Hadees-Shareef Forgiveness

White & Black Deoband-ism caught in its own trap

Now, if Gangohi Saahib is speaking the truth, than Husaien Ahmad Saahib Tandvi Madni is a liar and if Husaien Ahmad Madni is honest than Gangohi Saahib is dishonest.  Now, the decision depends on the followers of the two men.

Gangohi Saahib says that the beliefs of these (Najdis) are excellent.  How excellent are they?  See its explanation by the writing of the Head master of Deoband, Husaien Ahmad Saahib Madni who has listed in detail a series of examples of some of the belief of these Najdis in his book, “Ash Shahaubus Saaqib” (Printed Qutub Khana Ashrafiyahh, Rasheed Company, Deoband)
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1. "It is the belief of Muhammad Ibne Abdul Wahaab that all the people of the world and all Muslims are polytheists and nfidels. To kill them, to battle with them and to snatch their money from them is allowed and permissible yet it is mandatory.” (Ash Shahaubus Saaqib, Pg 43)

White & Black Deoband-ism caught in its own trap

Further consider this, Husaein Ahmad Saahib Madni President of Darul uloom Deoband says, "Gentlemen, Muhammad Ibne Abdul Wahaab Najdi appeared from Najd in Arab in the early 13th century.

As he harbored evil thoughts and held wrong belief therefore, he waged war against the Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at and forced his evil thoughts on them. He considered it lawful seizing their properties as the spoils of war and killing them and also considered all these acts to bring blessings and earning rewards.  He gave severe pains particularly to the people of Haramain (Makkah and Madinah) and to the people of Hijaaz in general.

  He used most foul language against the grandeur of the respected pious people and the earlier generations.  Many people because of his severe violence had to flee the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. Thousands of people were martyred in his hands and the hands of his troops. In short, he was a tyrant, rebel, blood thirsty and an evil person." (Ash-Shahaubus Saaqib, Pg 42)

White & Black Deoband-ism caught in its own trap

Continued excerpt- White & Black by Hazrat Allaamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi

Answer: In our view their verdict is the same which is given by the writer of Durr-e-Mukhtaar. (Ibne Abdul Wahaab and his followers), the Khawarij, are a famous group of people who waged war against the Imaam. It is the view, that they considered Imaam guilty of falsehood, meaning infidelity which justified waging war. For this reason they considered taking our lives and wealth as lawful and made our women their captives. He further says, the verdict which applies on them is of rebels.  He also held the opinion that they did not describe them as infidels because this was a matter of interpretation though a faulty one.And Allamah Shaami, in the marginal notes of the book said, "Like it happened in our times by the followers of Ibne Abdul Wahaab. They came from Najd and besieged Haramain Shareefain. They called themselves as Hambali creed but it was their belief that onlythey were Muslims. Whoever is against their belief he is a polytheist and due to this they justified the killing of the Ahle Sunnat and the scholars of the Ahle Sunnat, until Almighty Allaah deprived them of their superiority."

In "Fataawa Rasheediyah," it is stated that their (Najdis) belief are excellent, while in "Al-Muhannad," it is stated that only they (Najdis) are Muslims and whoever would be against their belief he is an polytheist.

And Ahle Sunnat are against their belief therefore infront of them the killing of Ahle Sunnat and the scholars of the Ahle-Sunnat as lawful.” So the result is infront of Gangohi Saahib to consider Ahle-Sunnat as polytheist and killing them is lawful and permitted. This is a good belief.  Therefore the Gangohi Saahib says, he and his followers are good.  While all other scholars of Deoband say they are “Kharijis and rebels.” It is clear that infront of Gangohi Saahib the Kharijis and rebels are good people.

Further consider this, Husaein Ahmad Saahib Madni President of Darul uloom Deoband says, "Gentlemen, Muhammad Ibne Abdul Wahaab Najdi appeared from Najd in Arab in the early 13th century.

