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| Abd_al-Rashid |
| 04/10/02 at 17:29:12 |
| [slm] The tears have been shed, the duah has been made, the donations have been given. Now it is time to ask: WHAT HAVE I DONE TO HELP THE UMMAH? Have you taken any concrete action? 1) Have you joined the zionist product boycott? check. 2) Have you participated in rallies or marches? check. 3) Have you spoken to the media or written a letter to the editor? check. 4) Have you organized an event at your school and/or workplace? check. 5) Have you sent money to the relief organizations? check. 6) Have you stopped listening to modernist and/or government "scholars" who only talk of "inner jihad" and ignore the problems of the ummah? check. 7) Have you made your intention for the sake of Allah alone and asked Allah to choose you and allow you to participate in Jihad fi sabilillah in the battlefield against the enemies of Islam? check. Please read the following e-mail I received, it clearly states the problems we have been and will continue to face if we do not return to the clear way of the Qur'an and Sunnah. Zionists Launch Secret Assault on Universities Jewish Zionists launched the most secretive offensive against Muslim Students ever, during this conflict and there is no surprise Muslim ISOCS (Student Islamic Societies) seem to have been completely caught napping again. While Palestinians are murdered, Muslims students looked at their television sets, and pointlessly muttered words of anger into the stale air of their living room. Jewish students were not so easily satisfied. They were determined to make the Palestinians pay right here in the UK. Jewish Students societies have launched what can only be described as the most daring campaign to date, a nationwide campaign to have any mention of the Zionist Israeli state being called racist banned from campuses nationwide. Bringing the Palestinian conflict to the UK, with devastating effect. And silencing any debate on Palestine within Universities. Muslim students and their ISOC heads reacted in their typical fashion. They shrugged their shoulders and said “yes but what can we do” No short term, mid term or long term counter planning, nothing that would stop Jewish students banning them from speaking out against the racist Israeli state. It was as if they were in another world. As long Muslim students got a prayer room, they were happy. As long as they got a bearded speaker to talk about ‘Dajjal!’ or “Economic theory in Islam” They felt they had done their job heading their ISOC. Why such a serious level of detachment from practical real world threats? There are many reasons. One reason is that most groups until now have been teaching neutralised Islam. An Islam that was the five pillars and nothing more. The type of Islam that is being taught in 95% of all institutions, where all the emphasis is on dogma. These neutralised Muslims taught one that to pray, wear hijab and grow a beard, you became in their terminology ‘practicing’. Actively defending your dying Muslim brothers was not ‘fard’ e.g. you are not obliged to write to your MP in Islam but you are obliged to wear hijab. All the emphasis these groups gave was on the ritual and never on any form of practical action. Of course this version is a sham and completely false. Picking the pen up in the UK knowing your MP could force Israel to stop, made it a form of jihad, and THOSE WHO MADE EXCUSES NOT TO GO TO JIHAD IN THE TIME OF THE PROPHET PBUH WERE HYPOCRITES. New Muslim organisation now are emerging and demanding that the emphasis should be placed on being an active Muslim, and making a difference to the world around you, and not simply focusing on your own individual self. Creating a Synergy between praying and real world practice, and not falsely emphasising one over the other. Most so called ‘practicing’ Muslims have been taught to focus on the theory but never the real world. So the holy men that run the ISOCS were usually the most sincere but also the most incapable men that could possibly run any real world group. They looked at books, but found no one had taught them to look at the world and solve the problems out there. Since practical Islam is not taught in mosques and circles or talks in most UK gathering, Muslims looked to neutralised Muslims as their leaders. Muslims who new a lot of theories were put into positions of authority, of course they could not possibly cope with the challenges the real world demanded, and were not practical men. The proof of course is the inaction and inability to react to this latest crises from both the mosques, Islamic organizations and the ISOCS, all run by these men trained in neutralised Islam. You could count on your hand the organisations that did anything for the Palestinians during this mass murderous campaign by Israel. Yet every single org. is run by sincere Muslims. Sincere by neutralised. Here is an extract from such a neutralised mindset from Muslim I received in my inbox today: "all these things, wearing Jilbaab, keeping a beard...seeking knowledge are easy...they will not be later......so take advantage of it while we do....If you are not strong enough to go out in Jilbaab or with a big beard now.....will you be when we ARE being persecuted???? If you are not going to seek knowledge now when there are talks every week will you be going when the knowledge will be hard to find????....These days are not far away and we all have to use this time to the best of its advantage because what we find hard to do today will be harder tomorrow.....and what if we were to die tonight...what will we say to Allah when we are asked why we did not fulfil our obligations?" As you can plainly see this Muslim view’s written even as 200 tanks rolled into Nablus is on wearing of hijab, and growing of a beard or attending a talk, to ‘gain