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I
want to share my opinions with you, because of the subject of
“Islamic government” in a heartfelt and important letter that
reached me. Due to this subject, people will suffer in their future
for not properly using their limited energy that Allah gave them!..
Here is the letter:
“May peace be upon you, dear Master. My mail is a bit long but,
please read it. I’m a young person who’s following your articles,
and trying to realize some truths. But I’m undecided about some
subjects. I want to ask you a question about this article of yours.
www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/kitaplar/insan/insan105.htm
Dear Master, you’ve said here that, there is no need for Islamic
government. For heavens sake, even though tens of Muslims are being
murdered in the world even now and there isn’t a powerful Islamic
government, I don’t understand the reason of this. I think our
purpose should be naturally to fight for the sake of Allah. You say
that Islam is a system declared for humans, not for governments, but
how could we talk about Islam if the government the person lives,
doesn’t carry out “Allah’s orders”? What is really important is, of
course, our faith. But why should we be content with only the faith,
if we have the chance to live Islam much more? For instance, I am
unable to explain Islam. They label me as a “reactionary”; they call
me supporter of sharia. That’s not a lie, that’s what I am.
I’m obliged to practice the things that are shari. But I want
the ones, who don’t know this, to learn this too. Now, wouldn’t this
article of yours push the ones to the state of uncertainty, who
follow the order “Fight till the religion belongs to Allah”? Why did
RasulAllah found an Islamic government, unless there was no need for
it? They could have lived Islam in the existent order. Besides,
Allah wouldn’t have declared the laws of Islam. I think that this
subject is very important. I would like to ask you to inform me.
Also thanks for reading my mail. May the peace of Allah be upon
you!”
Should an Islamic (sharia) government be set up?
What kind of a government would it be?
Is
there an example of it on earth?
Who is going to govern the Islamic government?
Let me tell you a period of my past…
I
am just 18; I’ve just entered (been involved) these subjects. I’ve
read the bare word interpretation of hadiths and Koran. A state of
love and energy overflowing. Capsized emotions and reflections.
Leave aside holding a woman’s hand; I don’t even look at a woman!.
With that excitement, I am warning the ladies to wear covers over
their heads, from my window! I am growing a beard, I criticize
people who wear hats.
With that excitement, I am writing articles about sharia to a
magazine of that time called “New Independence” under different
names. About the subjects like, sharia should be applied.
I
started to read the authors who searched on the intellectual aspects
of Islam –Sufism (Tasawwuf) –, like Abdulkadir Geylani, Hadji
Baktash Wali, Ghazali, Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi, İmam Jafar Sadik. I
noticed that the subject should be assessed rationally, not by rote
memorization. Thanks to the masters of Sufism, I’ve realized a
totally new aspect of Islam. I saw the real purpose of Islam! All my
practices have changed… There were a lot of realizations… My point
of view has completely changed and at the age of twenty I wrote my
book called “THE REVELATIONS” which conveyed my perception at
that time… Since than, my perception has never changed!
When this perception and realizations occurred, I saw the “original
sharia” is very different from the “sharia” that’s
brought to us by today’s Muslim societies that we live in.
In
original Islam, there are more human rights than what today’s
secular practices offer!.. If there is no active violence to
others, Islam leaves the person alone with his own faith and doesn’t
force or punish!.
It
is very clear that the rules that were applied at the era of
Mohammed, Allah’s Rasul and Nabi, are totally different from
the Muslim perception at the era after him.
Since fatwa (religious opinions of people who’re considered
“officials”) consists of countless personal explanations- the
snowball of sharia turned into an avalanche in our present
time!
In
the past, there wasn’t any Islamic government after Hadhrat
Ali passed away. There have always been sovereignties or dictatorial
regimes! Before him, there hadn’t been a concept of government.
Tribal life tried to be turned into a kind of governmental life.
There is just a similarity of name between today’s and yesterday’s
government perceptions!
Only disappointment will be reached with hearsay religious
information.
For centuries, people have carried on their sultanate by making
people accept the Islam that they told as “original Islam” with the
power they gained.
