Piracy at the
high seas
All praise and adoration belongs to
ALLAH and may the peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammed .
I hope that we will depart, once and
for all from the style of something aching and paining and agonizing Muslims,
than they go to the mosque, to hear a talk about a ritual or about a dress code
or about something that is really. Not what is agonizing them in their hearts
and occupying their minds. So this is a step forward and the reason is we
consider that the scope of Islam goes beyond the issue of rituals or identity
or declarations. The scope of Islam includes life and one of the very central
core issues of Islam, is justice. So as a Muslim, you cannot, you should not,
escape the fact that it is your duty to deal with injustice whenever it happens
and wherever it might be.
If there is a violation of justice
by Muslims or by non Muslims, close or far, a Muslim person he or she, cannot
consider this politics or this is economy. Injustice is a reason for having
religion, Allah in chapter Al-Hadid [57:25] says:
We have already sent Our messengers
with clear evidences and sent down with them the Scripture and the balance that
the people may maintain [their affairs] in justice. And We sent down iron,
wherein is great military might and benefits for the people, and so that Allah
may make evident those who support Him and His messengers unseen. Indeed, Allah
is Powerful and Exalted in Might.
Sahih International
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
We have verily sent Our messengers,
the angels, to prophets, with clear signs, with the definitive proofs, and We
revealed with them the Scripture and the Balance, justice, so that mankind may
uphold justice. And We sent down iron, We caused it to be extracted from
mineral ores, wherein is great might, with which one may wage battle, and
[many] uses for mankind, and so that God may know, a knowledge of direct vision
(li-ya?lama?Ll?hu is a supplement to li-yaq?ma?l-n?su, ?so that mankind may
uphold?) those who help Him, by helping [to uphold] His religion through [the
use of] instruments of war made of metal and otherwise, and His messengers
through the Unseen (bi?l-ghaybi: a circumstantial qualifier referring to the
[suffixed pronoun] h??, ?Him?, of yansuruhu, ?[who] aid Him?), that is to say,
while He [God] is not seen by them in this world. Ibn ?Abb?s said: ?They help
Him even though they do not see Him? (yansur?nahu wa-l? yubsir?nahu). Assuredly
God is Strong, Mighty, without any need of being helped, but such [help]
benefits those who proffer it.
We have sent down the proofs and the
messengers and the scale of balance, all of these, so that people can live
their life according to justice & wherever there is justice, there is a
manifestation of the ????? of Islam. As Ibn Al Qaim (one of the imminent
scholar of Islam) said, where there is justice there is ?????
which concludes that if there is no justice, there is no ????? no matter
what the banner is, or what the title says, so because it is an issue of
major injustice. It automatically becomes an Islamic religious issue for us,
the group of British Muslims.
Other groups have also a reason to
consider this their issue, but the point I am emphasising is that for Muslims
in particular. This is a religious issue as far as we are concerned. Otherwise
we will be reducing the religion to something that is not vibrating with
life and is not affecting the lives of human beings and we are lead to so
that people can establish justice and equity and we should never be confused about
that.
Because I am sure that certain times
in the past, people say the Islamic centre is talking politics, this is
not politics, we are talking Quran and Quran abhors injustice and considers it,
incompatible with being a Muslim. So once there is a manifestation of
injustice, we are trigger to formulate a stand or to articulate a statement or
to take certain steps to correct it. And even if we cannot do any of that, at
least in our hearts, we should abhor it. This is what our religion dictates
upon us.
The first step to deal with
injustice is to understand it. If you don’t understand the issue
yourself, you will not be able to form a stand that will be fulfilling your
conscience as a Muslim person. So we have to understand. If we don’t understand
how others will define the issue. They will say what the issue is not us and we
will find ourselves sacked into their definitions. They framed the
issue for us and we just play inside that frame. This is something that ought
not to happen. Because simply our frames are formed by us according to the
spirit and the teaching of the Quran and the model of the conduct of prophet
Muhammad (??? ???? ???? ????). So we have to understand the issue and the
issue should be clear.
