Showing posts with label exploitation. Show all posts
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Sunday, 28 May 2023

The Judeo-Christian alliance

 


An Islamic View of Gog Magog in the Modern World
 
 

The Judeo-Christian alliance

European Christians and European Jews forged a strange alliance through reconciling their hatred and hostility for each other. They have now embraced each other in mysterious mutual friendship and alliance. They have become the rulers of the whole world and they are an absolutely unique phenomenon in history. But they are a racially ominous world-order, ominous for non-Europeans in general and for Arabs and Muslims in particular, who dare to resist their racial jingoism, globalization, injustice and oppression. Their world-order waged relentless wars of aggression in order to occupy nearly all the non-European territories of the world. The world witnessed such ethnic cleansing in North America, Southern Africa and Australia etc., as could not have been perpetrated except by those who had hearts of beasts without as much as even a grain of a mustard seed of either Christian or Jewish faith in them. 

 

Judeo-Christian European colonial rule over the rest of the world was used to steal, plunder and exploit the wealth that belonged to the rest of mankind. But Judeo-Christian European colonization of the rest of the world had an agenda that transcended the exploitation of those territories for wealth. Rather, the ultimate agenda was that of putting political, economic, cultural and educational institutions in place through which the Judeo-Christian Europeans could continue to transform such colonial territories even after decolonization took place. The transformation was meant to secularize society through a process of dismantling all institutions which provided sustenance for the religious way of life in general and for the way of life of Islam in particular. 

 

Their secularism had already so transformed medieval Euro-Christendom that it became essentially godless and amazingly decadent modern secular civilization. But they pursued their sinister agenda with such powers of deception that ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ have always been opposite to each other in everything they did and still do. Hence they succeeded in deceiving most of mankind to join with them in embracing godlessness and decadence.

 

They used their absolute power to corrupt, to oppress, and to engage in acts of injustice and wickedness unparalleled in history. Their wickedness and oppression is constantly escalating even as they offer public-relations apologies for European slavery. Even those European Christian and Jewish people who would live lives of piety, faith and righteousness and speak out against injustice and oppression were not spared. Former US President Jimmy Carter is now caricatured an “old fool”.  Jewish-Christian Western war crimes inflicted on Arab Muslim Iraq and Israeli genocide of Palestinian Muslims and Christians in Gazzah are worse than anything black Christian South Africa ever experienced during apartheid. 

 

Their greed is indescribable. They suck the wealth of all of mankind through legalized theft (otherwise known as inflation and as money-lending on interest) and even take from the poor the little they possess. Eventually they imprison all of mankind in a new economic slavery through Riba (usury). They lend huge sums of money on interest with the knowledge that the borrower would not be able to repay the loan with interest. They do so in order to gain a capacity for such financial blackmail that borrower nations eventually fall under their control. They also replace real-money with-intrinsic-value such as gold and silver coins, with nonredeemable paper currency, whose value is externally assigned and can be manipulated to their advantage. As paper-money fell in value, the masses around the world were reduced to miserable poverty while those who were already rich further enriched themselves at the expense of those who were so enslaved.   

 

Finally, they are a world-order that is strangely and mysteriously obsessed with liberating the Holy Land. Europe became Christian and then waged essentially European Holy Wars called ‘the Crusades’ for a thousand years until success was finally achieved, when a British army led by General Allenby defeated the Ottoman Islamic Empire’s army and triumphantly entered Jerusalem in 1917. Allenby then declared “today the crusades have ended”. He should have said “today the European Crusades have ended”. In fact, the European Crusades are still continuing and will not end so long as Muslims resist Judeo-Christian European oppression in the Holy Land and elsewhere in the world. 

 

Some Europeans also became Jewish and created the Euro-Jewish Zionist Movement, which then fanatically and pig-headedly pursued the goals of the Jewish return to the Holy Land and restoration of a State of Israel in that Holy Land. Those European Jews, natives of the Khazar tribes of Eastern Europe, were converts to Judaism. Europeans are not Semitic people, yet they successfully led the way, employing means more crooked than ever before, for the restoration of a State of Israel in the Holy Land. They used same means to literally force the semitic oriental (non-European) Israelite Jews, long residing in the Muslim world, to migrate to that secular State of Israel. They demonized all resistance to their oppression as anti-Semitism. The Judeo-Christian European world-order has protected and strengthened that Israel to such an extent that it has now become a superpower. Indeed it will soon become the ‘ruling state’ in the world.