“Authentic (original) Islam” is Koran and Hadithes.
False acceptance of today consists of “Koran + Hadithes +
Comparative Islamic Law + Common perception of society.”
This is where the mistake starts.
Everything
that Koran or hadithes don’t include is a “personal
interpretation” or “FATWA” and does not bind anyone in
the name of RELIGION.
Above all it’s the greatest cruelty for humanity when a personal
explanation about a subject, which is not in a hadithes or Koran, is
tried to be applied as a religious rule!
We
shall leave the past aside…
Is
there any “Islamic government” on earth which is based on only
Koran and Hadithes? THERE IS NOT!.
If
one’s perception of Islam or his faith was relevant to an “Islamic
sharia government”, there would not be anyone today who
accepts Islam or has faith! However, thousands of saints (awliyah)
live in countries today governed by “non-Islamic regimes”!..
How could we humiliate Islam by relating the governments that are
consist of narrow minded, people with limited vision, who have
regional Muslim perceptions because of their religious sects, paths
and communal perceptions; who accept all believers as “non
believers” if they have differing perceptions than theirs? How could
we allow belittlement on Islam because of those kinds of
governments?..
Exaltedness of Islam is free of slander because of the mistakes of
human nature!
Will “those mentalities” who do not accept the others as Muslims if
they do not share their own paths, their communities, and consider
women without veils as non-believers, found an Islamic government
and rule the societies with sticks and knives?!.
According to which religious sect, path or community will an Islamic
government be founded?
And so, how many people will rule how many others saying “in
the name of Allah and Religion”? Can you even imagine the
result of all this?
While Muslims are grouped in perception differences such as
excluding each other, or laying traps behind each other, while they
have such a mind system that they ban the books which do not share
their ideas, what kind of a unity or ruling could be discussed?
Let’s be honest, and give up deceiving ourselves. Let’s get rid of
thinking inside the borders of our village and learn to view and
assess globally!
Know for sure that if the RENEWER, with the epithet of Mahdi,
won’t come out as a commander on his white horse with an army
equipped with superficial powers, the expectation of an “Islamic
government” won’t go beyond a pure dream that expends people’s
energy in wrong way.
I
have written in 1985 that there won’t be a Mahdi as people
fancy. I’ve also written the RENEWER might have started to fulfill
his function at the very date (1400-1410). Every year in Hajj,
people’s expectations of Mahdi revealing himself turn out to
be nothing. As long as the Saudi sultanate goes on, I do not think
that person will make himself public! This is my personal opinion.
Those who have life to live will inshallah (Allah willing)
see how right I am on this subject too .
If
the renewer has been carrying out his duty since 1980 or 1985,
fulfilling his function, then since that time, what has he been
keeping himself busy with? What’s he doing at the moment?
See the truths of your day well!
Islam spread via people of love, who see and live the truth, not by
narrow minded religious scholars (!?) who have formalistic
perception and brains like robots, who cannot go beyond repetition
of what they memorized!
We
should try to conquer the hearts, not the governments!
Fighting for the sake of Allah means, acknowledging what the
religion is, and warning people in the same manner as RasulAllah
did! That means telling, explaining people what, why, how the
faith should be, in the language that they can understand,
not seeing them as a flock to be herded!.
Our era is the era of serving to save peoples’ faith. It’s the era
of addressing them in the language they understand! No
message could be given to the society with speeches or books written
in a language that even the experts have trouble understanding!
RasulAllah was not a “Muslim of appearance and clothing”
in his era! Caring about people’s clothing is a trait of
primitive minds! Primitive ones try to impose bans on each
others’ clothes! RasulAllah was respectful to the traditions and
customs of the idolater society that he lived in, when the subject
matter was irrelevant to the Religious truths! This is a clear
example for us!
It
is one thing to reject and disagree with the wrong, unfair
applications of existing governments whose goals may be directed
with faithlessness. and it is another thing to waste one’s life to
apply a wrong in place of another.
