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The COndition of the Ummah

The Condition of the Ummah

There will always remain goodness in the Muslim Ummah and there will always remain a small number of Muslims who forbid evil and enjoin the good, with knowledge, wisdom and good teachings.

But, at certain stages of the Ummah, we will face weakness and humiliation, that which we are facing right now in the world. The general situation that the Muslim Ummah is in at the moment in time, is of humiliation, degradation, ignorance, sins, poverty, injustice, occupation of our lands, open corruption, Muslim rulers not ruling by Allaah’s law, backwardness, nationalism, lacking behind in worldly knowledge – science, medicine, technology etc.

If we Muslims wish this all to be changed, to that which is the opposite and desire victory, glory and honour, then we Muslims in general, must change ourselves and become upright, adhering to our religion, the religion of the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam and his Companions radhiAllaahu’anhum, being patient and steadfast, learning and acting upon evidence, making

Dua to Allaah alone and direct all worship to him alone and striving hard to fight the shaytaan within us and around us and the temptations, fearing Allaah until death – then we will see Allaah will change the situation and the condition that we are in.

“Verily, Allaah will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allaah)” [al-Ra’d 13:11]

Changing ourselves, by returning to the Islam of the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam and his Companions radhiAllaahu’anhum. Changing our way of life, our life style, our way of thinking, mentality, our perception of life to that of the Qur’aan and the authentic Sunnah as understood by the Companions and the trustworthy, reliable Scholars of the Sunnah of the past and present.

Constantly, being in the process of learning, acting, advising others with knowledge, wisdom and manners. While being balanced, not neglecting our role in this world to work, to provide for family, being a good husband/wife, father/mother, son/daughter, etc.

We find today, in our time, there are many different calls to the method of change. Some call to – Khilafah, ruling by the law of Allaah by the Governments, Rulers and Kings (yet they do not establish the laws of Allaah on themselves nor their family), others call to – the overthrowing of bad Muslim rulers by way of coup and assassination. For others, – method of change is Jihaad, yet we don’t have the necessary means and power, we have to buy weapons from Kuffaar nor do we have an overall leader (Khalifah) to direct us. But defencesive Jihaad will always remain until the last day, others call for political change, yet no social change have they made to themselves, others call to – unity no matter what Aqeedah or manhaj you are upon, as long as you are a Muslim, others call to – modernising Islam and compromising to secular system, others call to – mysticism, innovating in religion and isolating themselves from the world in the name of spirituality improvements.

Yet others declare Muslims to be Kuffaar due to sins and permitting terrorism, killings and suicide bombings of civilian non-Muslims and Muslims in the process.

All these and other methods for change are futile and false and will not bring about any honour or victory for Muslims. These issues of Jihaad, politics, khilafah, unity, takfeer etc are all part of Islaam, but there are conditions and requirements from the Qur’aan and the Sunnah and the Scholarly opinions that needs to be met before it can be materialised. But that which will make a change and is guaranted for us is; the fundamental method of change Allaah has told us in the Quraan; “Verily, Allaah will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allaah)”

So this is the method of change, that we must traverse upon, “Verily, Allaah will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state (of goodness) themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allaah)”

October 11, 2009 - Posted by Abu-Tayeb Khairdeen | ummah | change, islam, jihaad, khilafah, takfeer, ummah, unity