In The Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the
Merciful
IN THE MIDST OF EID
REJOICING
[Shamim A Siddiqi,
Alhamdulillah, the Ummah celebrated the Eid with all solemnity throughout
the Muslim world on
Unfortunately,
there are millions and millions Muslims around the world who were suffering at
the same time. We cannot forget them and shouldn't during the midst of Eid
rejoicing. They are the integral part of Ummah and are our body and soul. They
are scattered all over the surface of the globe. They constitute the
overwhelming majority of the Ummah. Let us acknowledge their sad and miserable
plight at this occasion as who they are?
* Those
suffering millions who very often have nothing to eat and sleep empty stomach
with hungry children around them while their “unconscious” affluent neighbors
pass their night tossing on spring beds with belly full. No body cares to
replenish blood on their cheeks and fill their belly that Allah and His Prophet
(S) had made it incumbent upon them to take care of these deprived brothers and
sisters with no exception.
* Those
millions of families who have no shelter, no roof on their head and they are
passing their days in scorching heat and nights in shivering cold with
tattering cloths on their skeleton body whereas the oil-rich nations and people
of means “snore”, “twist and turn” in beautiful parlor and dreamy bed rooms
sitting on their wealth with no sense or any urgency to rehabilitate the
economy of the poor, the needy and the have-nots of this Ummah. They are
unmindful of the fact that they will be “stigmatized” with their wealth on the
Day of Judgment with its burning fire. [Al-Tawbah]
*.Those
freedom fighters whose only fault is this that their land has been occupied by
the tyrants, oppressors and big superpowers or their henchmen and they are now
pronounced as “insurgents”, “terrorists”, “fundamentalists”, “Jihadists” and
what not. They are being denied their very existence and are killed every now
and then on different please and vague allegations. They are spread over in
* How a
Muslim can rejoice when the other “part” of his body is bleeding fast and
suffering with acute pain and the Muslim leadership around the
world is sitting "idle" with hand crossed except with a
few "exceptions" here and there and doing practically
"nothing" to establish a political entity of Islam as a system
of life anywhere on the surface of the earth.
* While
different parts of the Muslim world are being ravaged by willful military
attacks, heavy air bombardment, artillery barrages, devastating mosques and
minarets and killing the innocent Muslims in thousands by “puppet” regimes in
collaboration with the “outsiders”, making the political stability in the
region a “farce” to justify their perpetual presence in the region to serve the
“greater interest of Israel and prepare the ground for the inevitable
Armageddon, how the Muslims can rejoice their Eid except just thanking Allah
for His Tawfeeq to fast only. How can we
rejoice when our lands are not “free”; when they are occupied by foreign forces
of our adversaries in collaboration with “home-puppets”; when our cultural life
is being poisoned by liberal values and our educational institutions are
targeted to be remodeled as secular and cut off from the teachings of the
Qur'an; and when the ruling coteries of the Muslim world have "sold"
themselves to the mighty power of the time just on “threat” and “intimidation.”
How coward they are!
* When
the entire Muslim world is in turmoil, restless, “occupied” one way or the
other and is agitating day in and day out to get rid of its prolong pains,
sufferings and profusely bleeding condition, Muslim Ummah cannot celebrate Eid
rejoicing, feel happy and contented. It would be quite unnatural. While the
“house” of Ummah is at fire and is choking, its blood artery has been cut, its
natural resources are being robbed and its purity is being polluted by foreign
adulteration, it cannot rejoice its Eid meaningfully. That day of total rejoicing is still
far away when the Ummah will enjoy its freedom, have full control over its
resources, elect its own “Amir” through
a well established democratic process, have its own Shura
system and enforce its Deen in all the four corners of its domain. That
would be the real day of rejoice of our Eid and thankfulness to Allah (SAT).
That day of rejoice is inevitable if the Ummah resurrects itself as the
“Ummatun waheda”, acts, lives and behaves like a Mumin. Let the Ummah and it
leadership struggle for it wholeheartedly with devotion and dedication.
Shamim A Siddiqi
November 15, 2004