Duties as Rational Being

 

 Quranic Foundations And Structure Of Muslim Society

Part 3. DUTIES AS RATIONAL BEING

  Exposition

 

ENDS:

(1)  Subjective:

Balanced and healthy development of human knowledge in all dimensions.

(2)  Objective:

Service to humanity in terms of correct and comprehensive Guidance.

 

(1)          Duty of Commission

Pursuit of knowledge enjoined, with emphasis on:

1.             its sublimity and unavoidable necessity—basically and for proper moral life;

2.             its importance for spiritual development;

3.             its role in conferring greatness on individuals and communities;

4.             its compatibility with Faith;

5.             the principles of observation and research;

6.          the principle of continuous and ceaseless endeavor for rising to higher and higher levels of knowledge;

7.             the principle of Objectivity; 

8.             the principle of Comprehensiveness;

9.             the attainment of the stage of al-Hikmah, or, the Wisdom;

10.         the technique of attaining all Higher Knowledge.

Thus:

(1)     Sublimity of the pursuit of Knowledge and its unavoidable necessity—basically as also for proper moral life, emphasized:

The Holy Qur’an says:

“And He imparted to Adam knowledge of the nature of all things…” (2:31).

The story of Adam given in the Holy Qur’an (2:30-39) reveals that knowledge was imparted to him by God:

a.     at the transcendental or spiritual stage of his existence,—when his life was sublime because of the innocence and the serene tranquility that he enjoyed, together with his wife, in the

“Presence of God”;

b.    before he embarked on his earthly career, i.e., before he had the occasion to engage himself in worldly pursuits,—nay, before he had acquired any worldly interests;

c.     before he was confronted with the moral struggle. 

 

All this means that, in the estimation of the Holy Qur’an:

a.     Acquisition of knowledge is a sublime and a spiritual pursuit:

b.    Cultivation of knowledge is one of the most basic needs and, hence, one of the most basic duties, of a human being:

c.     Proper knowledge forms one of the most basic requirements of proper moral life.

 

(2)          Spiritual achievement through Knowledge, especially of empirical Reality, emphasized:

The Holy Qur’an says:

“… Those only among His Servants who are learned (i.e., possessors and pursuers of knowledge) truly fear Allah.” (35:28).

Here possession and pursuit of knowledge—all true knowledge—has been mentioned as the condition for true fear of God, which, in its turn, is, together with the love for God, the motivating force in the life of every true Muslim. Thus pursuit of knowledge becomes a duty from the point of view of leading a good spiritual and moral life.

 

(3)          Acquisition of greatness through Knowledge, emphasized:

The Holy Qur’an says:

“Allah will exalt those who have Faith among you, and those who have knowledge, to high ranks.” (58:11).

According to this verse, the basis for exaltation in the estimation of God is not only Faith in God and all spiritual verities, which is the highest theme of Religion, but also Knowledge, which forms as high a theme in the religion presented by the Holy Qur’an. This honored place given to knowledge makes it obligatory for a Muslim to devote himself to it whole-heartedly.

 

(4)          Compatibility of Knowledge and Faith emphasized:

A very important point should be noted here. Faith and Knowledge, in the view of the Holy Qur’an, are compatible with each other. Indeed they are complementary—wedded to one another, as another verse clearly establishes:

“And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: ‘We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord’: and none will grasp the Message except men of understanding.” (3:7).

This is a unique feature of the Qur’anic philosophy.

Thus, the Holy Qur’an demands acceptance and adherence to its teachings on rational basis. It proclaims most emphatically:

“So that he who perishes (spiritually) should perish by indisputable (rational) evidence (or, proof) and he who survives (spiritually) should survive by indisputable (rational) evidence (or, proof).” (8:42).

It challenges its opponents on the basis of reason and knowledge in these words

“Say: ‘Have you any (certain) knowledge? If so, produce it before us. Lo! you follow nothing but opinion. Lo! you do but guess’. Say: ‘With Allah is the argument that reaches home’.” (6:148-149).

