In the Noble
Qur’an there is
a Sura which
bears the title
Al-Qasas. While
this is read in
English as
meaning The
Story, it can be
more deeply
interpreted as
meaning History.
One might expand
an exploratory
translation to
indicate ‘This
is the meaning
of History’. It
could be said
that the great
disaster of our
time is the
failure of the
Arab peoples to
read and
understand the
Glorious Qur’an.
In it Allah,
glory be to Him,
has given clear
guidance and
clear
discrimination,
yet in every
Arab land the
Arabs
demonstrate to
the world their
lack of
guidance, their
lack of
discrimination,
and with that
the twin
impulses, the
rush to
excessive
wealth, like the
shameless and
extravagant
paganism of
Dubai, now the
world’s
pharaonic model,
at one extreme,
and the poverty
of neglected
masses as in
Pakistan and
Turkey, at the
other.
While the
neglected poor
of these
countries can
make an excuse
of ignorance,
and plead an
absence of
right-guided
fuqaha as an
excuse, the Arab
peoples have no
way to avoid the
inescapable
reality - they
have failed to
respond to and
obey the Command
of Allah, glory
be to Him, to
them. The
Command has been
given in a clear
Arabic.
From the
gangster
leadership of
the lawless
Palestinian
masses to the
embittered and
dis-enfranchised
technocratic
class of Iraq,
their complaint
is voiced in a
language voided
of Qur’anic
wisdom. The
former use the
language of
Jihad, while
their actions
show an absolute
ignorance of its
rules and
parameters,
which rules
demonstrate that
what they are
embarked on is
not a Jihad. The
latter group,
insulting the
Deen of Islam
itself by
declaring they
are ‘Sunni
Muslims’ in a
land where the
Muslims are all
dead, and the
survivors were
the active
supporters of a
kafir regime,
also both
passively and
actively
supported the
genocide both of
their Muslim
Kurdish
neighbours, and
of the oppressed
mass of the
adherents of the
Shi’a religion.
Allah the
Exalted says at
the opening of
Surat al-Qasas
(28:1-3):
Ta Sin Mim
Those are the
Signs of the
Clear Book.
We recite to you
with truth some
news of Musa and
Pharaoh
for people who
have iman.
We must remember
that in the
Qur’an, when
Allah repeatedly
gives examples
of what happened
to the earlier
Prophets, may
Allah give them
peace, He, glory
be to Him, is
indicating that
He has never
left the peoples
without Divine
guidance in the
face of the
tyranny of the
kuffar, so that,
in that sense,
the earlier
Messengers are
themselves an
enunciatory
witness to the
Great Event of
the Final
Messenger. Over
and against
atheist world
leadership
stands the
Prophetic
witness. Allah
indicates that
the people of
Iman view the
activities in a
Prophetic light
and not merely
with the
statistics and
logistics of the
kafir intellect.
Allah, glory be
to Him,
continues
(28:4):
Pharaoh exalted
himself
arrogantly in
the land
and divided its
people into
camps,
oppressing one
group of them
by slaughtering
their sons
and letting
their women
live.
He was one of
the corrupters.
It is important
that we
understand the
meaning of this
phrase: ‘He was
one of the
corrupters’. If
we follow the
great tradition
of the School of
Madinah, the
purest of
sources, then we
use the method
of ‘Al-Qur’an
b’il-Qur’an’, so
that Allah
Himself is His
unique
commentator, and
this gives us an
absolute
authority, since
He, glory be to
Him, has
explained that
the Book is
consistent in
all its parts.
Right at the
opening of the
Book, Allah
explains this
matter, one
could say in the
major key, when
He declares in
Al-Baqara
(2:7-12):
Allah has sealed
up their hearts
and hearing
and over their
eyes is a
blindfold.
They will have a
terrible
punishment.
Among the people
there are some
who say,
‘We have iman in
Allah and the
Last Day,’
when they are
not muminun.
They think they
deceive Allah
and those who
have iman.
They deceive no
one but
themselves
but they are not
aware of it.
There is a
sickness in
their hearts
and Allah has
increased their
sickness.
They will have a
painful
punishment
on account of
their denial.
