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Third part: Aspects of war of ideas

Third part: Aspects of war of ideas

Preface

As we face our terrorist Wahabi enemy in this post-Cold War era, it becomes clear that we are now fighting World War IV. This new war, without a doubt, is a new kind of war. We can summarize its new aspects with one concrete example: the suicide bomber. He is eager to blow himself up in order to kill as many innocent people as possible from among Christians, Jews and, yes, other Muslims. Young men are usually inspired by their dreams of the future and of enjoying their lives, but the suicide bomber is motivated only by the thought of being a martyr and he is convinced that virgins are waiting for him in paradise to reward him for blowing himself up amongst “infidels”.
The suicide bomber is a human bomb walking the streets ready to destroy other people, any time and any place. It is very difficult to recognize him and to predict where and when he will strike.
With this new weapon -- the human bomb -- our terrorist Muslim enemy has neutralized the most horrifying weapon: the nuclear bomb. But it has neutralized it only in our hands of course.
This War’s aspects are:

Ingredients:
1-Weapons are T.V channels, network of internet websites, mosques , books , movies and conferences.

2- Soldiers are the Muslim scholars who have expertise in Islamic and Muslim fields and know the good tactics of that intellectual peaceful war.

3- Ammunitions are the knowledge in Islam and Muslims fields.

4 =Battle field is the Muslim mentality in the entire Muslim World in all its sects, cults and groups.

Let’s discuss it in more details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 1

 

Define soldiers, ammunitions and battle field of our war of ideas

 

 

 Soldiers and ammunitions of our war of ideas (woi)

 

Because we have the religion of Islam with us against the terrorist Jihadists, it is impossible for our scholars to be non Muslims. We need our fellow Muslims to trust in us. Ordinary Muslims and the Muslim leaders and Muslim elites and figures refuse to get any guidance in religion from non Muslim scholar even if all his evidences come from the Holy Quran. It will be a great triumph for the fanatic terrorist Jihadists if the war of ideas (woi) is waged against them by non Muslim scholars. They will easily accuse it to be a conspiracy against Islam led by the Crusaders.

Soldiers of our ( woi ) against fanatic Jihadist must be a very sincere Muslims and have profound knowledge in the different fields of Islam and Muslims and Arabic Language.

The sincere Muslim scholar devotes his life for this (woi) as a religious mission to defend his Islamic religion which is hijacked by those terrorists. He is ready to sacrifice his life in this intellectual peaceful (woi) to please Allah, the Creator of the Universe. With or without any help from others, he will continue his peaceful struggle (jihad) tolerating all the difficulties and persecution. It is a straight faithful way that has not any room for political agenda or any kind of compromise. This kind of scholars is not very welcomed by policy makers, but those scholars have the full sincere commitment to handle this (woi) and have the expertise in wining it. Moreover, in spite of being helpless and persecuted, they are admired and trusted by Muslims who know them, even among some fanatic circles.

Among those sincere Muslim scholars are the Quranists.

 

The fanatic Jihadists use their power and different access and tools against the sincere Muslim scholars and issuing hundreds of fatwas and accusations against them. It has become sign of failure because those fanatics ignore to refute the hard evidences of the sincere Muslim scholars - or the Quranists -using only false accusations and persecution. Using violence against ideas helps the victimized side who has ideas. Actually, the peaceful persecuted Quranist Muslim scholars who are waging (woi) are helped by those terrorist trends because the campaign of attacking the Quranists and persecuting and victimizing them give the Quranists publicity and respect. It also increases their number because it makes people curious to read about Quranists and their Islamic literature. As a matter of fact, most of the new Quranists used to be fanatics, and then they have been undeceived by the Quranist writings.

The only problem the Quranists have is support and protection.

By the American support, supervision and protection, the Quranist Muslim scholars can defeat and dismantle the fanatic terrorist trends including Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

 

 Understanding the ammunitions of war of ideas

 

War of ideas is all about human. The victims are humans, the criminals are humans and also the rescuer noble heroes are humans. This human aspects includes also ammunitions which means the deep and huge knowledge of Muslims and their different response to their religion of Islam and their human made religions and human made history in the past and their current different situations.

This knowledge has two main fields: Islam and Arabic Language.

 

Understanding the Arabic Language

 

It is the oldest alive language in our time. For more than 25 centuries, the Arabic Language has gone through dangerous development since the seventh century as it has become the language of the Quran and the intellectual pronounced field of the religion of Islam and Muslim civilization and Muslim traditions. It still until now the religious language of most of one billion and half billion of the Muslim World.

During Muslim mighty empires Arabic Language was the first language for the middle aged civilization where the main text books and scriptures from Europe, Iran, Middle East India and China were translated into Arabic. Other languages were influenced by Arabic while Arabic Language itself was enriched by other civilizations and other languages.   Latin language- which is younger than Arabic- has disappeared leaving behind different language in Italy, Spain, France and Portuguese.

Because of Islam and its long time, Arabic Language has many serious developments inside it. These developments have many aspects. As it is shown in different Arabic dictionaries in Middle Ages, Arabic Language was widely enlarged in its vocabularies; many of them were ignored or produced over centuries. Inside it there are until now - different slangs and different accents beside the classic Arabic which still used in writing and reading. It is easy for any Arabic speaker to read and write in the classic Arabic Language while he talks in his daily life in his local slang. It is difficult for two Arabs from Morocco and Egypt to understand each other while talking, but it is easier for them to understand each other by classic Arabic and /or reading and writing it. This is not a big challenge for Arabic scholars in our field of (woi) because the biggest challenge is in the Arabic fields of different

terminologies.

 

Understanding the Arabic fields of terminology

Before the Quran, Arabic Language was simple reflecting the daily local life of Arab tribes in that time. Quran brought to it new terms and new expressions which are explained inside the Quranic context. Muslim civilization was built in about six centuries by different ethnics and different cultures in the time of the mighty Arabic Muslim empires, but its main language was Arabic. This widened and enlarged Arabic Languages and also created the wide Arabic different terminology. New terms were created in translating other culture traditions and philosophy and in creating new science and branches In Arabic Muslim civilizations. This has become real problem in the fields of human made religions, sects and cults of Muslims over the past centuries.