               Again

“Will they not then ponder on the Qur’an (i.e., examine its teachings rationally).” (4:82; 47:24).

In fact, the Holy Qur’an appeals to humanity not less than forty-eight times—and at numerous places on the basis of the physical, the psychical and the social phenomena—to employ reason, emphasizing regarding the truth of its teaching that:

“And these similitudes We set forth for mankind. But their import is grasped by the reason of only those who possess knowledge.” (29:43).

        

 (5)     Observation and Research emphasized:

Similarly, the Holy Qur’an appeals not less than seventeen times to contemplate and meditate on the natural phenomena as well as on the truth of its own teaching. In that connection, it emphasizes also the joint exploration of truth:

“Say: I admonish you on one point: that you stand up, for Allah’s sake, by twos and singly, and then contemplate.” (34:46).

This contemplation is to be pursued in the form of search and research for arriving at the truth:

“You will not see any want of proportion in the Creation of (Allah) Most Gracious. So turn your vision again: do you see any flaw? Then repeat your look twice over…” (67:3-4).

 

(6)          Endeavour to rise higher and higher in knowledge, emphasized: 

The Holy Qur’an has taught the prayer:

“… and say: O my Lord! advance me in knowledge.” (20:114).

It is evident that to pray for advance in knowledge and not to strive for it with might and main would be the height of irrationality. Therefore, this prayer implies the Divine Command for striving after knowledge. Hence, the duty to strive with a devoted and sincere heart for continuous progress in knowledge.

 

(7)          Objectivity in Knowledge emphasized:

But this duty has to be pursued, as the wordings of the above verse establish clearly, with reference to God, Who is the Source of all Truth. In other words, quest for knowledge should be based on unflinching faith in God and in His Guidance, and should be inspired purely by the motive of search for Reality and love for Truth. All preconceived notions, superficial opinions and conjectures should be avoided. In other words, the pursuit should be based on objectivity. Persons undertaking this pursuit should strive to be, as the Holy Qur’an states: 

“Those possessing knowledge with devotion to justice (or, objectivity in knowledge)”—in other words, “the learned who are balanced (in their view of Reality)”, being spiritually as well as rationally illumined.” (3:18).

According to the Holy Qur’an this is rationally possible only for a devotee of God, Who is the Source of all Knowledge. It says:

“Behold! in the constitution of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of the Day and the Night,—there are indeed Signs for the possessors of understanding (i.e., the wise),—such as celebrate the praises of Allah, standing, sitting, and reclining, and reflect on (the problems relating to) the constitution of the heavens and the earth (finally acquiring that stage of understanding the Reality where the conviction bursts out from them): ‘Our Lord! you did not create (all) this in vain? Glory be to You! Give us salvation from the Penalty of the Fire’.” (3:190-191).

Thus the pursuit of knowledge should have, as its technique, non-capricious penetrating observation of the universe and man.

 

(8)          Comprehensive pursuit of Knowledge emphasized:

Observation relating to the Universe as a whole has been emphasized, among other verses, in 3:191 quoted above. Observation of man’s immediate environment—natural as well as social—and of his inner self has been emphasized in the following verses:

“On the earth are Signs for those who have sure faith (in the meaningfulness of all things), as also (there are Signs) in your own selves: will you not, then, observe?” (51:20-21).

 

(9)          Quest for the stage of ‘Wisdom’ emphasized:

Such quest for knowledge will bear the fruit of al-Hikmah, or the Wisdom, about which the Holy Qur’an says:

“… and whoso is granted the Wisdom, receives indeed abundant Good, but none receives admonition save those possessing understanding.” (2:269).

They will finally be blessed with guiding mankind aright on the basis of sure knowledge contained in the Divine Guidance, even as the Holy Prophet (Peace be on him) has been asked by God to declare:

“Say: ‘This is my Way. I call to Allah with sure knowledge, I and whoever follows after me. To Allah be glory! And I am not among the idolators’.” (12:108).