 

Can all of this be an accident of history? Can it be something without meaning and explanation? If not, then what is that explanation?

 

There are scholars and writers who might obstinately shrug their shoulders and dismiss all of the above as mere chance. And there are others, who would be convinced by the evidence we present in this book derived from the blessed Qur’an as well as from the Ahadith of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) that today’s strange and mysterious Judeo-Christian European world-order is the Gog and Magog world-order.

 

The evidence also reveals that Dajjal (the false Messiah or Anti-Christ) exploited the Zionist Jews and their Christian allies while defying every moral and religious law in order to pursue that ‘pig-headed’ effort to make Israel the ‘ruling state’ in the world. The effort was made while riding the back of the ‘Gog and Magog world-order’. At the end of it all that part of the Jewish world which persists in oppression and in ‘war on Islam’ will face the Messiah they had rejected and whose crucifixion they had demanded. At that time Allah Most High, who created Gog and Magog and gave to them their indestructible power, would Himself destroy an unjust Gog and Magog world-order. Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) prophesied that an unstoppable Muslim army would then march to Jerusalem while liberating every occupied territory on its way.  The ‘Holy’ State of Israel will replace the present imposter, the ‘oppressors’ would be punished and history would thus end with the triumph of Truth over falsehood and of justice and freedom over oppression and slavery. 

 

This writer is confident that rapidly unfolding events in and around the Holy Land in particular would continuously validate the central thesis of this book and in doing so, invalidate the arguments raised by critics of that central thesis. 

 

In Surah al-Kahf of the Qur’an as well as in Prophetic commentary (Ahadith), Gog and Magog are described as two people who descended from father Adam (peace and blessings of Allah Most High be upon him). They were created by Allah Most High and endowed with great power. “None but I can destroy them”, said Allah Most High. Surah al-Kahf has described how they had to be contained behind an iron barrier because they were using their power to commit acts of Fasad (acts of wickedness, oppression corruption). The Surah also implied that they would use power to wage war on those who lived lives of faith and righteousness and that they would act malevolently against those who lived the primitive way of life or who eked out a bare subsistence living (as in Haiti, Somalia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Egypt, etc.). Thus the picture emerged of an absolutely godless and ruthless people who had the hearts of beasts. 

 

The Surah went on to inform that when the “warning of my Lord-God” came to pass (i.e. when the age of Fitan or Last Age would commence), “Allah will bring down or level the barrier” and Gog and Magog (who are a major sign of the Last Age) would be released into the world. Surah al-Anbiyah’ then revealed that they would eventually “spread out or unravel in every direction thus infiltrating all people” indicating that with an invincible power they would take control of the whole world and that, for the first time in history, one people would rule all of mankind. It also indicates that with their subtle infiltration they will transform or refashion all of mankind into carbon copies of themselves.

 

But since that world-order would witness oppression and war on religion, it would be in total conflict with the heavenly order above. No believer could possibly be comfortable with ‘mainstream society’ in such a world. 

 

to be continued . . . .
 

Saturday, 26 March 2022

12. The Intellectual & Social Evolution of Humanity


The Process of Creation

A Qur'anic Perspective
by Dr Israr Ahmad


12. The Intellectual & Social Evolution of Humanity

According to a published paper of Dr. Rafi-ud-Din, referred to earlier in this monograph, the period from the creation of Adam (pbuh) down to the present day can be taken generally as the period of conceptual or ideological evolution. However, in all humility and modesty, I beg to differ with him here and dare to present a more analytical, detailed and deeper view of humanity’s evolutionary process. I believe that the first stage of evolution consisted of purely physico-chemical changes and mutations. And the second level or stage of evolution, i.e. the biological evolutionary process, has already passed through two stages of evolution; while the third stage is presently under way.