For example, the Arabic word (Sunna ) means in the Quran two meanings according to the Quranic context; the law of Allah and the way of Allah in dealing with humans. In Sunni sect (Sunna ) means generally the sayings or ( Hadeeth) that they attributed to the Prophet Mohamed two centuries and more after his death, claiming that this ( Sunna) is revelation from Allah to the Prophet Mohamed. Inside Sunni sect, the term (Sunna) means the theological philosophical groups in the Middle ages who were conservatives defying the open minded Muslim scholars like Al Mo’atazelah. Leaving those Sunni theological conservative groups, you find inside Sunni Shareeah or (Fikh ) Sunna term means the rituals that Muslim should do but without serious obligation, like to pray more the five daily prayers for the Prophet Mohamed, or to fast more days beside the month of Ramadan.

 

Samples of using Arabic fields of terminology in war of ideas

 

Muslims are three main sects; Sunni, Shiites and Sufism.  Every sect has its own terminology which is different from the classic Arabic Language and is different also from other two sects either. Moreover, all of them are different from the Quranic terminology itself. Every Muslim sect read the Quran not according to the Quranic terms but according to their own terminology to subjugate the Holly Quran to their religious purpose. So, Muslim sects in their interfaith war of ideas usually use the Quranic verses in the way that serves each sect against others.

All of them have a common distortion of the Quran in dealing with non Muslims. They mainly change the Quranic terms of (Islam) and (believe) to be exclusively for all of them describing the non Muslim to be infidel and idol worshipper.

Unfortunately, all the translations of the Quran have this common distortion, giving contradictions in the different Quranic laws in the fields of Jihad. This needs some explanations and some samples.

 

 Concept of Islam and belief

 

 Islam and believe in the Quranic terminology

Islam and belief in faith and in behavior

According to the Quranic terminology and its particular language, the word “believing” [Aaman], has two meanings in Quran along with the Arabic language; you can {believe in} or (Aamana be...) or you believe or trust others (Aamana le --);

The first one is related to faith as in this verse “the messenger believed in what was descended to him from His Lord and the believers. All believe in God, His angles, His books. His Messengers.” (2: 285) thus to ‘believe in’ means to have deeply rooted faith in your heart concerning the relationship between man and God.

People have had diversified faiths, even within the same religion or even within the same cult or school of thinking. And the Quranic confirms that people will be judged for the diversity of their faiths by God alone and only on judgment day (as found in verses  ( 2: 113 , 3: 55 , 10 : 93 , 16 : 124 , 5 : 48 , 39 : 3 , 7: 46 ).

The second meaning the relationship between people, namely believing or trusting others, implies that when someone is safe and secure people trust him. He is also called a ‘believer’ because he is trusted by the people, [Aamana laho al naas; Ma’amoun al janeb].

 This meaning is repeated in the Quranic especially in the Quranic stories concerning the Prophets. For example in the story of Noah, the arrogant ones told him “Shall we trust you [An’omeno Laka] while it is the meanest that follow you?” (26:111). that means how can we trust you and feel secure with you seeing that you are followed by the lowest of the people. This meaning of ‘believing’ that is trusting somebody is repeated in the story of Abraham (26 : 29 ), the story of Joseph (12 :17 ) the story of Moses (44 :21) and (23 : 47 ) , and also in the Quranic Narratives of the life of the prophet Mohammed in Medina ( 3 : 37 ). This meaning of believing is found in other subject as well.

When somebody behaves in a trust worthy manner he became safe and secure as seen from his outward behavior. According to the Quranic terminology this person is called ‘a believer’ regardless of his religion or Faith. For that matter he/she can be a Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jew or atheist, it is a private matter between the human and God, no creature has the authority to judge him. That is reserved to God alone on the Last Day.

The two meanings of the term ‘belief’ were simultaneously expressed in God’s Verse concerning the prophet Mohammed that says “He believes in God, trust ith in the believers [Y’omono bellah wa y’omeno Lel m’omeneen]” (9:61). In the Arabic language and in this Quranic verse the word [Y’omeno] means the two meanings: believe in and trust. Thus this verse shows that to believe in God is to worship him alone, and to believe in others is to trust them. To believe in God is to Acknowledge he is the one and only. The evaluation of this faith, which many people dispute, is to take place in the Judgment Day. Therefore what concerns and should only concern Humans among themselves is to live in trust, safety, security and peace.

Therefore faith in Islam is equivalent to peace among people, and in the same time being a believer means a man of God and a man of peace and trust. This is the understanding of faith in the religion of Islam.

 

What about the word [Islam] itself in Arabic Language and in the religion of Islam?

The understanding of Islam, as was the case with the word ‘believe’ in the Quran has an outward meaning concerning the dealing with people and inward meaning concerning the relationship with God .

The inward meaning of Islam is to succumb and submit to God alone, pledging allegiance and obedience to him and him alone (6:161-163).

This meaning of Islam is the same message that came with the entire prophets in all divine Messages, and in all ancient languages until it finally appeared in Arabic in the final Divine revelation of the Quran. God doesn’t accept any other religion deferent from the submission to him alone as the only God. This is the meaning of the verse (“The religion before God is Islam …”) (3:19 ) (“Whoever desires a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him and in the hereafter he will be in the rank of those who had lost”) (3:85). It talks here about his future on the Day of Judgment where God only will judge all the mankind.

Islam is submitting to God alone in any language, any time or place and in all divine messages. Alas unfortunately, in our culture Islam was transformed into an Arabic description of a definite group in a specific epoch.

God is uninterested in the titles and divisions that people choose for them,  such as Muslims, Jews, Christians and Sapiens.

For this reason God confirms in two verses that those who believe in God alone as the only God, and believe in the Day of Judgment as the Divine Day of absolute justice and maintain peace and perform righteous deeds as a prove of their belief in the last day; those are the Allies of God whether they are the followers of the Quran or the old and new testament (2:62, 5:69). These two verses confirm the other two verses (The religion before God is Islam) (Whoever desires a religion other than Islam, never will be accepted of him) (3:19 &85)

 These verses imply that he who believes in God, the last day and performs righteous deeds in this world will be considered a Muslim in the sight of God on the Last Day regardless of the title he had in this world. It is up to God alone- not to us - on the Day of Judgment – not now- to judge the faith. Any one claims this right to himself is claiming divinity upon himself.

