Sometimes, the Servant of Allaah wishes there was no crises between Ali and Muawiya. But this will still not have prevented the emergence of the Mu’tazilite, the Shia’, the Sabais, the Khawaarij, the Assaasin, the Mongols, the Turks and, then, the emergence of Umar bn Abdul Azeez, Salaudeen Ayyubi, Hassan al Bana, Maududi, Sayyid Qutub etc, etc.
The tragic and, therefore, painful disunity, sectarian/pandemic conflicts, shattered image and obnoxious hopelessness of the Ummah are, indeed, good reasons for necessary anger especially when you come face to face with enthusiastic youths and you see disastrous cleavages and endemic cerebral feudalism actively being displayed with utter hatred among the future hopes of the Ummah.
One gets necessarily angry at the simplistic, true-but-false solutions that the various professional Muslim scholars and leaders have proffered to further fan the helium-hot burning ember of disunity.
One gets necessarily angry when Muslim youths openly subscribe to brigandage as the Jihadic solution to our problem. Your heart will almost stop if you try to interrogate this madness because Jihad is truly the solution.
Your brain will almost pour out of your skull when you hear a return to the ways of the Salaf as solution and behold, the speaker is a staff or student or civil servant or military officer all serving a nation created, protected and sustained for ease of economic exploitation by Kuffar and satanist open enemies of Allaah.
You battle with your soul when you hear a return to the Khilafah as the solution to all our problems and the speaker hopes to cooperate with and form alliances with the existing kufr structure!
Our necessary anger comes directly from the contradictions that have soaked, nay, drowned and overwhelmed all the correct solutions and the arguments, disagreement and hatred that follow blind commitment to the different points of view propagated by narrow minded virtual illiterate and programmed Shuyuk across the world.
One is genuinely angry that no one thinks of strategic demolition and dismantling of the kufr structure from within. No one assumes the position of Musa in the palace of Firaun. But everyone wants to be admitted and welcomed into the palace and transformed into a prince! No one wants to make the necessary mistake that will push you out of the palace of Firaun to become a refugee in Madyan, to change status and return to Egypt to pull down the odious and satanic kingdom.
You are genuinely angry that everyone wants to enjoy the trappings of power, luxury and pleasure of the palace of Firaun because it rightfully belonged to Yusuff. But no one wants to step down into a well and then become a slave and go to prison before entering the palace as a hero, a minister and the emperor.
Everyone wants to enjoy the wife of the Aziz and indeed all the entrapping Egyptian women and remain a slave in the comfort zone of the court of the Aziz and expect the Aziz and the husbands of the snaring women to embrace, hug and honour him for defiling their wives.
We are angry because we assume the Jews are poor students of history like us and that they must have forgotten Khaybar and the complete dislocation, degrading and subjugation they suffered. We expect the Christians to have forgotten the routing of Rome and conquest of and recapitulation of Jerusalem, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Yemen and Spain among others. We expect them to forget their loss of Europe and their defeat by Salaudeen Ayyubi. We expect Iranians to forget the conquest of the Persian Empire up to Yemen and Bahrain. We expect the Indians to forget one thousand five hundred years of Islamic reign in India. We expect all the historically significant people of the world to just trust the peaceful Muslims and allow them to peacefully conquer the world again without setting agenda of non-Islam curriculum and divisive aqeedah to keep us permanently subjugated and degraded as we turn every day into Qiyamah and promote ourselves each as Maalik Yaumi Deen and send everyone to hell as a kafir even if he prays and believes.
We must, however, tame our necessary anger through the admonition enshrined in the following Quranic verses (Q3V133-136(:
“And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for The Muttaqun (the righteous).
“Who spend (in the cause of Allah) during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people – and Allah loves the doers of good.
“And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves (by transgression), remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins – and who can forgive sins except Allah? – and (who) do not persist in what they have done while they know.
“Those – their reward is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which rivers flow (in Paradise), wherein they will abide eternally; and excellent is the reward of the (righteous) workers.”
I ask Allah to give us the requisite Taqwah.
• Professor Taofiq Abdul Azeez is the Chief Imam, University of Abuja Muslim Community.
