In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
“ARISE & WARN AND GLORIFY THY LORD”
[Al-Muddathir: 74: 2-3]
[Shamim A Siddiqi,
HUMANITY WAS IN A MESS: Before the advent of Mohammad Ibne Abdullah of Makkah as the
Messenger of Allah in 610 AC, humanity was in a mess at
every count of its individual and collective life. There was no Divine Guidance
on earth. Both Torah and Bible were lost or mutilated by human innovations. As
such, along with the Messenger, the Creator and Sustainer, out of His infinite
mercy and commitment, sent His final and the most updated Guidance, the Qur’an
through Prophet Muhammad (S) to direct the humans as how to act, live and
behave on earth and deliver Justice, peace and security to human abode.
With
the captioned words of the second Wahi: “Qum wa Anzir wa Rabbeka Fakabbir”
Allah (SWT) entrusted the aforesaid mission to Rasulullah (S) with His command
to get up and warn the people to accept the authority of their Lord, the Sustainer in every walk of life.
Rasulullah
(S) undertook this mission as his life long pursuit started calling
his native people first and then the entire human race to the fold of their
Creator and Sustainer. Those who responded to his (S) call affirmatively were
welded into a Jamaah, a Movement and raised as the “Best of Community” with the
objective to clean the human abode from “Munkar” (the evils], establish the
“Ma’roof” (the good) in its place and deliver justice to mankind as envisaged
through Verse 110 of Surah Al-Imran and Verse # 25 of Surah Al- Hadeed
respectively:
“You
are indeed the best community [Ummah] that has been raised for mankind that has
ever been brought forth for [the good of] mankind: you enjoin the doing of what
is right and forbid the doing of what is wrong, and you believe in God”
[Al-Imran. 3: 110]
“We
verily sent our Messengers with clear prove and revealed with them the
Scriptures and the Balance so that
people deliver justice to mankind……….”
[Al-Hadeed -57: 25]
Muslim
Ummah continued to accomplish this onerous task of its existence for
centuries together in the Continents of Asia, Europe and Africa, in countries
and regions where it could establish the authority of Allah and filled the
earth with justice, peace and security till the Caliphate was abolished by
Mustafa Kama Pasha of Turkey in May 1923 while the entire Muslim world at
that time stood predominantly occupied by European secular powers. In the last
two hundred years of Colonial rule, West supplanted its secular
attitude of life, culture, education and values in the Muslim world and
massacred Islamic values ruthlessly, creating a local indigenous class of
individuals to rule the Muslim world through these proxy agents who were and
are Muslims in name only.
HUMANITY STANDS TODAY IN THE SAME MESS AGAIN: Today world stands at the same juncture where it
stood at the end of sixth Century AC with greater challenges and enormous
problems. It needs another Messenger from the Creator and Sustainer to clear
the mess and correct the situation but none is to come now. Who will then do
the job and correct the affairs of Human abode? Truly speaking, the job has
already been entrusted to the followers of Mohammad Ibne Abdullah of Makkah and
the above quoted Verses from the Qur’an pinpoint the same responsibility to be
shouldered by us, the Muslims of today.
This
is the paramount theme of my book: “CALLING
HUMANITY”. How the Muslims will do this
job now is outlined in its pages as under:
1. Muslims have to redefine, re-discover and
re-build themselves as “Ummatun Wasatan”, transform themselves as the
best of the people and set models of their character in each and every field of
life, They, especially, have to build the monumental team of its trustworthy
leadership to understand, handle and run the affairs of the modern world with
justice to all and malice to none. In this respect, the responsibility of
our existing Islamic Movements around the world is enormous and manifold.
They have the vision but not the program and the resources to accomplish it.
2.
