After 6 constant years of increasing measures of many influential people worldwide to embark on a self endeavor to describe Islam in the way they see fit, and how their description does not seem to fit at all within the context and framework of what Muslims around the world and in the United States and other western countries learn of their own religion, coupled with a colossal effort of epic proportions to propagandize our religion through a secular “biased” analysis was one of the motivations that landed me to this point in time addressing these matters in this somewhat noble effort of mine to decipher and bring into context that which was actually hijacked, which is the perception of how Islam really is from the minds of those who wish to enforce how Islam “allegedly” is.
I attempted in this study to outline all, or at least, most of the main contemporary polemical stances brought forth upon Islam along with psychosomatic matters witnessed by me directly or indirectly from most of the “explainers” of Islam and how their reaction has allowed for them to react in the most preposterous of ways, mostly through verbal insinuations. I say, this of course is a given especially since after all, this is an ideological warfare, of which our western counterpart is now resurrecting after their encounter with the soviets and the fake threats it enforced upon its population. Since its mirage of an enemy crumbled by 1990, it sought to rejustify itself by accepting for itself a new enemy that it must deal with, that being Islam or as they say “radical Islam” and from an academic level “Islamists”.
What the religion of Islam suffers today is of great importance to understand. What we have found in our extraction in this topic through the explanations of scholastic theologians and jurists of current times along with theological and spiritual outlooks of the past scholars, we have came to analysis that the problems associated in today’s environment of Islam is of different issues and of different peoples. To be more precise in this explanation we have broken down this matter of Islam and Muslims into several aspects, all tied with one another.
1. The primal factor by which every single onslaught was even allowed by the Lord of the Worlds to even breathe in the atmosphere of existence in the first place is due to one sole factor. That is, we the Muslim nation, have virtually left our religion. We transformed it into nothing more than figments of the thought of the Christians in how they viewed their religion (as a belief with no deed which has been the initial downfall of the Muslims by adopting the common and blasphemous saying “what matters is what is in the heart” as a mentality virtually transforming our nation from one of sunnah to one of irj’aa). The ramifications of our abandoning the religion are multifaceted in nature.
The Messenger of Allah has told us clearly and plainly the following
“When you deal in ’eenah (a transaction involving usury), take hold of the tails of cows, become content with agriculture and abandon jihaad in the Path of Allah, then Allah will permit your humiliation and He will not remove it from you, until you return to your Religion.”
This is exactly why we are in the state that we are in, of course adding to that some other factors which I will point out inshallah after this point, but overall, it is this hadeeth that has described our situation beautifully.
Allah stated
{ لَهُ مُعَقِّبَاتٌ مِّن بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِ يَحْفَظُونَهُ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ ۗ وَإِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ بِقَوْمٍ سُوءًا فَلَا مَرَدَّ لَهُ ۚ وَمَا لَهُم مِّن دُونِهِ مِن وَالٍ}
For him (each person), there are angels in succession, before and behind him. They guard him by the Command of Allâh. Verily, Allâh will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allâh). But when Allâh wills a people’s punishment, there can be no turning it back and they will find besides Him no protector.
Imaam Maalik stated
So that which was not part of the Religion at that time, cannot be part of the Religion today. And the last part of this Ummah cannot be rectified, except by that which rectified its first part.”
Imaam al-Albanee stated about this statement from Maalik the following
The last sentence is the essential part with regards to the answer to this question, since he said, “And the last part of this Ummah cannot be rectified, except by that which rectified its first part.” So, just as the affairs of the Arabs in jaahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance) was not rectified, except by the advent of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallaahu ’alayhi wa sallam) via Divine Revelation – which brought them happiness in this world and will bring them salvation in the Hereafter – then likewise, re-establishing a happy and successful Islamic life cannot be based upon anything other than returning to the Qur‘aan and the Sunna”
So in essence, we have abandoned the faith of the salaf, abandoned the deed of the salaf, abandoned the tawakkul of the salaf, abandoned the views of the salaf, and we have taken on board the views of jahiliyyah. All of this gave rise to iftiraaq and argumentation of deen which we were originally forbidden from. It does not stop there. Our methodology, as an ummah, became one of evil, lying, stealing, backbiting, all the diseases that if one sahabi were to have come into contact with us, would have virtually had a heart attack or would have viewed us to be like the enemies that persecuted them and of whom they were blessed with the permission to fight back from their tyranny.
