Human Rights, Justice and Affluence

nakhok

Pakistani women agree that Quran is the way. Pakistani men agree that Quran is the way. Why are you putting adanga beech me?

The only salvation for an Islamic nation is in Quran. Anything else will lead Pakistan to Jahaliya.

#26 by anew on December 12, 2003 6:36am PT

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You won`t believe my statement unless I prove you once again (it did happen 1400 years ago) by showing you a Role Model Islamic Country.
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Even if we accept the faithful`s belief that ``it did happen 1400 years ago``, its institutional defects must have been so fundamental that it failed to be replicated in the next 1400 years. And, anyway, it is most regressive in the 21st century to want to go back to the norms of 7th century. Here`s an admission of that simple truth:

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_17-10-2003_pg3_6

Daily Times, Pakistan
Friday, October 17, 2003

The tragedy of the Muslim woman
by Khaled Ahmed

..... there is a clear edict (nas) in the Quran that [a woman] should receive half a share [in inheritance]. .....

..... In India when Jinnah was practising as a lawyer he saw Islamic family law as progressive because it allowed share in property to women and permitted widows to marry. On the other hand, Hindu girls were completely without rights. But in the 1950s Nehru gave full property rights to Hindu girls in violation of the ``shastras``. Today the Muslim girl has fewer rights in India. It is a pity that Pakistan`s laws should be out of step with the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. .....

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OIC stands for Organization of Impotent Countries? There is a very little Islam in any of these countries. They are Islamic because the majority of the population has Islamic names and some of them perform Islamic Rituals of Salat, Fasting and Pilgrimage. But there is no enforcement of Shariah (Islamic Laws) in a true sense. You won`t believe my statement unless I prove you once again (it did happen 1400 years ago) by showing you a Role Model Islamic Country. Wait.......

The true way of life, Deen al-Haq, is not meant to survive submissively as a mere religion under the umbrella of secularism; instead the Holy Qur`an makes it abundantly clear that Islam is meant to dominate all aspects of life and all man-made systems and ideologies. This puts a tremendous responsibility on our shoulders. The Qur`anic commands vis-à-vis human society, culture, law, economics, and politics are not given to us so that we may admire and praise them, but they are meant to be implemented and acted upon.

This necessitates that the gulf between Faith and Power be removed, which obviously requires a revolution in the leadership so that - instead of fulfilling any un-Islamic agenda - it contributes towards the establishment of ``God`s Kingdom`` on earth. Without collective organizational power, a significant portion of Islam reamins confined to the realm of theory, and, as a result, all sorts of corruption, injustice, inequity and immorality are let loose on earth. It`s not that Islam cannot survive or support itself without political authority, but, in fact, it is the political authority that grows more and more corrupt unless it is subordinated to the commands of the Holy Qur`an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad.


The struggle to establish the domination of Islam is one of our basic, though unfortuanately forgotten, duties. The significance of this obligation is underscored by a tradition according to which Prophet Muhammad is reported to have said: ``If a Muslim dies and he had neither participated in any struggle for the cause of Almighty Allah nor had he a desire to take part in such a struggle, then he dies in a state of a certain kind of nifaq (i.e., hypocrisy, and not of true faith).``

A Muslim whose life is devoid of the struggle to establish the system of Khilafah, and who lacks the longing and the deep-felt desire to participate in it and to sacrifice his life for this purpose, can certainly be a Muslim in the legal sense of the word but such a person cannot be a Momin in the sight of Almighty Allah. This is because true conviction or Iman, although itself a hidden and covert reality, necessarily manifests itself in the form of struggle for the cause of Almighty Allah (SWT). This, according to the Holy Qur`an, is what defines a true believer.


They alone are the believers who come to believe in Allah and His messenger and afterwards never doubt, and who strive in the way of Allah with their wealth and their lives. Only they are truthful and sincere. (Al-Hujurat 49:15).

