The world has witnessed an eruption of unparalled magnitude in the Muslim world over the past two weeks. Muslims the world over from Pakistan, to Tunisia, to Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Jordan and even Albania have showed their utter mistrust and disapproval of the tyrant rulers imposed upon them. The demonstrators have shown great courage inspired by the Muslims of Tunisia. These demonstrations have erupted from the frustrated hearts of the Ummah and are a sincere display of the Islamic sentiment. Indeed, the videos from Cairo are riveting, with masses of Muslims flowing from the masajid after Friday prayer and overwhelming security forces. As a clear sign of the goodness of the Ummah, the world is witnessing the riot police allowing the Muslims to perform the Isha prayers in the streets; an indication that the very security forces that repress the Ummah are the same ones who will protect and defend it when its Islamic sentiment is evoked.
A sign of the the tyrant rulers in the Muslim world scrambling for legitimacy can be seen in Palestine. The secret documents and meeting notes gushing forth clearly illustrate how Western Nations are using the PLO to surrender the majority of Palestine. Everything in those documents emphasizes that the PLO was established to legitimize the recognition of the Israel and to surrender the majority of Palestine. Furthermore, it punctuates the reality that the Palestinian Authority's goal is to protect the state of Israel while focusing on crushing the Islamic sentiments of the Muslims of Palestine. As if that weren't enough, the Arab dictators fragile alliances are crumbling under the weight of their own words, as revealed by these recently released documents. The mis-trust and betrayal for each other is now in the open.
In Pakistan, the very lawyers who protested the detainment of Chief Justice Chaudry in 2007 by President Pervez Musharraf, are the very ones supporting Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the admitted killer of Salman Taseer, the former governor of Punjab province. Their support is noteworthy because it indicates the Islamic sentiment across all segments of Pakistani society, from the underclasses to the young and educated class. The recent shooting by a US diplomat of two Pakistanis was the most recent flashpoint in the continued outrage Muslims have against the US presence in the Af-Pak region.
Clearly, what is happening in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen and Pakistan shows the desire that the Muslim Ummah has for change. The Ummah has adopted the numerous injunctions in the Quran and Sunnah to take their rulers to account and hold them to task for their transgressions:
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللّهِ
"You are the best nation produced for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah" (Quran 3:110)
The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "By Him in whose hand is my soul, you must enjoin the Ma'aruf and forbid the Munkar, otherwise Allah will be about to send His punishment upon you. And then if you pray to Him (to ask Him), he would not answer you."
The Messenger of Allah also صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "The master of martyrs is Hamza bin Abdul-Muttalib and a man who stood to an oppressor ruler where he ordered him and forbade him so he (the ruler) killed him."
In fact, the Muslims have been taking their rulers to task since Abu Bakr became Khalifah to this very day, but what is new is that the Muslims have openly dared to call for change against their rulers. Acting upon their Islamic convictions the choke hold over the people has been loosened and they have gained confidence. These Western backed tyrants should take heed from the the anger of the Muslim Ummah, for she demands their removal and the Kufr system that produces their oppression. The issue is not to remove the individual tyrants like Ben Ali, Hosni Mubarak, King Abdullah, Asif Ali Zardari or any of the other Muslim rulers while the very system that they govern remains alive and well. It is rather the man made systems that they govern; the very system that produces such tyrants. For the past 90 years, the Ummah has tasted the bitter fruits of nationalism, communism, democracy and dictatorship. Now it yearns for the sweetness of Islam. The current protests should serve as the seeds to uproot the unjust man made systems and pave the way for the establishment of the rule of Allah, "the guided Khilafah" in its place.
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Muhamad Abdullah
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Let this be a hard lesson to those aspiring to be puppets of the Western colonialists, either in the Muslim world or in Israel.. They will prop you up. They will shower you with money and treasures. They will defend you. Until a point in time. And that point in time is: When their interest is compromised, Then they will abandon you. Who is your best protector? America or Allah Subhanu wa taa'ala? |
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Slave of Allah
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Masha Allah... I am witnessing the birthpangs of the second coming of the rightly guided khilafah with my very own eyes... Let the cynics mock, the disbelivers doubt... By Allah, Allah's Promise is TRUE!! And He will make Islam enter into every home and every heart insha Allah!! May Allah keep me among the mumineen, the muttaqeen, the mujahideen, and the shuhadah... Ameen... |
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kodimirpal
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As the Shah of Iran did, Mubarak is attacking his own people with American bullets and tear gas cannons. "Made in USA" marked on burnt cannons on the streets of Cairo for its people to read. And we wonder why there is so much anti-American sentiment across the world and more so in the Middle East? Yet another U.S. foreign policy case study of aiding arms and financing a dictator for decades and ending up on the wrong side of history. At least now the U.S. government and the people should stop hoping for Mubarak to hang-on, he is sure to be disgraced, let the Americans openly support the people of Egypt. If not in a week, in a month or in three months Mubarak is going to flee and probably will take asylum in Saudi Arabia home for the corrupt politicians Which military strongman that the CIA is going to recommend to take over? Many wonder Husni Mubaruk is choosing a man he can trust while the people are trying to chase him away. But Mr. Suleiman, a former general, is also the Mubaruks candidate, not the one that the people of Egypt will approve. His appointment if it were to occur would not represent the democratic change called for on the street, but most likely a continuation of the kind of military-backed, oppressive, corrupt, authoritarian and pro-Israeli leadership that Mr. Mubaruk has led for nearly 30 years. Basically this is a way of paving the way for a military-led regime but camouflaged democracy, a good move to please the U.S. neo-cons. He is said to hold a similar worldview, deeply distrusting Iran, favouring close relations with Washington, supporting the cold peace with Israel, and against easing up on the Muslim Brotherhood, the principal opposition group in Egypt. |
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