 

(10)  The correct technique of attaining Higher Knowledge:

The process of education for acquiring higher knowledge, deducible from the Holy Qur’an, may also be mentioned here for further edification. Speaking of the functions of the Holy Prophet (Peace be on him) as Divine Teacher, the holy book informs us:

“It is He Who has sent among the Unlettered a Messenger (Muhammad) from among them, to rehearse His revelations to them, to purify them, and to teach them the Book and the Wisdom…” (62:2).

Thus, we are given three stages of education for the acquisition of higher knowledge:

1.    The stage of basic and general education, represented in the Holy Prophet’s mission by communicating Divine

Revelations to the people;

2.    The stage of spiritual and moral purification for the sake of eradicating all subjective perversions and acquiring absolute devotion to truth, even as it was ordained in the Holy Prophet’s mission;

3.    The stage of pursuing knowledge at the higher level where research is undertaken on the different facets of Reality and direct conviction is acquired on the basis of personal observation and insight, represented in the Holy Prophet’s mission by ‘teaching the Book and the Wisdom’.

 

To sum up: Cultivation of all knowledge, employing the method laid down for ensuring the service to truth, is a duty, according to the Holy Qur’an, commanded by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace be on him) in the following words:

“Quest for knowledge is a duty for every Muslim man and woman.” (Muslim’s Sahih, Kitab al-‘Ilm, p. 34).

 

 

 

(2) Duty of Omission

Subjectivity and capriciousness in the pursuit of knowledge, as also lack of the spirit of observation and open-minded understanding of Truth, condemned:

According to the Holy Qur’an, those who employ subjectivity and caprice in the domain of knowledge remain misguided, in spite of the apparent scholarly tone of their endeavor:

“Have you seen him who has taken his caprice to be his god, and Allah has left him astray despite his knowledge, and has sealed up his hearing and his heart (and understanding), and has set on his sight a covering? Who, then, will guide him after Allah (has withdrawn guidance)? Will you not receive admonition?” (45:23).

This is so because:

“… they have no knowledge therein. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails nothing against Truth.” (53:38).

As to those who lack the spirit of observation and open-minded understanding of the Truth, they are led to, or remain in, nothing less than infidelity. We are told:

“How many a Sign there is in the heavens and in the earth that they pass by, turning away from it. And most of them believe not in God without associating other gods with Him!” (12:105-106).

This is so, because:

“… They have hearts, but understand not with them (i.e., do not exert their will to understand); they have eyes, but perceive not with them; they have ears, but hear not with them. They are like cattle; nay, they are worse (in their listlessness). They are heedless.” (7:179).

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Quranic Foundation & Structure Of Muslim Society In The End Times

 

THE GRAND DESIGN-JEWISH-CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE - ISLAM AND THE FUTURE OF MONEY

THE GRAND DESIGN

There is a grand design that links international politics, international monetary economics and religion with today’s fraudulent monetary system.  Let us explain. Every Jewish child knows about, and believes in, a divine promise communicated to the Israelite people in which Allah Most High promised that history would end with one man, who would be a Prophet and the Messiah, ruling the whole world from the throne of David (‘alaihi al-Salam) in Holy Jerusalem with eternal rule. Jews concluded there-from that history would end with Pax Judaica (a Judeo-world-order), and with Jerusalem once more at the center of the world as it was at the time of Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salam). They believed that Pax Judaica would validate the Jewish claim to truth, while invalidating all other such claims. 

It is quite remarkable that Muslims and Christians both share with Jews the belief that the historical process would culminate with the Messiah ruling the world with justice from Holy Jerusalem. However, unlike Jews, Muslims and Christians both believe that Jesus, the son of the Virgin Mary, was the divinely promised Messiah. They also both believe that he was raised into the heavens at the time of the attempt to crucify him, and that he would return to rule the world from Jerusalem exactly as divinely prophesied. 

The Qur’an explained the phenomenon of his return by disclosing that Jesus was not crucified but, rather, that Allah Most High caused it to appear as such:

“That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Apostle of Allah";  — but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not. Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise.