As he harbored evil thoughts and held wrong belief therefore, he waged war against the Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at and forced his evil thoughts on them. He considered it lawful seizing their properties as the spoils of war and killing them and also considered all these acts to bring blessings and earning rewards.  He gave severe pains particularly to the people of Haramain (Makkah and Madinah) and to the people of Hijaaz in general.  He used most foul language against the grandeur of the respected pious people and the earlier generations.  Many people because of his severe violence had to flee the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. Thousands of people were martyred in his hands and the hands of his troops. In short, he was a tyrant, rebel, blood thirsty and an evil person." (Ash-Shahaubus Saaqib, Pg 42)

White & Black Deoband-ism caught in its own trap

It is stated in Al-Muhannad, the book on belief of the scholars of Deoband page 18, (printed kutub khana Azeezia 'Deoband,

"Question number 12:

Muhammad Ibne Abdul Wahaab Najdi considered shedding the blood of Muslims, taking away their money and defiling their honor, all these things were lawful.  He also termed everyone else as polytheist and would be disrespectful towards the grandeur of the elders. What is your view about him and about calling the Ahle Qiblah and elders as infidels is it a lawful act? Or do you think that he who does these things belongs to a legitimate sect?

Deoband to Barelliy

Deoband to Barelliy -by Hazrat Allaamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi

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At this stage literate men and women specially the youths get very frustrated as there are many factions among-st the Muslims and each faction tries to prove itself to be right on the basis of the Qur’aan and the Sunnat and calls their opponents to be wrong.  The ‘Ulama (scholars) of each faction read the Qur’aan and Ahaadees they are committed to Namaaz and Rozah (fasting) and have kept beards and seem to be very knowledgeable in giving brazing arguments in favor of their own standpoint.  We the listeners and the readers whom should we consider right and whom to be wrong. Therefore, as a result of this confusion, they have stopped listening to Maulvees and going to the masaajid.

With the fear of Allaah honestly let me reply to this there is no doubt that you are very disturbed at the contradictory statements of the general Maulvees.  Generally people are not fully aware of the religious knowledge so they cannot recognize the truth and the false, the right and the wrong and they are not aware of the real facts so they get very frustrated.  In this situation the people are wrong because along with the worldly knowledge they don’t acquire religious knowledge and learn the truth with attention and interest.  And those who call themselves Maulvees they don’t tell the real truth to people and don’t fulfill their religious responsibilities and obligations completely with honesty and truthfulness.

 They have perhaps forgotten that one day all of us have to depart from this mortal world and go into the dark and dreary graves.  And on the Day of Judgment we have to give account of our beliefs and acts before Almighty Allaah. Perhaps they have also forgotten that it is easy to deceive people by presenting wrong as right, but it is impossible to present wrong as right infront of Almighty Allaah.  These people should remember that they will be more accountable then others and will be more liable to go to Hell and suffer Divine torment for teaching wrong beliefs and acts.

They should not forget that the rule is the people showing the way to righteousness will receive rewards equivalent to the combined rewards of those engaged in that righteousness. The same way those who teach wrong things and give wrong training they will get the combined torments and sins of all those people who are following them and doing those wrong acts.  Any person who stands in awe of Allaah all the time and remembers his death he saves himself from every sin and evil.  Also if unknowingly or due to some other reason he makes a mistake then he should repent immediately. A person who is not scared of Almighty Allaah is dreadful.  No doubt only he is wise, who is attached to the fear of Allaah.

Why the Differences?

The “difference” mentioned in the blessed Hadees does not at all mean a superficial difference but is the one which is based on principle. Before explaining the “difference” which is mentioned in Hadees Shareef it is best to know that there are two types of differences. (1) (Usoolee) based on principles, and (2) (Furoo'ee) based on non-essentials.

Shar’ee commands and orders have been laid down for both of them. Those Usoolee or Furoo’ee difference in which there is clear difference of kufr (infidelity) and leemaan (faith), and guidance and deviation makes a person liable to go to Hell.

It should also be noted that there are two kinds of people in the Um-mat of the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam), i.e. (1) (Um-mat-e-Ijaabat), the Um-mat of acceptance and (2) (Um-mat-e-Da’wat), the Um-mat of invitation.

