The infrastructure of enemy occupation
In 2003, when the US Army took over Baghdad, hundreds of Iraqis came to the
street to celebrate the American victory. Prior to that, many of the Iraqi
leaders invited and co-operated with the murderous US Army. The same happened
with the USA’s invasion of Afghanistan and Syria. So the occupation of people’s
mind took place prior to the geographical occupation. In the last 70 years, most
of the Muslim countries have received independence from the direct rule of their
colonial masters. But, the so-called independence doesn’t give the Muslims the
basic human rights to fully practise their political independence. Nor do they
enjoy the religious rights to practise even the most crucial and defining
Islamic obligations like sharia, hudud, shura, khilafa, trans-ethnic Muslim
unity and jihad in any of these so-called independent Muslim countries. Whereas,
prior to the colonial occupation, the Muslims fully enjoyed such rights. The
geographical occupation has ended but the mental occupation continues.
The so-called independence has turned so fake that it doesn’t give the basic
rights to dismantle the divisive and de-empowering walls of the Muslim World
–especially in the Middle East. These divisive borders in the Muslim World were
created not to serve the Muslims. These are made only to keep the Muslims weak
and to serve the colonial interest. Any attempt to draw the political map on the
basis of the obligatory pan-Islamic brotherhood –as was the norm in most part of
Muslim history, is considered a threat to their interest and hence get reversed
even by fully-fledged wars. The enemy-imposed disintegration of the Muslim World
into 57 states is now labelled as an integral part of international stability
and security; hence, not allowed to break these walls. This is indeed the
infrastructure of occupation.
The western imperialists fully understand that their dominance in the Muslim
World can’t survive only with military victory. It needs ideological, social,
cultural and geopolitical engineering. The geographical disintegration, de-Islamisation,
secularisation, cultural conversion and delegitimisation of jihad are the
indispensable parts of such engineering. And in its execution, the western
imperialists have shown remarkable brilliance. They could take Muslims far away
from Islam. So, in the First World War, the British and French imperialists
could recruit more than a million Arab Muslims as mercenaries to occupy Muslim
lands for them. The enemies’ success in ideological and cultural engineering is
so huge that the Arabs celebrate the division of their land into 22 parts and
jihad –the most important ibada in Islam stands alien among the Muslims. Even
jihad against foreign occupation is labelled as a terrorist act. The project of
de-Islamisation has been so successful that Prophet (peace be upon him)’s Islam
with its core elements like sharia, hudud, shura-based rule, pan-Islamic unity
doesn’t survive anywhere in the Muslim World. The profound success of enemies’
cultural engineering can be seen in clubs, pubs, casinos and the coastal beaches
of the so-called Muslim countries like Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria,
Indonesia and many others. The practices there are seldom different from kuffar
countries. In fact, the Muslims have been ideologically and culturally moulded
to live without Islam.
About 1.3 billion Indians of different religions, languages, casts and
ethnicities live in one state. But less than 300 million Arab Muslims of the
same language, religion and ethnicity are forced to live inside the walls of
more than 20 states –like the condemned detainees in prison cells. Such divisive
prison cells –called states, are built to serve the exploitative interest of the
imperialists, the security interest of Israel and the survival interest of the
autocratic despots. These walls are erected by the imperialists to stop the
spillage of oil revenues to the neighbouring poor people. These are reserved
only for their own exploitation. The oilfields are given statehood. Separate
flags of statehood are hoisted on oilfields like Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE,
Oman, and Brunai only to feed the imperialists. The colonial kufr laws, the
western evil ideologies, the corruptive politics and the economics of
multi-national exploitation still maintain their unfettered occupation in these
so-called independent states. What could the worst irony that the Muslims
celebrate such occupation as liberation! The anti-Islamic secularist elites
-trained and tamed in the old colonial institutions, play the servile role to
sustain such occupation. In most of the Muslim countries, the civil and military
enclaves of these ruling elites are indeed the ideological cum cultural islands
of the western imperialists. These enclaves show little dissimilarities from the
western mainlands.