Again, on the authority of the Messenger of Allah, he says
“It is expected that the nations will call each other from all horizons, as diners calling each other to feast from a platter of food in front of them.” A person asked the Prophet (saw) would that be because of our small number that day. The Prophet (saw) said, “No, but you will be rubbish like the rubbish of flood water. Allah will put Wahn into your hearts and remove the fear from the hearts of your enemies because of your love for the world and your hate of death”. In another narration it was said: “and what is the Wahn, O messenger of Allah?” He (saw) said: “love of the world and the hate for fighting.”Narrated by Ahmad with a good chain. Narrated by Abu Dawood with the words “hate for death”, and it is a sahih hadith.
Likewise, another matter, we have left the very quality of commanding the good and forbidding the evil. This is one of the single greatest reasons for our downfall. Verily it was the nation before us, the Jews, who did not adhere to this while our past brothers in faith did. When we failed to perform this task, tribulations were let loose little by little.
In essence we have put the Qur’an and Sunnah behind our backs. This fundamental needs to be understood.
And to finalize this reality which we have entered I quote the doctor of the hearts, the fountain and pupil who drank from the well of Ibn Taymiyyah, Shamsu-Deen Ibnul-Qayyim where he stated
And reflect in His, the Most High’s wisdom in making the kings of the servants, their leaders and their rulers to be of the same type as their actions (i.e. the actions of the servant’s). Rather, it is as if their actions (those of the servants) became manifest in the appearances of their rulers and kings. If they remain upright, then their kings will remain upright, and if they turn away (from uprightness), then they (the kings) too will turn away from uprightness. And if they (the servants) oppress [themselves and others], then their kings and rulers will oppress [them], and if their appears plotting and deception from them, their rulers will [be made to] behave likewise (towards their subjects), and if they (the servants) prevent the rights of Allaah due amongst themselves, and become stingy with respect to them (i.e. withhold the rights of each other), then their kings and their rulers will withhold the right that they (the servants) have over them, and will become stingy with respect to them. And if they (the servants) take from the one who is considered weak what they do not deserve to take from him in their dealings (i.e. misappropriate from him), then the kings will take from them (the servants) what they do not deserve to take (from them) and will inflict them with taxes and [other forms of] service. And everything that they (the servants) take away from the weak person, the kings will take away from them with power, force.
So their actions (those of the servants) become manifest in their actions (those of the kings and rulers). And it is not from the Divine wisdom that the evil-doers and the sinners are made to be ruled over [by anyone] except by one who is of their like.
And when the very first band (of Islam) was the best of the generations and the most pious of them, then their rulers were likewise. And when they became tarnished (i.e. corrupted), the rulers were made corrupted over them.
Thus, the wisdom of Allaah refuses that the likes of Mu’aawiyah, and ‘Umar bin ‘Abdil-’Azeez are put in authority over us in the likes of these times let alone the likes of Abu Bakr and ‘Umar.
Rather, our rulers are in accordance with our (nature) and the rulers of those before us were in accordance with their (nature). And both of the two matters necessitate wisdom and what it requires.
And the one who has deep rooted intelligence, when he moves his thought around in this subject will see the Divine wisdom that runs through al-Qadaa wal-Qadar (Ordainment and Pre-Decree), externally and internally, just as it runs through al-Khalq wal-Amr (the Creation and the Command). So beware from thinking with your corrupt thought that anything of His ordainments and decrees are devoid of the far-reaching wisdom. Rather, all of His, the Most High’s ordainments and decrees take place from the most perfect angles of correctness and wisdom. However, the weak intellects are veiled, by way of their weakness, from perceiving these [aspects of wisdom], just like eyes suffering day-blindness are veiled, by way of their weakness from the light of the sun”
So in other words, the reason for the allowance of domination of the people of corruption upon us and the humiliation of the supposed people of God is due to this single point that we have become worthless in terms of Islamic ethics. When we changed the religion of God and adopted something else as guidance, Allah changed our situation from one of security, blessing, advancement, power, peace, and good and substituted that for humiliation, death, destruction, tyranny, oppression, and eventually the conquering of our creed by the inception of their corrupted and dysfunctional beliefs.