knowledge’. Even in the full light of seeing today another Palestinian being humiliated and then murdered on camera. There is no mention of the fact we need to act to stop this, or better still how to act. The above is a clear example of neutralised Islam effecting the Muslim mind. Millions now were starving in their own homes in Palestine, as Israel’s cut electricity, gas , water and food to all residents. A BOY AGED 7 WAS SHOT DEAD AT POINT BLANK RANGE, WHILE HE ASKED AN ISRAELI SOLDIER FOR WATER. And yet the mindset above can only focus and emphasise one aspect of Islam. To neutralised Muslims it was the most import aspect. Human life came a distant second. But is neutralised Islam the only reason for the lack of any action? It is part of the answer but not all. I found the second part of the jigsaw by accident, while browsing a Jewish website. To my astonishment I read that Zionist Student groups in the UK were training Jewish students, and spending vast amounts of money in making sure this campaign was carried out like a military operation. How could the few practical and active Muslims that do run our ISOC’s compete with a mini student Mossad that was now mobilising against them. A Jewish website published the following : "Meanwhile, the Jewish student organisation has invested £10,000 in two major conferences designed to teach youngsters how to face up to the challenges." Israel was launching a £10,000 campaign to educate Jewish students, on Israel, Zionism and how to hit back the anti-Israeli campaign on the campuses. The professionalism was shocking. The amount of money thrown at the campaign showed just how serious the Zionist students took the threat of Muslims teaching non-Muslims that Israel was the only racist state in the world left. From the most important cradle of action, the University. It was disheartening to know that despite an appeal for Muslim’s to sponsor our student team to do take on the threat, we at MPAC haven’t been able to raise even raise £400 a month to do the same, despite having 10,000 Muslims on the group. As usual the Muslims want the victory but not of the sacrifice. It didn’t stop there, this week another front to the battle was being explored by active Jewish students, while Muslim students no doubt settled their rather large over pious posteriors down to listen to their ever more detached speakers neutralise them, the Zionists were thinking practically: Leading Jewish students this week revealed they have sought legal advice in a bid to combat the mounting torrent of anti-Israel motions on university campuses around the country. UJS officials are asking solicitors whether recent motions contravene British law “in any way” after students in Manchester, York and London were forced to fight accusations that Israel is a racist state. MPAC student Department account managers have taken up the fight, but as we have said in the past, we are struggling to even fund the phone calls. The difference between training Jewish students who can defend themselves with £10,000 of training and the best lawyers in the country, and £100 (our current student budget) and no lawyers at all, could be the difference between Israel winning on both sides of the world. We were being defeated not only by a mindset that told one to forget the real world, but also when we finally woke up, simply not having the resources to launch a counter attack. We will keep you posted on further developments. As the Palestinian conflict hits our universities. We urge all Muslims to monitor UK Jewish websites, and tip us off with any information of what they are up to. MEET THE FULL STUDENT TEAM AND FIND OUT HOW THEY PLAN TO TAKE ISRAEL ON FROM THE UK. COME TO THE APRIL 13TH EVENT IN BIRMINGHAM If you wish to fund the student team email shadia15@hotmail.com -------- As you can plainly see, the modernists are having a field day. "don't worry brother, Jihad is against the nafs, fight the shaytan" What about the slaughter on a daily basis? "That's politics brother, we don't talk about politics" What about the zionists harrasing us on campus? "make duah to Allah brother" Again the question is, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? [wlm] |
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| jannah |
| 04/11/02 at 00:09:21 |
| [slm] Powerful post bro, but it is really unfair to say that people who teach about the "5 pillars etc" "neutralized islam" ??(their term) are wasting their time. Let's admit it. How many Muslim students on campus actually know and practice the 5 pillars ??? I would go with the usual 10% number. We should rightly be working for our brothers and sisters around the world and be smart enough to compete even with the likes of the zionist student organizations which are indeed formidable, but we cannot ignore that most of the muslim students on campus don't even have the most basic knowledge of islam. That being the case, pushing them to "jihad" in whatever way does not make any sense. Let's find a balance here, educate the masses, keep them strong... keeping ALL of our priorities in focus. Extremism in anything is not part of our deen. We are a middle way, we are a SOLID way, we don't get pulled or tipped overboard when we are going down this rocky torrential river. Let's forget about tarbiyya and education at college campus's and let's just be active active active.. Every zionist protest we'll have our own protest, every letter write-in we'll have our own.. . and what happens..... 5 years down the line?? we have alot of muslims who were active but now they don't know or practice anything of the deen As our imam keeps trying to drum into our heads, we MUST always think ahead to weigh the probable consequences, the prophet [saw] ALWAYS did this, throughout the seerah. We don't seem to learn from it and just react and make the same dawah mistakes OVER and OVER again. We need to break the cycle, we need to think AHEAD, we need to have some VISION and not react emotionally. I think everyone should listen to a speech Imam Zaid Shakir gave last week at New Paltz. It states a vision... a smart vision.. not one of reaction and emotion that will last 5 minutes and we end up in the same place we were 10 years ago. I understand that people are frustrated, they want change. but you know what, change is HARD and it takes WORK and it takes TIME... it takes building the institutions and the people to make it happen. It takes reading about how one child died wrongly in Palestine today and working diligently so that if not next week, if not next year, but with enough vision that even if 50 years from now IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN to any Muslim child. . |
