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ISLAMIC UNITY & GOVERNANCE BASED UPON THE QURA'N, THE EXAMPLE & COMMANDS OF THE PROPHET (SAW) AND THE METHOD OF THE SALAF

European, American and secular politicians are now chanting the mantra of victory in their war against 'terror' (i.e. Islamic resistance against hostile invasions) due to the recent reported killing of Osama bin Laden. The global mainstream secular media is obeying usual orders to be the mouthpiece of the secular anti-Islamic establishment in declaring a victory against 'radicalism', 'extremism', the 'warped ideology of Islamists' and all the other familiar emotionally charged mind control slogans for the unthinking masses.

The reality however, is that the Anglo-American led war against Osama bin Laden has been a massive failure from the beginning. It has been a military failure, an economic failure, a propaganda failure, an ideological failure and a political disaster.

The whole episode of the world's major super power fighting a small band of mujahideen, poorly resourced, low in numbers, scattered throughout the developing world has shattered the false claim of military invincibility that the USA promulgates. The USA has been bribing, blackmailing, threatening and terrorizing nations to join its war and has gathered massive amounts of wealth, force, armies and hardware to succeed in its task but has struggled at every stage. The USA has struggled in Iraq, has struggled in Afghanistan and has struggled to chase its main declared enemy around the world, despite having a Muslim world full of pro-Western agents and munafiqeen to help them. The USA is now trapped in conflicts globally while the support for resistance spreads in all sorts of unknown directions.

The world's major superpower declared war on one man and for the most part, lost. They lost thousands of soldiers in the process, lost dozens of military helicopters, lost dozens of expensive drones, lost thousands of paid agents and mercenaries and took ten years to find a man who was one of the most recognisable faces in the world with the highest bounty on his head.

The first major point to be learned is that no amount of money, no amount of military hardware, no advancement in technology, no amount of soldiers and no amount of military allies can overturn the Will of Allah. The simple fact is that the USA and all its military might, all its wealth, all its influence, including its alliance of fifty countries (including all the developed european allies), could not capture Bin Laden for ten years. That is ten years, while they knew even the region he resided in. Bin Laden was not killed due to American military might but simply because it was the Will of Allah that he die at that time, we will all die when Allah wills and we can do nothing to speed that up nor slow it down. No amount of force and numbers can overcome what Allah has not given permission for. On this there are many ayat and ahadeeth, "If Allah helps you, none can overcome you: If He forsakes you, who is there, after that, that can help you? In Allah, then, Let believers put their trust." (aali I’mraan 3:160) and "...Say: 'Who then has any power at all on your behalf with Allah, if He intends you hurt or intends you benefit?'..." (al Fath 48:11) and "...Say: 'Who is he who can protect you from Allah if He intends to harm you or intends mercy on you?' And they will not find, besdies Allah, for themselves and Wali nor any Naseer.” (al Ahzaab 33:16-17) and "And no person can die except by the permission of Allah and at an appointed term..." (aali I'mraan 3:145) and Ibn A'bbaas reported that the Prophet (saw) said "...Know that if the  nation gathered together to benefit you with something, they would not benefit you except with what Allah had already written for you and If they gathered together to harm you with something, they would not harm you except with what Allah had already written against you..." (TIRMIDHI)  

Bin Laden declared he would not be taken alive and he was not taken alive, he died the type of death he would have been praying for. He died fighting, although being a middle aged sick man, despite pathetic governmental and media attempts to claim he died a cowardly death (while he defended his family home from dozens of the world's elite troops with the latest high-tech weponry, arriving in four military helicopters, totally clad in bulletproof body armour, yet they were still held for 40 minutes, which in close armed combat terms is like a century!). Whether you agree with his views and methods or not, the media and political spin that he was a coward is beyond dull witted. He has been taunting the world's superpower for ten years, culminating in the type of death he had expected and only after drawing the USA and dozens of other countries into a conflict that even western strategists and analysts can see no end to. Every mujahid, as every Muslim knows, would long to die at the hands of an enemy who is fighting him for his Islamic beliefs and actions. So it seems that the USA fell into every trap set by Bin Laden right up until his very end.

As for the European and American leaders on the other hand, they indeed are cowards manifest to everyone. They all hide behind dozens of bodyguards, all the latest technology and declare wars on underdeveloped  nations far beyond the oceans that separate them. None of them can be found on a frontline, nor anywhere near a battlefield but they regularly send young but misled soldiers off to harms way, including young women. They regularly drop bombs on civilian populations slaughtering men, women and children, all from a safe distance. I think it is clear who the cowards are.