So all of this is the representation of the first and primal reason, and indeed it is certainly the main reason for our situation. This is coming from our side. The rest of the points are the effects of the initial cause. In other words because we did that which is stated above, it gave rise to the next few problems of the Islamic nation
2. The Islamic nation, the most pivotal aspect by which the entire onslaught is based is purely on one single factor. This factor is that the Islamic thought outlook is based on the intellect being subservient to the textual scriptures of guidance of their Lord and their Prophet whereas the modern world had transformed from this framework of mind and into a paradigm based purely on the extremism of the infallible intellect. It is from this juncture that all other paths of contentions raised by the antagonists of Islam from all spectrums bases itself upon.
3. It is due to the second problem that Islam faces noted in the above second point that gives rise to several ideological antagonists who work in the circumventing of Islam and its authenticity, each group being more extreme than the other and having different views from which they base their contentions upon.
This multiple onslaught is being performed by the disbelievers of Islam and those who agree with them among those who claim to be Muslims. These groups are divided in their content and objectives, some being more extreme than the other. They are from the following
A. The Islamaphobes: They are the worst and most ill mannered people and the least academic in this polemic. This group includes Apostates of Islam and whoever concedes to their fictional viewpoints. It is from this group that the ideas of changing Islam into compatible modes of thought in their respective countries
B. The Theorists/Policy Makers/Strategists: They are not as extreme and delusional than the Islamaphobes, however, they have a perception of what Islam should be, and their requisite for such an “acceptable” Islam is nothing more than what has either become conventional wisdom or that which is suitable according to their philosophy.
C. The Secularists: They are the second in the line of those who go extreme in this polemic advocating an idea that has not only been nonexistent in Islam, but actually justifying such an invalid heresy in the name of Islam
D. The progressives: they are like the secularist and in fact they can be infused with each other as a people, but we separate them here on the mere basis of ideological deciphering of existing thoughts. They claim to be Muslim but conclude that even the unchangeable fundamentals of the religion is alterable
E. Modernist: They are not as extreme as the progressive secularist however, the methodological standard of their viewpoints is pretty much based on the above paradigms and thus operate under the same pedestal rather than being inherently different.
F. Hadeeth rejecters: Again this complex is inherently nurtured within the above liberal schools of thought.
G. The Extreme Heretical Sufis: They are not fundamentally included among the rest of the groups mentioned by way of agreement in their creedal affiliation. They are only listed here because in recent times post 9/11, they had exploited such an opportunity to attack Islam and its people of the prophetic sunnah by siding and helping the polytheists and disbelievers among the other groups mentioned above due to their sectarian partisan disagreement of the people they have ignorantly called “wahhabis”. In other words, because their heresy was exposed to the entirety of the Muslim world as fraudulent, they saw fit as payback to side with the enemies of Islam against them while not realizing that since those whom they are fighting are the actual people of the sunnah and the jama’ah, the people of Allah and are in essence fighting against Islam and becoming one of its antagonists which is why they have been mentioned here. These people include T.J. Winters, Muhammad Hischam Kabbani, and others.
All of these groups represent the bulk of anti-Islamic polemic in one way or the other and on different talking points, but the overall ideological inference is basically the same, that being that it is all based on the intellectual thought process of the westerners and that it is based on the newly arisen wake of liberal ideologies of the last couple centuries thus altering how they view life in general and altering their form of logic. So in other words, the chain of this ideological onslaught is being pumped through the engine of the western paradigm of the intellect. After the deification of the human intellectual capacity, if carried to its most logical conclusion, results in the most outrageous and preposterous forms of liberal ideals, the likes of which could have never been the thought of anyone before us. In simpler terms, Islam is mainly based on conservative values due to its conservation of the methodology of the prophets whereas much of the non Muslim world has adopted the school of thought that convinces its adherents that it is acceptable to liberate oneself from such “confined” and “incoherent” views under the pretext of “time”. And lastly, as a result of this liberalism, then this liberalism breeds the methodology of pacifism or in Islam thought, irj’aa, personified under the following statements like “what matters is what’s in the heart” and “the true hijaab is in the heart” and other statements structured in such a way as to implicate the legalize the illegal or to prohibit the allowable.
