IN
THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
THE
[Shamim
A Siddiqi,
INTRODUCTION: It was a human tragedy that by the middle of sixth
century AC [After Christ], it had lost all the Divine Guidance. Both Torah and
Engel were nowhere traceable in their original from and shape. There was no
peace, no human rights, especially for the womenfolk, anywhere in the world,
including
THE
HOW HE (S) FULFILLED HIS
i. To get his (S) mission fulfilled, Rasulullah (S) needed two things.
1. The Guidance that came from Allah (SWT) in the shape of the Qur'an. 2. A
team of dedicated and committed workers [out of reverence, we call them Sahabah]
that Rasulullah (S) gradually had to build himself through his Dawah efforts in
ones and twos.
ii. Those who responded to his call of Dawah Ilallah, he (S) educated
them, trimmed their character and transformed them into trustworthy characters
on the basis of Iman in Allah and His Prophet (S), accountability in Akhirah,
the concept of Amanah, love for Jannah and fear of Hellfire. Struggling hard
for 13 years in Makkah, he built a team of 124 workers [Sahabah] in Makkah and
through the magnificent Dawah efforts of Musaa'b b Umair ®, he (S) got 63 from
the tribe of Aus and 173 from Khazraj [Ibne Hisham Vol. I]. This was the total
strength that he (S) put up in the Battle of Badr and prayed to Allah that if
Your promised help does not come now, You will not be worshipped, "La
Tabud".
iii. Rasulullah (S) challenged the authority of idolaters and condemned
their idols right from the outset. The Batil was not prepared at all to accept
this condemnation and hence trial and tribulations grew side by side with the
process of Dawah Ilallah. It helped in building the trustworthy character in
the leadership of the Islamic Jamaah and in its workers.
iv. The society of Makkah was infested with all kinds of human problems:
no peace anywhere except in and around the Haram, lopsided economy mixed with
poverty all around, no human rights, no rule of law, only seventeen persons
were literate, no sense of justice except tribal rituals and hegemonies.
Rasulullah (S), though contemplating about these issues in the cave of Hera as
how to get out of this mess, He (S) undertook none of these precarious problems
of the Makkan society when he (S) was assigned the responsibility of
Prophethood. He (S) concentrated wholly and solely to correct the man, the
individual men and women, who constitute the society. If the man is reformed
and a team of such rejuvenated brothers and sisters is available, the fate of
the society could be revived easily as Rasulullah (S) did in his lifetime. If
you permit me to say, they were the "willing horses" to establish the
Deen of Allah on self, on their families and the society at large, sacrificing
everything for its sake.
v. When such a team was available, Hijrah took place. Hijrah was nothing
but the process of consolidation of the scattered numerical strength of Muslims
at Madinah. It was so important at that time that Hijrah became the criterion
of Iman and Kufr. Many Verses of Surah Al-Anfal, Al-Nisa and many Ahadith
confirm it.
vi. The idolaters could not tolerate this situation of concentration of Haqq
at Madinah. It was now the HQ of the Islamic Movement. The idolaters of Makkah
attacked Madinah time and again. Battles of Badr, Uhud and Trenches took place
during the first five years of Hijrah. But the Movement went on accumulating
strength, the team went on growing till Makkah was conquered in the eight year
of Hijrah and the Deen of Allah was dominant in the Arabian Peninsula within
the next two years.
vii. This was the process of Rasulullah (S) to get the Deen of Allah
established. I have described it in the briefest possible way. It pinpoints his
priorities and the strategy to accomplish the mission assigned to him. The same
was mentioned by Imam Malik ® in his adage: " The fate of the later part
of this Ummah cannot be revived save and except through what helped in building
and shaping it at its very outset". It refers nothing but to the lifelong
efforts of Rasulullah (S) to accomplish his mission to get the Deen of Allah
established in the body politic of the day.
viii. If today we are desirous to struggle for the Deen of Allah and revive
the fate of Muslim Ummah, anywhere in the world, we have no choice but to
follow the same process in its minutest details. Means can be changed but not
the process and the priorities, from beginning to the end. Allah's Prophet (S)
has already earmarked both the priorities and the process of Iqamatuddeen.
There is no room for deviation. The Islamic Movements that try to reach the end
through cut short methods could not succeed and they will never be as without building
the requisite team and creating an urge in the masses for the Deen of Allah,
history of the first century of Hijrah cannot repeat itself. This should be the
most eloquent strategy of the Islamic Movements of the world.
CONCLUSION: Human society at the threshold of the twenty first
century has no ideology to seek redress from its accumulated turmoil. It has
become unbalanced and is fast reaching to the other end of the pendulum. Islam
that could serve the humanity in an accomplished way and keep its growth in
moderation is nowhere traceable as a political identity in the form of a model
modern society in any part of the world. All the three Abrahamic faiths have
neglected their creed one way or the other. Jews and Christians have nothing to
offer as they were in the sixth century AC. The Muslims do possess the ideology
for the suffering humanity to attain solace but it is lying buried in the
Qur'an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (S). Muslims could not transform it
into a modern social and political reality.
It is now the responsibility of the Muslim
leadership, the Islamic Movements of the world and the Muslim masses to build
an Islamic society, an Islamic state and an Islamic social order based on
justice and fair play on the lines demonstrated by Rasulullah (S) in his
lifetime and briefly depicted as above. The life-pattern of Rasulullah (S) is
to be followed meticulously, leaving the devastating socio-economic problems of
the Ummah in the background and carrying out the struggle for Iqamatuddeen in the
forefront with extraordinary resources that this Ummah could muster. Struggling
this way for a decade or so will revive the fate of the Ummah and along with it
the fate of the suffering humanity in its wake.
May Allah give Tawfeeq to Muslim
leadership and give the requisite courage to the Islamic Movements of the world
and its stalwarts to work intelligently and diligently to accomplish the
mission or Rasulullah (S) for the sake of Muslim masses, the oppressed and the
deprived humanity at large!
Shamim
A Siddiqi
Dated
October 5, 2000