For the Western Orientalists and their
intellectual progenies, in the post- Communist era, Islam is the quintessential
‘Other’- the evil enemy that does not share their values of ‘freedom’ and
‘liberty’. The ‘West’, in this narrative, represents all that is ‘liberal’,
‘progressive’ and ‘modern’, in that order. Correspondingly, Islam is deemed the
negation of all that ‘civilization’ and ‘culture’ stands for. Under this skewed
logic and perverted reading of history and blatant distortion of the lived
experiences of people, a political and cultural climate is created that incites
the lampooning of the sacred symbols of Islam.
Thus,anyone who abuses the religion of Islam or
vilifies the father of Muslims automatically and instantaneously becomes a
champion of free speech and liberty! Muslims who oppose such characterizations
and resist these representations would be branded intolerant and worse. In
short, anti-Islam hate speech and the vilification of Holy Prophet (sa) would
be mere expressions of freedom of speech and intellectual liberty and those who
oppose such elements are projected the real trouble-makers! [Inset: A protest march in Cairo against the recent anti-Islam Film].
In a special speech
on September 17, 2012, the Messenger of Allah and Khalifa of Islam Hadhrat Munir
Ahmad Azim Sahib (atba) of Mauritius took note of the disturbingly, deviant
social trends in the western world which incites the vilification of the noble
character of the Holy Prophet (sa). The Khalifatullah (atba) took serious note
of these contemporary trends where Muslims and their sacred symbols are treated
as “doormats...to
rub their dirty feet...” and warned the anti-Islam elements and hate-mongers
against what they are sowing.
Read the Extracts from the
Speech:
And if Allah were to punish people for what they do, He would
not leave upon the earth any creature; but He grants them respite until an
appointed term. And when their time comes, then Allah has all His servants ever
under (His) sight. (Fatir 35: 46)
My
dear brothers and sisters, what we see nowadays is that Islam is ever the
target of many evils. Everything is being done to belie the religion of Islam;
the religion of peace and submission to one God. If on one hand the Muslims
themselves are not portraying our religion as it should be represented, on the
other hand we find many haters of Islam and of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
assassinating the character of our faith and beloved Holy Chief and Prophet,
such a prophet (pbuh) who actually took religion to the heights of morality,
decency, freedom, piety and submission to the sole God of man.
When
he came as prophet of Allah for all mankind, the ignorant and evil people of
his time used to uphold him in disgust and used to calumniate him in many ways.
We find that with time, the hate agenda of the anti-Islam detractors have not
been lessened; indeed it has multiplied and even though the new people of this
era never knew our beloved Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), but they kept his
sullied memory alive till they portray Muslims as innocent while our master as
a “bastard” (God forbid), as highly sexual man, servant and husband, as an
adulterer, as a homosexual (If he is a lover of women, then how can he become a
homosexual?), as a killer, as a paedophile, and the list goes on and on
throughout the centuries.
If
we call ourselves Muslims with dignity today is only because of the extensive
sacrifices which our noble prophet and master Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) has made
to free man from ignorance, indecency and idolatry. We can never be worthy of
such a noble prophet whom Allah Himself has called “the
perfect man, the perfect model for mankind, the best of mankind, the Seal of
all prophets, the mercy for all mankind”.
Our
heart and soul is torn apart each time the name of Allah, Islam and our beloved
prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) are sullied by so-called pious men, who believe
that they are sinless and have the permit to go beyond the limits of decency to
calumniate the most beloved servant and messenger of God Almighty.
We
are not truly Muslims if we do not hurt when the body of Islam is axed by
extremist Jews, Christians and even Muslims who carry on with their hate agenda
to portray Islam and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as a “bloody” Islam and a “bloody”
Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh).