We should remember that it was the American leadership who started chanting the name of Bin Laden turning the public perception of Islamic resistance into an individual leader and an isolated group, something quite ridiculous, but aimed at fighting Islam and Muslims while giving them another name. This diversary tactic also creating a false target so that victory could be claimed even in the face of failure. 'We have killed bin Laden, we are winning, a great blow to the terrorists, extremists' etc is the claim. However, those resisting Euro-American military, economic and political agression were never fighting for an individual leader nor fighting for an isolated organization. Rather they are fighting for the reasons they regularly mention - defence, retaliation, resistance against a global war against Islam and the Muslim world, the Western support for tyrannical rulers who suppress Islam, the Western creation of Israel as well as its continued arming and financing, and the overturning of the oppressive man-made systems in favour of a system based on Divine Law that would usher in a period of justice and supreme guidance for all who lived under it, including non-Muslims.

It seems that the Anglo-American aggressors were so fearful of the legacy and person of Bin Laden that they had to dispose of his body in the most extraordinary way, immediately throwing him into the sea, not wanting even his dead body to cause them problems. This story is almost like Frankenstein, they imagined a monster, nurtured the perception of him in the public mind and then grew fearful of what they had initiated and lost all control. Now of course, there are several generations who will see Bin Laden as proof that a few people can achieve much and that a superpower, a major military will struggle to impose its will on any determined enemy. The Qura'n is clear about this, "...How often a small group overcame a large group by the permission of Allah?..." (al Baqarah 2:249) There will be millions who admired the courage of Bin Laden, as well as his humble dedication, giving up a life of riches to struggle against foreign anti-Muslim aggression. It's also now probable many will now arise, seeking to support any organizations or individuals who look like they might want to tread the same path. Of course the Anglo-American propaganda machine must select its next public villain No.1 to invoke the tribalistic instincts to bomb the next target. 

The claim that the USA, Britain and their allies have been persuing Bin Laden for fifteen years due to their desire for justice in the name of innocent civilians killed is manifestly a false claim when we see on a daily basis the deliberate killing of civilians by USA, Britain and their allies via their enormous arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. If civilian life was their concern, they would not have been busy bombing civilians for the last few decades, killing millions in the process.

The United Nations has been continuously exposed as a mere tool of Euro-American agression against the Muslim world, a vehicle to steal its resources and political faciltator of its destroy and rebuild projects. 'We bomb you in the name of freedom and democracy, with the support of the international community'... 'Anyone who threatens our borders we warn them of our determination to destroy them with all our force, but we ourselves can invade who we want, and kill who we want without seeking permission of anyone, as we are the ones who make the rules to serve our tyrannical ambitions' These tyrannical ambitions though have been hindered at every step. The latest rebellions against the western supported tyrants in North Africa and the Middle East are now feared by the Western powers to transform from a move towards pro-Western democracy towards Islamic revival. As soon as the masses wake up to Western interference and manipulation in any supposedly free elections, they might start realizing their prosperity can only emerge in implementing Islam as a complete way of life.

But next time you here the jubilant declaration of the media docile sheep 'We got him' you can add "Yes, you got him after TEN YEARS, A 25 MILLION DOLLAR BOUNTY DANGLED UNSUCCESSFULLY IN FRONT OF THE WORLD'S POOREST PEOPLE, THREE PRESIDENTS, THE MILITARY SUPPORT OF FIFTY COUNTIRIES, THREE MAJOR WARS YOU ARE STUCK IN, TRILLONS OF DOLLARS SPENT, FURTHERING YOUR ECONOMIC WOES, 10,000 OF YOUR OWN TROOPS DEAD, 200,000 CIVILIANS DEAD FROM YOUR HANDS, MILLIONS MORE ENEMIES CREATED, JIHAD GROUPS NOW ACTIVE GLOBALLY, YOUR MAIN TARGET STILL FOLLOWED BY THOUSANDS & LOVED BY MILLIONS EVEN AFTER HIS DEATH & NOW ALL YOUR PREVIOUS DICTATORS TO SUPPRESS ISLAM SLIPPING FROM THEIR THRONES" So keep shouting 'We got him' at the TV until you convince yourself the mission was a success. 