When they are
told, ‘Do not
cause corruption
on the earth,’
they say, ‘We
are only putting
things right.’
No indeed! They
are the
corrupters,
but they are not
aware of it.
It is in the
nature of the
corrupters that
they have a dual
attitude towards
the Deen al-Haqq.
They both make a
mockery of
belief in Divine
power, and
flaunt their
religion,
humanism, which
is nothing other
than
self-worship.
They do not
worship the
Divine, but
rather the
supremacy of the
human creatures,
which in turn
forces them to
worship their
own dead in a
pseudo-religion,
whose practices
are the lighting
of candles in
public places,
that is, not in
places of
worship, and the
observation of
minutes of
silence, as it
were to stifle
the very voice
of reason they
say upholds
their way. So in
the end their
atheism becomes
a Cult of the
Dead, mourning
their millions
killed in wars
and
concentration
camps - although
those were only
peoples killed
by other
peoples. Allah
the Exalted
warns (2:14):
When they meet
those who have
iman, they say,
‘We have iman.’
But then when
they go apart
with their
shaytans,
they say, ‘We
are really with
you.
We were only
mocking.’
The corrupters
are those who
say, when
confronted with
the Muslims,
that they are
with us. They
say, ‘Your
religion is the
same as ours.
Your Iman is
like our Iman,
so do not deny
us since we have
Iman too. Does
it not follow
that all
religions are
equal, since
they are all
forms of Iman?
Let us come
together. Let us
have a world
brotherhood of
believers, since
this would give
us the world
brotherhood that
is the
foundation of
our humanism.
Join us,
therefore, have
tolerance of us,
and we can all
be humanists
together.’
It follows from
this that all
those misguided
Muslims who sit
with those of
other ‘faiths’,
that is other
Imans, have
themselves taken
on the religion
of humanism,
which is a
blatant denial
of Allah’s
majestic power.
The next Ayat
continues
(2:15):
But Allah is
mocking them,
and drawing them
on,
as they wander
blindly in their
excessive
insolence.
This is a
dazzling
revelation of
the true nature
of what on the
face of it
appears to be
the triumph of
the kuffar.
Their material
success, let us
say their
political
success, is
nothing less
than the active
mockery of
Divine power.
The blindness of
their wandering
is that they
consider
triumphant the
unfolding of
their policy of
granting peoples
the illusion of
the political
power of
self-government,
called
democracy. They
remove from them
all access to,
and government
of, all wealth
and commodities.
They wander
because they do
not see where
their policies
are leading
them. Outcome is
predicated while
in reality it is
unpredictable.
They move
‘blindly’
because they do
not understand
that in the
words of one of
their own poets,
‘Just when you
think you’re
getting out,
you’re getting
further in.’
‘Their excessive
insolence’ is
that they
imagine that
this political
technique they
invented only a
couple of
hundred years
ago in a sea of
blood, can now
be imposed on
the world, and
that the whole
world will
accept the crime
of usury which
is planned in
the end to give
all the world’s
resources to a
small oligarchy
which the French
President has
publicly
admitted is no
more than 300
people.
In the next Ayat
we are told
(2:16):
Those are the
people who have
sold guidance
for misguidance.
Their trade has
brought no
profit; they are
not guided.
This Ayat is of
enormous
importance
because Allah,
glory be to Him,
makes a linkage
which has
totally eluded
not only the
present-day
kafir power
system but also
those Arab
nations which
have joined in
the financial
usury system of
that kafir world
power system.
‘...who have
sold guidance
for misguidance’
indicates that
they have denied
Tawhid which
recognises that
all power comes
from Allah,
glory be to Him,
and decided that
power comes from
the usurious
manipulation of
so-called
‘market forces’
and the accepted
application of
allowing all
transactions to
be saturated by
the categorical
imperative of
endebtment at
interest. So it
is that Allah
has made the
indication of
misguidance the
reality that,
‘Their trade has
brought no
profit.’
Continuing our
method of taking
the Qur’an from
the Qur’an we
find
(2:275-276):
Those who
practise riba
will not rise
from the grave
except as
someone driven
mad by Shaytan's
touch.
That is because
they say, ‘Trade
is the same as
riba.’
But Allah has
permitted trade
and He has
forbidden riba.