So it is due to all of the above that we seek as our intention and goal to defend Islam in a small noble effort while disseminating proper Islamic knowledge or relaying the sources of such knowledge and where it can be found. Our project is vast in its scope. The way we had decided to go about our project is by addressing these fundamental issues below
Part 1: Outlining
- Introduction
- Outlining the Islamic Tenants
Part 2: In-Depth Analysis of Western Intellectual Thought and Islam
3. Religion as Understood by the West and Islam
4. Clarifying the exact nature of Western Thought, Ideals, and lifestyle (deen)
5. The Modern Ways of Life as Lived in the West
- Clash of Civilizations, The Cultural War
7. The Concept of Equality As Understood by the West
- The Concept of Equality as Understood by Islam
- Freedom from an Islamic perspective
- Freedom from a Western perspective
- What Does Western Freedom Equate to
- The Moral Code of Westerners, the Illogical Nature of its transformability
- Liberalism
- Conservatism
- Human Rights as Understood by Islam
- Human Rights as understood by other than Islam
- Secularism from an Islamic Viewpoint
- Democracy from an Islamic Viewpoint
- The Concept of Assimilation
Part 3: In Depth Study of Islam and Some Groups
20. Explaining Modernism
- Modernists
- Explaining Traditionalism
- The Traditionalist
- Defining Fundamentalism
- The Fundamentalist
- Sunni Islam
- Shi’ite Islam
- The Wahhabi Myth
- Sufi Islam
- Clarifying Kharijism and Murjism and its relation to the Western Mindset of Liberalism and Conservatism
Part 4: Extremism and Terrorism
31. Explaining Extremism from an Islamic Viewpoint
32. Extremism According to Secularists
33. Extremism According to Atheists
34. The disconnection of Fundamentalism with Extremism and Clarifying the error of Those who connected the two
35. Terrorism and How It Is Viewed
Part 5: What is Salafiyyah?
36. What is the actual salafi call
- What the Salafi call is not
- Salafis, the most misunderstood group of all groups
Part 6: The Propaganda War
39. Historical Analysis of Ideological Warfare
40. The Current Ideological Warfare
41. Customary Practices Used in the Distortion of Religious Analysis
- The Inhumanity of Those Who Take On Board the Understanding of “The Sentiments of the Muslim World on the West is Unjustified”
- The Incoherence of the Zionists and Their Blind Followers on the Label of “Anti Semitic
- The Label Game: Based on the Deduction and Extent of One’s Intellect
- Western Media Versus al-Jazeera
- The Narrow-mindedness of World Affairs being Interpreted based upon Liberal/Conservative outlooks
47. Media Foreplay
48. The Preposterousness of Western Political Analysts in their Equating Two Different realities
Part 7: Western Law and Shari’ah (Islamic) Law
49. Objectives of Islamic Law
50. Shari’ah (Islamic Law) Clarified and Its Relation to All Other Laws
51. Islamic Laws that are Held with Contempt between various factions of Islam’s Antagonists
- Jihad in the Past, Present, and Its Equation to Modern Foreign Policy
- In-Depth Analysis Concerning laws in Jihad compared to Western Imperial laws of Warfare
Part 8: Jihad: Clarifying its Implementation Historically and Defining Our Relationship with Christians and Jews and Other Nations.
54. How was Islam’s Relationship with the Christians
- How was Islam’s Relationship with the Jews
- How was Islam’s Relationship with other Religions
- Palestinian/Israeli Conflict and How it Got There
- The Pilipino Conflict
- The Yugoslavian Conflict
- Suicide Missions and it Improper Equation with Martyrdom Operations: A Historical Analysis and the Islamic Ruling
Part 9: Answering the Polemics of the Antagonists
61. Exposing the Sectarian driven Antagonists
- From what Avenue (upbringing) do Apostates usually originate from
- The Irrationality of the Rationally Proclaimed Modernists
- Addressing the Self Deemed Experts of Islam
- What the West Needs to Know About the Deception of “What the West Needs to Know About Islam” Initiated by Robert Spencer the Self Proclaimed Islamic “Expert”
- Addressing Conservatives
- Exposing the Myth of “Islam has been Hijacked by Extremists” and “Reclaim Your Religion from the Extremists”
- Addressing the Claim “Where are the Moderates”
- The Stereotypical Response “Why Are Good Muslims Silent”
- The Usual Western Conservative Plot of “Is There a Moderate Islam”; Addressing Their Negation of It.
So all of the above along with other aspects is our project we are currently undertaking as a task. All other Islamic material and the articlution of its sciences relayed by us on this site is complementary as a source of research for all who refer to this site in order to provide a complete and accurate rendition of Islamic thought distinct from thoughts that are alledgely assumed upon Islam and the Muslims.