I
remind the Muslim World that all men of God came as a blessing of the creation
of Muhammad (pbuh), the Beloved of Allah, and all messengers, prophets and
reformers came to defend his honour come what may. This is also true for the
Promised Messiah of the past era Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) who came as a
Champion of Islam and Defender of Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh). His love for Islam
and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) surpassed all other love interests of the world he
may have had. He was foremost a soldier of Islam, and prayers to God and the
pen were his Sword. But he was not dumb! He also defended the honour of Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh) with his tongue, and whenever the detractors and haters of
Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) used to come in front of him, after have been duly
informed of their hate propaganda against his beloved master Hazrat Muhammad
(pbuh) he used to boycott those hate-mongers and kept away from them and even
refused to bid them Salam (the greetings of peace).
Whenever
the attacks were on him, he took great patience, but whenever his master Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh) was attacked, he used to pounce on the enemies like a true Lion of God!
Bear in
mind Oh Muslims that Allah has now send a new Defender of Hazrat Muhammad
(pbuh) for this era. Weak as I am, I am not perfect like my master (pbuh), but I
come in the name of Allah and in the name of that Holy Man (pbuh)
who revolutionised the world with the unity of God, with peace, with morality
and attachment to the Divine Commandments, through whom Allah perfected His
religion, ISLAM, which is verily the true religion of every prophet of Allah
since the dawn of time.
Anti-Islam
Film in the USA
For
the last few months, a hate inciting one-hour film on Allah, the Divine
Revelations, Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), the wives of the Holy Prophet Muhammad
(pbuh) and Islam in general has been filmed, and a 14-minute trailer of the
film was uploaded on the Google-owned free video upload website “Youtube” by a
man using the nickname “Sam Bacile”. This man was later traced as a being an
Egyptian-born Coptic Christian living in California and a previously convicted
fraud by the name of Nakoula Basseley
Nakoula. In association with such Christian Groups and people like Media
for Christ, Pastor Terry Jones, Steve Klein and Porn Director Alan Roberts,
this Nakoula guy has produced such a dirty film on Islam that has outdo any
other of their evil acts, for example, like the burning of the Holy Quran,
drawing wretched cartoons on the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) etc.
Tell
me O my brothers and sisters, what evil designs and implementation of those
plans have we not seen against our peaceful religion and beloved Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh). If a section of the world do not share the same faith as
Muslims, then they should stay mum and do not offend Islam and the Muslims, for
ISLAM itself preaches tolerance for all religions, and that there is no
compulsion in religion. Everybody is free to practice his faith but one should
not offend his brother’s faith to such an extent that in return he reviles your
religion!
If there are
extremists in Islam, there are also extremists of all sorts among the Jews,
Christians and people of other faith. In what house there is no toilet?
In every house or building there are many toilets. What I mean is that if there
is terrorism in Islam, there is similar kind of terrorism in the other faiths
and cultures. Is Islam and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to blame for the extremism
of a section of the Muslims? These religions are putting their head together to
finish Islam, but let me tell you all, Oh people, try as you may, you can never
finish Islam. Bear in mind that God Almighty is not in a hurry to punish. Go on
and accumulate your sins for verily the time is coming when your consequences
shall be grievous (very serious). I had already issued a warning and duel of prayer to Pastor
Terry Jones for his threatening to burn the copies of the Holy Quran,
and he verily put his word into practice and burnt the Quran and this in turn
incited more Christians to burn the Quran!
The world
shall soon see his pitiable end and there is no escaping that.
And the world shall see the consequences of all the people behind the drawing
of the dirty cartoons on the noble prophet of Islam (pbuh), and that of all
parties which are associated with the making of this new dirty film on the life
and mission of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) entitled “The innocence of
Muslims” and “The innocence of Bin Laden”.
‘Free Speech’ in the
age of “Youtube”
There
is also the comment of Youtube in the aftermath of the outbreak of this
anti-Islam propaganda. Youtube refuses to remove the dirty film because
according to its guidelines, and I quote: “We encourage
free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view.
But we do not permit hate speech...” If
tolerating such hateful views and opinions and a clearly challenge to Islam
about defiling its teachings and following a “bastard” as they term it, is not
“hateful”, then what is? There is definitely a great difference between freedom
of speech and expression and these anti-Islam propagandas and film which
definitely belongs to the hateful speech of hate-mongers.