Whoever is given
a warning by his
Lord and then
desists,
can keep what he
received in the
past
and his affair
is Allah’s
concern.
But all who
return to it
will be the
Companions of
the Fire,
remaining in it
timelessly, for
ever.
Allah
obliterates riba
but makes sadaqa
grow in value!
Allah does not
love any
persistently
ungrateful
wrongdoer.
Here Allah
explains why
‘their trade has
brought no
profit’. It is
because the
foundational
reality of what
is today called
trade is in fact
motored by the
active processes
of riba. This
therefore
indicates that
Allah’s message
is a command to
an ‘ibada that
cannot be
considered
‘ibada until the
whole
life-process,
that is, the
Deen, is wholly
His. Surat al-Fatiha
indicates three
paths, the Sirat
al-Mustaqim,
which means the
non-participation
in the
instruments and
institutions of
riba, that is
banking,
debt-instrument
paper currency,
stock exchanges,
futures markets,
and corporation
structures, the
path of those
astray, that is,
as we have seen,
those who
‘wander
blindly’,
enraged by true
Iman, and the
misguided, that
is, those whose
‘trade has
brought no
profit’, that in
turn means,
those who
acquiesce in the
continued
participation of
the usury
financial
system.
Allah further
lays down the
path to the
avoidance of the
practice of riba,
for it is the
non-practice of
participating in
the instruments
and institutions
of usury that
will open the
path to the
Sirat al-Mustaqim.
Allah the
Exalted is
categoric in His
legal
instructions to
the Muminun. He
declares
(2:277):
Those who have
iman and do
right actions
and establish
salat and pay
zakat,
will have their
reward with
their Lord.
They will feel
no fear and will
know no sorrow.
This Ayat
indicates the
method by which
the entire kafir
world structure
of false money,
interest-debt,
and the illegal
structures of
corporations and
holding
companies will
utterly collapse
and disappear
from the face of
the earth. Allah
will imbue with
power the people
of Iman embarked
on the following
programme:
1. Right
actions. That
means the
adoption of
trade practices
and institutions
which are in
accordance with
the Islamic
Shari’at in its
pure form as
specified in
great detail,
utterly
applicable to
the modern
world, in the
Muwatta of Imam
Malik and its
expanded
commentaries.
The fatwas,
judgments, and
licensed
practice by
‘ulema in the
pay of national
governments are
by definition
unacceptable,
since they give
judgments to
underwrite the
continued
illicit practice
of their State.
For example, a
ruling minister
of the governing
House of Dubai,
on being
informed by his
‘alim that the
foundational
financial
practices of
Dubai were in
flagrant
disobedience of
Allah’s law,
simply responded
by shouting at
the unfortunate
scholar until he
bowed his head,
secured his
income, and
reversed his own
position to the
delight of his
ruler.
What is at issue
here is the
beginning of
Islamic
re-awakening. In
all of this it
is clear that
the Arab nations
have simply
abrogated the
Divine contract
of Islam and
preferred the
atheist contract
of the world
banking system.
Allah the
Exalted has
stated clearly,
in this Ayat,
their situation
(2:26):
Those who break
Allah’s contract
after it has
been agreed,
and sever what
Allah has
commanded to be
joined,
and cause
corruption on
the earth,
it is they who
are the lost.
We take from
this that ‘right
actions’
represents a
total,
structured,
carefully
designed
application, in
particular and
in general, of
the whole
Shari’at of
financial and
contractual
obligations.
This Islamic
Shari’at has
been reduced,
not really by
the kuffar but
rather by these
dreadful
extremists who
have adopted the
policies and
practices of
atheist
nihilism,
terrorism and
suicide-bombing,
and simply
placed over them
the name of
Islam. At their
funerals they
cry out ‘Allahu
akbar’, a
declaration
which many
kuffar admit to
be true, but
they do not call
out the Shahada,
which is the
Sunna of burial,
and the truth
itself which the
kuffar can never
admit.
2. The next
injunction is to
‘establish salat’.