The Um-mat-e-Ijaabat (acceptance) is that which comprises of true followers who are firm on their beliefs. All those deviated and false groups who apparently seem to be pretender of Ieemaan and Islaam come in the category of the Um-mat-e-Da’wat (invitation). All those infedil and false groups who apparently seem to be claimers of Ieemaan and Islaam, some of these sects have not been declared absolute kuf-faar (infidels), since although their beliefs and ideologies are different no clear distinction of kufr (infidelity) and Ieemaan (faith) is found in them. But it is settled that in ideologies and beliefs of any of those have a clear distinction of kufr and Ieemaan then they would be counted among the factions of the Hell. The Deobandi-Wahaabi-Tableeghi faction, among the new emerging groups of the Um-mat are those who not only wish to be called “Ahle Sunnat” (Sun-nee) but are also engaged in getting all the other factions beside themselves declared as apostate, innovative and false.

Our dispute with this Deobandi-Wahaabi-Tableeghi faction is not merely superficial and a matter of willing or not willing but it is based on principles and basic things. You surely would like to know what are the causes of these differences. So just read on, and by making Almighty Allaah and His beloved Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) as witness, say it with justice and equity can you accept these things? Can people having such beliefs be Muslims or Ahle Sunnat?

Only one Firqah will go to Jannah and the others 72 will go to hell

Therefore, the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) said, "My Um-mat will be divided into 73 factions, one of this will go to Heaven and 72 will go to Hell." The Companions of the Prophet (Ridwaanul Laahi Ta’aalaa ‘Alaiehim Ajma'een) said, O Prophet of Allaah! (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) which one will be that salvated group? The holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) said, "It would be the Naajiyah group, which would follow my way and the way of my companions." (Tirmizee, Abu Daawood, Ibne Maajah).

It is also mentioned in Ibne Maajah, one of the six famous authentic books of Ahaadees that Hazrat Anas bin Maalik (Radiyal Laahu 'Anhu) related that he heard the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) say, “My Um-mat would never unite on a deviation, when you see differences (in the Um-mat), you obligatory hold fast to the largest group."(The group of magnificence)

These Ahaadees makes it clear to us that one of the groups into which Um-mat-e-Muhammadi (‘Alaa Saahibhas-Salaatu Was-Salaam) would be divided it would be the largest group and we have been ordered to totally hold fast to this group, only that is the group which will be going to Heaven and beside this all the rest will be worthy of going to Hell. The holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) has done us a great favors, by informing us also about the signs of this salvated group (Naajiyah). Otherwise every group would be claiming itself to be the Naajiyah group. It is clear that Naajiyah group is not a separate sect and in no way holding on to their beliefs, actions and preaching or promoting them can be considered as indulging in factionalism.

Readers may, perhaps, say that despite this clear saying of the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) every group calls itself Naajiyah. In reply, let me say that no claimant can be truthful about his claim unless he produces valid arguments in support to his claim and unless he proves the truth of his claim through the Qur’aan and the Sunnat. The holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) has clarified that the Naajiyah group would be the largest and (the noblest group) and has urged us to associate with it and has also told us about its signs, it would be following his way and the way of his companions (Radiyal Laahu Ta’aalaa ‘Anhum).

On the basis of these sayings of the Holy Prophet [Peace be upon Him] the Naajiyah group is titled as ‘Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at', or in one word, “Sun-nee” (meaning this is the group whose beliefs and acts are according to the ways of the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) and of his companions (Radiyal Laahu ‘Anhum).

Notes...

Naajiyah is derived from the word Nijaat..[Salvation]

“My Ummah will divide into seventy-three different sects, only one sect will be  ahl an–najaat (people of salvation)”....called Naajiyah group.

WHO ARE MUNAAFIQ?

Excerpt- DEOBAND TO BAREILLY-Allaamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi
MUNAAFIQ
(“There is a disease in their hearts.”)
These days, many people have become self-appointed monopolists of faith and Islaam even when their ‘Aqaaid (articles of faith) are not correct at all.  Although in the Holy Qur’aan they have read very well that the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) had called out the names of many people who had recited the Kalimah and also offered their Namaaz, and ordered them to be expelled from his masjid (mosque). The Qur’aan and Ahaadees have called such people hypocrites (Munaafiq). Almighty Allaah has specifically said about them,

