In the Name of Allah,
the Beneficent, the Merciful
THE IDEAL MUSLIM &
THE IDEAL MUSLIMAH
Alhamdulillah, different brothers define in
their way that who is an ideal Muslim. Those are the qualifications
of a "routine" or a "traditional" Muslim
whereas the need is that of an Ideal Muslim and for that we need
extra efforts to find out who are they, where they are found, what they
constitute, how they can be built, how they live, act and behave, and how
they would look like as living human beings in the context of the modern world.
* The
Ideal Muslim - He is a twenty four servant [Abd] of his
Master, leading a consciously life that his “Salah, sacrifices, life and
death all are for his Lord”, seeking help only for “Rabbunnas” [The Sustainer
of humans] and constantly feeling accountable to Him for all his actions and
deeds on earth.
* He always tries to seek the pleasure of his
Master, obeys His commands to the maximum possible extent and keeps away
from all that He has prohibited not to go nearby it
- ‘Whenever his Lord said unto him: “Surrender”,
he said: Lo! I have surrendered to the Lord of the cosmos” [Ref: Verse # 131 of
Al-Baqarah]
* He always sustains the vision as how to get
the world streamline for Truth and bring it under the control of its
Creator and Sustainer?
* That Ideal Muslim would always be
thinking as how to manage his life for the prolong struggle against
Batil forces who are occupying the abode of man “forcefully and wrongly”
and filling the earth with all kinds of torture, corruption,
confusion, oppression, exploitation, fraudulent practices,
filth and wrongful usurpations?
* That Ideal Muslim is the most obedient
servant of Allah, maneuvering always as how to get the Deen of Allah
introduced, spread and establish His authority ultimately on self, family and
the society in which he pulsates;
* That ideal Muslim would always champion the
cause of the poor, the needy, the incapacitated and the have-nots
through the prescribed self-sustained welfare system of Islam with justice
to all at equal footings;
* That Ideal Muslim will always fight
for human rights at all levels and constantly struggle to deliver Justice
[Adl and Qist] to all and sundry;
* Thus, his whole life will be a living embodiment
of total fight against Batil and to continue that fight ceaselessly, he
would require a life long companion to give him comfort in life, bear
and rear the new generation to continue this struggle for ages
to come till the Batil and the untruth is rooted out from human society
altogether and Haq is established in its place as ordained by Allah in Verse #
18 of Chapter # 21, Al-Ambiyah
-- “Nay, but We hurl the truth against falsehood
[Batil], and it crushes/breaks the latter’s head. And lo! It vanishes or
withers away”.
* The Muslim society must be constantly busy
and immensely pre-occupied in creating, producing and sustaining that
ideal trustworthy character in its sons and
daughters in transforming them into Ideal Muslim and Ideal
Muslimah as its prime obligation on earth and making them complimentary and
supplementary to each other.
* That “Ideal Muslimah” will then emerge as
the prime need of the aforesaid “Ideal Muslim” to produce the ideological
"fighters" ceaselessly for the dominance of Haq over Batil as ordained
by Allah in Verse # 18 of Surah Al-Ambiyah (21) as quoted above.
* These ideal Muslims and Muslimah through
their determined and sustained joint and concerted efforts will fill the earth
with peace, justice, compassion and harmony and will inhabitate their
next world, the “Jannah” after death as the reward of the sacrifices
that they both would render for the whole of their life in the way of Allah to
attain His pleasure.
* Muslim society, our fathers and mothers and the
Muslim leadership would have to produce and culture a generation like that
towards the resurrection of the fate of Muslim Ummah as the prime most
obligations of Muslims on this earth.
In my humble way, I appeal the Muslim leadership
to rise to the occasion, feel the onerous responsibility that is lying on their
shoulders, accept this most sacred challenge of time and put tremendous efforts
in producing the requisite generation of Ideal Muslims and Muslimah. The
Muslim Institutions of the
Let Muslims resolve to produce the requisite team
of Ideal Muslims and Muslimah as early as possible. If they resolve today it
would take a generation or so to abridge the gap towards
resurrection.
Shamim
Siddiqi
June
12, 2007