The real meaning of the inward face of Islam is submitting to God only and succumbing to him alone with the language of hearts. It is the universal language that leaves no room for discord among people or believers, and based on this language all people will be judged on the last day. This is the inward meaning of Islam in dealing with the Almighty God; the Creator, or the inner meaning of the faith that lies inside the heart which will be judged by God alone on the Last Day.

God alone is the only One who can monitor the real feelings of the human heart in this life, and the only One who- on the Judgment Day- will tell us of our religious disputes. It’s up to every human to choose monotheism, paganism or atheism; it’s his freedom of belief and he will be responsible before God alone on the last Day. This is about Islam in dealing with God, or the inner meaning of Islam.

 Islam outwardly in dealing with people is directly related to the safety and securities expressed and practicing among people, no matter how deferent their inner believes are. God says: “O you who believe inter peace wholeheartedly” (2:208). Thus God ordered the believers to inter peace reign. We remember here that the salutation of Islam is peace “ Alsalamu alikum” , or” Peace be upon you” and that “peace” is one of God’s wholly names [Al salam]. All of this expresses the confirmation of peace in Islam and it confirms the fact that belief also means safety and security.

Peace and security in Paradise will be for the peaceful believers:

The person who expresses and demonstrates his belief in goodness in his dealings with people making them trust him, and in the same time has the real belief in God alone; this person would be deserving ‘Security’, and will be secured and protected by the Almighty God on this Horrible Day.’ or in the hereafter, as a reward of being trusted by the people and had a sincere belief in God alone in this life. This is the meaning of belief in Islam and its reward in the Last Day.

The same with he who practices ‘Islam’ in his dealings with others and being peaceful and in the same time, realizes ‘Islam’ in his relationship with God by submitting to Him his heart and his behaviors. This person would be deserving ‘peace’ in the hereafter.

 On this subject God says :(” It’s those who believe and confuse not their beliefs with wrong, for them there is a security, and they are truly guided “) (6:82). That means that those who believe in God and in the same time people trust them because they do not wrong them, will be enjoying safety and security as a reward on the last day. And their reward is nothing but the outcome of their deeds, God describes them in paradise, in the hereafter enjoying peace. Their greeting upon entering paradise (“Enter ye here in peace and security “) (15:46). And God says about paradise that (“for them will be a home of peace In the presence of their lord”) (6:127).

Thus peace and security in dealing with others plus submission to believe in the One God, and obedience to him alone leads to peace and security in paradise. Such is the Islamic formula as presented by the verses of Quranic.

On the other hand, transgression and injustices inflicted on others and on god leads only to Hill.

 

 Concept of Blasphemy and Polytheism in belief according to the Holly Qur’an

 

(Kufr) : Blasphemy and (Shirk ) Polytheism comes synonymously as mentioned in the Qur’an. (9:1,2,17/) ( 40:42)

 In Arabic Language, Kufr (Blasphemy) means coverage, while Kafarah means covered, similarly the word “ Almaghfar “ is derived from Ghafarah which means is a shield that cover the face in times of war, in the same context the English word “ Cover “ carries the same meaning. In the context of the Qur’an the word “ Kuffar “ was used to describe farmers who cover the seeds with soil and water to grow.( 57:20)

When God created the human, (Al Fitrah ) or the natural instinct in the belief on the oneness of Allah, the Creator, the Supreme Being is recognized that there is no helper, protector or intercessor other than Him.

 

The inheritance of social environment and traditional customs ( Cover) this pure belief in Allah alone and diverts the human in their false beliefs that attributing partners and or helpers and intercessors will bring them closer in their belief besides God in false doctrines, lies and untruths, this is Blasphemy in thinking that they are worshipping the One and Only true God. This is also gross Polytheism.

The human diversion to Polytheism and Blasphemy diminishes the faith and beauty of God by devotions their allegiance to others and stones. This confirms what God revealed in the Qur’an that most people believed not in God except that they attribute partners to Him and they are described as Mushrikeen( idol worshippers ) ( polytheism ).( 12:106, 40:12)

God almighty, cursed them because of their faithless in God (4:46) and which will not benefit them on the Day of Judgment.( 32:29).

Some people believe that Kufr is Atheism which is a complete denial in the existence of God and Shirk is to associate partners with God almighty. Blasphemy differs than Polytheism.

In addition to the above, God mentioned Pharaoh in many instances in the Qur’an as model of gross Kufr and Atheism to humanity by claiming and declaring that he is the supreme lord of the Egyptians and that he denied the existence of God.79:23,24/ 28:38, 40:36,37

Pharaoh was heavily immersed in his powerful kingdom and was deceived by his priests, soldiers and his ancestry which made him feel that he is invincible against everything including his belief in God Almighty. It was only when he was overpowered by the things he coveted and there was not anyone to help him that he finally decided to go back to the embodied instinct and declared his belief in God. (10:90).

To day’s Muslims are no better in their beliefs and deeds because they do not heed the example as mentioned in the Qur’an.

The most hardened Atheists will not change the natural instinct of belief except when faced with calamities and misfortunes, then he submits himself to his Lord for the removal of adversities, but as soon as he is free from calamities, he reverts back to being an Atheist, however as his time comes closer to death, he is in constant agony, screaming for help, that is not forthcoming. In the above examples Shirk and Unbelief means both injustice and abuse. God described Polytheism as a grievous iniquity. 13:31

To create injustice to the Creator by associating other deities besides Him, who is the real Creator, sustainer and protector of all and everything that exists in this world is the essence of belief and dealing with the One and the Only God.

 

Concept of Blasphemy and Polytheism in behavior according to the Holly Qur’an:

 

In dealing with unjust people who kill, oppress and subjugate innocent people by away their lawful rights of free belief and thinking, these people are the Mushrikeen, and Kafireen by their actions; we are free from the actions of such people because we do not know what is in their hearts and belief.

The Qur’an confirms that people will not be instantly judged until the Day of Judgment.