As a result of such occupation, trillions of dollars of oil, gas, petrodollars
and other natural assets of the Muslim World are adding more affluence and
military strength to the imperialists to sustain the occupation. All the bombs
and missiles that are dropped on the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria,
Somalia, Yemen and other countries are indeed made by oil and gas money of the
Muslim countries. As if, they are frying fish in their own oil. It is a pity
that despite trillions of dollars of unearned petrodollars, 1.5 billion Muslims
continue to remain the most powerless and the most defenceless people on earth.
The brutal rulers of these client states receive the non-stop supply of bomber
jets, heavy artilleries, tanks, cluster bombs, chemical bombs, and missiles to
subjugate their own people. While visiting Saudi Arabia, the former US President
Mr Donald Trump made a deal to sell 110 billion US dollars of weapon to enhance
the kingdom’s killing power against its own people and neighbours. The USA also
sold 12 billion dollars of weapons to a tiny country of Qatar with a native
population of less than four hundred thousand.
The collective failure
For the ongoing occupation of the Muslim countries, not a single person, group,
generation or tribe to be blamed. It owes to the collective failure of the whole
ummah. The rebellion against the decree of Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la and pursuance
of their own opportunistic agenda indeed lies in the heart of all failures. They
ignored the Islamic principle that obeying the Qur’anic prescription is an
obligation on every Muslim and no one is exempted from the obligation. Awfully,
most of the Muslims pay little heed to such Qur’anic command. Islam is no more
practised in the way as has been practised in the early days of Islam. When the
Muslim countries remain occupied by the colonialists for about two hundred
years, most of the Muslims showed total inaction or abstention. A very few took
part in obligatory jihad against the occupying kuffars. Their action thus stands
exactly opposite to that of the early Muslims. When the first Islamic state was
attacked by the Arab, Persian or Roman kuffars, the Muslim participation in
jihad was more than 90 cent percent. Only the sick, the blind and the lame
stayed behind. In the war against the invading Roman Army in Tabuk, only three
Muslims didn’t take part. In response, they faced a social boycott.
Iman of a believer never stays hidden. It is visibly expressed through
participation in war in the way of Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’la. The physical,
financial and intellectual engagement in jihad against the enemies of Islam
indeed works as the most reliable marker of iman. Even a hypocrite can dress
like a Muslim. He can join five times a day in religious rituals and can also
spend money on charities. But, he doesn’t possess the moral strength or appetite
to join a war against Islam’s enemies. The enemies of Islam now appear
everywhere; almost all of the Muslim countries stand under one or other forms of
occupation. These forces of falsehood have dismantled sharia, hudud, shura,
Muslim unity, Islamic education and other basics of Islam all over the Muslim
World. But, where is jihad against these warring forces of falsehood? Instead,
they accept them as the leader and celebrate their rule. Whereas, because of
jihad, a few thousand people of Medina could raise the most powerful Islamic
state in history. They could defeat two contemporary World Powers like the Roman
and the Persian Empires. Within a very short period of time, they emerged as the
most powerful state on earth. They could release millions of people from
centuries-old slavery and tyranny. Because of the Islamic State, the Muslims
could also practise full Islam with its sharia, hudud, shura, khelafa and
trans-ethnic Muslim brotherhood without an iota of comprise. This is why they
got labelled as the best people on earth of all ages.
The betrayal and the deviation
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is recognised as the best prophet and the
best man in the whole span of human history. Such credit doesn’t owe solely to
his role as the great preacher of Islam. Rather, it is due to his decisive role
as a political leader who could successfully defeat the forces of evils and
raise an Islamic civilisational state which could become the most powerful World
Power in the contemporary world. He worked as the head of the Islamic state for
ten years and left an invaluable legacy vis-a-vis running a state. If he had
limited his works only to teaching, preaching and doing rituals, the Muslims had
to live under the kuffar occupation –as is the case with the Palestinian,
Kashmiri and Uighur Muslims today. Then, raising head as a dominant civilisation
force would have remained only as a dream.
