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Karbala Today

Karbala Today

Allah Y says in the Holy Qur’aan in the 2^nd Sura al-Baqarah (the Cow) الْبَقَرَة: Verses 154 to 157:

Recently the world population census revealed that there are approximately 5 billion plus, people in the world. Europe and America constitute 20% of the world population but they are holding on to, by any means, fair or foul, 80% of the world's natural resources. The west wishes to hold mankind in the grip of its power, by imposing upon the rest of mankind its values, culture and economy. The sensate culture of the West is in conflict with the God rooted culture of the divinely revealed religions of the World, especially Islam. Until the 1980s the world was divided into two, people were either communist or capitalist. The communist model failed economically, we all realized that, but the capitalist model in the modern world is in ruins. People continue to accept that 50 people in the world own 40 per cent of the wealth. Is that defendable humanly? Can you accept that when two billion people have two dollars to live per day? I don’t believe that will be accepted for much longer. We have seen the first signs in America during the economic crisis of people revolting against the bonuses, and Barrack Obama said it cannot be acceptable to pay such a huge amount of money anymore. It is the first sign. Even in America, a pure capitalistic country, it is not accepted. It is the first time a president of the United States has said something like that.

The Global political presence of Muslims that have strong Islamic values that transcend artificial borders and the retention of a global culture and political identity are seen as a threat by the ruthless, Capitalist/Zionist alliance, which today also includes Russia. In Muslim majority countries, those are naturally rich in natural resources, any attempts to establish an Islamic value system, are termed as "fundamentalist" and "terrorist" and crushed by any means. The reigning governments in the 50+ Muslim majority countries of the world have to be western "puppet governments" or the prevalent authorities will be directly opposed or elements within that country will be funded to keep the country in the grip of instability and poverty. Recent history, the genocide's and massacres in Bosnia, Kosova, Chechnya and the continuing occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq has made the fact, universally accepted to all sober thinkers, that the west is determined to eradicate all remaining traces of Genuine Islam, that threatens its ‘unholy grip’ of Muslim Wealth and lands. They have even created or invented and popularized, due to their grip on the Media and thus the mindset of the world, ‘so-called’ resistance groups like al-Qaeda and the Taliban as being the representatives of ‘True Islam’, which gives the masses a ‘false perception’ that Islam is wicked, backward, oppressive and violent. They will soon occupy Pakistan, to gain control of the Port City of Karachi, which will give them a port to ship the Natural Resources of the Eurasian geographic region for their own consumption.

Islam is viewed as being the only source of challenge to the western Capitalist/Zionist domination of the world. This challenge indeed exists as in the form of a widespread realization amongst Muslim’s everywhere that they have to free themselves from the stronghold that the western Capitalist/Zionist alliance has acquired over them and Islam. A dynamic, vibrant, living Islam left in peace will offer the world peace, security, morality and economic and social justice. Bombs and technology will not decide who wins, but the emergence of a superior civilization will determine this.

It has become even more necessary, in these turbulent times to relate to our children and youth born and being raised in the west, or in western influenced environments that we tell them the story of one of the greatest sacrifices in the history of mankind. It has to be related so lessons may be learned from it.

Muharram, the first month of the Islamic Calendar, marks the concept of emigration (Hijra) in the cause of Allah Y. It is also sacred for many other reasons. Jews used to fast on this day but Prophet Muhammad e advised Muslims to fast both ninth and tenth of Muharram. The Holy Prophet e has enumerated the significance of this day in many Traditions (Hadith). He has stated that Allah Y created the heavens, mountains, and oceans, pen (qalam) and tablet (lawh) on this day. Hazrath Ibrahim u was born on this day, and Allah Y saved him from the furnace on this day. Pharaoh was drowned, Allah Y   relented towards Adam u Jesus or Isa u was born and The Day of Judgment (qiyama) will occur on this day.  In another tradition it is stated that, heaven, earth, stars, heavenly throne (arsh), pedestal (kursi), tablet (lauh) and pen (qalam) were created on this day. Gabriel u, all angels and, Adam u were created on Ashura. The first rains and the first gift of mercy (rahmah) descended on this day.

However, it is the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain t and seventy-one members of his family and associates which took place of this day at Karbala that we Muslims, who love the Holy Prophet e remember most. Caliph Muawiya t called for appointing his son Yazid to follow him. After Muawiya's death his son Yazid declared himself the caliph starting an unprecedented tradition. Imam Hussain t took a stand against tyranny at the age of 57 years, on the day of Ashura 61 AH. He gave the ultimate sacrifice of position, family and life for the restoration of justice. It is a Day of triumph over falsehood and a Day of the reaffirmation of a true Muslims determination to make Jihad or strive against corrupt and un-Islamic forces within or without its ranks as a first duty. The problem of the Muslim Ummah on a global level is a real and living problem- it is our Karbala today. Since March 3, 1924 (eighty years) we are Muslims without a Caliphate, in which Allah Y is Sovereign. To accept the monarchs and presidents as sovereign is an act of shirk. The huge oil wealth of Arabia belongs to the world of Islam. The handing over of the effective control of this oil wealth to the Americans is an act of treason. Volumes can be written on the economic subordination of the Muslim world.

Imam Jafar Saadiq t rightly proclaimed,

We need to find and enforce a solution to our present degradation and decline whether we are from Africa, The Indo-Pak Subcontinent, or the Arab World. We have a population of over 1.2 Billion in the world and yet we have no say in the International Affairs. The propaganda machinery of the west has misrepresented Islam on a global level. We need to enforce ways and means to counter this propaganda. One method that can be enforced is to adapt and modify existing functions and observances to serve the original spirit of mobilizing the spirit and educating society as to how we can gain the pleasure of Allah Y and serve the cause of Islam.

