The world of Islam today bear witness to the essential truthfulness and fulfillment of those grim forewarnings. Under the ideological dominance of 'Godlessness' or hedonistic individualism, the social elites in the Muslim world are playing lip-service to sublime spiritual values; they are enamoured of Satanic temptations at amusement avenues and the economics of entertainment opportunities is driving the shifts in national policies. Hence, the Westernization process seems to grip almost all walks of everyday life in the Muslim nations in recent times. In his Friday Sermon of 11 November 2022~16 Rabi’ul Aakhir 1444 AH, Imam- Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam International Hazrat Muhyiuddin Al Khalifatullah Munir A. Azim (aba) of Mauritius points to the pitfalls of this process for the community and society at large.
Read the Friday Sermon Below:
The Westernization of the Ummah
By the grace of Almighty Allah, I continue my sermon
on last week’s explanation of the Hadith wherein our Holy Prophet Hazrat
Muhammad (pbuh) addressed the emigrants in Medina and said: “There are five things with which you will
be tested, and I seek refuge with Allah lest you live to see them: Immorality
never appears among a people to such an extent that they commit it openly, but
plagues and diseases that were never known among the predecessors will spread
among them. They do not cheat in weights and measures but they will be stricken
with famine, severe calamity and the oppression of their rulers. They do not
withhold the Zakah of their wealth, but rain will be withheld from the sky, and
were it not for the animals, no rain would fall on them. They do not break
their covenant with Allah and His Messenger, but Allah will enable their
enemies to overpower them and take some of what is in their hands. Unless their
leaders rule according to the Book of Allah and seek all good from that which
Allah has revealed, Allah will cause them to fight one another.’” (Ibn
Majah)
The West has since a very long time now taken Islam as
a scapegoat [whereby they put lots of blames on Islam and says that Islam is
responsible for all the evils in today’s society] and used Muslims to suit
their needs of the Hour [i.e. all that they desire of this temporal world in
our times]. They use the Muslims in such a way that they may state that Islam
is like this, Islam is like that [i.e. in a bad light] and this throwing dirt
on the pure religion of Allah. The presence of Islam itself makes them shiver
with fear lest Islam dominates the world once more, but Insha-Allah,
that which they fear will come but not in the negative way they view Islam, and
this so-called damnation. While they view Islam as damnation, this beautiful
religion is actually their salvation [and will lead the pure-hearted to
Paradise] but they know it not yet [they are still ignorant of this truth as
Islamophobia has overtaken their mind with fear].
The blindfold which has blocked their view has also
blocked their understanding of the truth. The peace of Islam shall overtake
them. The time of the Islam Spring shall bring a new day in the lives of the
pure souls in this world. This is not to be confused with the Arab Spring
wherein the Arab people revolted against their autocratic governments and in
the process got the so-called help from the West to overcome their oppressive
leaders while the West has plunged their society in another smaller version of
their own deviated world, a society which has deviated from the Straight Path.
So, they want the Muslims to stop following Islam and to follow the customs of
the West whereby they can live a liberated life, without restrictions and fear
of divine punishments like them; there is no doubt that such deviations from
the path of Allah and upholding the modern tendencies of the West will bring
about the Divine Wrath and Punishment.
Like I told you last week, the USA wants to capsize
the Arab World for the majority of the Arabs are Muslims. They want to finish
Islam little by little [like droplets of poison]. All the kinds of strategies
which they use to weaken such Muslim countries like Palestine, this is because
they fear that Islam will gain the upper hand – will rule in supremacy – in the
world.
The Islam Spring is the time when Islam will triumph, Insha-Allah,
not with armaments but with the pure revelations of God Almighty and the
obedience of the true believers to the Messengers of Allah of their time and
bringing to life the teachings of the Holy Quran in their everyday lives. Trust
in this advent is of capital importance as Islam is the Living Religion meant
to remain for all times [not just in this world, but in the hereafter as well].
Today, Islam is attacked from everywhere. It is the
most misunderstood religion, yet with the concerted efforts of many true and
sincere volunteers of this Ummah [be them in Turkey, Palestine and the other
Muslim countries, as well as Muslims in the non-Islamic countries], many people
have joined the ranks of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) for the final victory
of Islam. Alhamdulillah.
But like I told you, Islam should not be thought and
considered as the West. It is neither oriental nor occidental. It is the true
Way of Life for all the people of the world, irrespective of where they
actually live in this world. The entire world is the property of Allah. Neither
the U.S.A, nor Russia or any other country for that matter can ever claim to
own it as they are themselves mere pawns in the Hands of Allah. But while Allah
is their Lord, He has also given them freewill to pave their way either to true
success in both the worlds or to dig their own grave of destruction.
Today non-Muslims, especially self-made politicians
without any knowledge of true politics are spreading terror in the lives of
Muslims. They are trying to create such confusion in today’s generation of
Muslims to attract them to a modernization and westernization of Islam. They
plan to make today’s new generation to accept the new codes of life, in the way
family units are perceived nowadays, even if it means that a man is getting
married to another man and adopting or clinically seeking to beget a child so
that they may be parents. Such disobedience to God Almighty’s commands, whether
found in the Old Testament, New Testament and the Holy Quran as well as the
other sacred books, is bound to backfire on the society in one way or the
other. We have read and heard about the destruction of the disobedience nations
such as Sodom and Gomorrah. Prophet Lot (as) were not harsh to them, but they
were harsh to their own selves.
Being Muslims does not mean that we start a mass
killing of the homosexuals, or pansexuals or transgenders, or any other sexual
identity which is not according to God’s Will and Commandment. It means
delivering to them the message of truth, of purity and salvation and to make
them reason – not with their lust and carnal desires, but with true reasoning
of what is really permissible or not for them. While these people are humans
and cannot be coerced physically to adopt the way of Allah, but nonetheless,
this does not mean that we accept all that the media is trying to impose on
everyone’s minds, especially the small children about what family life and
family units consist of. There should be a demarcation line between what is
right and what is wrong and it is the duty of today’s Muslim parents to teach
their children this at an early age as this – being regularised and normalised
in school curriculum nowadays – will confuse the new generation who will think
that all this is normal whereas it is not.
As per the Islamic perspective, the children should be
well equipped today to face those difficult questions and situations in
society, not by being rude but by being true Muslims. And these fundamental
teachings should be given by the parents as the teachers will be forced by
school curriculum to teach their children such aspects of today’s society which
are not essentially Islamic or even as per the religious standards of any other
religion. All faiths at their origins were true, but due to differences of
opinions and interpolations of the words of God, these faiths lost their
bearings until Islam arose and brought forward the Holy Quran as the ultimate
guidance for all mankind.
So, the spiritual education of the children is of
capital importance today as the society we are living in is deeply stuck in
immorality. All societies have been westernized, even the Arab countries.
Muslims are being Muslims in name only. The vast majority of them are atheists,
or just non-practicing Muslims.
Like in the Holy Quran, Allah says: 'They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts.' (Al-Fath, 48: 12)
Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported Allah’s Messenger (pbuh)
as saying: “You would tread the same path as was trodden by those before you
inch by inch and step by step so much so that if they had entered into the hole
of the lizard, you would follow them in this also. We said: ‘Allah’s Messenger,
do you mean Jews and Christians (by your words) “those before you”? He said: ‘Who
else (than those two religious groups)?’” (Bukhari, Muslim)
I stop here for now. Insha-Allah, I will
continue on the same subject next week. The ways of Allah are indeed great. He
brings those who seek His light from darkness unto light, and as for the
evil-doers, He gives them enough time to repent and reform before the
punishment overtakes them. Insha-Allah, Ameen.