Assalamu alaikum,

Indeed, a most interesting article.  What a mess we are all in!  If each and every Muslim returned to the Qur'an and Sunnah, what a different world this would be.

Thank you, Brother Murabit, for posting this most interesting commentary.

Peace, ummziba.

The article does not offer clear explanations or clear solutions. Simply claiming all shia are outside of the deen isn't even accurate. And what are we supposed to think about the king of Morocco since he claims descendency from Muhammad (saaw)?

Lebanon is indeed a creation of the colonial empires as are all the other nations of the region.  It since the colonial era, Lebanon has been a source of division and chaos, a thorn in the side of the Ummah used by our enemies to keep us in chaos, war, frustration. Lebanon should not even exist as a separate nation from the Ummah regardless of the Druze and Christians there. The region is rightly that of the Ummah and should be ruled by Islam along with Israel. So it should be part of the Islamic state. But there is no Islamic nation or state representative of Islam or that correctly implements Islam today.

Without an Islamic state and a khalifah of the Muslim Ummah to galvanize the Muslim people and their resources to serve Allah and uphold justice and right and forbid wrong, our Ummah can continually expect to be the victims of all kinds of corruption from Dubai, Israel, Lebanon or elsewhere. 

Without a state and a khalifah backed by a military and resources, we cannot solve our problems, such as Israel or the many nation states that divide and corrupt us.

(8:73) "And those who disbelieve are allies to one another; and if you do not do so (unite as allies behind a khalifah), there will be fitnah and oppression on earth, and a great mischief and corruption".

It is the proper teaching of Tawhid that the Muslim modernists have abandoned. Suicide bombing is the indication that many Muslims no longer trust that the Mercy of Allah will rescue them from their situation, by His Power. The modernists tried to hitch their wagon to the train of Western systems, and failed to see it was already plunging over the cliff.

In the present crisis, the Muslim �ulama have been shamefully silent. In Dubai, with its follies of wealth, the �ulama have been shouted into silence by its ignorant rulers. In Egypt, they are simply tortured and killed. In Tunisia they are mostly in prison. Many have bought the wahhabi deviation which has removed the Second Shahada, and thus find themselves in strange alliance with the invented religion of the Shi�a. In this contradictory position can be found the rebel force in Iraq, the Ikhwan al-Muslimun, and the Jama�at al-Islamiyya world-wide.

At the moment we are suspended in the classical definition, �One world dying � another powerless to be born.� In the meantime we must prepare over the coming decade to raise a new generation among which will be found a new leadership � the best of men, not the worst. It will be the task of the rightly-guided Shaykhs of Instruction within the great Naqshabandi and Qadiri Tariqas. Only they can teach Futuwwa � the aristocratic principle within the Muslim Community. With them will come new life.
Bismillah,

This is from your link.  I agree that people who commit suicide are despairing of the Mercy of our Loving Lord.  Thanks for that, Ya sheikh.  And that the Muslim leaders have been SHAMEFULLY silent.  That is so true.

But your ridicule of people in Haifa was just mean.  Bombs are bombs.  Even though it's not near the devastation that Lebanon is experiencing, it seems normal for people to feel fearful when bombs are being hurled at them.  If ten miss, the eleventh one could get you or your family.  Death and sorrow are not measured in numbers when it is your family who has been killed.You are devasted that they die or that they have come near to death.

And you have an elitist attitude like the founders of America.  Good for you.  You live here, right?  Alexander Hamilton published works similar to this without the emphasis on religion.  Just that the poor, stupid, common folk couldn't be trusted to rule themselves.  Same ideas.  I've gotta disagree with ya here.

Salaamu Alaykum

Sometimes when I (an American non-Muslim) read him, I think of Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi as, among other things, a sort of Muslim version of Norman Podhoretz, but lacking either the latter�s political influence or his strategic skill.  For instance, in terms of content, when read closely, and when stripped of their tabloid tendencies, I don�t think the Sheikh�s missives are any more or less pointed than this one, from Norman Podhoretz, printed in the influential Commentary Magazine in September, 2004.  Here, as I understand (and it has been awhile since I read it in its entirety), Podhoretz basically acts as panegyrist for what sounds like his anointed �sacred warrior,� George W. Bush, and rallies the (especially) neo-conservative troops for a fight to the finish of World War IV �the war against �militant Islam,� one is to understand- and, in effect, calls for �reformation� within Islam (World War III is understood to be the now concluded �Cold War� between the US and USSR).  I suppose it goes without saying, but I shall say it nevertheless, that it seems the type of reformation Podhoretz would have for Islam is not that one offered by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and later taken up by Sayyid Qutb, for example, but is rather of the (forced?) �democratization� and �modernist� variety -the type to which both Christianity and Judaism were made to accede.