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) turned politics into a life-long ibada
–called jihad to eradicate the forces of evils and implement the truth and
justice. The obligatory prayers are the binding obligation unto Allah Sub’hana
wa Ta’la. But the life-long political war to Islamise state and societies is an
obligation unto mankind. The deeds like donating money, building a house, giving
education and curing illness are good works. But the greatest service to mankind
is to establish a safe and welfare state free from falsehood, oppression and
injustices. Lecturing on morality and preaching good words don’t need to be a
saint. Anyone can do that. But the real merit lies in the implementation. Good
words do not bring any benefit if fail to get implemented. Prophet Mohammad
(peace be upon him) not only preached morality, humanity, equality and people’s
right, but he could also fully implement that. That makes him distinctly
different from others. He is indeed unique in the whole history of mankind. So
he is the greatest m\n in the history of mankind. Politics of eradicating the
evils and enjoying justice is his greatest legacy. But the Muslims are now known
for the dismal betrayal against such prophetic legacy.
The enemies of Islam are not afraid of Muslims’s huge number. Nor are they
worried about millions of mosques and the increasing number of attendants. They
are only worried about Prophet (peace be upon)’s political legacy that can turn
Muslims into a powerful revolutionary force. The enemies are deadly against such
Islam of the Prophet (peace be upon him). They have given it a new name called
political Islam. How ridiculous that the enemies even claim that such political
Islam has no place in Prophet’s Islam. What a shameful deviation! The ruling
despots of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and many other countries are
at the forefront against Prophet (peace be upon)’s political legacy. In fact,
their Islam has no similarity with Prophet (peace be upon)’s Islam. In Prophet’s
Islam, there is no place for the autocrats. Therefore, the rulers like Abu Bakar
(R), Omar (R), Osman (R) and Ali (R) didn’t need to be a son of a king. These
enemies of Islam hide the historical fact that Prophet (peace be upon him) ruled
as the head of the state for ten years. It is a huge disgrace for the whole
Muslim ummah that the seat which has the honour to have the Prophet (peace be
upon him) on it has been usurped by autocratic tyrants. They were not elected by
the people but selected by the colonial occupiers. As per their master's wish,
they could drive the Ummah each day only to a new low.
The moral collapse
In comparison to the achievement of the early Muslims, the failure of today’s
1.5 billion Muslims is highly awful and humiliating. They could raise large
armies and could also build a huge number of shops, roads, schools, universities
and industries. But, they can’t even think of any Islamic state in any part of
the world, let alone establishing it. They have made history in inaction,
submission and surrender. Millions of them have even taken the path of
collaboration and coalition with the invading enemies only to appease their
opportunistic greed. The moral depletion of today’s Muslims has been so profound
that it has caused them the serious ethical inability to hate, condemn or
protest against the most brutal enemy aggression in any part of the Muslim
world. So, the largest anti-war demonstration against the USA invasion in Iraq
in 2003 didn’t take place in any of the big Muslim capital cities like Jakarta,
Islamabad Cairo, Dhaka or Ankara rather in London, Paris or Rome. The moral
failure of the Muslim thus gets displayed worldwide.
The symptoms of the collective failure of the Muslims are huge. These are
expressed robustly through moral, cultural, spiritual, educational, ideological
and political failures. Of the ten top most corrupt countries of the world, most
are Muslim countries. Similarly, the most brutal autocrats who deny basic human
rights to their own people also happen to be Muslim. These despots are so cruel
and genocidal that they roll tanks and heavy artilleries on the streets to kill
unarmed protestors –as seen in recent years in Cairo, Islamabad, Dhaka, and
Damascus. The government of Syria dropped chemical bombs, barrel bombs and
cluster bombs on the civilians to kill or evict them from their homes. When the
people of Gaza got the shower of Israeli bombs, the Egyptian government didn’t
bother to open the border to receive even the wounded children and women. When
the traumatised Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar tried to take shelter in
neighbouring Bangladesh, initially their boats were not allowed to get nearer to
the shore. They were forces to sail for far distant Malaysia, Thailand or
Indonesia. Later on, the Bangladesh government was obliged to give them access
to avoid global condemnation.
The enemy crimes and the complicity of the cowards
Cowardice causes incurable moral incompetence to be a true Muslim. To be a
Muslim, it needs minimum courage for telling the truth and to stand against
crimes and injustices. Nor does it help qualify for enjoying basic human rights.