 ( 2:113, 3:55, 10:93, 16:124, 5:48, 39:3, 7,46 )

 

 Shirk and Kufr have two meanings. In faith means those who associate partners to God. In behavior mean oppression and aggression. In the Qur’an God has described Kufr and Shirk as injustices. This has been repeated over hundred times in the Qur’an, and has connected Kufr and Shirk as aggression as mentioned in numerous cases in Al-Qur’an, which is forbidden by God Almighty. When people rights are taken away and their properties confiscated and then killed, this constitutes valid oppression and aggression on innocent people.   It is easy for us to judge according to people’s actions and deeds. Here we recognize the true Muslim who are peaceful and makes people feel safe in dealing with them. In the same time we – according to the Quran- leave the faith to Allah alone to judge all of us in the Day of Judgment. It is unlimited freedom of religion for all human to be responsible before Allah in that Day. But to establish peace on earth, People themselves are responsible to judge and to punish those criminals who kill and persecute others especially when using the name of Allah in their criminal crimes.

 All peaceful people are Muslims by their actions, regardless of their beliefs whether are Muslims, Christians, children of Israel, or Agnostics. By their peaceful conduct, we can peacefully incorporate them within the family by intermarried between ourselves.

 All terrorists, dictators and oppressors whether they are leaders or common criminals are infidels and idol worshippers according to their crimes, especially when they commit their crimes in the name of Allah.. It is not permissible for marriage with these people.

 

Concept of (Taghut)

 

In the current movements of Wahhabism and especially Muslim Brothers mottoes the Arabic term (Taghut) means the dictator regimes that do not apply the Sunni Shareeah. Their Jihad is to take over these regimes to apply the Sunni Shareeah. By brainwashing people, when mentioning (Taghut) people understand it as Mubarak regime in Egypt and other military regimes in Muslim World who are against the political agenda of Muslim Brothers and against the Wahhabi Sunni Shareeah.

According to the Quran, the real religious truth is found in the religion of God (Allah ) through the sacred Books, while the falsehood in religion that established human made religions comes from the Satan and his revelation through his followers. This falsehood usually corrupts the real religion of Allah and distorts its real Jurisprudence and its high values of peace, tolerance, justice freedom of religion and forgiveness. This religious falsehood alienated the real religion spreading terrorism religious persecution and religious wars, killing innocent people in the name of Allah, the Creator.

In the Quranic terminology, this satanic religious falsehood means (Taghut).

 

The term (Taghut) is mentioned eight times in the Quran indicating its aspects:

1- Religion of Allah is based on freedom in religion, so people have a free choice between the religion of Allah and the religion of Satan, (Taghut): (002.256)(  There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly distinct from error; therefore, whoever disbelieves in the  ( Taghut ) and believes in Allah he indeed has laid hold on the firmest handle, which shall not break off, and Allah is Hearing, Knowing. )

2- Religion of Allah contradicts totally the religion of Satan, or (Taghut): (002.257)(  Allah is the guardian of those who believe. He brings them out of the darkness into the light; and (as to) those who disbelieve, their guardians is (Taghut ) who takes them out of the light into the darkness; they are the inmates of the fire, in it they shall abide.)

3- All the Holy messages from Allah call people to worship Allah alone and to abandon worshipping the Satan, Shaitan or the (Taghut). This is mentioned in two verses:

(016.036)(And certainly We raised in every nation a messenger saying: Serve Allah and shun the (Taghut))

 ( 039.017 ) (And (as for) those who keep off from the worship of the (Taghut)  and turn to Allah, they shall have good news, therefore give good news to My servants. )

4 – The Arabic and the real name of (Egypt ) is ( Misr). Originally, the term (Egypt ) or ( Copt ) meant the ancient human made religion which is the oldest version of (Taghut).  This ancient version of (Taghut) spread out of its homeland carrying its religious term ( Gept). So, ( Misr ) was known in Europe by its religion as (Egypt) not (Misr). This (Gept ) and ( Taghut ) had influenced the Children of Israel while living in (Misr). It had distorted the real religion of Allah revealed to the prophets of the Children of Israel. They carried this distortion after exodus. Some of them in the time of the Prophet Mohamed supported the enemies of the Quran, the final message from Allah. This is mentioned in the Quran in this verse ( 004.051 ) (  Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the Book has been given? They believe in (Gept)  and or (Taghut) and say of those who disbelieve: These are better guided in the path than those who believe.)

Read also : ( 004.060)  (Have you not seen those who assert that they believe in what has been revealed to you and what was revealed before you? They desire to summon one another to the judgment of the or (Taghut), though they were commanded to deny him, and the Shaitan desires to lead them astray into a remote error. ). Also: (005: 60).

5- In the time of the Prophet Mohamed, the supporters of ( Taghut ) attacked the peaceful Muslims. Those peaceful Muslims were so passive that they were not willing to defend themselves. WE can understand this situation from these verses:

 (004.075 :   And what reason have you that you should not fight in the way of Allah and of the weak among the men and the women and the children, (of) those who say: Our Lord! cause us to go forth from this town, whose people are oppressors, and give us from Thee a guardian and give us from Thee a helper.)

            (004.076 )  (  Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of the  (Taghut) . Fight therefore against the allies of the Shaitan; surely the strategy of the Shaitan is weak). It is clear that (Taghut ) belongs to Shaitan or Satan.

According to the Quran, Shaitan or Satan is the founder of worshipping sacred tombs and the source of false revelation attributed to Allah. (5 : 90  ) ( 6 : 112 - 116 ).

 

Concept of dividing the world into two camps 

 

In manifest violation of Islam and its Quranic Jurisprudence in Jihad, the early Arab Muslims after the death of the Prophet Mohamed attacked, occupied many countries and established their mighty Arabic ( Muslim ) empire, dividing the world in that time into two camps, camp of Islam and camp of Christianity. (camp of peace and camp of war: Dar al Salam and Dar al Harb) has become since then a famous concept that ruled the relationship between Muslims and Europe. The Saudi Wahhabi Salafi Sunni has revived this religious tradition in our recent time. Accordingly, they consider Islam is theirs, only for them against the other side which is destined for war in this world and hellfire in the Day after.

This concept of dividing the world into two camps contradicts the very Islamic fact that religion of Islam is to all humans, addressing all of them as one camp for establishing peace and justice for all.