In my estimation, the first stage of the human developmental ladder can be referred to as the phase of “intellectual evolution” the climax of which enabled man to transcend the limitations of physical/material existence and appreciate the ultimate ontological reality of the one true Lord, the Creator, on the basis of his own pristine pure nature and uncorrupted reason without the help of revealed knowledge and guidance. This indeed represents a major leap from the contingent and created beings to the affirmation of the existence and reality of the Creator and Initiator of the heavens and the cosmos. And this means not just the recognition of the one true Lord, rather it also means that, far from being earth-rooted or a person interested in immediate material gain here and now (in this world) or taking blood relations as above all else, God becomes the ideal of all moral-devotional pursuits and developing rapport with Him is seen as the summum bonum or the highest moral/spiritual achievement leading to eternal bliss and felicity.

Not obsessed with the material ephemera, the trivial and the immediate, he rejects all false demi-gods. This leap of faith brings him away from the maelstrom of daily life, suspending it. Calmness, resolute determination and peace characterize it. The monotheistic believer is led to think of the timelessness of God and the transience of life on earth making the Lord the ultimate object of his spiritual and moral endeavour. This indeed represents the first evolutionary stage of the intellectual development of humans which achieved its highest zenith in the person of Ibrahim (pbuh) (Abraham) --- roughly after 5,000 years of the appearance of Adam (pbuh).

The biographical details of the life and conduct of Ibrahim (pbuh) are highly telling. He lived among the Chaldeans who worshipped stars and other heavenly bodies. The ancestral idols were also worshipped and, in addition to this, the political ruler of the land Nimrod was too believed to be invested with divine powers. Three verses of Surah An`aam (6:76-78), according to one interpretation, show the stages of reasoning through which Ibrahim (pbuh) passed and finally reached --- on the basis of rational human thought --- monotheistic belief in one God, the Creator. Some may argue here that Ibrahim’s reasoning only led to the negation and rejection of polytheism i.e. associating partners with Allah (swt), whereas a positive insight into the unity of the Creator --- the true spiritual enlightenment --- is the result of divine grace. However, the element of rational reasoning and argument is quite clear in Ibrahim’s dialogue with his father and idolatrous people, refuting them conclusively. The whole thrust of Ibrahim’s reasoning in verses 76-78 is directed against the superstitious beliefs of his people and demonstrate the folly of worshipping stars and other heavenly bodies. As such, his statements may be seen as premises of his arguments against polytheism and nature worship. The English translation of the verses reads:

“So when the night darkened on him, he saw a star. He said: This is my Lord. But when it set, he said: I do not love the setting ones.”

“So when he saw the moon rising in splendour, he said: This is my Lord. But when it set, he said: Unless my Lord in splendour guide me, I shall certainly be among the people who go astray.”

“When he saw the sun rising in splendour, he said: This is my Lord. This is the greatest of them all!

But when it set, he said: O my people! I quit that you associate (with Allah).”[6:76-78]

True knowledge shows that stars, sun and moon --- indeed all heavenly bodies --- rise and set according to laws whose author is Allah (swt). What folly and how foolish to worship creatures, when we might turn to the one true God. Let us abjure all these follies and proclaim the one true God, argued Ibrahim (pbuh). Thus, he expresses his final conclusion in these words:

“Surely I have set my face towards Him who has created heavens and the earth, firmly and truly upright, and never shall I associate partners with Allah.” [6:79]

This total and enthusiastic commitment to one Lord made Ibrahim (pbuh) place Allah (swt) at the forefront of his personal loyalties. Ibrahim (pbuh), the iconoclast of the Qur’an is the highest of the typical seminal religious figures and a staunch believer in the oneness of God. The monotheistic belief fully permeated his entire self and conduct and therefore the Qur’an rightly calls him a friend of Allah (swt) [Khaleel Allah; 4:125]. On the other hand, he was declared a leader (imam) for the entire humankind [2:124]. He was subjected by Allah (swt) to immense trials of greatest magnitude and he failed in none of them. In everything, Ibrahim (pbuh) fulfilled Allah’s wish and thus became the epitome of “Islam”. As such, he fully deserved the promised leadership of the people for all times to come.