This is a
subject of
central
importance and
has implied
within it the
obvious order
that the
establishment of
salat means that
every aspect of
it is according
to Divine and
Prophetic
ordinances. It
follows from
this that the
order does not
only imply that
the standing and
the sitting and
the bowing are
according to the
practice of
Madinah, but
that the adab
and the care of
the mosques as
well as the
status,
authority and
rights of the
Imam, are
protected. When
a kafir State
appoints an Imam
or licenses him,
he is no longer
an acceptable
Imam. This is
not a licence to
fight in the
streets, or
indeed in the
mosque. The true
democracy of the
Jama’at is that
the Imam must be
acceptable to
the people. If
someone is
imposed on them
against their
wishes, they
must simply
ignore him and
celebrate the
prayer under the
man they accept
to step forward.
The
State-imposed
Imam is becoming
a hallmark of
the true
fascistic face
of what today
calls itself
democracy.
Stalin imposed
Imams, so today
does the
‘democracy’ of
France.
It follows from
this that mosque
organisation too
must be
radically
revised,
entailing the
abolition of
mosque
committees and
other internal
kafir
structures. The
governance of
the mosques has
always been part
of the Deen. The
naming by Rasul,
may Allah bless
him and grant
him peace, of
one of his
Companions as
Sirajuddin,
occurred when he
placed an oil
lamp in the
mosque. From
then on the
lighting and
cleaning of the
mosque have been
the honoured
privilege of a
group of people
within the
Jama’at. It is
most undesirable
that small
groups should
control a mosque
by virtue of
their wealth or,
even worse, by
virtue of some
imagined claim
to a family
ownership. It
should be
remembered that
while it is
obvious that we
cannot tolerate
interference by
the kuffar in
the affairs of
the mosque, its
Imams and its
Khutbas, by the
same token the
kuffar have made
their Deen to be
based on a
separation of
religion from
the State. Yet
when they
license Imams or
order their
Khutba to be
read, they have
joined religion
and the State,
but made the
former submit to
the latter. At
that point, that
mosque and that
Imam are in the
service of the
kuffar.
3. ‘...and pay
zakat.’ This
third injunction
for the complete
restoration of
the Deen of
Islam in our
time comes with
our decision to
restore the
fallen Pillar of
the Deen, Zakat.
In order for
this to happen,
every aspect of
it must be in
strict obedience
to what has been
laid down by
Allah and His
Messenger, may
Allah bless him
and grant him
peace. Firstly,
Zakat is not
given. It is a
taken sadaqa.
This is in
obedience to the
order of Allah,
glory be to Him,
in the Qur’an,
when He says,
‘Take!’ This in
turn indicates
the true organic
nature of the
Deen al-Fitra.
As our great
Qadi, Ibn
Khaldun, has
pointed out,
Islam, as at its
very beginning,
can grow from
the smallest
group to the
greatest empire.
The Sunna of
Muslims
journeying is
that prior to
departure one
among them is
appointed Amir.
The
establishment of
Zakat has built
into it a prior
set of social
necessities. The
first is an Amir
who will order
the collection
of the Zakat.
The second is
that he, and
with him, if he
has them, his
fuqaha, appoint
Zakat-collectors.
The choice of
Collectors has
its own guidance
and
restrictions.
One of the
necessities of
the Zakat is
that when wealth
is taken, it
cannot be in
paper money,
since as such
this is a) of no
intrinsic value,
and b) a mere
uncollectable
debt-receipt. It
should be
observed that
the current laws
of corporations
and holding
companies
represent in
themselves
instruments of
taxation
avoidance.
Personal
accountability
is a necessity
in Islam and an
abhorrence in
the bankers’
system. In the
following Ayats,
Allah explains
further
(2:278-279):
You who have
iman! have taqwa
of Allah
and forgo any
remaining riba
if you are
muminun.
If you do not,
know that it
means war from
Allah
and His
Messenger.
But if you make
tawba you may
have your
capital,
without wronging
and without
being wronged.
The enormous
weight of these
Ayats not only
indicates how
these matters
will unfold, but
it also
indicates that
the terrorists
and those who
think they are
waging war by
committing
suicide, itself
an organised
defeat, are, far
from breaking
the kuffar, by
their actions
that necessary
event without
which the kafir
system cannot
continue to
exist. From
among the kuffar,
highly
sophisticated
and complex
political
analyses have
unveiled the
true nature of
the current
democracy
system.