Quran has its unique way in addressing all humans from the time of the Prophet Mohamed until the end of this world.

Sometimes Allah calls humans as (Children of Adam) to confirm the fact that all of them are brothers and sisters from one father and one mother. This expression (Children of Adam) comes in the context of concern and honor.

Allah concern us as children of Adam when telling us the story of the test of our father Adam and our mother Eve, then giving us advices generated from this test.

We can see this in these verses:

(007.011)   : And certainly We created you, then We fashioned you, then We said to the angels: Prostrate to Adam. So they did prostrate except Iblis; he was not of those who prostrated. 007.012   He said: What hindered you so that you did not prostrate when I commanded you? He said: I am better than he: Thou hast created me of fire, while him Thou didst create of dust. 007.013 : He said: Then get forth from this (state), for it does not befit you to behave proudly therein. Go forth, therefore, surely you are of the abject ones. 007.014 He said: Respite me until the day when they are raised up  007.015 : He said: Surely you are of the respited ones. 007.016  He said: Now, because Thou hast sent me astray, verily I shall lurk in ambush for them on Thy Right Path.  007.017  Then I will certainly come to them from before them and from behind them, and from their right-hand side and from their left-hand side; and Thou shalt not find most of them thankful.007.018
 He said: Get out of this (state), despised, driven away; whoever of them will follow you, I will certainly fill hell with you all. 007.019   And (We said): O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the garden; so eat from where you desire, but do not go near this tree, for then you will be of the unjust. 007.020 : Then began Satan to whisper suggestions to them, bringing openly before their minds all their shame that was hidden from them (before): he said: "Your Lord only forbade you this tree, lest ye should become angels or such beings as live forever."   007.021  And he swore to them both: Most surely I am a sincere adviser to you.

007.022 Then he caused them to fall by deceit; so when they tasted of the tree, their evil inclinations became manifest to them, and they both began to cover themselves with the leaves of the garden; and their Lord called out to them: Did I not forbid you both from that tree and say to you that the Shaitan is your open enemy? 007.023 They said: Our Lord! We have been unjust to ourselves, and if Thou forgive us not, and have (not) mercy on us, we shall certainly be of the losers. 007.024  He said: Get forth, some of you, the enemies of others, and there is for you in the earth an abode and a provision for a time. 007.025: He (also) said: Therein shall you live, and therein shall you die, and from it shall you be raised.).

After the story of our father Adam, Allah is addressing us, all of as (Children of Adam) saying: ( 007.026  O children of Adam! We have indeed sent down to you clothing to cover your shame, and (clothing) for beauty and clothing that guards (against evil), that is the best. This is of the signs of Allah that they may be mindful. 007.027O children of Adam! let not the Shaitan cause you to fall into affliction as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them both their clothing that he might show them their evil inclinations, he surely sees you, he as well as his tribe , from whence you cannot see them; surely We have made the Shaitans to be the allies of those who do not believe. 007.028  And when they commit an indecency they say: We found our fathers doing this, and Allah has enjoined it on us. Say: Surely Allah does not enjoin indecency; do you say against Allah what you do not know? 007.029   Say: My Lord has enjoined justice, and set upright your faces at every time of prayer and call on Him, being sincere to Him in obedience; as He brought you forth in the beginning, so shall you also return. 007.030  A part has He guided aright and (as for another) part, error is justly their due, surely they took the Shaitans for guardians beside Allah, and they think that they are followers of the right. 007.031  O Children of Adam! wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: But waste not by excess, for Allah loves not the wasters.  007.035  O children of Adam! if there come to you messengers from among you relating to you My verses , then whoever shall guard (against evil) and act aright-- they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve. 007.036  And (as for) those who reject Our verses and turn away from them haughtily-- these are the inmates of the fire they shall abide in it. )

We find also honoring the children of Adam in this verse: ( 017.070   And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We have given them of the good things, and We have made them to excel by an appropriate excellence over most of those whom We have created. )

Allah also is addressing mankind, all the peoples in many verses in different subjects.

 

 Call for maintain righteousness:                                                                        


( 022.001 : O mankind! guard against (the punishment from) your Lord; surely the violence of the hour is a grievous thing.) ( 004.001 O mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and from them twain hath spread abroad a multitude of men and women. ) ( 031.033:  O mankind! do your duty to your Lord, and fear (the coming of) a Day when no father can avail aught for his son, nor a son avail aught for his father. Verily, the promise of Allah is true: let not then this present life deceive you, nor let the chief Deceiver ( Satan) deceive you about Allah.)

 Worshipping Allah and pilgrimage to His Sacred Mosque in Mecca:

( 002.021  : O men! serve your Lord Who created you and those before you so that you may guard (against evil). (003.096 : The first House (of worship) appointed for men was that at Bakka: Full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings:  003.097  : In it are Signs Manifest; (for example), the Station of Abraham; whoever enters it attains security; Pilgrimage thereto is a duty men owe to Allah,- those who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith, Allah stands not in need of any of His creatures.). 

The final message (Quran) is for all mankind:

 (004.170   O Mankind! The Messenger hath come to you in truth from Allah: believe in him: It is best for you. But if ye reject Faith, to Allah belong all things in the heavens and on earth: And Allah is All-knowing, All-wise. ). (007.158  Say: "O men! I am sent unto you all, as the Messenger of Allah, to whom belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth: there is no god but He: it is He That giveth both life and death. So believe in Allah and His Messenger, the Unlettered Prophet, who believeth in Allah and His words: follow him that (so) ye may be guided.")  (034.028 . And We have not sent you but to all the men as a bearer of good news and as a warner, but most men do not know. )( 010.057   O mankind! there hath come to you a direction from your Lord and a healing for the (diseases) in your hearts,- and for those who believe, a guidance and a Mercy. )( 010.108   Say: O mankind!  indeed there has come to you the truth from your Lord, therefore whoever goes aright, he goes aright only for the good of his own soul, and whoever goes astray, he goes astray only to the detriment of it, and I am not a custodian over you. )

Justice for all: (057.025   We sent aforetime our messengers with Clear Signs and sent down with them the Book and the Balance (of Right and Wrong), that men may stand forth in justice.)