 (Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157-158) 

Christians have rejected that declaration of the Qur’an, and persist in their belief that Jesus was crucified.

Jews, on the other hand, reject Jesus as the Messiah, and await another Messiah who would liberate the Holy Land for Jews, bring them back to the Holy Land to reclaim it as their own, restore the Holy State of Israel in the Holy Land (i.e., the Holy Israel that was created by the Prophets David and Solomon), and then cause that Israel to become the ruling state in the world. That Messiah would then rule the world from Holy Jerusalem with Pax Judaica and bring back the Jewish golden age. 

There is compelling evidence that continues to mysteriously unfold in the world that appears to validate the Jewish claim to truth. After all, the ‘liberation’ of the Holy Land took place in 1917. Then the world witnessed the subsequent return of the Jews to the Holy Land to reclaim it as their own some 2000 years after they were expelled from it by divine decree. The establishment of the present (imposter) State of Israel then followed in 1948, and subsequently growth of Israel to super-power status in the world became evident. Along the way the Judeo-Christian alliance that brought modern western civilization into being has made steady progress towards the establishment of a world government. It now appears to be only a matter of time before Israel replaces USA as the ruling state in the world, and a ruler of Israel makes his appearance as the head of a world government based in Jerusalem, and he makes the momentous claim that he is the Messiah! 

Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) informed the world that Allah Most High, who had pre-knowledge of all events, had responded to the Jewish rejection of the true Messiah by creating a false Messiah. He disclosed that Allah Most High would release that evil being into the world in a dimension of time other than our own (see chapter two of ‘Surah al-Kahf and the Modern Age’ entitled ‘The Qur’an and Time’), and with a mission to impersonate the true Messiah. Consequently Dajjal the false Messiah would have to attempt to establish a world government through which he would rule over the world from Jerusalem.  

There is information in the life of the blessed Prophet which indicates that the false Messiah was released into the world after the Prophet’s Hijrah to Madina had taken place, and after the Jews of Madina had rejected him as a true Prophet and the Qur’an as the revealed word of Allah Most High. ‘Jerusalem in the Qur’an,’ has explained this subject in quite some detail.

The Prophet also disclosed that one of the most formidable weapons that the false Messiah would use to achieve his goal of ruling the world from Jerusalem would be that of reducing mankind to such a state of internal spiritual blindness that they would be incapable of perceiving his diabolical strategies and would thus be deceived. (See ‘Surah al-Kahf and the Modern Age’ chapter on ‘Moses and Khidr’).

The Prophet disclosed the supreme strategy through which the false Messiah would seek to impose his universal dictatorship over mankind to be the weapon of Riba. With Riba he would enslave with poverty those who resist him, and empower with wealth those who accept and support him.  The rich elite of mankind so created would then be used as clients and surrogates to exploit and enslave the poor masses and rule over them on behalf of the false Messiah.

THE GRAND DESIGN AND

THE JEWISH-CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE

The Qur’an has strictly prohibited Muslims from entering into friendly relations or an alliance with such Jews and Christians who themselves reconcile and establish Judeo-Christian friendship and alliance. It did so in the following momentous verse of Surah al-Maidah:

“Oh you who believe (in Allah Most High) do not take (such) Jews and Christians as your friends and allies who themselves are friends and allies of each other. And whoever from amongst you turns to them with friendship and alliance belongs to them. Surely Allah will not guide a people who commit such (an act of) Dhulm (evil, wickedness).”

(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:51)

We live in precisely such a world in which a Judeo-Christian alliance has emerged for the very first time in history. It is that alliance which has created modern western civilization, and which now rules the world through the United Nations Organization, etc. It has created a monetary and economic system through which it has already succeeded in unjustly enriching itself at the expense of the rest of the world. It is that Jewish-Christian alliance which established the International Monetary Fund. The reader must now question whether the Qur’anic verse quoted above has prohibited Muslim membership in international organization created and controlled by that Jewish-Christian alliance. The answer should be obvious.