According to
their most
brilliant
critic, Jean-Christophe
Rufin in ‘La
Dictature
libéral’, the
global
capitalist
system cannot
continue without
the equilibrium
of a menacing
Other, which
must continue
its menaces over
a long period to
allow this
system to
continue with
its mythic
liberality and
freedom. Every
terrorist act
and every
self-exploding
suicide is the
licence for the
continued
fascistic
control of the
world’s masses
in the name of
democracy. In
these two Ayats,
Allah makes it
so very simple
for us to
understand. We
have to have
Taqwa. We must
begin in our
private and
social
transactions to
withdraw from
riba and begin
to apply the
just rules of
trade. This is
our
responsibility.
This is
something we can
achieve.
Ironically, one
of the defining
factors of the
abolition of
corporation
capitalism will
be not the
destruction of
its people and
its buildings,
but rather the
withdrawal from
participation in
its forbidden
modalities. In
my book
‘Technique of
the Coup de
Banque’, I told
the story of an
encounter
between a woman
gambler and the
owner of the
Monte Carlo
Casino.
“At the end of
his life
Zaharoff bought
the Casino of
Monte Carlo and
married a
Bourbon
princess. One
evening it is
reported, as he
sat watching the
money change
hands, recalling
his youth as a
money-changer in
Salonika, only
now instead of
handfuls of
Drachmae
millions of
Francs entered
his business, he
was approached
by an English
lady who had
lost heavily.
‘Help me, Sir
Basil,’ she
said, ‘since you
own everything,
you must know
how to win.’ He
icily replied,
‘I can only give
you one piece of
advice. Not how
to win, but how
you will
certainly not
lose.’ ‘Oh, do
tell me,’ she
asked. He shut
his eyes.
‘Madam, do not
play!’”
To those who
continue to
practise and
uphold the
anti-trade
system of
bankism, they
are warned that
‘...it means war
from Allah and
His Messenger.’
War from Allah
means that in
the sealed
destiny of
coming events,
which they,
wandering in
their blindness,
are unable to
foretell, they
will be
destroyed.
Unforeseen
future events
are the arsenal
of Allah’s
power. ‘...and
His Messenger’
indicates that
those who follow
and are obedient
to Allah in
their trade,
finance,
instruments
(Gold Dinar and
Silver Dirham)
and institutions
(bayt al-maal,
caravanserai,
imaret), ‘will
have their
reward with
their Lord,’
meaning the
Garden and the
Presence of
Lordship in the
Next World, and
that in
fulfilling their
obedience, ‘they
will feel no
fear and will
know no sorrow,’
in this world,
as we found in
Ayat 277 above.
The second part
of the Ayat is
Allah’s
contractual
promise that the
active Tawba of
the Muminun will
guarantee that
they will not
lose their
capital, and
that since by
foregoing the
capitalist
system they have
ceased to do
wrong, they will
be protected,
and they will
not be wronged.
These
reflections have
taken us from
the Ayat in Ta
Sin Mim where
Allah designates
Pharaoh as ‘one
of the
corrupters’, to
Allah’s defining
of what practice
is acceptable to
Him in that
contract of Deen
which He has
determined as
being inclusive
of the whole
financial and
trade practice
of the Muminun.
He defines it in
2:26:
Those who break
Allah’s contract
after it has
been agreed,
and sever what
Allah has
commanded to be
joined,
and cause
corruption on
the earth,
it is they who
are the lost.
And so it is
that those who
have broken the
contract that
they had already
made by being
Muslim find
themselves in
exactly the same
situation as the
great kafir
ruler. This
means that
Pharaoh, the
rulers of Dubai
and Arabia, the
new democratic
Iraq, not only
its leadership
but its people,
have set
themselves
against the
Divine Command.
That is, they
have moved from
the Deen of
Islam into the
United Millat of
Kufr.
Thus the three
hundred or so of
the banking
elite who
presently rule
the world are
committedly in a
unified
programme of
disobedience to
Allah and His
Messenger, may
Allah bless him
and grant him
peace, alongside
terrorists, the
population of
Dubai, the
political
leadership of
the Western
powers, and even
the world’s
International
Aid
Organisations -
all these have
joined hands to
sustain the
present
disastrous
condition of
mankind.