 Peace for all:(049.013  : O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). )
 Dealing inside the one camp

From the previous verse: ( 049.013 )(: O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things), we understand that all humans are equal in spite of different colures, different tongues and all differences, and the best among them is not the most powerful or the strongest or the most beautiful, but the most righteous. Righteousness is uphold high values, doing the best things in this life to please Allah, refrain from doing the bad thing to save your soul from the retribution in the Day of Judgment. Allah is the only one who knows the real righteous among us, and He is only who will judge us according to our belief and our behavior. So, it is prohibited to claim righteousness: (053.032 :  Those who avoid great sins and shameful deeds, only (falling into) small faults,- verily thy Lord is ample in forgiveness. He knows you well when He brings you out of the earth, And when ye are hidden in your mothers' wombs. Therefore ascribe not purity unto yourselves. He knows best who it is that maintain righteousness.).

It is also prohibited to make it trade for the vanity of this short life misusing the verses of the Holy Book of Allah: (  002.174  : Those who conceal Allah's revelations in the Book, and purchase for them a miserable profit,- they swallow into themselves naught but Fire; Allah will not address them on the Day of Resurrection. Nor purify them: Grievous will be their penalty. 002.175 : These are they who buy error for the right direction and chastisement for forgiveness; how bold they are to encounter fire.). This includes those who use the religion for their political agenda, like Muslim Brothers and other Wahhabists.

Inside the same one camp, there are people full of sins. They are not excluded from the camp as Allah gives them second chance and more chances to repent and to reform themselves in this life before the Day after. Allah says : (( 039.053 : Say: "O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah: for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. 039.054  : And return to your Lord time after time and submit to Him before there comes to you the punishment, then you shall not be helped. ).

It is clear her that repentance and forgiveness are direct relationship between any individual and Allah where no single creature has the authority to interfere in this confidential relationship. It belongs to the faith and the ritual and the innermost of belief inside any human heart.

But some sins and crimes victimize other humans. There are people who transgress and kill humans wrongly in the name of Allah and persecute others in religion. Are they are also excluded from the one human camp?

It is religious duty to fight them back when they start war attacking peaceful people. This is the first rule in military Jihad, to fight to defend not to attack others wrongly: ( 002.190  : And fight in the way of Allah with those who fight with you, and do not exceed the limits, surely Allah does not love those who exceed the limits.). It clearly means (Fight them as long they attack you, but if they stop fighting you must stop fighting them.

This is explained in the next verses : ( 002.191  : And kill them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have Turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; but fight them not at the Sacred Mosque, unless they (first) fight you there; but if they fight you, slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith. 002.192  : But if they desist, then surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. 002.193  : And fight them on until there is no more Tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who commit oppression. ) .

Moreover, Allah makes it announcement calling those transgressors to refrain their wicked transgression in order to forgive them, otherwise they will be punished as it was happened in the past.( 008.038  : Tell those who transgress the limit that if they cease (from persecution of believers) that which is past will be forgiven them; but if they persist, the punishment of those before them is already (a matter of warning for them). 008.039   And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah; but if they desist, then surely Allah sees what they do.)(  008.040  : If they refuse, be sure that Allah is your Protector - the best to protect and the best to help. ).

Fighting is a way of reform to establish real peace in the one camp. So, we are not against them as humans, we are against the transgression they make. We do not hate them but we hate the bad things they are doing. Once they refrain the problem vanished.

This one camp has various religions and many different sects and cults. Every group believes that they have the truth exclusively. There is no problem as Allah orders the unlimited religious freedom. Some zealot believers think it is their Jihad to fight those who are manifestly worshipping stones and idols excluding them from the human camp. The answer is clear in the Quran. People who are idol worshippers are two kinds: Some of them are peaceful. Then they are Muslims according to their behavior. Muslim State must treat them in the best way according to justice and best manner.  Some of them are transgressors who are attacking peaceful Muslims and persecuting them. Any Muslim is prohibited from allying himself / herself with those transgressors against his fellow Muslims. Read : 060.008 ) ( Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for (your) Faith nor drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them  ; surely Allah loves the doers of justice. (060.009)(Allah only forbids you, with regard to those who fight you for (your) Faith, and drive you out of your homes, and support (others) in driving you out, from taking them allies . , and whoever makes friends with them, these are the unjust. )

 

Even inside the real scriptures from Allah, there are some differences in minute details in ways of worshipping and what is prohibited or permissible in fields of food. ( 6 : 145 / 146) ( 3 :50 ) ( 2 : 178 & 5 :45 ) ( 7 : 163 - ) ( 22 : 34 ).

These minute differences are means to make the sincere believers from the different scriptures compete each other in doing the best for their societies and for their Lord, Allah. In talking about the final message from Allah, the Quran and the messages before it Allah said to the Prophet Mohamed: (  005.048 :  And We have revealed to you the Book with the truth, verifying what is before it of the Book and a guardian over it, therefore judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their low desires (to turn away) from the truth that has come to you; for every one of you did We appoint a law and a way, and if Allah had pleased He would have made you (all) a single people, but that He might try you in what He gave you, therefore strive with one another to hasten to virtuous deeds; to Allah is your return, of all (of you), so He will let you know that in which you differed ).

We should live in peace in our one camp, leaving our continuous religious disputes to Allah, to judge us in the Last Day. Prophet Mohamed was ordered to say it: ( 039.046 :: Say: O Allah! Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen! Thou (only) judges between Thy servants as to that wherein they differ.(.

As a matter of fact, all the humans are in one camp in this life, but in the Last Day, they will be in two different camps: Paradise or hellfire according to their faith and behavior in this life.

This is what in the real religion of Allah. But the early Muslims established their powerful empires against the teachings of the Quran, and then they justified it by fabricating their Shareeah. In this Shareeah they divide the world into two camps, their camp of believe and peace and the enemy camp of infidel and war. They twisted the Quranic term of ( Wala’a ) and ( Bara,a). It means Muslim is supposed not to ally himself with the enemy who is attacking his people or not to help those who are fighting hgis people. It is clear it talks about the situation of war only when Muslim State is under attack. But they change it to be against the other camp all the time in continuous state of war until the end of the world.

Concept of Jews in the Holy Quran:

The fanatics are using the Quranic term (Yahood) wrongly in their war of ideas.