At any rate, these are the writings and ravings of politicos, not always known for their war-time pacifism.  That is understood.  As I see it, there is the occasional pearl to be found, but not usually before kicking plenty of swine out of the way in the process. 

Serv

Ref: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/podhoretz.htm

�As in pearls before swine?�

I used the metaphor, but with a modification.  I said, or at least meant to convey, that, in the writings of the war-time politicos such as the two cited above, there are sometimes pearls (of wisdom) to be found, but one often has to kick swine (nonsense) out of the way in the process.

�Obfuscation is something we must eschew if we are to be clearly understood.�

Agreed. 

�What? Snobbery? Arrogance? Elitism?�

I don�t understand the questions, Daniel.  Please repeat them but with some elaboration.

Serv

It�s ok, mate, it�s my (unintentional) bad for not being in the first place clearer.  And you ain�t no pig.  Far, far from it!

Serv 

Daniel Dworsky wrote: Thanks. No one is sleeping in this neck of the woods. Today I managed to book three meetings for the same hour... Rewire a working 24 channel 8 bus mixer into a non working 24 channel 7 bus mixer...restring half a guitar misplacing three strings. Answer hate mail as if I were a guest on Jerry Springer...   Considered stress management...

Bismillah,

You're only considering stress management?  Breathe deeply and investigate the stress managment idea today!

Salaamu Alaykum

Another Imam speaks and beats his chest for war:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/01/mideast.blair/index.html - http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/01/mideast.blair/inde x.html

Serv

I usually don't attempt to "defend" the writings of Shaykh Abdal Qadir. He says what needs to be said and says it exactly how it has to be said. The goal is not to make everyone happy, but to speak the reality. And in the process, many will get upset. Some will get upset simply because they ar biased. Some will get upset simply because they don't like Shaykh Abdal Qadir. Some will get upset because they have mis-understood what the Shaykh was trying to say. There could be many other reasons. So, that's why, I don't normally try to defend when people accuse or make fun of the Shaykh (though, I do reply and follow up if someone wants to know more about the Shaykh or more about his teachings and so forth). And this time, for this thread, it wasn't any different. Few got upset, mostly, as I came to realise, because they mis-understood what the Shaykh was saying. One of those who seemed upset was Daniel. Having read few of his threads, I consider him to be a person of good standing and of good nature - finding myself reduced to the necessity of explaining, at least briefly, to Daniel about Shaykh's standing on the Jews, the subject matter which seemed to upset him. Factually, the Shaykh does not hate the Jews. He is not anti-Jews. One just have to see his website (mentioned on the original post) and read his other articles, to be able to see the bigger picture. For those who are really interested on what the Shaykh is all about, then I do recommend "The Collected Works of Ian Dallas" < http://madinahmedia.com/onlinestore/product_info.php?products_id=36&osCsid=baa3a35801a587e5113cadea82a07eaa - http://madinahmedia.com/onlinestore/product_info.php?product s_id=36&osCsid=baa3a35801a587e5113cadea82a07eaa  >.

Ian Dallas is the family name of Shaykh Abdal Qadir and this is volume of his works - some of which were published in late 60's. I have also posted a book review on it on this very forum: http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2611&PN=1 - http://www.islamicity.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2611& ;PN=1

Do check it out and wish you, Daniel, all the best and keep up the good works. Muslims need to get in touch with people like you; the good people must work together - and prevent the hijacking of the faiths - Islam and Judaism, by the likes of Hamas/Zionist and Co.

Thanks, Murabit.  I didn�t realize, until your most recent post, that Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi is a convert to Islam.  I do, as I said, often find pearls of wisdom in his writing, but would like to see him avoid what I have called his �tabloid tendencies.�  But then again, on second thought, perhaps I should be careful what I wish for.  From whom else, other than Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi, might one learn, for example, that Germany�s Angela Merkel has become a transvestite (his second link above)?

Serv