| 04/11/02 at 00:10:51 |
| jannah |
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| Halima |
| 04/11/02 at 02:02:54 |
| Asalaam Aleykum Jannah, I disagree with you on one count and here it is: What El Musulman is suggesting is not reactionary. It is simply being ready and being able to counter any negative propaganda against Islam. Surely, we can both teach the all the pilars of Islam and at the same time be able to productive enough to do what the Jewish students are doing in the UK. We have educated Muslims across the world, not only in the UK who can counter the Jewish students campaign just as effectively. And that is not reactionary and the consequences you are afraid of should be the same consequences the Jewish students should be afraid if at all. Regardless of the support the Jews have anywhere in the world, we as Muslims should be able to put up the same campaign. Why should such a campaign from the Muslims be any different to the point of fear of consequences??? How come Muslims are not afraid to put up Islamic websites but should be afraid to conduct campaigns to point out the brutally of Israel? And how can an Islamic compus campaign same as the Jewish students campaign be deemed dangerous or unproductive. What we need to be vigilant and at the same time continue to teach Muslims to practice Islam and defend it at the same time. By the way, we (the rest of tha Muslims) are not using weaspons yet! And us for funds, ask all Muslims around the world to contribute and the best way to do this is through the Masjids. You will all be surprised at the kind of positive reaction you will get. It is the duty of every Muslims to help. And there is plenty of support from the Third World Muslims in particular. So, teach and preach Islam to Muslims and non-Muslims alike but also defent Islam wholeheartedly with no procastinations or excuses. I say to this to all of us. |
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| jannah |
| 04/11/02 at 03:05:08 |
| [wlm] shukran halima but again i'm not against any type of work by msa islamic groups. again i said , " We should rightly be working for our brothers and sisters around the world and be smart enough to compete even with the likes of the zionist student organizations which are indeed formidable," .........my point was that the article was putting down what they called "neutral islam" such as teaching the 5 pillars and my response was along the lines of.... " but we cannot ignore that most of the muslim students on campus don't even have the most basic knowledge of islam. " the points about weighing the probable consequences, thinking and planning ahead, not being reacionary etc are general comments about the ummah in general... jazakiAllah khair for your post.. perhaps my unclarity will make more sense now... |
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| khanzadeh |
| 04/11/02 at 03:26:30 |
| [slm] [code] 1) Have you joined the zionist product boycott? check. 2) Have you participated in rallies or marches? check. 3) Have you spoken to the media or written a letter to the editor? check. 4) Have you organized an event at your school and/or workplace? check. 5) Have you sent money to the relief organizations? check. 6) Have you stopped listening to modernist and/or government "scholars" who only talk of "inner jihad" and ignore the problems of the ummah? check. 7) Have you made your intention for the sake of Allah alone and asked Allah to choose you and allow you to participate in Jihad fi sabilillah in the battlefield against the enemies of Islam? check. [/code] One local brother mentioned that nobody is doing what Allah (SWT) wants of them, ie., beg Him through salat. Consequently, we are planning for qyam ul lail this weekend for our Palestinian brothers. Aren't you too? |
| 04/11/02 at 03:28:12 |
| khanzadeh |
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| Halima |
| 04/11/02 at 09:33:21 |
| Shukran, Janna for the clarifications on the points. Muslims are more passive in many ways; a) avoiding confratations hence taking the silent attitude, b) the educated brothers and sisters are afraid to utilize their education to enlighten the ummah and also on the true essence of Islam, c) working together to uphold this beautiful religion, d) divisions among Muslims (this became so apparently clear during the Afghan crisis), e) waiting for non-Muslims to solve the problems of the Muslim world, etc., etc. There are plenty of ways to go about change. Violence ( the Palestininia case is justified) is not necessarily the only option. Education, Social Mobilization, Being Pro-Active rather than Re-Active or Passive. Bring Muslim across the wkrld to realize that we either stand together or we perish or be subjected to constant humiliation. We all have a choice. We all are accountable. Collectively, we can bring unbelievable changes. ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR, ALLAHU AKBAR! SUBHANA WATALLA. |
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