1-To recognize real Islam, or the forgotten Islam, you have to read the Quran according to its unique Arabic language and its own terminology. The old fanatic Sunni scholars in the Middle Ages distorted the Quranic laws and terminology in their tradition. The Saudi Wahhabis have restored and revived this fanatic Sunni Sharee’a in our modern time under the name of Islam and Jihad. 

2- They did the same with the Quranic term (Yahood). In the Quran, it means the misled people among the (Children of Israel) in the time of Prophet Mohamed in the Arabian Peninsula.  They transformed this Arabic Quranic term to mean all the Jews and all the Children of Israel in all times. By doing so, they ignored many Quranic verses that talked about the good Jews and the good children of Israel. This needs more explanation.

3- Allah, the Almighty creator has divided mankind into three categories, according to their beliefs and deeds: The (best) in their righteous beliefs and deeds. They will be in the highest rank in Paradise. Then those who have done a combination of (good) and bad deeds, but they repented and reformed themselves in time before death. They will be in the second degree in Paradise. Then the worst people who kept up the (bad) deeds and false beliefs without any repentance until their death. They will be in the hell fire. ( 56 / 7: 56 &  88: 94 ).
4- The same three categories apply to those who believe in the Quran. There will be (the best, the good and the worst) according to their beliefs and deeds. (35 / 32).

5 - - The same three categories included the early Muslim around Prophet Mohamed. They were (the best, the good and the worst) according to their beliefs and deeds. (9 / 100 - ).

6 - The same three categories included the (People of the Book) in the time of Prophet Mohamed. They were (the best, the good and the worst) according to their beliefs and deeds. There are many references to admonish and to encourage them to repent during their lifetime. (5 / 65: 66)(3 / 110: 115)(5 / 153 : 162 )

7 – The worst of Muslims around Prophet Mohamed were named ( Al Monafeqoon ), or the hypocrites. There were tens of Quranic verses that exposed them.

8 –The worst of the Jews around Prophet Mohamed were named (Yahood). We understand from the Quran that they were specific tribes, who no longer exist nowadays, who have nothing to do with the Jews in our time. For example: They share with Christians the same belief in idolizing a human, making him son of God.( 9 : 30). They share with Christians the same belief in making themselves sons of  God.( 5 : 18). They allied themselves with the Christians in waging war against the peaceful Islamic state in the time of the Prophet Mohammed, and they had the support from the worst Muslims, ( Al Monafeqoon ) or the hypocrites. So, Allah ordered Muslims not to support those transgressors against their own state ( 5/ 51 : 52 )

 9- Those (bad) people among the Jews in the time before Mohammed were cursed also and described as apes and pigs, as a derogatory expression. This was said in the Quran to admonish people of the Book in the time of Mohammed. ( 7 : 166 - ) ( 2  / 65 - )( 5 / 60 -). The other (bad) people around Prophet Mohamed were described as, worse than animals ( 25 / 41 : 44 ). So it is, more or less, the same form of description.

10- While blaming the( bad) people among Muslims ( Al Monafeqoon ) or the hypocrites, and the (bad )people among the Jews ( al Yahood ) , Allah, the Almighty Creator , talked highly of the( good) and the( best) people among ( People of the Book, or : Ahl Al Ketab )( Those who seek guidance , or in Arabic: :Allazeena hadoo). For example: (3/ 199) ( 7 / 159 &  ) (32 / 23 : 25 ). Again , it is the same description.

11-, Allah, The Almighty Creator, will send all the( best) and the (good) people from all of mankind to Paradise, as they have the good correct Belief in God and in the Hereafter and they keep righteous, regardless of being Christians, Jews, Muslims or any converts.  ( 2/ 62 )  ( 5/ 69 ).

12 – These are but some references. There are more details in different fields. However, all these Quranic facts were ignored, along with the real Quranic jurisprudence and the Quranic values of peace, justice and freedom.

13 – Finally, the term Arabic Quranic (Yahood) has been misused by the fanatic Sunni in their current war of ideas against the West, the US and all the Jews.

 How to understand the Quran and the Real Islam

There are two different ways of understanding the Quran and the religion of Islam.

A - The first is to see Islam through its divine source, namely the Quran, provided that Quranic terminology should be solely understood based on Quranic explanation and definitions of the term concerned. Arabic language's rich history and vocabulary usually leaves room for different interpretations of any one particular term, yet our approach is to confine ourselves only to the Quranic explanation of the Quranic term. Therefore, this Quranic approach necessitates a thorough knowledge of the full Quranic text so that definitions of terms would be developed only after going through all the verses connected to the subject being researched, otherwise, interpretation may deviate and lacks precision.

B - The second way to understand Islam is through Muslim traditions. By definition, traditions is a human source as its contributors vary, ranging from the sayings ascribed to the Prophet Mohammed and recorded more than two centuries after his death, the "folklore" developed concerning Quranic stories with a view to proving or promoting certain emphasis, and the sayings of renown Muslim Scholars or ‘the Imams of the Muslim Jurisprudence and the other scholars’. Islam can be understood through the prism of the body of knowledge produced by these human resources, and the Quran, the divine source of the religion, is understood according to the views and explanations of any possible combination(s) of these human sources.

It’s thus clearly natural to face the product of these human sources in the form of contradicting views and opinions, each of which searches for supporting verses in the Quran, and in most cases leading to in slippages in interpretations as relevant verses would be interpreted based on terminology definitions derived from these human schools of thought, influenced by all sorts of political, cultural and historical factors, rather than from the Quranic definitions themselves as explained above.

 The difference between the two ways:

The second method is the one which is overwhelmingly followed by the fanatic Muslims of today, and their behavior is heavily influenced by its precepts. The main part of this human body of knowledge has stopped developing by the 12th century AD; therefore it is heavily influenced by the ethos and mentality of the Middle Ages, such as fundamentalism, fanaticism, holy wars and religious trials, and persecutions, which is found today in the behavior of Wahabism and fanatic Shiites.

This understanding of Islam, based on traditions that froze since the crusades, is the bases of contemporary judicial opinions (fatwa) which is responsible for conferring to Islam the image of a religion keen on terrorism, violence, contradiction and fanaticism (which is no wonder if the bases belong to the age of the crusades.) When Muslims established their mighty empires, it was natural that pure Quranic meanings would be twisted to fit political realities.