How could you expect a solution for greater problems from people who
cannot comfort society by enacting an article of law that will
accept purse-snatching as “seizure” for years?..
See the realities of the world that you live in! Do not fool
yourselves! The price of this will be the highest price to pay!
Study carefully, who the same center is, that pushes either the
“leftists” or “people of sharia- wishers” with narrow minded
speeches for years, and at that period reached their aims!... See
where the revolutionists who believed those speeches are
today!..
As
years passed, the perception of “Religion” degenerated in Turkey
because of various reasons; the brains who know nothing other than
their ”right”s, blocked by insufficient and stencil knowledge
obtained from secret Koran courses, parishes, have taken over
the positions that direct the society in the name of
religion!
In
reality, it is not the government, but the religious courses and
parishes that educate religious scholars (!) who think they’ll die
and vanish and sprout from earth in the hereafter, are the greatest
veils in front of Islam!
People, for their own sakes, need to urgently interrogate and
research religion on
their own from scratch!
Life goes on and is being exhausted quickly. Time is flowing
quickly. You can only gain your eternal life while you are in this
world; this is your only and last chance!
The problem is not an “Islamic government” in Turkey; it is the
deliberate suppressions of the true knowledge about Islam.
Religion
cannot be taught by making people memorize only one perception, one
interpretation!
Expressing the REAL ISLAM does suit neither the government, nor the
society of tariqa nor the religious parishes!
Why is that so?
This should be questioned and thought through, in my opinion.
No
religious function can
be done to earn money. When done, its name is trading not servitude
to Religion!.
Religion is not an occupation (work). It cannot be!.
If
one’s occupation is Religion, then his business is trading!.
Religion can be used to make money, or for other worldly interests,
but the result of that will be nothing other than disappointment.
The one, who creates a “god” in his mind, might see
everything permissible in accord with his will. But the world of the
ones, who understand Allah as Mohammed RasulAllah explained and the
things he’s brought, is a totally different world!
Life is TEMPORARY!
Jesus was not deceived by Barabbas who had wanted to use him for
politics!
The reason is that, he was a person of “Allah”… He knew, what is
important for people, is the “eternal afterlife”!
He
let them serve, with worldly activities as they are created for!
How interesting are the feelings of the people who have not
understood what sharia actually is, but request it for the
government!.
In
reality, there is only one reason for the misunderstandings on all
these subjects:
Not considering the warnings and signs of Koran as a whole with the
practices of RasulAllah together; going over the issue with only one
chosen verse or hadith!. Supposing the interpretations memorized at
home or at the secret courses are original RELIGION!.
If
only the government let everybody tell their opinions freely on TV,
the society would understand and assess everything just as they
notice “telecomedic theologians”. However there is no
permission even for this! The reason of this is, in most countries,
there is no freedom of expressing what you’ve in mind!.
The real freedom is being able to express freely what one thinks
about! This is experienced in civilized and developed societies! It
is also the head of all freedoms!..
The way’s long… Life’s short. There are severe earthquakes and
collapses, meteors on the way!... The third world war is at the
door… Dajjal is waiting!… Renewer is fulfilling his own aim
without revealing himself!
It is possible to leave this world without reaching the truth (haqiqat),
without knowing Allah and comprehending Allah’s system and order,
without getting ready according to it!
The purpose of living on earth is to set off to eternal life by
realizing and utilizing the powers belonging to Allah in one’s self.
If we cannot achieve this, we will be scattered at the journey we’ll
have started in the grave that we put in alive!
In
the grave, there are three questions which will be asked to you:
“who’s your Rabbi? Who’s your Nabi? What’s your book? There
won’t be any question about whether you help people reach guidance
by founding a sharia government!
We
should think very thoroughly on the verses; “If we‘d wished for it,
all people would have received guidance” or “you’re not the one to
force them!”
The subject is much broader ,but it should be kept short not to
bore…
RasulAllah has set our principle:
Make it easy not harder; make it loved not hated! May Allah
facilitate it.
AHMED HULUSI
January
21, 2006
Raleigh, NC |
