Mohtram Naeem Bhai,
Salaam, Allah Ap sub ku Sada Khush Rakhey
Very humbly I sent you
this letter on March 15, 2016 with great pain with a heavy heart and a lot
of concern for ICNA and its future but had no response from
you at all so far as if I have hit a stony wall.
I
know that for most of the points that I have raised in my
letter, you have no response but at least you would have please confirm
its receipt with assurance that you will take it up with our Shura ASAP.
Mohtram Naeem Bhai, the
stage has come and it is hovering on our heads when Islam is accused and
abused as a symbol of the so-called "terrorism" by the terrorist
Western countries who are our die-hard enemy but Islam has the beauty
to face the situation at any cost as Allah's Nusrah is always
with us, if we jump in this
"furnace" of hate and false allegations being prepared by
our secular enemies of the West and face it with our honest
character and good will for the people of the land to the extent
that the people of the land themselves start acknowledging that
a Muslim can be anything but not a "terrorist".
ICNA and its
leadership and workers all have to create the impression that we are nice
people and their life, honor and property will ever be kept safe by
Muslims. This we will have to prove though our character, deeds and
PERSON TO PERSON DAWAH CONTACTS IN THE FIELD.
It is an open challenge
for us and if we all together remodel our Jamaat, all the
backlash can be evaporated even at this stage with the Tawfeeq of our
Lord which is always available if we all make honest and sincere most
efforts that is long overdue upon all of us.
Only through this process
ICNA can and will become the truthful Islamic Movement of
America [IMOA}, Insha Allah. Hope you all and our Shura will agree
with it. Allah's help is just
waiting at the Horizon. Only we have to invoke it with our tears and hard
labor, Insha Allah.
Kindly confirm receipt
with assurance that we all will do it at our best.
Shukrun WA Jazakallah
Shamim Siddiqi
MGA,
NY
In a message dated
3/15/2016 10:15:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, TSidd96472@aol.com writes:
Mohtram Naeem
Bhai,Salaam, Allah Ap ku Khush Rakhey
Shukrun wa Jazakallah
for your response but it is not in the context of what I drew your attention. I
think you haven't gone through my letter in depth.
ICNA
was established 45 years ago not for what
you people are doing but to call the people of the land to
the fold of their Lord for the Iqamah of Allah's Deen ultimately.
Kindly note that the
social work was being done originally at the personal level. Abu
Bakar Siddique (RA}, Usman Ghani (RA), Zubair Bin
Awwam (RA}and many other Sahabah (RA) who were the
man of means and all were doing it as Sadaqa-i-Jariya on individual
level in their own Community - freeing the slaves, feeding the
poor and helping the needy and not on global level as you people
are doing and paying very high salaries to the employees whereas the
social work should be done free of any cost to the extent possible.
The relief work should
FIRST be done here on individual level that you
or ICNA couldn't develop and you all went for "easy
money" of Zakah and you don't realize that you all have made a
wrong choice of the Corporate Model. As such, all the corporate evils have
crept in your system and now we all are crying and calling
names.
There are 42 Millions
poor in this country. Tell me how many million people you
have salvaged in this country from poverty level and with our Dawah
efforts/activities and thereby forming a solid vote block for the support
of the IM of America. This great opportunity we have lost just
making the social work at International level in name sake and lost
the opportunity to show our Islamic values to the people of the land at
grass root level. This shows lack of vision on our part and planning
to make America as the focus of our action to introduce Islam to
the epic-center of modern Jahiliya. We must now re-shape our movement to
fulfil this dire need of time.
Your original
job was to establish Zakah as an Institution in this country as Allah commands in Verse # 41 of
Surah Hajj to begin with and then from surplus, if left any, could be sent
abroad to help the poor not before that as I sighted in the
example of Maaz bin Jabal (RA) in my
previous letter. Please think over it and discuss the whole "left
over" in our Shura of Intellectuals, with trust and confidence in
them. We have to contract the work of HH in this
situation and reorganize it afresh on America National Level with no branches out side. Any money of Zakah
that has been taken for help in other countries, please return it to
donors or spend it here with their permission. It is their
obligation to mitigate the poverty level of this country too. On
principle, the Zakah must be expended first in the country/place where it
was raised and elsewhere if it results in Surplus after
meeting the needs of the local people.
But the
most saddened part of this tragic episode is the
neglect of our Dawah front which looks like the house
of an orphan - the most disorganized and the MOST AIMLESS. NO- where
I see it working in its most primary
stage -- Person to person Dawah Contact and distributing basic Islamic
literature to Dawah Contactee in its wake.
In 45 years
ICNA couldn't produce a single Dawah literature in this country
in American perspective where as Mohtram Maulana Merhoom
(RA) advised me that his own literature will be of no use
to us and you produce your own literature in American perspective for
the people of the land "
This most honest advice
he gave me in the presence of Mohtram Sajid Hussain Saheb, Br Amin
Awad Merhoom and Qamar Hussaini Bhai when we went to meet him in Buffalo
at the house of his son. Since then I started writing Islamic
literature at his advice but unfortunately ICNA deliberately turned
a deaf, dumb and blind attitude to it for reason Allah knows
better and it continues till today. It is not a complaint but
putting the facts in correct perspective for your consideration and that
of our Shura. This is the greatest loss to ICNA. on her own accord.
Even the books that I
distributed humbly in hundreds in our Convention and Annual
Meetings free of cost. perhaps none cared to study and make any
comment to me. This attitude of neglect is unpardonable and ICNA is
accountable to posterity and for wasting years to do
"nothing."
The entire house of ICNA
needs resetting with priority on Dawah Ilallah as its prime focus on
the basis I have elaborated in my Article: "Dawah Program Around Masjid and [It is available on my Website: WWW.dawahinamnericas.com in Section "B" - Islam As A Movement.
at Item # 15] The Article "Dawah Ilallah & its Manifold Dimensions" that I distributed to our MGA's at
Houston will be of immense help in reorganizing our Movement afresh
in this country.
Hope that you will
please consider over this presentation in Shura on priority basis and take proper action to
make and develop ICNA as the Grass Root Islamic Movement of America, henceforth. This is due upon you/us.
Seeing the gravity of
the situation, please cancel all your Tour Programs and SIT AT HQ IN
NY till our house comes into its own order as ordained by Allah and demonstrated
by Rasulullah (S) and his beloved Companions.
My humble services
will always be available to you, Insha Allah.
May Allah bless you
all. I pray to Allah to give you Tawfeeq in abundance and grand success
WITHOIUT DEALY.
Shukrun wa Jazakallah
Shamim Siddiqi