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UNITY is a Command of Allah (swt) with a Clear Method of Implementation

Many people in the muslim world call for unity but they adopt a method which is in contradiction to its own objectives. They call for unity but adopt a divisive methodology. Allah (swt) does not allow such contradictions in the deen, Allah (swt) says "....establish the deen and do not make divisions in it..." (ash Shoora 42:13) and Allah (swt) says "Do they not then consider the Quran? Had it been from other than Allah they would surely have found therein many contradictions." (an Nisaa' 4:82) So if we find clear contradiction between the method and the objective, then we know this method is not from Islam. We can tell the Muslims 'Let us unite as one, let us unite as one' and at the same time say 'We will do this by being many groups, so come and join my group'. This a contradiction. Islam accepts differences when the Divine Texts allow for differing interpretation but to divide into hundreds or thousands of separate entities, each an authority unto themselves.......then this is far fom the Islamic system of unity and it has no basis in the Quran, the Sunnah and it contradicts the intellect. In fact Allah (swt) associated division with the stupidity of the unbelievers so we should not imitate them in that, Allah (swt) says "....Their enmity among themselves is very severe. You would think they are united but their hearts are divided that is because they are a people who do not use their intellects." (al Hashr 59:14)

Allah (swt) in the Quran and the messenger in the Sunnah commanded us to unity and prohibited us from disunity and no-one can deny that this command stands for all times. If Allah gives us a command then He (swt) also commands us with the method of how to implement that command just as the ayah says "....for each of you we gave a shari'ah [law] and a minhaaj [clear method]..." (al Maaidah 5:48) Therefore every Muslim must seek to understand how we will unite upon the Quran and Sunnah according to the method of Nabi (saw) and the indications of the evidence of Ayaat and Ahadeeth.

When we survey the texts of Quran and Hadeeth we see very clearly that Islam gave us two pillars of unity. Those pillars of unity are :-

1) Unifying upon the correct beliefs (imaan) this is clear from the ayah "Verily only the believers are a brotherhood" (al Hujuraat 49:10) and the ayah "And be not like those who divided and differed among themselves after the clear proofs had come to them. It is they for whom there is an awful torment." (aali I'mraan 3:105) and "Verily, this ummah of yours is one ummah and I am your Lord so worship me" (al Anbiyaa' 21:92) There are many other clear evidences to prove this point.

2) The unification under one Imaam. This is proven by many evidences e.g. Allah (swt) says "And hold fast to the rope of Allah all of you together and be not divided..." (aali I'mraan 3:103) The 'rope of Allah' was described by Ibn Masoo'd to be the 'Jama'ah' [Tafseer of TABARI] and the jama'ah are those who are gathered under the Imaam and upon the correct beliefs as collectively transmitted by the ijmaa' of the sahaabah. Even if other interpretations for the phrase 'rope of Allah' are adopted, such as that which some of the salaf transmitted, that it refers to 'the Qura'n' then again there is no contradiction and the obligation to be unified upon the beliefs of Islam and under a singular shara'ee authority still are emphasized. This is because the ayah commands making i'tisaam [holding fast] to the Quran includes the whole of the Quran and that includes its beliefs and laws. The beliefs and laws of the Qura'n can not be adhered to completely and comprehensively except in a collective manner as those beliefs require establishing certain relationships and severing certain relationships and the laws involve collective matters which can not be applied by individuals alone (such as matters of co-operation in birr and taqwa, fighting in the cause of Allah in rows as if one structure, judging in the disputes of people along with just witnessing, establishing the salah along with its subsidiary rules, the collection and distribution of the zakah etc.) Secondly, the ayaah gave the command of i'tisaam in the collective [plural] verbal structure 'watasimoo' which was an address to all the believers as an ummah and not just an individual from among them. Thirdly, the ayah commanded to make i'tisaam to the rope of Allah 'jamee'an' [altogether] meaning that the believers should hold fast to the beliefs and laws collectively and not just individually and it would be impossible to adhere to this collectively without submitting to a singular organizing authority. On this point Haafiz Ibn Katheer (d. h. SHAFI'I) mentioned that Imaam al Qurtubi (d h. MAALIKI) as well as other u'lemaa' said concerning the ayah "And when your Lord said to the angels ' I am going to place a khaleefah on the earth...'" (al Baqarah 2:30), "that this ayah proves the obligation of appointing a khaleefah to pass judgment on matters of dispute between people, to aid the oppressed against the oppressor, to implement the hudood and forbid the evil. There are many other tasks that can only be fulfilled by appointing the Imaam and what is necessary to achieve a duty is a duty itself..." (IBN KATHEER 'Tafseer al Qura'n al A'zeem [vol.1]) Fourthly, the ayah, along with these emphatic indications of a unified i'tisaam, also forbade 'tafarruq' (again, the collective nature of this prohibition was indicated by the plural verb construction  'laa tafarraqoo' [do not make division]). This meant that the Muslims should not divide in their beliefs, by their laws, systems nor by their method of i'tisaam. Fifthly, the asbaab an Nuzool [circumstances of revelation] of these ayaat clearly addressed the Muslims to re-establish their Islamic bonds of belief and structure after they had started to divide upon a non-Islamic basis. Also, the meaning of jama'ah [the unified group] and the meaning of tafarruq [prohibited division] is explained in the hadeeth of Ibn Abbaas who reported that Nabi (saw) said "Whoever of you sees in his ameer [leader] something which he dislikes should remain patient for whoever divides from the Jama'ah by a handspan then he dies, he dies the death of jaahileeyah." (BUKHAARI, MUSLIM) Therefore the 'Jamah is to be united under the obedience to one man, i.e. The Khaleefah, Imaam, Ameerul Mu'mineen and Tafarruq is to separate from this. This is also proven by the following hadeeths..... A'rfajah reported that the Prophet (saw) said "Whoever comes to you while your affair has been united under one man intending to dissolve your strength or or divide your jama'ah then kill him." (MUSLIM kitaabul Imaarah) and Abu Sa'eedul Khudri reported that the Prophet (saw) said "If the bayah [oath of obedience] has been taken for two khaleefahs then kill the latter of them."(MUSLIM kitaabul Imaarah)