After the completion of intellectual evolution in the person of Ibrahim (pbuh), it was the right moment for the kick-off of gradual human social evolution. In Ibrahim (pbuh), the monotheistic belief was internalized to the maximum degree as a result of which he became a paragon of the highest moral virtues like truthfulness, fidelity, affability and gentleness. Of course, this was all at the level of an individual’s thought and behaviour. At this juncture of human history, however, the need of the hour was to externalize these moral virtues in human collectivities and corporate life. The society and the state, as a result of this, should fully reflect the Divine sovereignty and His universal providence and sustenance --- thus exemplifying Allah’s attributes of “The Just” and “standing firm on justice” [3:18].

The Qur’an mentions three messengers --- Nuh, Hud and Saleh (pbut) --- who came before Ibrahim (pbuh) and contains extensive detail about the preaching of these probably all Arabian prophets. They were sent to wayward tribes in pre-Islamic times in regions that were, judging by clues in the Qur’an, close to locales and haunts frequented by the contemporaries of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Prior to Ibrahim (pbuh), people generally indulged in only one error: the erroneous belief in polytheism, otherwise living a simple and moral life. The evils of civilization had not yet tainted their life and conduct. Therefore, the earlier messengers only focussed on the affirmation of tawheed (monotheism) and negation of Shirk (polytheism).

With Ibrahim (pbuh) we see that human societies, going beyond their earlier simple lives, started showing all sorts of imbalances and moral turpitude. They indulged not only in all types of sexual perversion, but also exhibited social disruption through trade and monetary irregularities and worst economic and political exploitations.

 to be continued  . . . .


Saturday, 17 July 2021

The Prohibition of Riba (Interest)




CHAPTER EIGHT


CONCLUSION

We live today in a world in which the overwhelming majority of those who buy houses, or cars etc., or who pay for college education, do so on the basis of bank loans which involve the payment of interest. Most of those who use credit cards also incur loans with interest. In fact I know of cases where Muslims took bank loans on interest in order to meet the cost of performing the hajj or, worse yet, to establish a masjid!.

The overwhelming majority of such people has gone on to invest their savings in investments such as fixed deposits in banks, bonds etc. which yield interest.

What most of such people do not know, and would not know were it not for the Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad (s), is that every time they borrow money on interest, or take the interest which the bank pays them for a fixed deposit, they commit a sin worse than rape. In addition, they are either being ripped-off and oppressed, or are participating in a rip-off or an act of oppression, or are legitimizing a system of oppression and exploitation! When they borrow money on interest they support a system of legalized theft and oppression which sucks the blood of mankind. As such they bear responsibility for the whole system of blood-sucking,

This is clear from the fact that the Prophet cursed all four, the taker of riba, the giver of riba the scribe who records the transaction, and the two witnesses, and declared that they were all equally guilty.
(Sahih Muslim)

It is our responsibility to explain this to them. This book should assist us in doing so. The reason why mankind is largely unaware of the divine prohibition of riba (interest or usury) is because the scriptures sent by Allah the Most High, were rewritten and changed to modify the prohibition of riba!

This happened with the Torah sent to Moses (s) and the Gospel sent to Jesus (s). And so Allah sent the Qur’an which declared riba to be haram (prohibited by Allah the Most High). And Prophet Muhammad (s) explained that all those involved in such transactions (whether as borrower, lender, administrative personnel, or witnesses to the transaction) would be committing a very great sin for which they would be severely punished by Allah the Most High, The Prophet (s) informed the world that he saw people in hell with huge protruding transparent bellies filled with snakes. He was told that they were people who consumed riba!

It matters not whether the people involved in such transactions are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, part-time Muslims or any other people, it would still be a sin, and they would still be severely punished. This is so because Prophet Muhammad (s) was sent as the final prophet of Allah the Most High, to all mankind; and the divine guidance in the Qur’an is addressed to all mankind. Thus the prohibition of riba applies to all Americans, all Chinese, indeed all mankind!