There are 57 Muslim countries in the world but Allah’s Deen is no where
visible as a political entity. Dictatorship and undemocratic rules are
prevalent almost at all the places. Corruption is rampant as the currency of
the day. Secular culture is promoted to please their masters in the West. Islam
is practiced marginally as a "religion" and not as Al-Deen. In order
to get out of this mess, the movement oriented Muslim leadership has to
approach the rulers of the Muslim world and request them to mend their ways,
live and behave like Muslim rulers, reminding them softly with concern that one
day they are to meet their Lord: how will they face Him - with run down faces
or with flying colors? The choice is their own while they are ruling the
country. This kind of polite approach may help in resolving the situation
favorably well.
3.
Simultaneously, the Muslim leadership has to prepare the Muslim masses at the
grass root level and exhort them to live, act and behave like Muslim, be
honest in their day today conducts, give their preference to the Islamic System
of life and urge the same form of governance from their rulers at hand. If the
Islamic Movements are able to create the requisite urge in the Muslim masses
for Islamic Renaissance, things will start changing faster than our
expectation, Insha Allah. Creating the urge for democratic process in Muslim
masses will help in changing the system in due course of time, say a decade or
so.
4.
This peaceful pursuit by the Islamic Movements and the Muslim leadership will,
Insha Allah, prepare the ground to change the leadership in the Muslim lands
possibly by the end of third or the beginning of forth decade of the current
century and may help in transforming the Ummah to its glorious role of “Ummatun
Wasatan”.
5.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Movements and the Muslim leadership will have to produce
the Teams of Da’ees and the Dawah literature in abundance in the context
of modern world and send their Dawah errands to Europe, Americas and the
non-Muslim countries of Asia, Africa and Australia in a continuous process. This
job has been neglected for centuries and must now be undertaken urgently by our
Islamic Movements in an organized fashion through gradual process.
6.
Zakah funds must be organized through out the Muslim world and the rich
brothers and sisters, the affluent of the Ummah must be approached to this
effect as it is the best use of their "surpluses" or “Al-Afwah”
[Ref: Verse #219 of Al-Baqarah]. Insha Allah, funds will be forthcoming
in abundance. Only it needs efficient management by our Movements and they are
competent enough, I am sure of it, to do it magnificently well in
preparing/building the Teams of Da'ees and producing Dawah literature
in different important languages of the world.
7.
Gradually, this process will pave the way handsomely to present Islam as the
basic need of the human society at Global level and help our Islamic Movements
to build and develop Movements in different countries, parts and regions to get
the Deen of Allah introduced and spread globally, enabling the Muslim to
counteract the secular forces around the world at equal footings. The process
may take time but in all probability within two decades or so, Insha Allah, we
will be standing at par with the secular forces that are currently organized
globally and menacingly damaging the Muslims cause at alarming speed. That will
be the turning point for Muslim Ummah to deliver justice, peace and security to
the human abode.
8.
This, Insha Allah, will enable the Islamic Movements to take upper hand
and present Islam to the human society as the Greatest Need of Man
with total love, care and concern for the oppressed, the haves, the have- not,
the affluent and the deprived all at par with no distinction on account of
color, race, language and ethnicity. It would be the red letter day for the
human society. That will be the day when humanity will enter into Islam, Insha
Allah, in multitudes which Allah (SWT) has described as the unique
phenomenon in Surah Al-Nasr (# 110). History will then repeat itself.
9.
If this so much job Muslims could accomplish through my most humble
contribution within a couple of decades, most humbly I will feel obliged to the
Lord of this cosmos that my mission of life stands accomplished beyond any
shadow of doubt and that Allah (SWT) out of His infinite mercy may accept me as
His most obedient “Abd”, the zenith of human success and address my humble
self: O the Contented soul! Return thou thy Sustainer, well pleased [and]
pleasing [Him]: enter, then, together with My [other true] servants – yea,
enter thou My paradise!” [Al-FAJR #
89 Verses # 27 - 30]
I humbly pray to my Lord to grant this onerous
position to all the brothers and sisters sitting in this hall and are scattered
around the world and give Tawfeeq to each of them to undertake it as the
mission of his or her life to struggle hard to become His “Abd”. Ameen!
Wa
ma Tawfeeqi Illa Billah.
Shamim
A Siddiqi, NY.
September
22. 2012