“Wa Minan-Naasi Maien-Yaqoolu Aaman-naa Bil Laahi Wa Bil Yaumil Aakhiri Wa Maa Hum Bi Mu’mineen.”
(Soorah Baqaraah, Aayat 8)
(Those people who say that we believe in the Almighty Allaah and the Doomsday they are not at all Mu’mins).
And He has also explained why this is so, “Fee Quloobihim Maradun” (“There is a disease in their hearts.”)
This referred disease is surely not palpitation or a wrong condition of the heartbeat. The disease is their real ideology, which is belief, it was not right. According to Allaah’s verdict they are not Mu’min (believers) even though they have recited the Kalimah and offer Namaaz.   When we say the disease is in their hearts we means that like Ieemaan resides in ones heart similarly the infidelity of infidels and hypocrisy of the hypocrites is also printed in the heart. This explains that belief is the name of a firm believe embedded in our hearts and Allaah’s Aayaat (Verses) clearly indicates that those whose beliefs are not correct no matter how regular and firm they might be in saying their Namaaz and keeping the Saum they can never be Mu‘min.

Auliyaa Allah

Alaa Hazrat Imaam Ahmad Razaa Khaan Bareillvi
[Rahmatul Laahi Alaieh] the Mujaddid of his Time...the Savior of Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaa'at love...&
His Principles
1. Love of Allaah Kareem and His Beloved Prophet Muhammad [Sallal Laahu Alaiehi Wa Sallam] is before anything & everything
He said “If my heart was ever divided into two parts, one of them would have written on it “laa ilaahaa Illal Laah” and on the other “Muhammadur Rasoolul Laah”!!
He did not tolerate blasphemy (disrespect) of the Noble Prophet Muhammad [Sallal Laahu Alaiehi Wa Sallam] or of the pious companions or Auliyaa  Allaah and stood strongly against the corrupted groups of his time for this reason.

Mazaaraat of the Holy Saints

WHO ARE THE AHLE SUNNAT WA JAMAA'AT?

Written by:

Allaamah Kaukab Noorani Okarvi

(May his grace continue)

Bismil Laahir Rahmaan Nir Raheem

Was-Salaatu Was-Salaamu 'Alaa Rasoolihil Kareem

Continued Article...Who Are Ahle Sunnat Wa Jamaa'at?

Those Muslims who are by belief Maatureedi or Ash'aree and in Jurist form the followers (مقلدين  Muqallideen) of Hanafee, Shaafi’ee, Maalikee, Hanmbalee and are associated with some correct Chain of Suufi  Doctrines Qaadiree, Chishtee, Naqshbandee, Suharwardee, Shaazli, Rifaa'ee etc. are all Ahl-e-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at (In one word  سنى “Sunni”). (Those Sunni Believers with correct beliefs who are not their followers or are not associated with any Suufi Chain of Doctrine they are also included in Sawaad-e-A’zam.)  Since the beginning of every era Sawaad-e-A’zam Ahl-e-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at have been in large quantity. But the rule of evaluation is not more or less rather it is the following of the Truth.

The title or term Ahl-e-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at has not been self-created after the first three periods (قرون ثلاثه Quroon-e- Salaasah). Rather before the innovated sects this expression is being used for the true Muslims with correct beliefs since the period of the sacred physical presence of the Holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) and the His holy Companions.

Therefore the narration of Hazrat Saiyyidinaa Imaam Zaien-ul-Aabideen Alee Bin Husaien (Allaah be pleased with them) is present that

علامة أهل السنة كثرة الصلاة على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم)) .

“To send Durood Shareef in abundance on the Beloved Holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) is the sign of being Ahl-e-Sunnat.” (Al-Targheeb: 963, Al Qaulul Badee pg52, Fazaail e A'maal pg688.)