The Salaf were also clear on the meaning of Jama'ah and Disunity. They knew from Quran and Sunnah and from their asscociation with the Prophet (saw) that unity did not consist of numbers but the gathering upon the truth of the Islamic beliefs and the obedience to the one leader, the Imaam. It is reported that U'mar ibn al Khattab said 'There is no Islam without Jama'ah and there is no Jama'ah without Imaarah [authority, leadership] and there is no Imaarah without Taa'ah [obedience]" (DAARIMI). The early Muslims were always united under the two pillars of IMAAN (Belief) and IMAAMAH (leadership). This was at all times including before they took power in Madeenah.

We should not talk about unity in an emotional way. Rather we should understand what Islamic unity is and we should then implement it. We should not call for something only to provide people with a false methodology. We must unite according to the clear command of Allah even if the majority of people reject this Islamic unity. This is because we only unite in order to obey Allah and save ourselves from Hellfire. This is proven by the hadeeth of Abu Hurayrah who reported that the Prophet (saw) said "Whoever obeys me obeys Allah and whoever disobeys me disobeys Allah and whoever obeys the Imaam he obeys me and whoever disobeys the Imaam then he disobeys me" (IBN MAAJAH) and in the version of BUKHAARI and MUSLIM ".....whoever obeys the ameer he obeys me and whoever disobeys the ameer then he disobeys me." Therefore we do not unite under the Imaam for material benefit nor due to the result, but we do it because it is a Divine command and if we fail to unite behin the Imaam then we are sinful. We must have an Imaam just as the hadeeth says "Whoever dies without an Imaam then he dies the death of jaahileeyah" (AHMAD, AL HINDI) and Ibn U'mar reported that Nabi (saw) said "....whoever dies without a baya'ah upon his neck then he dies the death of jaahileeyah" (MUSLIM)

So let us not be emotional about unity but let us be obedient to Allah about unity. Let us understand it according to evidence and then we must submit to it. We must unite upon imaan and under one imaam and it does not matter if people mock that and abandon it. We must unify according to the truth even if there are only three of us just as the hadeeth of A'bdullah ibn A'mru ibn al A'ss makes clear, he reported that Nabi (saw) said "It is not halaal for any three of you to be in a deserted place without appointing one ameer" (AHMAD) So the ummah must always be united even if they were small. We should not seek to be in the majority but seek to be upon the truth. It is reported that A'bdullah ibn Masoo'd said "The Jama'ah is what accords with the truth even if you are one person" (AL LAALIKAA'EE, IBN A'SAAKEER) And let us remember that the true deen will return not as a well known majority but rather as strangers who follow the way of the Prophet (saw), it is reported that the Prophet (saw) said "Islam started as a stranger and will return as a stranger just as it was in the beginning so Tuba [Tree in paradise, blessings, reward] to the strangers" (MUSLIM, IBN MAAJAH and others)

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