That Prophet Muhammad (SAAWS) did achieve his Divinely ordained goal of establishing the Islamic System of Social Justice after a remarkable and strenous revolutionary struggle that lasted twenty years, is a universally accepted fact.

Moreover, it is also universally accepted that this system existed in its ideal form for at least thirty years after the death of the Prophet. However, two confusions have been created in this regard that need to be redressed here. The first consists of the objection that if Islam is indeed the God-given system of life, and if it is really in harmony with human nature, why is it that it lasted only for a period of thirty years?

The second confusion consists of the misconception that the Islamic System collapsed totally and vanished all of a sudden from the face of the earth after the period of Al-Khilafah Al-Rashidah.

Nothing can be more removed from the truth. All that happened after this golden era of thirty years was that, in the affairs of political governance, the highest democratic standards of mutual consultation (Shura) began to be gradually replaced by the influence of tribal loyalty and the allegiance to the clan (Asabiyyah). As far as genuine monarchy or kingship is concerned, it took at least 90 years to become fully established. The Umayyad period, therefore, should be considered a transitional phase from true Khilafah to overt and unmistakable monarchy; it was actually the Abbassid period that displays all the corruption and exploitation characteristic of kingship, what is described by Allama Iqbal as ``Arabian Imperialism.``


The Islamic System of Social Justice, as established by Prophet Muhammad (SAAWS), did not end in toto with the termination of Al-Khilafah Al-Rashidah, although it must be adimitted that the process of its decline did start from that point onwards. This downward trend has been a very slow and gradual phenomenon, taking at least a full millennium to reach its lowest ebb.

The essence of what we call the “Islamic revolutionary thought” consists of the idea that it is not enough to practice Islam in one`s individual life but that the teachings of the Qur`an and those of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad must also be implemented in their totality in the social, cultural, juristic, political, and the economic spheres of life.

The obligations of a Muslim as ordained by the Qur`an and Sunnah, can be understood as having four levels:

a Muslim is required to develop real faith and conviction (Iman) in his heart;


he is required to live a life of total obedience to the injunctions of the Shari`ah;


he is required to propagate and disseminate the message of Islam to the entire humanity;


and he is required to try his utmost in establishing the ascendancy of Islam over all man-made systems of life.

#22 anew on December 11, 2003 7:13pm PT

There is absolutely nothing in the record of any of the 5 dozen OIC countries to support anew`s hypothesis that:

``[Islam] can plug financial corruption and exploitation in the society which will ensure fair distribution of resources to all.``

Riffat Jahan wrote:

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Scandinavian countries with their extensive social welfare system, theoretically assuring cradle-to-grave affluence to their nationals are the few places on the planet that remind an ideal Islamic society, where no one goes to bed unfed.
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The Scandinavian countries have been a reality for quite sometime. ``an ideal Islamic society``, on the other hand, has never been anything more than the figment of imagination nurtured within the confines of the Ummah. The 5 dozen OIC countries have long been conspicuous by the most blatant inequities on earth. It is the Ummah that has a lot to learn from the Scandinavian countries.

Islam is not an economic wizrd which can bring Economic prosperity with some magical wand. But as Riffat rightly said it can plug financial corruption and exploitation in the society which will ensure fair distribution of resources to all.

ballukhan 19,

Calling that premitive is a fatwable offence, it is blasphemy. Action against ahmadias is in line with what is in the book, and you are telling that it is primitive, well the book could be premitive.

I am waiting for ylh to post that ahmadias are one of the most wealthy, they are in all sorts of high paying jobs and accordingly there is nothing to complain about what is happening to ahmadias. Remeber of course that pakistanis never mention these aspects on chowk, well as tahmed claims they are of course very critical of their country.

Riffat-
If you are trying to sell democracy and all the other good things of modern polity in the name of ``Islam`` to the Islamized countries then I am all for it.

#17 by nakhok on December 10, 2003 6:43pm PT
OMG!
This is primitive!!!