The Dadri incident
where a family was thrashed and one of their members killed has aroused lot of
emotions and thinking in the Muslims, much like the Babri Incident had over 2
decades ago.
Akhlaq Saifi, the
deceased and his family lived with over a dozen families in a Hindu majority
village of over 6000 people and for decades had lived in peace and harmony
until the Eid ul Adha of 2015 when he was killed by a mob of his neighbors and village
men, for the crime of having consumed meat in dinner.
Akhlaq’s family was
an educated one with his son serving the Indian Air Force, a prestigious
position for a Muslim, but none of that
eased Akhlaq’s suffering.
The killers were a
mob of over 200 people from his own village and they had been raged because
they were informed that Akhlaq had sacrificed a cow, which is considered holy
according to modern Hindus. Even though Akhlaq didn’t sacrifice a cow, the mob
had decidedly taken the law in its own hands and had served justice to the man
using a sewing machine from his own house smashing his brain out. As if this
was not enough, his son met the same treatment but Allah (swt) had written life
for him and he is currently in a hospital recuperating.
Indian Islam under threat
For many Muslims in
India who claim to profess the Indian Version of Islam, which is akin to the
American Islam and The British Islam, a more secularized and modified version
of Islam, where living in harmony with the hindus has been the pivot of their
religious life, this incident has been no less than disastrous to beliefs they
had held ideal for so long. They had for years partaken in hindu festivals and
had invited hindu friends to their homes, had been colleagues at work and had
helped each other at times of hardship. And they had taken to sharing so many
values even if it contradicted Islam.
This Indian Islam in
formulation which so many academics and scholars have professed & promoted,
has taken a huge blow and has put many of the proponents of the secularized
Indian Islam on a backfoot, because clearly the concept of ‘Hindu, Muslim, Sikh,
Isai hai bhai bhai - Hindi , Muslim, Sikh and Christians’, are all
brothers’ has failed for an umpteenth time and any of their overzealous
attempts beyond this would make them look like fools who are just ignoring the
elephant in the room.
The truth is that the
idea of Islam itself is a clear defiance to all other dogmas and beliefs held
by people, where Muslims are expected to bow to Allah and submit themselves to
his will, completely in contrast with so many other religions globally. And moreover,
Islam unlike others is not a religion limited to certain rituals and prayers,
rather, has an ever encompassing nature with viewpoints and solutions to almost
all challenges man faces in his daily life, be it economics, society, men and
women relationships, foreign policy and state affairs. And for over 1300 years
of Islamic rule which spread from the Middle East till Europe in the West and
Indonesia in the east, Muslims showed how they could run vast states through
Islam.
Why suddenly a problem with Islam
The problem with
Islam and Muslims is not new. It has existed ever since Islam was revealed to
the Prophet Mohammad. For 13 years, the prophets kinsmen did all they could to
stop the prophet from calling to Islam. They realized that Islam would simply
stop them from doing all the evil they had been doing until now, the cheating
in business, the adultery and fornication, the oppression and torture of the
helpless, the abuse of the weak and helpless, in other words they would loose
all their freedom, rather they would have to go back to the Prophet (saw) for
all guidance in this life, a luxury they deemed to be privileged to have and
too arrogant to leave.
So they arrogantly
continued to pray to the idols of Hubbal, Laat and Manaat and created
propaganda and critique against the prophet and when they realized that they
couldn’t stop the people from accepting Islam, they even attempted to Kill the
prophet even though he was their relative.
Ever since then the
Problem with Islam has remained and Shaytan and his cohorts has made all
attempts in guide and in open to attack Islam and Muslims.
وَلَنْ
تَرْضَى عَنْكَ الْيَهُودُ وَلَا النَّصَارَى حَتَّى تَتَّبِعَ مِلَّتَهُمْ
Never will the Jews
nor the Christians be pleased with you till you follow their religion.
[TMQ Baqara:120]
So the disbelievers
under the leadership of Shaytan make all attempts to take them away from
Islam.
