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Please enlighten me brother, what are we suppose to do when imperial powers invade our lands? Do the same as the Arabs did earlier in the century? If you can't beat them join them. Wave the white flag of surrender and take them as our masters? So imperialist can set up puppet government?
I mean come on, have you ever asked yourself why on Earth the British would appoint king Faisal over Iraq? This is just a simple example but there are numerous example like it. Every time we appeased to the Westerners we brought humiliation upon ourselves.
Who gives them the right to rule and why should the Muslim masses follow such ruler?
Take the Crusaders for example, they were in Palestine for 90 years and you had some Muslim leaders making 'peace treaty with them' and people who wanted to fight them weren't popular in the beginning.
Those who wanted to fight them weren't helped. The caliphate in Baghdad did absolutely nothing aside from giving nice 'khutbahs' about Jihad, which is merely words. Somtimes those with the least popular position tend to have the correct one. Allahu Alam,
If all we did was make peace treaties the crusaders would still be in Palestine.
Actually that's exactly what happened, the Jews were able to return precisely because we made 'peace treaties' with the colonialist and they made 'sikes picott agreement' as a thank you gift.
Is it a huge coincidence that virtually every Muslim country has western form of laws rather than Islamic ones?
This whole passiveness got us into this mess in the first place. Are we to appease to Western pressures? This is ridiculous! Appeasement lead us nowhere, except toward humiliation and defeat. We are still struggling to overcome the consequences of appeasement to this day.
Allah The Most High says "Jihad is ordained for you, even though you hate it"
I don't understand the logic of the people who says listen to our rulers even when he is a
munafiq. Even when the ruler is in plain error and harming the Muslims? Think about it for a second, why would any fasiq ruler fight for the benefit of the Muslims when he is benefiting from the 'status que'? Those who benefit from the status que would never change it! Sure we can have patience, but for how long? If you give them 100 years they will spread corruption and mischief on earth for 100 years. This is illogical and foolish.
Allah says: "Do not spread mischief and corruption in the land"
Yes, I'm well aware of the hadeeth that restraints rebellion against ruler, and I'm not denouncing the hadeeth rather I take the opposing view point which can be concluded from analyzing many different hadeeth and placing them in their proper context.
You know, I've read somwhere by Sheikh Albani or Uthaymeen, that we have tyrants and Fasiq leaders ruling over us, because of our sins.
Perhaps one of our greatest sin was to appease to foreigners and unfit rulers. Yes, I do agree that we have tyrants and munafiqs ruling over us because we allowed them to do so, or because of the state of being. So yes the previous generations who let these conditions take place sinned. That is more the reason why we shouldn't follow in their footsteps.
That is why I think this Jihad (to establish law based on the book of Allah and Sunnah of his Rasul salelaelahi wasalam) should have been fought long time ago.
I'm sure you're well aware of the virtue of Jihad and the consequences that arises when the Muslims abandon Jihad. In my humble opinion I think we are in this humiliating condition precisely because we left Jihad and we failed to establish the law of Allah.
I'm of the opinion that Muslims reserve the right to fight every and all opposing kuffar forces in the Muslim world. Since Muslim government cannot do so, those who are willing has the absolute right to oppose them.
Here is something to ponder over. Since you will not accept anything from other than those whom you consider 'saalafs'
Sheikh Ibn Tayima (may Allah bestow His mercy and peace upon him), said
"Any ruler who does not rule according to the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of the Prophet (may Allah's peace be upon him), has left the fold of Islam"
If you read his opinion concerning rulers, and many of the political issues affecting Muslmis, SubhanAllah he sounds nothing like you or the things you post here all the time.
I've asked you this once before, where were people like you when Muslims in Afghanistan fought against the Soviet? How were they different? Why weren't people calling them "khawrij and takferris"?
Please enlighten me.
Islamic history testifies to the fact, that when the Ummah fought Jihad they were prosperous and wealthy, and when they abandon Jihad they were humiliated.
I did not intend to make this another 'western this, imperial that' type of post, since the topic is Jihad it was inevitable.
Thank You for your honest opinion, but I choose not to follow the way of the Ulama of Sultan or the Munafiq leaders.
Yes Ulama have credibility, but I think their credibility is compromised when a Fasiq ruler who having the power to establish Sharia chooses not to and appoints Ulamas. There is something shady about that. Come on, Hosni Mubarak appointing the head of Al-Azhar? The fact that Fasiq rulers are given authority to rule over us, raises a million questions. What is the purpose of having leaders? What is their duty toward their subjects? Ibn Khaldun says "God gave authority to the ruler so they establish the rule of law based on his book and serve a restraining influence over the pople, and also look after the best interest of the Muslims"
I'm just paraphrasing his words.
There is no such thing as Muslim Leader presently, your whole statement is a joke.
The issue is not for Muslim leaders to speak about, since they are
Fasiq to begin with (I'm talking about the political leadership), the issue is for Ulama to clarify. So that is what I understood from the Quran, 'the role of the scholar is to clarify the issues'.
Where we differ is which Ulama do we listen to, that's all.
This is not an issue of
Aqeedah either, yet I hear alot of people denouncing different group of Muslims left and right.
I think we should we restraint our jdgement and avoid the habit of generalising.
p.s. This Sheikh from one of my local Masjid made this joke. "When Iblis saw Hosni Mubarak, he cried "I seek refuge from Satan, the accursed one"
Political Leaderships in the Muslim world care little about Islam or implementing Islamic laws and institutions. That is a fact! If the political leadership adapts such attitude, the masses of the Muslim are left alone to acquire knowledge by themselves without having proper instutions to guide them. Generations after generation grows up in the same corrupt envrionment and drifts further away from the deen. Things like allowing of alcohol nightclubs are small examples, but if young generations grow up in these envrionment how far will their offsprings will be from the deen? Muslims don't even have basic instituions. In most countries you have to go to a secular court. The political leadership would want us to believe 'religion is an individual thing that you practice at the comfort of your home.
SubhanAllah that is what people of Prophet Shoaib said. "What religion has got to do with business?" Islam encompasses everything.
Islam is an organized religion, it needs insutitions, leadership and great amount of organization. We are prevented from doing that. When a group of Muslim attempt to organize in some fashion they are looked with suspicion by the government.
Subhanallah, Sisters in Tunisia and Turkey can't even wear Hijab in public instituions. This is where the political leadership will take us. Realize this before it's too late. If we do nothing and keep appeasing to these stupid leaderships things are just going to get worst. The more we have patience and compromise the weaker we will get.
I think this is the most important challenge facing us, implementing Sharia.
I've typed too much.