THE IDEAL MUSLIM AND IDEAL MUSLIMAH
Alhamdulillah, different brothers define in their way that
who is an ideal Muslim. Those are the qualifications of a
"routine" or a "traditional" Muslim whereas the
need is that of an Ideal Muslim and for that we need extra efforts to
find out who are they, where they are found, what they constitute, how they can
be built, how they live, act and behave, and how they would look like as
living human beings in the context of the modern world.
* The Ideal Muslim
- He is a twenty four servant [Abd] of his Master, leading a conscious
life that his “Salah, sacrifices, life and death all are for his Lord”,
seeking help only for “Rabbunnas” [The Sustainer of humans] and constantly
feeling accountable to Him for all his actions and deeds on earth.
* He always tries to seek the pleasure of his Master, obeys His
commands to the maximum possible extent and keeps away from all that He
has prohibited not to go nearby it
- ‘Whenever his Lord said unto him: “Surrender”, he said: Lo! I have
surrendered to the Lord of the cosmos” [Ref: Verse # 131 of Al-Baqarah]
* He always sustains the vision as how to get the world
streamline for Truth and bring it under the control of its Creator
and Sustainer.
* That Ideal Muslim would always be thinking as how
to manage his life for the prolong struggle against Batil forces
who are occupying the abode of man “forcefully and wrongly” and filling
the earth with all kinds of torture, corruption, confusion, oppression, exploitation,
fraudulent practices, filth and wrongful usurpations?
* That Ideal Muslim is the most obedient servant of
Allah, maneuvering always as how to get the Deen of Allah introduced,
spread and establish His authority ultimately on self, family and the society
in which he pulsates;
* That ideal Muslim would always champion the cause of the poor, the
needy, the incapacitated and the have-nots through the prescribed
self-sustained welfare system of Islam with justice to all at equal
footings;
* That Ideal Muslim will always fight for human rights at all
levels and constantly struggle to deliver Justice [Adl and Qist] to all
and sundry;
* Thus, his whole life will be a living embodiment of total fight
against Batil and to continue that fight ceaselessly, he would require a lifelong
companion to give him comfort in life, bear and rear the
new generation to continue this struggle for ages to come till
the Batil and the untruth is rooted out from human society altogether and
Haq is established in its place as ordained by Allah in Verse # 18 of Chapter #
21, Al-Ambiyah
-- “Nay, but We hurl the truth against falsehood [Batil], and it
crushes/breaks the latter’s head. And lo! It vanishes or withers away”.
* The Muslim society must be constantly busy and immensely
pre-occupied in creating, producing and sustaining that ideal trustworthy
character in its sons and daughters in transforming them into
Ideal Muslim and Ideal Muslimah as its prime obligation on earth and
making them complimentary and supplementary to each other.
* That “Ideal Muslimah” will then emerge as the prime
need of the aforesaid “Ideal Muslim” to produce the ideological
"fighters" ceaselessly for the dominance of Haq over Batil as
ordained by Allah in Verse # 18 of Surah Al-Ambiyah (21) as quoted above.
* These ideal Muslims and Muslimah through their
determined and sustained joint and concerted efforts will fill the earth with
peace, justice, compassion and harmony and will inhabit their next
world, the “Jannah” after death as the reward of the sacrifices that
they both would render for the whole of their life in the way of Allah to
attain His pleasure.
* Muslim society, our fathers and mothers and the Muslim leadership
would have to produce and culture a generation like that towards the
resurrection of the fate of Muslim Ummah as the prime most obligations of
Muslims on this earth.
In my humble way, I appeal the Muslim leadership to rise to the
occasion, feel the onerous responsibility that is lying on their shoulders,
accept this most sacred challenge of time and put tremendous efforts in
producing the requisite generation of Ideal Muslims and Muslimah. The
Muslim Institutions of the USA and that of the Muslim world at large must
undertake this task forthwith as their life-long mission to accomplish.
Let Muslims resolve to produce the requisite team of Ideal Muslims
and Muslimah as early as possible. If they resolve today it would take a
generation or so to bridge the gap towards resurrection.
June 12, 2007