Such rights have never been a gift, rather earned by bloody combat against the
oppressive tyrants. It is a tragedy that a long period of imprisonment by the
enemy occupiers always deconstructs souls, beliefs, behaviour and culture. It
has proved highly catastrophic during the long slavery under the European
colonial tyrants. It has worked as a strong dehumanising factor to culminate
cowardice among the Muslims. If a lion is kept in captivity for decades, it
detests coming out of the cage even if the door is left open. Because of long
colonial taming, Muslims could be easy prey in the hands of the home-grown
autocrats. Therefore, the criminal rulers are not the only party to commit
crimes in the Muslim World, the complicity of the cowardly people who accept
such native or foreign killers as the ruler and work as their obedient servants
also bear the blame. Such submission to the criminal despots brings disgrace,
failure and punishment both here and in the hereafter. Indeed, such submission
to the criminal despots is incompatible with true submission to Allah Sub’hana
wa Ta’la. This is why fighting against kuffar occupation is such a high ibada in
Islam. Those who are killed in the encounter enter paradise without any trial.
The tyrants always make it impossible to follow the Qur’anic roadmap. Because
they prescribe their own roadmap to be pursued by the subjects. This is why
autocracy and Islam are incompatible. Hence, standing against tyrant rulers is
not a political agenda, it is a prophetic job. To add more importance to that,
Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him), Prophet Musa (peace be upon him) and many
prophets were commanded by Allah Sub'hana wa Ta'la to stand face to face against
the tyrants like Nimrod and Pharaoh. For freeing people from submission to the
evil rulers, jihad comes as the highest form of ibadah. It stands as a Qur’anic
obligation. To disseminate such a message, Allah Sub’hana Ta’la commands His
great Prophet (peace be upon him) to announce the following Qur’anic advice to
the people in public: “O prophet! Say (to the people): I advise you only on one
thing, rise up for Allah (against the criminals who oppose Islam) in two (if
possible) or singly (on your own).” -(Sura Saba, verse 46). So the Muslims are
not given an option to wait for a big leader, a big party or Imam Mehdi for
starting the assigned job.
The common kuffar agenda
Falsehood and its awful calamities never die. Instead, it keeps on challenging
the Divine Truth all the time and in all places. In all ages, it gets new
preachers, new leaders and new armies. Hence, the enmity to Islam that could
attain the cataclysmic hype at the time of Nimrod, Pharaoh, and Abu Jahl still
survives under the US-led imperialists. Corrupting the Qur’anic ideology of
Islam as well as the physical, ideological and cultural occupation of the Muslim
ummah receive the highest priority in their politics, economics and warfare. For
carrying out such an anti-Islamic agenda, they have recruited a huge number of
fake ulama, fraudulent Muslim intellectuals and mercenary soldiers from the
Muslim lands. They consider the rise of Islam as a great threat to western
civilisation. In his meeting on July 6, 2017, with the Russian President Mr
Vladimir Putin in Hamburg, the former USA President Mr Donald Trump very
candidly expressed such fear. To encounter the Islamic challenge, he sought very
earnestly the Russian collaboration. Such a request for Russian help exposes his
deep fear that the USA alone can’t win its war against Islam. Such Islamophobia
dominates not only in the psyche of President Donald Trump, the leaders of the
EU, Russia, India, China and other non-Muslim countries are no exception. These
kuffar countries have a lot of differences on a lot of issues; but while they
deal with Islam and the Muslims, show the full consensus. Because of such
consensus, these imperialist countries could easily give the full legality to
the illegal creation of Israel on an entirely occupied Muslim land of Palestine.
They also show a similar consensus on the Indian occupation of Kashmir. Now,
they show the full consensus too in condemning any resistance against such
illegal occupation as terrorism. Because of the same anti-Islamic venom,
fighting against the US-led occupying force in a Muslim land get condemned as
terrorism.
Each of the imperialist countries has its old anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic war
in its own domain. Such wars take these countries naturally and understandably
to the anti-Muslim camp. The USA is heavily entangled in its never-ending
imperialistic war against the Islamists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen,
Somalia, Palestine and many African countries. The USA Army has killed more than
a million people in those countries and turned hundreds of cities and villages
into rubbles. Thus the USA has already raised a huge flame of hatred in the
Muslim souls; every day they are adding more fuel to the flame by killing more
people. Russia has a similar genocidal war in Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and
Syria. In 1999, the Russian Army flattened the whole city of Grozny –the capital
of Chechnya and killed thousands of Muslims there. The Russian warplanes also
flattened the historic Syrian city of Aleppo and many others in Syria too.
