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THE UMMAH’S HUMILIATION — A MANIFESTATION OF ALLAH’S PUNISHMENT the Deen, they will be overwhelmed by the kuffaar. Hence, he once told the Sahaabah that the Ummah will be at its weakest when Muslims are as numerous as the bubbles on the ocean. Numerically Muslims will be in a strong position, but they will be bereft of spiritual fibre and mettle. When the Sahaabah asked whether the Qur’aan will not be with the Muslims to guide them. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) replied in the affirmative and commented that they would be reciting the Qur’aan in the same way as the Yahood and Nasaara recite their scriptures. That is, recite without giving practical expression to the teachings of the Qur’aan. LOVE OF THE WORLD On another occasion Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said that a time will dawn when Muslims will be like the muck brought down by floodwaters. They will be buffetted and humiliated by the kuffaar who will devour them just as people sitting around a table consume food. Nabi-e-Kareem (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) attributed this state of degradation of the Muslims to two spiritual maladies: (1) Love for the world and (2) Fear for Maut. Fear for death is the consequence of worldly love which leads to the abandonment of Allah’s Deen and to the adoption of the lifestyle, concepts and cultures of the kuffaar. In its wake comes the Divine Punishment in the form of kuffaar persecution, atrocity and domination. THE PUNISHMENT What has happened in Afghanistan and what is happening in Palestine, India and elsewhere in the world to Muslims, is Allah’s punishment. It is, therefore, unintelligent as well as diversionary to make America or the shaitaan or any other kaafir force the scapegoat for our humiliation and defeat. Shaitaan has succeeded in his plot to deceive Muslims and to divert their minds from the actual cause of the Ummah’s fall and disgrace. The satanic plot is to keep Muslims in their state of degeneration so that they perpetually remain the slaves of the kuffaar and follow the evil ways of kufr of the kuffaar masters. Muslims therefore look at mirages and imagine a variety of causes for their humiliation. But they remain blind to the clear cause mentioned in the Qur’aan and Ahadith. The cause is nothing but abandonment of Allah’s Shariah. CRITICISM Regardless of the amount of criticism Muslims heap on America; regardless of the thousands of pages which are written on the international conspiracies of the U.S.A. and Zionism—nothing will solve the problems of the Ummah besides obedience to Allah Ta’ala and adoption of the Sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). THE SAME ALLAH The very same Allah -Azza Wa Jal - Who had aided the Sahaabah in all their battles against the kuffaar, exists today. The very same Allah Ta’ala Who had bestowed resounding victory and success to the Sahaabah, making them the rulers and the masters of the world, exists today. But He withheld His aid from the Muslims of Afghanistan. He is withholding His aid from Muslims in the various arenas of the world. The stark ignorance of so-called Muslim leaders and learned men who are totally blind to the reality of our situation and condition, and who miserably fail to detect the causes of our disgrace, is indeed shocking and lamentable. They have all united in a chorus of meaningless condemnation of shaitaan as if shaitaan is to be blamed for our woes and misery. They all blame America and shaitaan, but fail to see that we ourselves are to be blamed. The cause of our degenerate condition is our own corruption which has led to the domination of the kuffaar over us. DEFEAT To attribute the defeat in Afghanistan to America’s airforce and superior military potency is to imply that Allah Ta’ala Who had aided the Sahaabah in all their battles, lacks the power to do the same for Muslims in this age— Nauthubillaah! This implication of kufr is tantamount to saying that Allah Ta’ala could aid only in wars waged in primitive ways, not in modern and nucleur wars. People of Imaan cannot think along such lines of kufr. Where there is Allah’s aid,the sophisticated military equipment and technology of the kuffaar will become ineffective. The only reason for the kuffaar to be able to display military prowess is the Decree of Allah Ta’ala. The only way to gain Allah’s aid is to heed what the Qur’aan says: “If you aid (the Deen of) Allah, He will aid you and He will plant your feet firmly (against your enemies).” “Beware of a punishment which will not only befall the transgressors among you.” Hadhrat Aishah (radhiyallahu anha) narrates that Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) reported that Allah Ta’ala once commanded Jibraeel (alayhis salaam) to utterly destroy a city. Among the inhabitants of this city there were 20,000 such Auliya whose deeds of virtue were like the deeds of the Ambiya. Notwithstanding their presence in the city, the command to destroy it was issued by Allah Ta’ala. It is the Divine Way not to punish the pious for the transgression and evil of the sinners. Whenever Allah Ta’ala had intended to destroy a place, He had ordered the Nabi of the time to leave that place forthwith with his followers. Only after the safety of the pious was ensured did the Divine Punishment overtake the transgressors. However, in this particular instance, all 20,000 Auliya were destroyed along with the rest of the inhabitants of that city. No distinction was made. AMR BIL MA’ROOF The Hadith makes it abundantly clear that the reason for the destruction of even the pious people of that city was their abandonment of the obligation of Amr Bil Ma’roof Nahy anil munkar (commanding righteousness and prohibiting evil). When the pious people and the Ulama freely mingle and associate with the general transgressing public, they gradually become desensitized. Their association with the people accusoms them to the sins and transgressions the people perpetrate. The evil and notriety of the sins then become watered down in their hearts. Slowly a stage is reached when the Ulama abstain from the obligation of Amr Bil Ma’roof Nahy anil munkar. When their abstention from this compulsory duty becomes complete, then the punishment of Allah Ta’ala becomes lawful for the entire community. When the punishment arrives, it takes in its grasp both the transgressors and the pious/Ulama/Auliya. AULIYA It should be noted that the 20,000 Auliya who were trapped and destroyed by Allah’s punishment were not transgressors in other ways. They did not participate in the acts of transgression of the people of the world. They continued with their deeds of piety. But this did not avail them. It did not save them from the Divine Punishment. In the Law of Allah Ta’ala they were in the same category as the actual transgressors, hence the same punishment hemmed them in and utterly destroyed them. EVIL MEN OF LEARNING When the righteous deeds did not save the Pious people, how is it possible to avert the Punishment when in a society even the learned men encourage Muslims to indulge in sin and evil? When the Ulama, not only refrain from Amr Bil Ma’roof, but actually connive in the spreading of fitnah, fasad, fisq and fujoor in the community, then we should understand that the Divine Punishment is imminent. When Amr Bil Ma’roof Nahy anil Munkar has been discontinued by the Ulama, it is time for the the Divine Gateway of Punishment to open up on the whole community. OUR CONDITION The condition of Muslims in this country is indeed most lamentable. The community as a whole is sunk and lost in transgression and evil. But the awful and fearful thing that is happening is that learned men are disseminating evil under guise of Islam. Using their platforms such as radio stations, for example, clear acts of haraam are being given Islamic respectability. Immorality is promoted and presented as enlightment. Recently a so-called Islamic radio station manned by molvis initiated an extremely shameless and lewd programme. Women were invited to voice over the air their first childbirth experience. There are no adequate terms of criticism and condemnation to describe this shaitaaniyat and immoraility of these miserable molvis who have become the frontline agents of shaitaan in the promotion of promiscuity — fisq and fujoor. At one stage in the beginning, at the time of the birth of the shaitaani radios, the dispute |