Respected scholars I have a pain in my heart. I feel that when we sit in
a conference, seminar or a gathering then formalities and
traditionalism does not leave us, we are so caught in them that we can
break lose, we want that when we study Islam then we draw ourselves into
a secluded corner and have self assessment. Do have a self assessment,
individually, but we also have to assess whole of humanity, of the
world. World is in front of us and the Prophet (PBUH) we are talking
about, his word can not be uttered without universality and global
relevance. His tast starts with the fact that he (PBUH) is Mercy to all
worlds. He (PBUH) is Rasool to whole humanity. Allah (SWT) asked him to
say that he (PBUH) is Rasool to you all people. And the educational
system that he (PBUH) brought, was it for the purpose that a few
scholars will be prepared to decorate our pulpits and high pedestals?
Sermonizing on Seerah, delivering the duties of Imams and Friday
Sermons. Abu Bkar, Umar, Usman, Ali, Khalid Ibn Walid, Amr Ibn Al-Aas,
Saad Ibn-e-Abi Waqqas, Abdullah Ibn Mas'aood, Zaid Ibn Thabit and you
keep reciting names, were they prepared only to the effect that our
pulpits, our high pedestals, the boundaries of our monasteries some
Rabbanis and people of Allah are produced? Was this the purpose? The
Lord Who said while dispatching him that We have sent you as a Rasool
for guidance and the True Religion so that the religion is divulged to
all in its complete form and only polytheists despise it. Lord who made
this purpose so clear will He (SWT) be agreeable to this that we resort
to patch work (implementation of Deen). Will He (SWT) be agreeable to
this that whole of the world runs on another law (other than Shariah),
that there be secular rule on every square inch of Pakistan? That
Islamic world is run by secular system begged from Britain and America,
people spend life licking the spit Europe? Ignoring the system of
Tauheed implemented by Islam that had shaken up the Roman and Persian
Empires? And displayed that right of the honourable Prophet (PBUH) can
not be delivered by making people slaves? Riba'i Ibn Aamir (RA) is a
less prominent Companion but he, while representing the Prophet (PBUH)
in the court of Rustam had the guts to say that we have come to
implement a just rule, we have been sent to release people from
atrocities, to change people from living according to people's wish to
live according to the Wish of One God, to take people from the
contraints of this world to the expanses of hereafter, from in justice
of religions to justice of Islam, I shall release people from injustice
and exploitation, release people from traps of human beings, I'll not
play games with people's minds. God who created man Himself said that
"Recite in the name of that Lord who created". Here the Creator
attribute has been chosen because of the reason that it has not been
stated as to what has to be recited but only hinted - read every
creation of the Creator! His Signs are there in leaves, in drops of
water, in waves of air, in trees, particles, in planets, in galaxies, in
stars, in flower petals and in your own self and will you then not see
it? His Signs are there in your mind and brain, in your crevices, in
every fiber and hair. He (SWT) says that He (SWT) will show His Signs in
skies and in their selves. The system that was released that should
have been implemented from the shores of Japan to the shores of
American, from Kavkaz to the shores of South Africa. We defaulted on
that. We stopped trying after getting out of Spain. We forgot Ibn
Khaldoon, Shatibi, Shah Waliullah, Mujaddid-e-Alf-e-Thani, Ibn
Taimiyyah, Ibn Qayyim, Al-Jauzi, Zahrabi, Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina
and our philosophy. The result is that we reduced to go from door to
door begging for a system of life. We beg for educational system and
confined in a small circle we imagine that yes these are the scholars
who are the inheritors of beloved Prophet (PBUH), who have not the law,
the politics, the economy, business, civics, culture in their repertoire
who are on the margins, who are looked upon as miserable, who are prone
to be blamed. Whose task was to adorn the mantle of Abu Bakr Siddique,
Umar Farooq, Usman bin Affan and Ali (RAs) and later on Mu'awiya and
Umar Ibn Abdul Aziz (RAs), whose task was to have control of the
temporal affairs. Did it ever happen in 12 or 13 centuries that there
were two educational systems in our rule? Two legal systems? Two
political systems? Give us any example, from Abbasid period, from Mughal
period. May Allah (SWT) raise the stature of Maulana Manazir Ahsan
Gilani (RA) that he clarified in Indian Education System that
there used to be a universal education system that has been hijacked by
the enemy looters and threw us in to a state of turmoil. I shall finish
with this last point that Hazrat Maulana Qasim Nanotwi (RA), when we had
got the defeat in the battle field, that now let us try to protect
whatever little treasure we have, for we had no institutions under our
control. For example at our place Muslim Personal Law Board was
established in 1972 when the matters that were related to our family
life were preyed upon. That is when scholars proposed that there should
be a board for the protection of our domestic law. Now think about it -
just because in the state of turmoil we resort to protection of our
internal law does it mean that we should just forget the vastness of our
past system of ( rule). Should we be satisfied with that only? The
matter of truth is that the system that is implemented in the Madarsas
at present is a small part of the past big circle. A mere patch of
cloth. Merely a piece of food. It has no value beyond that. To insist
that this is sufficient and to maintain the status quo is undue
attachment to past. This is a trap on tradition that has completely
caught the people. Till it is broken and the system of Nabi (PBUH) era
is brought back so that those people are again produced who had the
complete way of life in their hands and there was no need to beg for a
system of life from any one nor of patch work. I fear this Verse, with
which I shall conclude my presentation, that in present our condition is
like this that Jews and Christians had in Prophet (PBUH)'s times and
later that you silly got satisfied with a few buds (otherwise the garden
had the solution to the problem of small container). I fear that if we
limit ourselves to the same extent as they did then the way Allah (SWT)
told them then we too will be addressed in the same way and the
lightening will shine sending our system upside down, we can see that
Muslim countries are being humiliated in the world, and the reason for
their humiliation is that they used Shariah for mere patchwork and
merely for show and trick, they were not sincere about implementing
Shariah, nor sincere to Allah (SWT) and Prophet (PBUH) nor to general
public or the nobility, nor any and every part of this Deen-al-Mateen.
May Allah (SWT) provide us that sincerity once again and the
determination of our direction keeping the Prophetic times in front of
us.
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