About 4 years ago a blockade was
imposed on Gaza, because the people of Gaza elected what others consider a bad
government. I will not discuss a bad government or good government. This is
their business & really not the business of anybody else. But because
of that, an illegal blockade has been imposed on those people.
The second thing, is a collective
punishment which is against all religions and all international laws, have been
inflicting the civilians, the children, the innocent people of Gaza because of
that blockade. In all civilized legal systems, collective punishment is illegal
and should not happen. It is against the wisdom of Allah who create it life and
it should not be this way.
Thirdly, there was a military attack
on Gaza that demolish everything. This stands now, up to this moment I am
speaking. It is the only mass destruction that have not been seriously remedied
it. Even in a steps, we have Katrina, we remedied it. We have Tsunami, good
effort to correct the damage of the Tsunami. We have the oil spill,
everybody is running to contain the oil spill. We have Gaza nobody dares to
say, it must be remedied up to this moment and this is unique.
We Muslims have to understand that,
because when they frame this issue for us, they will not frame it like that.
But we frame it like that. This is the only mass destruction that no serious
steps have been taken to reconstruct. So the people are still besieged and
suffering because of the blockade.
They say we don’t want let materials
for reconstruction to enter Gaza because it can be used to make bombs. Such
outrageous and ridiculous statement passes. Because any material can be
used to make bombs, matches, needles, pins, concrete, fertilizer. So what is
left, they are saying we make those people starve to death or to surrender
under that framing material that can be used to make weapon to be used by
terrorists.
The continuity of the suffering
doesn’t seem to be bothering the official world a lot. But it bothered some
decent human beings. So those decent human beings got together and said we
cannot sit idle like that. Let us take food, medicine and made ship houses. No
matter what the consequences are. There were several trials, the Flotilla was
the last one.
500 activists who are civilians, all
of them, one of them is a Holocaust survivor, two of them are Christian bishops
and Muslims, Jews, Christians, old and young, man and women. In other words a
sample of humanity. This is not a group of religion. This is a sample of
civilized humanity, decided to do what a wise human beings should do. So
they take on sea, in peace, to go to offer the help. They said we cannot live
with clear conscience with this tragedy going on.
In the middle of the night and in
international water, in high sea they were attacked by special forces. Those
are the commanders and the helicopters and guns. More than ten were killed.
More than fifty were wounded and rest of them were detained, deported,
interrogated, insulted. Then, their majesty the government of Israel
decided to release them in group after group. We don’t know really the real
number, but this is very important in framing.
You are celebrating that you release
people that you shouldn’t have arrested them at the first place but the
world swallow this false logic. It is very humiliating, if I captured me
and said congratulation we are going to release you, very merciful nation
indeed. This is exactly what happened. Then we look into the reaction to
that event and reaction actually is more maddening than the event itself.
I want to say loud and clear that
the only government that deserves honour and respect is the Turkish government.
In my capacity I never praise or criticize governments, because I didn’t
find the government that deserve respect. But the stand of the Turkish
government, now ought to be celebrated, respected and acknowledged.
The Arab governments, I have no
comments because the language I can use is not suitable for a Friday
prayer. The most deserving of blame is the government of USA, because: 1)
they squeezed the security council to delete two important words,
condemn, it was replaced by we feel sorry for, and deleted the word independent
investigating the body, it was replaced by the word transparent investigation.
In other words, Israel should investigate the event. In other words Al kaboun
should investigate the Mafia. This is exactly what it is. We are the only
ones we can say that, so don’t underestimate the value of your voice to America
now, otherwise it will be stark.
The government of Israel came with
unbelievable statements from Mr Netanyahu, saying that, small Israel has
to deal with the hypocrisy of the world, which is actually, the world has to
put up with the arrogance and hypocrisy of Israel.
Our government collect tax from me
and you, is still financing a criminal regime that violates every western
value. It is a moment of history that is important. The west has to make a
tough choice to be the body guard of Israel or the leader of the
civilized world. They have to hear that voice from us.
Whoever is not thankful to people,
he is not thankful to Allah, Deputy Prime minister Nick Clegg has told Israel
to lift its unjustifiable and untenable blockade on the Gaza strip asap.
And Allah knows best.
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