٢٦٤١ - حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلَانَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ الحَفَرِيُّ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ الثَّوْرِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ الأَفْرِيقِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَيَأْتِيَنَّ عَلَى أُمَّتِي مَا أَتَى عَلَى بني إسرائيل حَذْوَ النَّعْلِ بِالنَّعْلِ، حَتَّى إِنْ كَانَ مِنْهُمْ مَنْ أَتَى أُمَّهُ عَلَانِيَةً لَكَانَ فِي أُمَّتِي مَنْ يَصْنَعُ ذَلِكَ، وَإِنَّ بني إسرائيل تَفَرَّقَتْ عَلَى ثِنْتَيْنِ وَسَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً، وَتَفْتَرِقُ أُمَّتِي عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ وَسَبْعِينَ مِلَّةً، كُلُّهُمْ فِي النَّارِ إِلَّا مِلَّةً وَاحِدَةً»، قَالُوا: وَمَنْ هِيَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ؟ قَالَ: «مَا أَنَا عَلَيْهِ وَأَصْحَابِي»:

It is narrated by Abdul Laah Bin Amar that the Holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) has stated “......Certainly Bani Israa'eel  (The progeny of Israa’eel) are divided in 72 groups and my Ummat (Nation) will be divided in 73 groups, beside just one group all will go to hell.” The respected Companions (Allaah be pleased with them) said, “Yaa Rasoolal Laah! (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaieka Wa Sallam), Who will be that one group?” So the Holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) stated “The path on which I am and are my Companions on.” (Tirmizee:2641 , Ibne Maajah: 3992, Abu Daawood: 4597, Miskaat: 171)

Imaam Mullaa Alee Qaari (Allaah have mercy on him) has said that ما انا عليه واصحابى"Maa Anaa ‘Alaiehi Wa As-haabi‘s " verification is undoubtedly, the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at.  It is said the clarification of the statement is like this that the dwellers of Paradise are those who are by belief, by words and by action on the way of the Holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) and his Companions. Because without any difference this is well known that the matter on which the Scholars of Islaam agree is the Truth and beside this it is not true.

وعن ابن عمر قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: " إن الله لا يجمع أمتي أو قال: أمة محمد على ضلالة ويد الله على الجماعة ومن شذ شذ في النار ". . رواه الترمذي

It is stated by Ibne Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) in narrations he have said the Holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) has stated, “Undoubtedly Allaah Ta’aalaa will not unite the Followers of the Muhammad on falsehood and the Have of Allaah is on the Jamaa’at .”

: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: «اتبعوا السواد الأعظم فإنه من شذ شذ في النار» . رواه ابن ماجه من حديث أنس

“Follow Sawaad-e-A’zam, besides any person who detaches (by belief or by words or by action from this Jamaa’at) he is separate in fire.  The meaning and translation of this is the person who is detached from his fellow People of Paradise (Ahl-e-Sunnat Wa Jamaa’at), he will be placed in the hell.” (Tirmizee: 2167, Kanzul Ul Ummaal: 1029, 1030, Mishkaat :173, 174)

Hazrat Ibne Abbaas (Allaah be pleased with him) narrated that the holy Prophet (Sallal Laahu ‘Alaiehi Wa Sallam) has said,   مَنْ فَارَقَ الجَمَاعَةَ شِبْرًا فَمَاتَ، إِلَّا مَاتَ مِيتَةً جَاهِلِيَّةً»

“Whoever becomes separate from the Jamaa’at (Ahl-e-Sunnat) even for a span and then dies, he will die as a rebellious sinner.” (Bukhaari: 7054)

The scholar of the opponents of Ahl-e-Sunnat Allaamah Ibne Taimiyyah has written in the interpretation of

يوم تبيض وجوه وتسود وجوه “Yauma Tabyaddu Wujoohun-Wa Taswaddu Wujooh………” (Al Qur’aan, Ch 3, Verse:106)

"Ibne Abbaas (Allaah be pleased with him) states, “On the Day of Judgment Ahl-e-Sunnat faces will be white and their opponent’s faces will be black.”

To be continued...In Shaa Allaah.

3rd March 1924 – The Forgotten Day!

Khilaafat has to be earned, it’s not brought about by politics or activism. Muslims have lost it because of their lack of adherence to the Sunnah, and they will only regain it when they begin practicing Islaam according to the Sunnah again.