We have made the point, in this book, that the Qur'an simply restored and reaffirmed the prohibition of riba in all divine scriptures revealed previously to Moses, David, and Jesus (peace and blessings of Allah be upon them).

So great is the sin of riba that there are, perhaps, very few sins which a human being can commit which can be greater than it, such would be the sin of worshiping a god or gods other than Allah the Most High, such as idols, or a god who is male or female, or a god who appeared in the person of a man in Bethlehem or Chicago etc. Such also would be the sin of assuming divine powers and changing and rewriting the revealed Word of Allah the Most High; (which was done to the Torah, the Psalms and the Gospel in respect of the prohibition of riba) etc.

Our examination of the subject has revealed riba to be any economic advantage or material gain which is derived by way of deception through means which are unjust, such as ripping off, cheating, bribing, corrupt exploitation of influence or authority for unjust advantage, deception in trade, speculative transactions, living off the sweat of others etc.

Riba sometimes takes the form of a system of legalized theft as in a banking system based on interest and usury, or a monetary system based on non-redeemable artificial paper money. Because of riba money itself, which is basically a store and measure of value and a medium of exchange, is replaced with an artificial substitute which becomes a commodity traded in a market. The currency markets, as well as so many other markets, are skillfully manipulated for the value of paper money to constantly decrease. The US dollar, for example has lost 92% of its value in the last 25 years. Very few people are even conscious of this fact. Every time artificial money loses value the masses lose and predatory elite gains. That is riba!

Because of riba wealth is sucked from the masses and is concentrated in a predatory global elite. Society eventually becomes polarized between 'haves' and 'have nots'. Wealth then circulates only amongst the wealthy while the poor are condemned to be imprisoned in permanent poverty. The predators then move to the security of the well-protected suburbs to escape the violence which now ravages those societies which, have been sucked dry of their wealth. European civilization has already witnessed this. The predators in European civilization have left behind their Euro-Jewish synagogues and Euro-Christian churches, and have abandoned their dead in their Euro-cemeteries located in inner cities which have been ravaged by riba.


Riba thus constitutes various forms of economic exploitation and oppression made possible through the corruption of the free and fair market. Because of riba a new sophisticated form of slavery is descending upon all mankind. And European civilization continues to be the slave-masters. The supreme slave-masters today are, however, those Jewish people who are the masters of riba.

In Capitalism wealth must constantly increase, by means fair or foul. More than anything else it is riba which ensures that increase. The rich grow richer and the poor grew poorer. In Islam the goal is to ensure that wealth circulates throughout the economy and not circulate only amongst the rich (Qur’an 59:7). What a difference! (i.e. community of believers) and the Imam (i.e. the Ameer or leader of the jama’at) whose authority is constituted through the act of baiya’ah or pledge of allegiance, thus that community and its leader will live their lives in conformity with the Qur’an and Sunnah and, as a consequence, would be rightly guided.

I said: if there is neither a jamaa’at nor an Imam? He said; Then turn away from all those firaq (i.e. misguided Muslim groups which, since they have failed to constitute, themselves as a jama’at without an Imam/Ameer whose authority is established through baiya’ah are denounced as sects) even if you were to bite (eat) the roots of a tree till death over-takes you while you are in that state.
(Bukhari, Muslim)

And so, the best protection against riba that one can take is to be a member of the jama’ah which is led by an Imam who has knowledge of the Deen and is leading jama’ah in accordance with the guidance and injunctions in the Qur’an and Sunnah. One should give the pledge of obedience to such an Imam and then live in accordance with the discipline which he enforces.

May Allah the Most High, grant His protection from the great sin of riba to all those who follow the advice of the Prophet (s) to adhere to the jama’ah and to obey the Imam/Ameer. Ameen! 
And may He forgive any mistakes we may have made in treating this important and difficult subject. Ameen!

to be continued . . . . 

The Prohibition of Riba (Interest) by Imran Hosein



The Prohibition of Riba (Interest) (Q&A) by Imran Hosein