A rich elite now rules over the poor masses of mankind, and the rich nations now rule over the rest of the world. In addition, the wealthy ruling elite around the world now constitute one Jama’ah, and the stage is now set for the appearance of their one Amir, who would rule the world from Jerusalem and would be the false Messiah.

Those who cannot recognize Dajjal the false Messiah as the mastermind behind the present world-order, now rule almost the entire Muslim world. They consequently defy the Qur’anic prohibition while establishing and maintaining friendly ties and even alliance with that Judeo-Christian alliance. So long as such people continue to rule over Muslims, the Ummah of Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) would continue to remain imprisoned in miserable poverty and incapable of resisting those who wage war on Islam on behalf of the State of Israel. 

We now describe one of the processes of Riba through which Dajjal empowers with wealth those who support him, and enslaves with poverty those who oppose him. What he did was to establish an international monetary system that corrupted money in such a way that it could be manipulated and made to function as a vehicle of legalized theft, gigantic fraud, and economic oppression. One of the very visible forms of such is the exploitation of labor through slave wages.  Around the world of the so-called free market economy today, governments have found it necessary to impose minimum wage legislation in order to prevent bloody rebellion by those imprisoned in slave wages.

The reader can easily recognize the very heart of the process of legalized theft in the international monetary system that the Judeo-Christian alliance has created by focusing attention on an event that occurred in April 1933. The US Government enacted legislation at that time prohibiting American residents from keeping gold coins, bullion or gold certificates in their possession. Gold coins were demonetized, and were no longer permitted as legal tender. They could not be used as money. If anyone was caught with such gold after a certain date, he could be fined $10,000 and/or be imprisoned for six months. In exchange for the gold coins and bullion, the Federal Reserve Bank, which is a private bank, offered paper currency (i.e., US dollars) with an assigned numerical value of $20 for every one ounce of gold.

Most Americans rushed to exchange their gold for paper currency, but those who were aware of the rip off that was about to take place bought gold with their paper currency and then shipped the gold away to Swiss banks.

It is significant that the British government also demonetized gold coins in the same year as the US. They did so through the simple expedient of suspending the redeemability of the sterling paper pound into gold.

After all the gold in USA had been exchanged for paper currency, the US Government then proceeded in January 1934 to arbitrarily devalue the US paper dollar by 41% and to then rescind the law of prohibition concerning gold that was previously enacted. The American people rushed back to exchange their paper currency for gold at the new exchange value of $35 per ounce of gold. In the process, they were robbed of 41% of their wealth. The reader can now easily recognize the legalized theft that takes place when paper currency is devalued. 

The Qur’an has specifically prohibited, hence declared Haram, such a robbery of people’s wealth. It has done so, for example, in these verses of Surah al-Nisa and Surah Hud: 

“O ye who believe! Do not appropriate each others property and wealth in a manner that is unjust and unfair: Rather, let business be transacted in a manner that brings mutual satisfaction . . . .!”

(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:29)

"And O my people! give just measure and weight, and do not deprive people of what is rightfully theirs by diminishing the value of their things (such as value of labor, merchandise, property, etc.) and do not commit evil in the land with intent to corrupt and destroy.”

(Qur’an, Hud, 11:85)

And Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) has declared such transactions which are based on deception, and which yield a profit or gain to which one is not justly entitled (i.e., acts of ‘ripping off’), to be Riba.*

(*“Anas ibn Malik said that the Messenger of Allah said: Deceiving a mustarsal (someone who is unaware of market prices) is Riba.” 

(Sunan Baihaqi)

“Abdullah bin Abu Aufa said: A man displayed some goods in the market and took a false oath that he had been offered so much for them though he was not offered that amount. Then the following divine verse was revealed: Verily! Those who purchase a little gain at the cost of Allah’s covenant and their oaths . . . will get painful punishment. (3:77) Ibn Abu Aufa added: Such a person (as described above) is a treacherous consumer of Riba.”