I do not condemn the
presence of Youtube on the internet,
because through Youtube many religious works, that is, videos of many religious
faiths are being uploaded online free of cost. But that does not mean that the
media has to tolerate such propaganda against a peaceful religion (that is,
Islam).
The liberty of the
Media has gone way too far and the “rights” of man in expression of his opinion
is way too liberal. There must be respect of religion
and respect of privacy of people.
The media, way too often, manipulates
people’s privacy and hides and spies on people and publishes such indecent or
personal photos which really belong to the private lives of those persons.
One local example are the photos of the lifeless body of Michaela Hart on the
newspaper, and recently on the international front there is the publication of
the topless pictures of the wife of Prince William of the United Kingdom. Respect of the life
and honour of people and religion have disappeared in this era.
What we
truly see is that the world as a whole has become a pre-Islamic ignorant Arabia
wherein the need of a Messenger of Allah is felt on a daily basis.
And Allah has sent His Messenger to warn all those ignorant and hateful people
who only follow their evil desires and want to eradicate the presence of Islam
from the surface of the world. But this shall never happen. And I tell you;
Islam will go on progressing from success to success and Insha-Allah, the Muslims shall realise the quandary of their
situation and shall come together as one so that nobody in this world can ever
rip Islam apart! If the Muslims do not realise the seriousness of the situation
at hand, then it is us who shall be the losers. But I tell you, the victory of
Islam shall be lived again and the day shall come when the glory of Islam (True
Islam) shall be re-established.
During the golden days
of the victory of Islam centuries ago, the Muslims went from victory to victory
because of their unity and faith in Allah. Slowly the world has caught with
them and they forgot the true purpose of their existence and through minor
disputes went apart until the breach between them became so great that it has
now become difficult to them to come together.
But the whole body of Islam shall have no victory until every true Muslim (not
those in name only!) join forces and come together under the divine leadership
which Allah has chosen for them today. The Khalifatullah is among you,
therefore come forward as true soldiers of Islam, bearing not swords in your
sheaths but faith, trust and prayers to Allah. If we are powerless, then bear
in mind that Allah is All-powerful.
The
West consists mostly of Christians and also Jews, but that does not give them
the license to throw dirt on the core faith of the Muslims. Do they take Muslims as a doormat, to be
every present for people to rub their dirty feet on it? No! Never! Muslims
shall not tolerate such behaviour and blasphemy against their faith.
But
oh my brothers and sisters, not all
Christians and Jews are responsible for the dismantling of the Islamic image
and honour. There
are many who want to live in harmony and to live together in peace. Our Jihad
is against the evil from among these people, not all of them. Our Jihad lies in supplications to Allah,
for it is verily Allah who shall mete out justice for us, but we must pray to
Allah and we must be one body; one united body. It is only when the Muslims
reunite and forget about all the petty differences, that Islam can prosper.
Islam is ever whole, but it is the people who are divided.
Therefore
do not defy
Allah in His laws about the sending of His messengers in the time of need,
for, he shall, like we say in Creole: “li
pou mange la poussière” (literally “he shall eat dust”, meaning that:
he shall see to his end consequences!).
Soon very
soon now, Oh people! The evil of the evil-doers shall be to no avail to them.
Pitiable shall be their condition after the striking of the divine punishment
of God Almighty on them. Let the promoters of peace of every faith
continue to strive for peace and let the Muslims be one and hold solid faith in
our All-Powerful God, but verily Allah may retard a punishment but He shall
strike when the detractors, haters and enemies of Islam least expect it!
Oh
Allah, come to the rescue of the Muslims and the honour of Your beloved Holy
Messenger Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), his family, companions and Islam as a whole.
We plead with You Oh Allah, through your Might and All-Power to destroy the
infidels who are promoters of hate and who encourage anti-Islam propaganda and
who day and night strive to portray Islam as a religion of terrorism and Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh) as a liar, a fabricator, an adulterer, paedophile, terrorist
and promoter of hate. Oh Allah save the innocence and honour of Your beloved
Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) and the innocence of the Muslims and
re-establish for us our rights and power for the foundation of a new world,
devoid of violence, hate and anti-Islam influences. Ameen, Summa Ameen.