India’s war in Kashmir and China’s war in Xinjiang are no less genocidal either.
More than a hundred thousand Muslims have already been killed in Kashmir. The
Indian Army’s killing mission still continues with more lethal weapons. Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel definitely added more killing
skills and more sophisticated weapons to the Indian Army. Anyone who stands
against such killing of Muslims is labelled as a terrorist. But those who occupy
foreign countries, flatten cities and kill millions ironically claim to be the
torchbearer of democratic values. Like many western leaders, President Donald
Trump used to claim that the USA is at war to defend Western values!
Therefore the question arises if the USA wars of occupation, genocide and
destruction are applauded as the defence of western democratic values then what
else is barbarity? On such a perverted conceptual premise, evicting people from
homes, total destruction of cities and bombing people to death is declared as a
victory. Therefore, almost total destruction of Aleppo, Ramadi, Fallujah, Tikrit,
Kobani, Raqqa and Mosul is celebrated as a great victory both by the occupying
power and their cronies in the Muslim land. The occupied Muslim lands have
indeed proven to be the fertile breeding ground for such servile cronies. The
physical, intellectual and political occupation has proven to be so much morally
toxic that the Muslims of the occupied land even join the kuffar enemies to
celebrate their victories –as seen in Jerusalem and Damascus in 1917, Dhaka in
1971, in Kabul in 2001 and in Baghdad in 2003. And now, they celebrate the
occupation of their countries native tyrants.
The test and the failure
Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’ala has a strategy. From the very beginning of human
civilisation, the world is ideologically, politically and culturally bi-polar.
One pole is for true faith, morality, good deeds and justice. This is the pole
of Allah Sub’hana wa Ta’ala. The other polar is for the falsehood, immorality,
crimes and injustice. In this pole, all the deviations and perversions in the
name of religions, ideologies, traditions, and cultures are lumped togather.
Shaitan is allowed to plays a role here. He calls people to the pole of
falsehood, crimes and immorality. There is no third or neutral pole. Like today,
the world always stays polarised. Such a state of bipolarity tests people’s
ability to select the right one.
Everyone has been given the free choice to side with any one of the two poles.
The needed fitness of a human for a place in paradise is tested here in this
world. It is indeed the most crucial and decisive test in life. But it is not a
difficult test. Allah Sub’han wa Ta’a has created humans as His best creation
and everyone is instilled with adequate intelligence to pass the past. He can
even land on the moon with the imbued intelligence. People fail the test only
because of the wrong focus and inattention. For passing the test, it needs to be
correctly polarised. In the past, even a huge number of illiterate people could
amply pass it. Moreover, thousands of prophets and many Divine books are sent to
help people pass the test. Whoever fails the test indeed betrays all invaluable
Divine endowments. For such a betrayal, one has to pay a heavy price. He or she
qualifies for the hellfire.
Most of the people will burn in the hellfire not for killing, stealing or raping
someone, but for failing this simple test of common sense. It never needs any
college or university education to pass it. The wrong and the right, the truth
and the falsehood, the morality and immorality are not difficult to
differentiate. As the mid-day sun, these are distinctly visible. Fourteen
hundred years ago even the illiterate men or women of Arabia could rightly
identify the truth from the falsehood; hence could be rightly polarised.
Shaitan has his strategy and a huge army to take people to his pole. It is a
pity that Shaitan could get immense success to polarise people to his side even
in the Muslim countries. Thus Shaitan has exposed the ideological as well as the
moral collapse of the Muslims. They have awfully failed to stand around Allah
Sub’hana Ta’la’s pole. Even religious scholars, university professors, imams,
intellectuals, and political leaders have failed to be rightly polarised. This
is why very few of them are found in the camp of Islam. As a result, Prophet
(peace be upon him)’s Islam with the Islamic state, sharia, hudud, rule of shura,
jihad, and Muslim unity is non-existent in the Muslim World. It indeed owes to
the individual as well as the institutional failure of the Muslims. The
educational, political, cultural and religious institutions have badly failed to
generate the necessary insight among Muslims to pass the test. All other
failures of the Muslim ummah are the outcome of this fundamental failure.
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