The Fiqh us-Seerah Epilogue
Creator: Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali
Date: 2007-06-20
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Language: en
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Subject: seerah
Title: The Fiqh us-Seerah Epilogue
Created on: Wed Jun 20 23:24:41 -0400 2007
Updated on: Wed Jun 20 23:24:41 -0400 2007
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Abstract: ... the existing civilizations do not allow religion to take hold of their reins. Paganism in India and the Far East as well as other places still has a great sway over the major part of the lives and behaviour of the masses. Judaism is segregating its flock from the world in order to implant in their hearts hatred for mankind and to sweep away the greatest benefits for Israel by playing upon the split within the rants of the Muslim ranks. Christianity is like a creeping vine in the equator: it depends for its survival on the adoption of the prevalent philosophies and support of the ruling regimes in order to guarantee life (and what a life!) for its primary tenets of Trinity and vicarious sacrifice. The Muslims have been stained with the pollutions of deviations and adherence to shells and rituals. The vices of weakness and ignorance have relegated them to a condition similar to what the Jews and Christians had been in during the era of prophethood and the rightly guided caliphs. Only an insignificant minority of them remains up to today fighting Jahiliyah and holding fast to the Truth. If there is hope in the fact that Islam has remained preserved from the theoretical point of view in its two major sources, the Qur'an and the Sunnah, then this preserved knowledge can never make action superfluous. Nevertheless, it is to be noted that those who do correct work for Islam are encountering severe opposition from various other fronts and I mean the fronts which have opposed its spread since the time of its inception fourteen centuries ago and have never cooled off for one day in their enmity towards it. Someone may ask whether the world today is in need of Islam. Our answer to that is if the world is in need of knowing Allah and preparation to meet Him and give an account for what was done in this earthly life them it must have Islam. Material advancement cannot substitute one bit for adherence of these great realities. One may say: but there are people who do not believe in any god or in the Hereafter and there are others who believe in these things but different to what Islam teaches so let the people follow their own beliefs. Our answer to this is: let the people believe what they will but the blind do not have the right to dig out the eye of the one who sees or strangle him because he sees what they do not! They must leave him to walk with the guidance of his eyes and they must leave him also to describe what he sees or expects on his way. Whoever whishes to follow him without being forced has the right to go with him otherwise he should leave him alone and not put obstacles in his path. This is all that Islam asks for. The mischief-makers hate Islam because it is the Truth with a voice which defends itself and proclaims whatever... [Full Article...]
