You are entrenching the plot

 

What if the Israelis are right?

I know many of you go to great lengths to differentiate between Zionism and Judaism. I think that that is a discussion to be had, but not today. It is not really that important. You are more important. For all your fighting Zionism, you have bought into their system, proudly proclaiming the system and defending the system. On certain points you will argue that what you do, does not conflict with your Islam and the shari’ah. What are you not arguing for or promoting? You defended yourself in relation to your lifestyle while you did not offer Islam as your lifestyle. This is a warning for me as it is for everyone else. Indeed, many have become ritualistic Muslims and then even ceremonial Muslims. Your thinking has been tainted and these views are with which you are painted. It is important and long overdue that these matters are unpacked because people are losing their eemaan (faith) and their Islam. As things are unfolding, it is ever increasingly difficult to talk about making hijrah (migration/emigration) to a Muslim country as the doors to evil and corruption are opened by their rulers.

In Islam there is permissibility for societal norms and trends as long as it does not conflict with Islamic law itself. Thus, it can be argued that the age of marriage is not documented in Islam except that it is permissible to marry when the age of puberty is reached. However, the current norm is that the dunya (wordly) life is placed first before the protection of the youngsters and the community itself. Living inside the confines of the system must be limited to exactly those matters which are beyond your control at this moment in time, e.g. schooling finishes generally at the age of eighteen before you can attend a tertiary institution and gain some reasonable qualification. But what is at the end of that qualification? Leaving that aside for now, the age factor dominates our lives. Then that thing called 21^st. You have shaped your life and given importance to matters which does impact your faith. Here’s where you have to do further analysis. Suffice to say, that while you are constrained by the system, in which you find yourself, on some matters. Definitely, you have adopted customs that is not of Islam while it is easy to avoid. To beat the system, you have to at least forego those practices that are totally “optional” and carry no benefit, but perhaps harm.

So, how is it that Israel is possibly right? Well, your actions speak to it. Your acceptance of the system speak to it. That Zionists are in all strategic positions in the global and local scenario and are thus able to create and bear influence on the system, means that your following the system is nothing but following Zionist philosophy.   

The discussion must be had to extricate ourselves from the system. The start is to reject as much of it as possible.

 ..... to be continued

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Importance of 2024

 

The silly person is the one who is blessed but chooses something else, something imperfect over his blessing. Is not the blessing from your Creator, your Lord, your Provider, Allah the best?

In my last blog, it was mentioned that if there was any day to truly celebrate then it would be the battle of Badr, the battle in which the Muslims defeated the pagans of Mecca. The battle before which Prophet Muhammad ﷺ made a plea to Allah for victory so that Islam is not lost if the Muslims are killed at that battle. Yet here we are in troubled times while we incline to a system other than that ordained by Allah and celebrating events and dates which are foreign to the teachings of Islam. Before there is any misunderstanding, we are in a non-Muslim country, and we are naturally therefore part of the system. However, it is one thing to partake in the system as is necessary but you must be circumspect to that which is not essential, but merely enjoyment and indeed, at times, frivolous. As we enter the Gregorian calendar year of 2024, there is not much to celebrate. Yet Muslims partook in celebrations and took the date and new year to be significant. If so, significant in which way? While Allah has prescribed the Hijri, lunar, calendar, how is it that you pray for a good new year while that new year has its origin in paganism. How is it that the lunar calendar is perfect, and it can only be so because Allah ordained it. The calendar is important in any system. Thus, from a Muslim point of view, the perfect Hijri lunar calendar must trump the imperfect system and calendar of western civilisation. A cursory glance at the Gregorian calendar then the length of the months has no clear reasoning with a month being twenty-eight days while others are either thirty or thirty-one. More confusing is it that months September to December have a numeric prefix from seven for September, eight for October, nine for November and ten for December. However, these are months nine to twelve which means that this calendar is somehow flawed. Were you to analyse the system further, you are sure to pick up many strange things. If there was to be a simple matter of choice between the Islamic system and any other system, then it must be easy to choose the Islamic over anything else. Islam has a calendar which trumps any other calendar and system. Even if there is an issue or something from another system, while Islam is silent on the matter, then it does not automatically mean that you can adopt that matter.

To put things in perspective, if you look around you and take only the Filisteeni issue, then how conflicted are you in your approach and support for these oppressed people. Your system is the Islamic system with its own calendar, its own days of celebration, its own method of celebration. Yet while you claim to support the oppressed and pray for them, you discard the blessings of Allah by choosing to partake in something foreign to Islam. Most don’t know the Hijri date (even approximately) or how close Ramadan is. Furthermore, Islam teaches that the day starts at “sunset” and not midnight. Such is it that the difference between truth and falsehood cannot be trivialised. To be aware is to choose Hijri lunar over Gregorian while we accept that in many cases, we do record the Gregorian date and refer to it. Ease of use under the circumstance is not a key to open the door to discarding the blessings of Allah.

 

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