What is there other than the heart, good manners, and mutual consultation?
I have been reading The Muslim Mind on Trial by Abdessalam Yassine and Wallahi I recommend this book to each and every Muslim with a brain. It raises some questions that are essential for us to answer as we move forward in our movements and as the world progresses.We think that all these problems around us and all this strife, toil and trouble that the Muslim world is going through right now is independant from our own internal state when this chaos is merely an extension of the chaos going on within us.
The key to success is purification, and the goal of purification is perfection of manners, and the results of perfect manners is brotherhood and dawah, and the benefit of brotherhood and dawah is a pure community of justice and ihsan, whose benefit will be shone throughout the world.
Our benefit to mankind is that of being advanced in our manners and justice, as well as our grounding in the sciences of this world.
To try and establish an 'Islamic state' by merely enacting the rules and regulations of the deen, and then setting up the punishment systems for those who break these rules, is like establishing a hollow pillar. This pillar will look strong and will seem to be able to withstand a great amount of weight upon it, but the minute it feels some weight it will crumble and its hollow center will be made evident.
Who are we and what is our purpose?
Is our purpose to establish Allah swt's law in the land? Is that our ultimate goal?
The establishment of the law of Allah on the land should be an extention of the establishment of the love of Allah in our hearts, and the ihsaan in our worship should be reflected with ihsaan in our conduct with our muslim bretheren as well as the non muslim.
The level of Ihsaan in our worship is a high level which takes time, effort and struggle. Unfortunately something ive noticed is that some people have taken this level of Ihsaan and turned it into a worldly pleasure worthy of being sought in order to achieve some 'spiritual high' which will be extacy on earth.
How can we take such a beautiful thing such as closeness to Allah swt and belittle it to just merely a worldly pleasure?
Our intention should be to get so close to Allah swt that He swt turns our selves into His Tools, and of course this maqam will return a feeling too overwhelming to even describe.
But then there are people who are taking means outside of the sharia in order to gain this pleasure, and this is why I think this science has gotten such a horrible stigma attached to it.
May Allah make us among those whom He loves.
posted by Iboo LaL @ 8:46 PM
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