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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 am a young person who is following your articles and
trying to realize some truths from them thanks to you. But I am
undecided about some subjects. I want to ask you a question about
this article of yours published at
www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/kitaplar/insan/insan105.htm
Dear Master, you have 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 is not a powerful
Islamic government, I do not 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
or states, but how could we talk about Islam if the state the person
lives in does not practice the government of Allah? No doubt,
“having faith” is most important for us before all. But why should
we be content with only having faith if we can have the chance of
living Islam much more? For instance, I am unable to talk about
Islam. They label me as a “reactionary”; they call me supporter of
Sharia. That is not a lie, I am for Sharia. I feel responsible to
practice what Sharia requires. But I want others who are unaware of
this, to learn this too. Now, wouldn’t this article of yours push
some people at least to the state of uncertainty, who followed the
order “Fight till the religion belongs to Allah”? Why did RasulAllah
found an Islamic government, if there were no need for it? They
could have lived Islam in the existent order. Besides, Allah would
not have send on us the laws of Islam. I think that this subject is
very important. I am asking you to inform me about it. I also thank
you for reading my mail. May peace of Allah be upon you! Have good
days.”
Should an Islamic (sharia) state or 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?
Just let me tell you of some period of time from my past…
I
am just 18; I have just entered these subjects. I have read the bare
word interpretation of hadithes and the Koran. A state of love and
energy overflowing! Capsized emotions and reflections! Leave aside
holding a woman’s hand; I do not even dare to look at a woman! With
that excitement, I am shouting from my window to neighboring ladies
about wearing covers over their heads! I am growing a beard and
wearing a headdress; yet looking at people wearing hats
disdainfully.
With that excitement, I am writing articles in support of Sharia
to a magazine of that time called “New Independence” under different
nicknames, with subjects like Sharia should be put into
practice, etc.
At
that time, I also started reading the authors like Abdulkadir
Geylani, Hadji Baktash Wali, Ghazali, Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi, İmam
Jafar Sadik who sought and wrote on the intellectual aspects of
Islam, that is Sufism (Tasawwuf). I noticed that the subject
should be assessed rationally, not by rote memorization. Thanks to
the masters of Sufism, I have realized a totally new aspect of
Islam. I saw the real purpose of Islam! All my practices have
changed then. I went through 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 perspective has never changed!
When I lived through such realizations and had that understanding, I
observed that the “original Sharia” is quite a great
deal different from what is served to us today as the “Sharia”
by Muslim societies living in the world.
In
original Islam, there are more human rights than what today’s
secular practices offer! Unless there is active violence to
others, Islam leaves the person alone with his own faith and does
not force or punish!
It
was very clear that the rules that were practiced at the era of
Mohammed, the Rasul and Nabi of Allah, were a great deal
different from the perception of Muslimism practiced at the periods
after him.
The snowball of Sharia built on fatwas
(religious opinions of people who are considered “officials”) which
are consisted of countless personal explanations, had turned finally
into an avalanche when arrived in our present time!
In
the past, there has never been an Islamic government after
Hadhrat Ali passed away. There have always been sovereignties or
dictatorial regimes! Before him, there had not been a concept of
government at all. Tribal lives were 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 thought and told as if “original
Islam” with the power they gained.
“Original Islam” is Koran and Hadithes.
False acceptance of today, however, consists of “the Koran +
Hadithes + Comparative Islamic Law (qiyas) + Common perception of
society (ummah).”
This is where the mistake starts.
Everything
that the Koran or the Hadithes do not include is a “personal
interpretation” or “FATWA” and does not bind anyone in
the name of RELIGION.
Above all, it is the greatest of cruelties for people trying to push
them to practice someone’s personal explanation (fatwa) about
a subject not found in the Hadithes or the Koran, in a manner as if
it is a religious rule!
Let us leave the past aside for a while…
Is
there any “Islamic government” on earth which is based on only
the Koran and Hadithes? THERE IS NOT!
If
a person’s perception of Islam or his faith was relevant to an
Islamic State or a Sharia government, then there would not be
anyone on earth today who had faith or who accepted Islam! But,
thousands of saints (awliyah) live in countries today
governed by “non-Islamic regimes”!..
How could we humiliate Islam by relating the governments to Islam,
that are consist of narrow minded people with limited vision, who
have regional perceptions of Muslimism because of their particular
religious sects, paths and communal perceptions (madhab,
tariqah, jamaah); 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 others as Muslims if they
do not share their own paths, their communities, and consider women
without veils as non-believers, establish an Islamic Sharia
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 over how many others saying “in
the name of Allah and Religion”? Can you even imagine the
result of all this?
What kind of a unity or ruling of that unity could you ever talk
about while Muslims today are grouped in perception differences by
excluding each other, or laying traps behind each other, and while
they have such a mind set that bring bans to the books of authors
which do not share their ideas?
Let us be honest, and give up deceiving ourselves! Let us get rid of
thinking inside the borders of our village and learn to view and
assess globally!
Know it for sure that if the RENOVATOR (master spirit of the
age), with the epithet of Mahdi, will not come out as a
commander on his white horse with an army equipped with
extraordinary powers, the expectation of an “Islamic government”
will not go beyond a pure dream that expends people’s energy in
wrong way.
I
have written it in 1985 that there will not be a Mahdi as
people fancy to emerge. I have also written the RENOVATOR might have
started to fulfill his function at the very date (1400-1410). For
years now, people’s expectations of Mahdi revealing himself
in Hajj turn out to be nothing each year. 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 Renovator 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 on earth via people of love, who observed and
experienced the truth of the matter,
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 in what, why and 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 people to save their faith. It is the
era of addressing them in the language and in the manner 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 lifetime
for the sake of applying some other wrong practices in place of
others.
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 behind closed doors in Turkey, and who reached
their aims at that period! See where, in which line 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 were blocked by
insufficient and stencil knowledge obtained from secret Koran
courses and parishes, and who know nothing other than their
“right”s, have taken over the positions that direct the society
in the name of religion!
In
reality, the greatest veils in front of Islam is not the government,
but the religious courses and parishes that educate religious
scholars(!) who, alas, imagine people will die and vanish and sprout
from earth in the hereafter!
People, for their own sakes, need to urgently interrogate and
research religion on
their own from scratch!
Life keeps rolling 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 a service to the Religion!
Religion is not an occupation (job)! It cannot be!
If
one’s job 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.
They who create a “god” in their minds might see
everything permissible in accord with their will. But the world of
people who understood “ALLAH” as Hazrat Mohammed explained
and what he has brought, is a totally different world!
Life of this world is TEMPORARY!
Jesus did not let to be deceived by Barabbas who had wanted to use
him for politics!
The reason is that, he was a person of “ALLAH”… He knew that
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 the 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 parishes or at the secret
courses to be original RELIGION!
If
only the government let everybody tell their opinions freely on TV…
Then the society would understand and assess everything just as they
notice the “tele-comedian theologians”. However, there is no
permission even for this! Because, in most countries, there is no
freedom of expressing what you think!
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 is long… Life is short. There are severe earthquakes and
collapses, meteors on the way! The third world war is at the door…
Dajjal is waiting! The Renovator spirit is fulfilling his own
aim without making himself public!
It
is possible to leave this world without reaching the truth (haqiqat),
without knowing ALLAH and comprehending the system and order set by
ALLAH and without getting ready as required by the system and order
properly!
The purpose of living on earth is to set off to eternal life by
exploring and living out the potential powers belonging to Allah
within our essence.
If we cannot achieve this, we will be scattered at the journey we
will have started in the grave that we are put 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” and “you are 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 |