(Bukhari)

Transactions based on deception such as concealing the market-price, can permit a seller or buyer to sell or buy goods at a price higher or lower than the market price, and thus realise a gain or profit greater than that to which he was justly entitled. We may now deduce that any transaction which is based on deception and which realises for the agent of deception a profit or gain greater than that to which he is justly entitled would be Riba. The modern monetary system based on non-redeemable paper currencies that constantly lose value constitute precisely such deception that yields profit or gain to which they creators of the monetary system are not justly entitled. Hence it must be recognised as Riba.)

The Federal Reserve Bank appeared in the above incident to have initiated a ‘trial run’ to test domestically the new monetary system through which a massive and unjust transfer of wealth throughout the unsuspecting world could be achieved. That transfer would take place through the simple device of creating money out of worthless paper and then forcing paper currency upon all of mankind.  Those who control the monetary system would then target certain currencies and force them to be continuously devalued. As such paper currencies lost value the unsuspecting masses would suffer massive loss of wealth, however, their ‘loss’ would result in ‘gain’ for others.

Less than two years earlier, in September 1931, the British pound was devalued by 30% and this gradually increased to 40% by 1934. France then followed with a devaluation of the French Franc by 30%, the Italian Lira was devalued by 41%, and the Swiss Franc by 30%. The same thing subsequently happened in most European countries. Only Greece went beyond the rest of Europe to devalue its currency by a whopping 59%.

What appeared to be "beggar thy neighbor" policies of 1930s — using currency devaluations to increase the competitiveness of a country's export products in order to reduce balance of payments deficits — resulted in plummeting national incomes, shrinking demand, mass unemployment, and an overall decline in world trade that came to be known as the Great Depression. However, it prepared the way for the imposition of an international monetary system that ostensibly sought to bring order and prevent chaos in the world of money and trade.  In other words, the Great Depression was artificially contrived in order to justify the imposition of an international monetary system that would bring order to a chaotic world of money.

This unusual and highly suspicious collaboration amongst European countries in the almost simultaneous and utterly fraudulent devaluation of their currencies should have awakened Muslims to the grave dangers posed by the European Judeo-Christian monetary system of paper currencies.

The Judeo-Christian alliance went on to establish a ‘paper currency’ international monetary system at Bretton Woods. They used the link between the US dollar and gold in the Bretton Woods Agreement as a fig leaf to hide the fact that paper could now be printed and used as money without any requirement that it be redeemable in the market in real money, i.e., money with intrinsic value. The Bretton Woods Agreement paved the way for the International Monetary Fund to be established in 1944 with the explicit function of maintaining an international monetary system of precisely such non-redeemable paper currencies. By 1971 even the fig leaf disappeared when USA reneged on its treaty obligation under international law to redeem US dollars for gold. 

It is amazing, really, that there was no significant Islamic intellectual response to warn and mobilise Muslims to oppose the new fraudulent monetary system. If scholars of Islam were blinded by the fig leaf that was the US dollar, and could not see the fraudulent nature of the monetary system, there has been no fig leaf since 1971 that could cover the shame of legalised theft. Yet the world of Islamic scholarship still failed to see that modern paper money was Haram. Consequently, the entire Muslim world blindly followed the Judeo-Christian alliance into the proverbial monetary lizard’s hole.

As the European Judeo-Christian alliance decolonised the rest of the colonised world they ensured that the decolonised non-European world was absorbed into the new monetary system through membership in the International Monetary Fund. 

The Articles of Agreement of the IMF prohibited the use of gold as money.*

(*Since this writer’s webmaster has informed him that someone from the IMF has been a regular visitor to his website, he invites the IMF to correct him in this matter if he is wrong.)

It did so by prohibiting any link between gold and paper currencies other than the US dollar. Art. 4 Section 2(b) of the Articles of Agreement stated: “exchange arrangements may include (i) the maintenance by a member of a value for its currency in terms of the special drawing right or another denominator, other than gold, selected by the member, or (ii) cooperative arrangements by which members maintain the value of their currencies in relation to the value of the currency or currencies of other members, or (iii) other exchange arrangements of a member's choice.”