قَالَ فَبِمَا أَغْوَيْتَنِي لَأَقْعُدَنَّ لَهُمْ صِرَاطَكَ
الْمُسْتَقِيمَ (16) ثُمَّ لَآتِيَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَمِنْ
خَلْفِهِمْ وَعَنْ أَيْمَانِهِمْ وَعَنْ شَمَائِلِهِمْ
وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ شَاكِرِينَ (17)
(Iblîs)
said: "Because You have sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait against
them (human beings) on Your Straight Path. Then I will come to them from before
them and behind them, from their right and from their left, and You will not
find most of them as thankful ones (i.e. they will not be dutiful to
You)." [TMQ Araf:16-17]
Allah
explains that the Shaytans undivided goal which he never flinches from even for
a moment is to deviate the Muslims and ensure they move away from Islam. And in
his war against Islam and Muslims, he uses all those who have been on his side.
So even
the meekest of his followers becomes the staunchest of his fighters.
And it
should be vividly clear for the Muslims,
لَتَجِدَنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
الْيَهُودَ وَالَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا
Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to
the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikûn [TMQ Maida: 82]
So how
could they even for a moment think, that the Jews or the Idol Worshippers,
could be their brothers!
For the
proactive thinking Muslim, the Dadri lynching (read:Babri2) should be a turning
point in how he understands and follows Islam.
He won’t
make a knee Jerk reaction and reserve things to their fate and accept what is
happening , for he knows,
إِنَّ
اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ
Verily! Allâh will not change the condition
of a people as long as they do not change their state themselves [TMQ Raad:11]
He knows that the Shaytan has decided
to make an aggressive charge on him, so he will not sit back and watch. He will
study islam and take the Islamic aqeedah and all the shariah laws emanating
from it as the basis on which tackles all issues of his life.
He will understand that the blood of a Muslim
is not cheap, rather is considered more important than the Kaba,
“The blood of a Muslim
is worth more to Allah than the Kaa’ba and all of its surrounding.” [Muslim]
Ayah 73
in Anfal, sums it up all in a very straight forward way,
وَالَّذِينَ
كَفَرُوا بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ إِلَّا تَفْعَلُوهُ تَكُنْ فِتْنَةٌ فِي
الْأَرْضِ وَفَسَادٌ كَبِيرٌ
And those who disbelieve are allies of one
another, (and) if you (Muslims of the whole world collectively) do not do so
[i.e. become allies, as one united block under one Khalifah (a chief Muslim
ruler for the whole Muslim world) to make victorious Allâh’s religion of
Islâmic Monotheism], there will be Fitnah (wars, battles, polytheism) and
oppression on the earth, and a great mischief and corruption (appearance of
polytheism) [TMQ Anfal:73]
He will also know that what happened in Dadri
is an extension of what has been happening to Muslims globally and in India for
decades, a war against Islam & Muslims where all the worlds’ forces are
pitched against the Muslims. He knows for him there is only one way, to unify
all his brethren under the leadership of a selfless leader, A Khilafah Rashida
(righteous Khilafah) who works to please Allah and protect the Muslims and
fight Shaytaan and his cohorts.
Abu Khaled Al Hejazi
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Comments
Ghulam Muhammed
October 13, 2015 at 8:25 am
There is surely a method to this Beef Madness. Both for longer term targeting of Muslims, in one case as businessmen and in another as voter. While the world has come to realize that India is the second most important beef ( actually Buffalo beef and not cow or bull beef) exporter, not much is known by wider circles that Muslims are the main beneficiaries of this huge export business opportunity. RSS/BJP/Brahmins cannot tolerate Muslims making money and improving their economic status at least in some pockets. Once in the saddle at the Central and some state governments, they have now cracked down on beef slaughter. The manipulation may be to hijack the entire been export to their own Hindu exporter and let Muslim be the menial worker. So this is a longer term plan being executed at breakneck speed, lest BJP does not come into power again. Second, is of course, the electoral compulsion. The more Muslim is identified and vilified as killer of the mother cow, the more consolidation of Hindu vote will be against the Muslim voters as well as the supporting secular classes. If beef crackdown can polarise the communities, BJP can assure itself a complete control of the both houses of parliament and pass legislations without bothering for any opposition from any quarters forthwith. So there is a method to this Beef Madness, that has to be addressed by the victims and opposition to frustrate RSS/BJP’s dirty games tactics. The way they have antagonized the entire world against their open fascist methodology to rule India, the world has to be rightfully alarmed. India is most vulnerable at so many levels and BJP/RSS cannot confront the world as much as they would like.