Know your History Islamic Knowledge-The Ottoman & Kemal Attaturuk

The World must know how human rights of billions of people violated by the treacherous way when 1300 years old Caliphate was abolished in 1924. We all know about the role played by Lawrence of Arabia; but many of us were ignorant about the following: "the new Turkish State(Republic of Turkey) which was established by Doenmehs (secret jews of Turkey), is a state of the people and a state by the people.
" But why did Mustafa Kemal abolish the Caliphate, which was the political System of majority people of Turkey?
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a Jew, secret Jew and the greatest enemy of Islaam, as he abolished the Caliphate and suppressed the Muslims in Turkey. Along with Western powers and Jews there were some secret Jews who were conspiring against the Khilafah. Mustafa Kemal was one of them.
He was not even a Turk. He was a Doenmeh (secret Jew). He achieved the objective of not the Turks but of the Doenmehs who slowly took over the Ottoman State by openly converting to and practicing Islaam but secretly practicing their old religion... He was not a Turk, let alone 'Father of the Turks'.
Conclusions

The fact that Kemal Atatürk  was a despot and dictator cannot be denied. It

was his cruelty and sadistic treatment of Muslims that makes him stand out as one of the worst enemies of God. The above was only what was reported and recorded by mostly Western observers. The extent of what actually went on in the new Turkey by the direct

policy of Kemal was heinous, to say the least. He was truly an enemy of Islaam.

Under the guise of “cleansing Islaam of political interference”, the educational system was completely overhauled.

Atatürk’s attacks on Islaam were not limited to the government, however. Everyday life for Turks was also dictated by Atatürk’s secular ideas:

Traditional Islaamic forms of headdress such as turbans and the fez were outlawed in favor of Western-style hats.

The hijaab for women was ridiculed as a “ridiculous object” and banned in public buildings.

The calendar was officially changed, from the traditional Islaamic calendar, based on the hijrah – Prophet Muhammad ﷺ’s flight to Madinah – to the Gregorian calendar, based on the birth of Jesus Christ.

In 1932, the A’zaan – the Muslim call to prayer – was outlawed in Arabic. Instead, it was rewritten using Turkish words and forced upon the country’s thousands of mosques.

Friday was no longer considered part of the weekend. Instead, Turkey was forced to follow European norms of Saturday and Sunday being days off from work.

Know your History Islamic Knowledge- 3rd March 1924- The Islamic Caliphate

To know that Khilaafat had been a great state for centuries and that it was a superpower on the world stage, the statement given by the father of modern economy is a great testimony.

Adam Smith, the 18th Century founder of modern economics whose picture is printed on the current UK £20 note, was exceedingly inspired by the Islaamic method of governing.

He proclaimed that:

“…the empire of the Caliphs seems to have been the first state under which the world enjoyed that degree of tranquility which the cultivation of the sciences requires. It was under the protection of those generous and magnificent princes, that the ancient philosophy and astronomy of the Greeks were restored and established in the East; that tranquility, which their mild, just and religious government diffused over their vast empire, revived the curiosity of mankind, to inquire into the connecting principles of nature.”

( Adam Smith, ‘History of Astronomy’, The Essays of Adam Smith (London, 1869), p. 353)

Hence it was a leading state in economy, science, technology, commerce, architecture and jurisprudence. The Khilaafat provided peace and security for its citizens, allowing them to live in harmony together as a single state. The Khilafah even provided sanctuary for those who were persecuted because of their beliefs.

With the removal of the sole legitimate leadership of the Muslims, the Caliphate, the lands of Islaam were divided in to numerous statelets and disputed territories. These new entities were established along the lines of ethnicity, sectarianism and racism by the colonialist powers of the day in an attempt to ensure that Muslim Ummah would never rise again. Nationalism that was nurtured by the colonialists in the run up to the destruction of the Caliphate helped to ensure that these new entities would remain at loggerheads, never to think of uniting again. Any attempts to replicate the power of a unitary leadership of the Muslim world were replaced by pathetic and impotent bodies such as Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC). These organizations were designed to perpetuate disunity and division as they preserved the borders and barriers between Muslims that the colonialists had established. These states have never had the interests of Islam and the Muslims at heart.

Western colonialism put in place a motley crew of dictators, monarchs, autocrats that have served them in a manner more loyal than their own populations.

The Muslim world has indeed seen destruction, devastation and calamity for the past 90 years, despite the fact that the Muslim ummah is the richest in natural resources, manpower, army, land, technological capability, wealth and most importantly Ieemaan in Allaah Kareem