In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
DANISH PAPER’S DEMEANING CARICATURE OF PROPHET (S)
[Shamim A Siddiqi,
It is not the first indecent outrageous behavior of the Western media. They are in the habit of doing so since the birth of printing press and media means. When its stalwarts want to express their centuries old hate against Muslims and Islam, they hurl most disgusting slur against the most beloved, the most blessed and the most perfect model character of Rasulullah (S). The secular world does it purposefully: media through painful writings, Christian zealots and orthodox Jews through irresponsible utterances and artists through drawing pictures and cartoons against the personality that only had given love and taught equality to mankind. He (S) struggled for the whole of his (S) life to deliver justice to human society. In fact, both Jews and Christians could never reconcile with the birth of Prophet Mohammad (S) in an Arab’s tribal society. They were expecting his birth as the last prophet of Allah in their fold, especially the Jews as the prophet of Bani Israel. However, Allah’s planning was quite different. He appointed His last Prophet in the dynasty of Bani Ismail, the first born son of Prophet Abraham (AS) in the Quraish of Makkah. Since then this “jealousy” and the campaign of hate is going in the family of Bani Israel and, I am sure, it would continue till doomsday.
Muslims around the world, in
stead of showing their anger in violent demonstration, burning flags and embassy
buildings should have behaved in the manners Rasulullah (S) reacted to most
treacherous and outrageous behavior of Kuffar, idolaters and Ahle Kitab [People
of Scripture] of his (S) time. Muslims claim, they follow Rasulullah (S) in
every walk of life but their behavior and reactionary attitude does not confirm
it. It does not appear that they are the Ummah of Rasulullah (S) by any
standard except in name and nomenclature and following some religious rituals
whereas his (S) entire moral conduct, his life-long struggle for Allah ‘s Deen, his mode of treatment with his die-hard
enemies, his dealings with entire team of “opposition” of his time are no where
traceable in social, economic and political behavior of Muslim Ummah. Their
wild reaction on streets of the Muslim world and else where in
Muslims must think and evaluate
the atrocities, the oppression, the misbehavior and mistreatments that the
idolaters of Makkah and that of T'aif perpetuated on Prophet Muhammad (S) and
his beloved companions continuously for two decades at least. Let us see: is there any incident where he (S) responded violently or angrily
to his adversaries as we are doing today? His (S) most “affectionate” respond to the most
violent hooliganism of T’aif was to Allah (SWT) alone imploring: O Allah! These people don’t
understand your Prophet. “O Allah! Give them the vision to understand me and
what I am presenting to them for their salvation. O Allah! Don’t leave me in
their hands” And when the angles of
mountain came and sought his (S) permission
to let him destroy the habitation altogether by crushing them in between the
two mountains, see what Rasulullah (S) said, ”No. leave them. If they do not accept the message
today, their progenies will under take it.” History is the witness that within
a few years the entire habitation of T’aif embraced Islam and became its
champion.
Muslims are neither following the dictates of the Qur’an nor the footprints of their beloved Prophet (S). Qur’an ordains them to meet such situation with patience [Sabr] and never feel distress at heart for what their adversaries were doing then and what they are conspiring to do today.: “Endure thou patiently [O Muhammad]. Thine endurance is only by the help of Allah, and be not in distress because of that which they devise”. [Chapter 16 : 127]. Our job is just to go on calling them to the fold of Allah with wisdom and fair exhortation [Verse # 125 of same Chapter]. As such, Muslims have just become “reactionaries” to what the Jewish and Christian world is hurling on them day in and day out in the name of “War on Terror”, promotion of freedom and liberal values, liberation of women with the same vengeance that was seeded in their hearts and minds centuries ago, hardened subsequently by the Crusades and augmented further with visible signs of Islam’s resurrection in the Muslim world.
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Muslims, in fact, should never pay any heed to these insane outbursts of criminal hate with the attitude: let the “street dogs” bark; we will do our job of reconstructing the Ummah and multiply our strength in science, technology, building military muscles and producing the men of trustworthy character as models for mankind. A unified Muslim command in the field of defense and foreign affairs is the only answers to demeaning utterances of West. They only bow down their head to unity, strength and united front. When Muslim Ummah would become “Bunyanun Mersus” [a solid wall], they would never dare even to lay a finger towards us. They will talk of friendship and cooperation with Muslim world. At that time, the secular governments of the West who are showing indifference toady will take care of their astray “street dogs” on their own accord and maintain friendship and cordial relation with the united Muslim world. That cherished goal, Muslims will have to achieve or perish with the growing anti-Islam waves of Western hegemonies. Let the Muslim leadership and the OIC think over it as how to get this profound mission accomplished within a foreseeable future before it becomes too late.
Shamim Siddiqi