Islam has produced numerous stars within the Galaxy of Prophets, truthful, martyrs, and saints who illuminated the world when the forces of darkness threatened. We have to reattach ourselves to this fellowship and seek their guidance if we want success. Allah Y says in the 4^th Sura, an-Nisā’ (Women) النِّسَآء, Verse 69:

Who are the recipients of Allah’s blessings - there are four categories, The Prophets, The Siddiqs - the embodiment of Truth, The Martyrs and Saliheen or righteous who have attained the status of being Aulia Allah.  In the Islamic concept of Democracy the majority is not necessarily right. We do not count heads but look at competency and proximity to Allah Y   and his Beloved Rasul e Equality does not mean physical sameness. A thousand fools cannot be equal to a beloved of Allah. Islam insists on duty and competency Imam Hussain t represented truth, justice, purity, love, service and sacrifice. Islamic democracy relies on the strength of argument whilst western democracy is based on the argument of strength. The Holy Qur'aan says in the 6^th Sura al- An’a>m [The Cattle] الْأَنْعَام Verse 162:

 A leader must have complete mastery over his animal self, seeking, neither power, position nor pleasure. Under the rule of the Yazidi brand of Islam, enforcing a spiritless brand of Islam, devoid of love and respect, the blood of a Hussain has to purify the Ummah. The Capitalist/Zionist/Wahabbi alliance are bedfellows. When it is clear that the rulers are not really functioning as servants of humanity as they were supposed to; how does one to deal with the flagrant breach of the divine trust?

The answer to this question is to be found in the Qur'aan which lays down the ground rules of a clear-cut policy 4^th Sura, an-Nisā’ (Women) النِّسَآء: Verse 135:

The Holy Qur’aan clearly declares in the 2^nd Sura al-Baqarah (the Cow) الْبَقَرَة: Verse 191 that:

The tragic events of Karbala is an annual reminder to practice Islam honestly and sincerely, to do what is right irrespective of consequences, and fear none but Allah. To stand for the truth and fight to the death is more honorable than submitting to the wrongful. As Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti t reminded us:

As the Rites and Rituals of Hajj keep alive the remembrance of true Tauhid[1] i.e. Allah Y is the Sovereign, whose rule is maintained within the institution of the Caliphate, the Rites and Rituals introduced in Islam by the Sufi’s to remember Imam Hussain t keeps the spirit of resistance alive in the hearts of sincere believers who have not given in to the corrupt man-made systems that exploit in the name of democracy. Critical attention needs to be given to sectarian rivalry in Islam with the emergence of many rival sects amongst Muslims themselves, many of which dogmatically lay claim to the true Islam while demonizing all rivals as misguided. Among the strange and misguided sects is one that as per the prophecy of the Holy Prophet Muhammad e  emerged out of the region of Najd in Arabia to declare all its rivals to be Mushrikūn (i.e., a people who blaspheme against the one God), and to further declare it obligatory to kill all such rivals. Members of that Najdi Wahhabi sect entered into an alliance with the Saudi clan in order to win control over the Hijaazi Arabian heartland of Islam. They sought this control over the Hijaaz in order to cleanse it of what they considered to be Shirk (blasphemy), and to thus restore the true faith. When they succeeded in winning that control they proceeded to slaughter thousands of innocent Muslims. They subsequently further exposed the hollowness of their faith in Islam when they aided and abetted in the creation and preservation in Arabia of a Saudi-American client-State that they named Saudi Arabia. In doing so they presided over the destruction of Dār al-Islām and the Khilāfah State that the blessed Holy Prophet e  had himself established. They also chose friendship and alliance with Europe’s mysterious Judeo-Christian alliance in preference to fraternal solidarity with those believers who proclaimed their faith in Islam.

 So long as the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance maintains its client-State relationship with the European Zionist-Christian alliance which rules the world, it remains impossible for any Muslim, or combination of Muslims, to dislodge them from control over the Hijaaz, the Haramain and the Hajj. This upstart sect with a claim to represent the true Islam actually presides over the monstrous betrayal of Islam while aiding and abetting in the destruction of the Islamic Caliphate. They played a crucial role in delivering to the Jewish-Christian alliance the capacity to eventually rule over the entire world of Islam. 

Yet another strange and mysterious but very attractive Indian sect declaring those within its fold to be a people of Tablīgh (i.e., missionary preaching). Their methodology of reaching out to Muslims and gently leading them back to the non-strategic Sunnah of the blessed Holy Prophet e is indeed impressive. Many of its members are very sincere Muslims who do live lives of great piety. Hence it is quite mysterious that members of this sect would oft-times rather shy away from the remembrance of Imam Hussain t, which delivers knowledge of the strategic Sunnah. They would act in this strange way even when they have no knowledge of the subject. They would rather close their ears than join in a conversation or discussion that questions the validity of the Saudi Occupation of the Hijaaz or the Zionist control of al-Aqsa.

Most of the Ulama of this age, even in the Dār al-‘Ulūm or institutions of higher

Islamic learning, seem to neglect the inner dimension of the Qur’aanic Revelation. The Sufi’s, except for a handful, are busy with mystifying the Science of Spirituality and have themselves abandoned the Sufi epistemology that recognizes the validity of internal intuitive spiritual insight as a source of knowledge. Hence they are unable to read and understand the movement of history and respond, as Imam Hussain t did to challenge those forces which move history. Thus the forces against the Islamic Ideology will allow the Ijtima (gathering), the gathering of dhikr in the Sufi Khanqah or the breast beating and wailing of the Shia but they will never allow meddling in politics and economics. Our Karbala Today is an all out struggle against economic corruption and political slavery enshrined in their system of production and consumption.

Irshad Soofi Siddiqui

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009Chishti Nizami Habibi Soofi
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