Military
resistance is a
suicidal folly,
just as much as
the act of the
self-exploding
bomber. All that
is then required
is for the
Muminun, who
with fear of
Allah know they
must themselves
go to the Yawm
al-Qiyama with
an answerable
Book, to start
today those
procedures, on
the face of it
actions worthy
of the mockery
of the pragmatic
kuffar, but that
series of
actions will
bring light into
the darkness,
and educate a
new generation
who have come
into the world
trailing the
Fitra of their
newness, so that
they will live
to see the
restoration of
Islam.
It is the
Muminun holding
to the Deen and
taking from the
original sources
that are the
trustworthy
proofs of the
Deen, who will
be that noble
elite that Allah
in His glory has
destined for
every age to
renew the Deen.
Again and again
in the past we
have seen the
Deen snatched
from our hands
by tyrants. We
have seen Makkah
itself, the
Ka’aba itself,
the Black Stone
itself placed in
extreme danger.
We have seen the
Khalifate change
its name with
the smashing of
dynastic
inheritance. We
have even seen
the Khalifate -
not abolished,
for no kafir
could abolish it
- cast out of
its historic
home in
Istanbul. We
have seen the
Arab peoples
first tolerate,
then adhere to,
and then exploit
the false
doctrines of the
wahhabis. We
have seen the
Arabian king,
placed on his
throne by the
kuffar, in turn
confronted by
the civil war of
his own people
because his
regime in turn
had even
deviated from
the deviators.
Now today we see
the triple
degradation of
the Iraqi
people. I do not
refer to the
Shi‘a entity,
for they are a
different
affair. In the
end of the day
they have gained
a respite from
the ghastly
persecution
inflicted on
them, but its
price is a
historic
indication that
the Shi‘a
religion is
already settling
into the mould
of the greater
world system. We
can understand
the Shi‘a as we
can understand
the Kurds for
having made
their terrible
error in
judgment, once
we see it in the
light of their
recent
persecution. But
to the Arab
people of the
cities - the
former home of a
great Khalifate,
great fuqaha,
Imams of
Shari’at and
Haqiqat, Imam
Abu Hanifa, may
Allah be pleased
with him, and
Imam Junayd, may
Allah be pleased
with him - it is
urgent that they
face up to the
bitter facts of
their treachery
to Allah, to His
Messenger, may
Allah bless him
and grant him
peace, to the
Deen of Islam,
and to their own
bayat to the
kafir dictator
Saddam. This
four-fold
treachery has
culminated in
their fifth and
ultimate
betrayal, their
abject and
greed-inspired
obedience to
taking on the
Millat of kufr.
We may bow our
heads in
acceptance of
their submission
to the Liberal
Dictatorship
when we hear
them rejoice in
their illusion
of democracy,
but we fiercely
reject the
ultimate
outrage, that
they have called
themselves by
the name given
to them by
Western media
and governments,
the ‘Sunni
Muslims’. The
kuffar named it
Sunni Islam in
order to
legitimise their
passive
resistance to,
and ultimate
elevation of,
the Shi‘a and
its leadership.
Allah, the
Majestic,
declares in
Surat al-Ma’ida
(5:3):
Today the kuffar
have despaired
of overcoming
your deen.
So do not be
afraid of them
but be afraid of
Me.
Today I have
perfected your
deen for you
and completed My
blessing upon
you
and I am pleased
with Islam as a
deen for you.
It is from this
triumphant Ayat
that we take the
strength to look
on the present
events in Iraq,
in which no
party has raised
the banner of
Islam, so that
we nevertheless
are filled with
the renewed hope
that from this
will come a
turning-point
for the great
Muslim Nation.
Allah in His
Mercy has
reminded us in
Al-Inshirah
(94:1-8):
In the name of
Allah,
All-Merciful,
Most Merciful
Did We not
expand your
breast for you
and remove your
load from you
which weighed
down your back?
Did We not raise
your renown
high?
For truly with
hardship comes
ease;
truly with
hardship comes
ease.
So when you have
finished, work
on,
and make your
Lord your goal!
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