduced to the world through Dajjal’s modern western civilization. 

 

When viewed from the perspective of the less-than-dismal scholarship that still exists in the world of Islam on the subject of Dajjal (who is the subject of this book), one cannot but respond with a summary dismissal of the expected objections and sarcastic comments that the above statement concerning the republican State will inevitably provoke from secular scholarship in and out of Pakistan. 

 

Muslim India’s Khilafat Movement, with all its defects and deficiencies, represented the last effort on the part of Muslim India as well as the rest of the world of Islam, to remain faithful to the political philosophy and model of a State which was located in the Qur’an. Britain, on the other hand, wanted to embrace all of British India, Hindu as well as Muslim, and then the rest of the world, with the new model of a republican State which had emerged in Dajjal’s western civilization. One misguided sentence (quoted above) from India’s most illustrious Islamic scholar was sufficient to nail a final nail into the coffin of Islam’s Khilafah State, and pave the way for the birth of a republican State of Pakistan, and for the subsequent embrace of the rest of the world of Islam in Dajjal’s secular world-order of republican States. For this alone, Dr. Iqbal richly deserved the knighthood which Britain conferred on him—in consequence of which he became Sir Muhammad Iqbal.  

 

(Readers may wish to read my essay entitled: Can Muslims Vote in Elections of the Modern Secular State?) http://www./articles/islam-and-politics/85-can-muslims-vote-in-elections-of-the-modern-secular-state.html

They may also wish to view my lecture entitled ‘Iqbal Pakistan and the Khilafah State’ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL3K_gT9NT0)

 

The Qur’an went on to warn that those, such as the Republican secular State, who rule over the earth or any part thereof, and do not do so with al-Haq, i.e., Truth, would face an awful doom on the Day of Reckoning. This will be because any rule, other than that based on al-Haq, would lead the ruler (and hence the people as well) away from Sabil Allah, i.e., the Divine Way or Path:  

(Qur’an, Sad, 38:26)

And it was said unto him: O David! Lo! We have set thee as a ruler in the earth; therefore govern or rule over mankind with al-Haq, i.e., Truth, and follow not your own secular agenda, for such would lead you away from the way or path of Allah. Lo! Those who depart from the way or path of Allah have an awful doom, in consequence of having forgotten the Day of Accounts, i.e., Judgment Day. 

 

If a Khilafah State, or Pax Dei, is to be established, and if it is to survive, then it must have power to resist those who will seek to attack and destroy it. Hence, when Nabi Daud ʿalayhi as-salām established the Holy State of Israel, Allah Most High also blessed it with power, thus clearly confirming that such a Holy State must have the power with which to establish itself as Pax Dei:

 

(Qur’an, Sad, 38:20)

And Allah Most High strengthened his Kingdom, hence Pax Dei, and bestowed upon him wisdom and sagacity in judgment. 

 

A Khilafah State would thus have an obligation to build military power to the maximum extent that it can be built. The Qur’an explains, however, that such power is to be used to deter aggression, and not to commit aggression or to establish a hegemonic dominance over others:

(Qur’an, al-Anfal, 8:60)

Hence, make ready against them whatever military force and war mounts you are able to muster, so that you might deter thereby the enemies of Allah, who are your enemies as well, and others besides them of whom you may be unaware, but of whom Allah is aware; and whatever you may expend in Allah’s cause shall be repaid to you in full, and you shall not be wronged.

We can see quite clearly that if Korea had not faithfully followed this command of the Qur’an, it would have already become a client-State of the present Zionist Judeo-Christian world-order—which is the fate that has already befallen the southern part of the Korean peninsula. Dajjal’s modern West not only succeeded in embracing all of mankind in a United Nations Organization with a Security Council dominated by the oppressors of the modern world, i.e.,  Zionist western Judeo-Christian alliance, but also forced upon the world a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT) which prohibits member States from building the power that the Qur’an has demanded. If India had not demonstrated integrity in resisting membership in NNPT, it is certain that the so-called Islamic Republic of Pakistan would have acquiesced with docility to NNPT membership.   

 

Whenever a Khilafah State is established, and it struggles to build power in conformity with Allah’s command, Divine assistance will always come to such a State, as it came to Solomon’s Holy Israel:

(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:69)

.  .  .  and remember how Allah Most High made you rulers on earth after Noah's folk, and gave you growth of stature; and remember all the bounties of your Lord, that you might be successful. 

 

The Qur’an reminded the Israelites that Allah responded to their plight of suffering by extricating them from that distress, and replacing it with rule on earth (through a Khilafah State):

(Qur’an, al-Naml, 27:62)

Is not He best who responds to those who are wronged when he such a person cries out unto Him and he removes the evil, and has made you rulers on earth? Is there any God beside Allah? Little do they reflect! 

 

The above verses of the Qur’an disclosed that it was by Allah’s leave that the Israelites remained on earth as rulers for long years. But at no time were they able to restore Holy Israel as Pax Dei. This was because Nabi Daud’s son, Nabi Sulaiman, ʿalayhi as-salām, prayed that his Holy State of Israel could not belong to anyone after him, i.e.,  none could succeed in restoring Holy Israel after him. He made this prayer after he was shown the vision of a Jasad sitting on his throne:

(Qur’an, Sad, 38:34)

Allah Most High caused distress to Solomon by placing upon his throne a Jasad, or body without a soul; and thereupon he turned to Allah in prayer.

 

The prayer was made because he recognized the Jasad to be Dajjal, and he knew that Dajjal would attempt to rule over Holy Israel. Hence he prayed as follows:

(Qur’an, Sad, 38:35)

Solomon prayed: O my Lord-God, forgive me my sins, and bestow upon me a kingdom which cannot belong to anyone after me. Verily, You are the one who bestows such! 

 

Allah Most High obviously answered his prayer since Holy Israel collapsed after Solomon’s death and has never since been successfully restored. Hence Dajjal’s present effort to restore Holy Israel in order to convince the Jews that he is the true Messiah, is bound to fail.

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Riba & The strategy of public confrontation

THE PROHIBITION OF RIBA IN THE QUR’AN AND SUNNAH

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!

Source: IMRAN N. HOSEIN

to be continued . . . . 

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