In April 2002, US Congressman Ron Paul sent the following letter to both the US Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Bank (which, incidentally, is a privately owned bank) asking why the IMF prohibits gold-backed currencies for its member states: 

Dear Sirs:

I am writing regarding Article 4, Section 2b of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Articles of Agreement. As you may be aware, this language prohibits countries who are members of the IMF from linking their currency to gold. Thus, the IMF is forbidding countries suffering from an erratic monetary policy from adopting the most effective means of stabilizing their currency. This policy could delay a country's recovery from an economic crisis and retard economic growth, thus furthering economic and political instability.

I would greatly appreciate an explanation from both the Treasury and the Federal Reserve of the reasons the United States has continued to acquiesce in this misguided policy. Please contact Mr. Norman Singleton, my legislative director, if you require any further information regarding this request.

Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Ron Paul

U.S. House of Representatives

It is significant that neither the Federal Reserve Bank nor the US Treasury Department has so far responded to this request for an explanation. The reason why they have not responded is that there is no explanation other than the fact that the monetary system established through the IMF was designed to rip off mankind and eventually impose financial slavery on all those people who are targeted by the Jewish-Christian alliance which now rules the world.

The IMF was used to establish a new international monetary system with new and strange monetary terminology, and Muslims found themselves confronted by terms they had never before experienced. There was a world of a difference between ‘local (paper) currency’, which was accepted as a medium of exchange in the country in which it was issued, and ‘foreign exchange’ paper currency that was the medium of exchange for trade outside of that country. Therefore, if Muslims in Malaysia wanted to sell goods to Muslims in neighbouring Indonesia, the Indonesians had to find foreign exchange to pay for their purchases. However, such foreign exchange was, for all practical purposes, limited to either European paper currencies or to the US dollar. Thus, the trap was set for demand for such European currencies as the US dollar that then became known as ‘hard’ currency. So long as the Judeo-Christian alliance could maintain demand for their paper currencies all that they had to do was to keep on printing such money and, in the process, keep on creating wealth out of nothing. 

The evil plan behind the whole system was also to get Western currencies, as well as those of their surrogates, to constantly increase in value in relation to other currencies. That was achieved through the simple device of either coaxing or forcing devaluation of targeted currencies. As such currencies were devalued, it resulted in a massive transfer of wealth from the masses to the elite. It also forced labour into working for slave wages, and it imprisoned those who took hard currency loans from an ever-willing IMF and from European commercial banks and now found themselves in ever-increasing difficulty to repay those loans with interest. In fact, the entire monetary system with its IMF centre piece was specifically designed to achieve such results. Targeted countries were trapped with huge loans, were continuously drained of their wealth, and were impoverished as they struggled to repay loans with money that constantly lost value. It did not happen by accident.

Finally, and most glaring of all, the new international monetary system of paper money facilitated the banking system, through fractional reserve banking, to lend on interest money it did not possess. That, also, was legalised fraud. I suspect that the Muftis of Islam neither understand what is meant by fractional reserve banking, nor do they have adequate knowledge of the history of international monetary economics briefly described in this essay. When electronic money totally replaces paper currency, and the unjust monetary system perfects itself, I fear that the Muftis would declare ‘electronic money’ as well to be Halal. 

The IMF was created with a specific purpose of preventing currency exchange restrictions that would hinder the constant devaluation of targeted currencies. Thus the Articles of Agreement declared that the IMF would “assist in the . . .  elimination of foreign exchange restrictions which hamper the growth of world trade.” The elimination of foreign exchange restrictions would then expose a targeted currency to financial attacks that would create opportunities for windfall profits as the currencies lost value.

The international monetary system that emerged out of the Bretton Woods Conference has already succeeded in imprisoning the masses of mankind, including nearly the entire Muslim world, in the prison of permanent poverty and (sometimes) destitution. However, when paper money is replaced by electronic money, such would bring in its wake financial slavery. Muslims must respond in an appropriate way if they are to ever expect any divine assistance that could deliver them from financial slavery. What can that response be? Where should they begin?

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