The main part of the traditions is Hadith or Sunnah, which is the saying attributed falsely to the prophet Mohamed. They invented sayings that served their purpose and attributed these to the prophet as holy texts that should be obeyed by believers as part of the religion. This is the belief of the Sunni Muslims. It is noteworthy that the Shiite Muslims followed other sayings attributed to the Prophet and his relatives and descendents, while the Sufi Muslims have followed the sayings of their holy saints.

Thus whoever views Islam through the lenses of these traditions will find nothing mixtures of Medieval culture, some full of superstitions (Sufi tradition), violence (Sunni tradition), and a combination of the two (Shiite tradition).

If, however, the first method is followed, the result would be surprising, as Islam would be discovered as a religion of unlimited religious freedom, peace, justice and forgiveness and other lofty values.

I chose the first method of understanding Islam first of all because the Quran is the only confirmed source of Islam. As indicated earlier, interpreting the Quran through its own explanations of its own terms yields totally different results.

Understanding Muslim history and traditions

Islamic or Muslim studies are so huge and so deep fields. It is too difficult to have many of scholars who have good expertise in it, but it is a necessary to find them in the war of ideas. The US has a lot of Islamic departments in its universities, but nothing of them is qualified enough to have the necessary expertise for this unique war of ideas, beside, the Saudi influence and the Wahhabi fund interfere to prevent discussing the Wahhabi dogmas, leaving the fanatics waging war of ideas against the US without any positive American reaction.

Al Azhar is the biggest and oldest university in the entire world. It is like the Vatican for all the Sunni Sufi Muslims, who are more than one billion people.  Al Azhar, three decades ago, had this expertise in knowledge. But now it has become under the leadership of two kinds of people: Ignorant sheikhs and /.or fanatic sheikhs. Reforming Al Azhar is extremely important to wage war of ideas against fanatics in order to dismantle their danger. This needs real pressure on Egyptian authorities, convincing them that it is an Islamic mission to clear the great religion of Islam.

However, the available way now is hiring the free open minded Muslim scholars who have good expertise and knowledgeable enough in Islam and Muslim history and Muslim tradition to tackle this mission.

Expertise in Islam means to understand the Holy Arabic Quran, its terminology, its jurisprudence, its way of telling stories and its high values and morals. It is more important to understand the gap and / or the contradiction between the Holy Quran and the different traditions of Muslim sects and cults.

Muslim history and civilizations is a very vast and deep field. It was written in different ways. Some old historians wrote it according to the time, recording the events day by day, year by year. It is (AL Hawly ), or the (Yearly ) way of writing history. Some wrote it according to the different subjects. They recorded the history of the dynasties, scholars in different sciences and knowledge, and local history of towns, countries and tribes. Understanding Muslim history is necessary to know the real environment in which Muslim tradition was written and how it was shaped and developed and its high level and its weakness. So, it is not only to understand the different terminologies of different Muslim traditions, but it is also necessary to understand its history to know its social, political and historical backgrounds.

Muslim tradition is extremely huge field and has a long age of about 13 centuries. But it has mainly two different kinds: Sacred and civil secular traditions.

Muslim civil secular tradition is the greatest fruits of the Muslim Arabic civilization in the dark middle ages. It had many fields of philosophy, medicine, pharmacy, geography and different field of Arabic Languages and its different fields of grammar (Nahw and Sarf and Balaghah) and fields of fine arts and poems. It had revived and developed the Greek philosophy mixing it with the Eastern Indian and Persian philosophies making them pronounced in Arabic Languages. The European Renaissance was established on translating this Arabic knowledge. Until now the human civilization still respect the Muslim scholars of this trend, like Jaber Ibn Hayyan ( Geber )  (721 - 815 ), AL Kindus (805  - 873 ), Ibn Sina (980 - 1037) and Al Bayrouny in the same century, Al Faraby ( 874 – 950 ), Ibn Al Haytham ( 965 – 1040 ), Al Razy ( 864 – 923 ) , Al Khawarzemy ( 780 – 850 ), Ibn Rushd ( 1126 – 1198 ), Al Edrisi ( 1100 – 1166 ), Al Zahrawy ( 936 – 1013 ) and Ibn Al Nafees ( 1213 – 1288 ).

This glorious trend was defeated by the local religious scholars who used to attribute their opinions to the Prophet Mohamed and / or Allah to avoid discussion and debate. This makes it sacred and establishes it as human made religion. Century after century, this fabrication prevailed and controlled Muslim mentality, alienating the secular scientific trend making Muslim World living in darkness since the 14th century while the  European Renaissance was established. Finally, the Europe Camp occupied Muslim Camp. In 18th century, the Wahhabi trend appeared reviving the most fanatic dogma in this religious sacred trend.

The real problem is in the sacred tradition of Muslims because it was attributed – falsely to the Prophet Mohamed and sometimes to Allah directly. They believe in it as a revelation from Allah. This religious trend has three human made religions or sects:  Sunna, Shiites and Sufism. The main subjects of this religious sects are (Fickh) or Shareeah, (Hadeeth) or the sayings that are ascribed to the Prophet Mohammed, (Al Seerah) or the human made history of the Prophet Mohamed, (Al Tafseer ) or their interpretation of the Quran, and ( Al Tawheed & Elm Al Kalam) or their theological ideas about Allah, His names and His aspects and characters. Inside these three main sects there are many sub sects and cults and thousands of scholars and text books written during 13 centuries.

Scholar in our war of ideas against fanatic Sunni and Shiites must be expert in this sacred tradition, because the fanatics in our time uphold it and use it in their terrorist criminal actions claiming it as a Jihad.

Understanding the map of the battle field of War of ideas

 

Let’s state briefly these facts:

1- Islam is not the Muslims: 

The religion of Islam contradicts the human made religions of most of Muslims.

If you read the Holy Arabic Quran according to its terminology, you will find Islam has the same values of the West, like freedom, justice, and equality, tolerance, beside Peace and mercy and loving humanity. The Muslim human made religions have distorted the Quranic Jurisprudence and twisted the Quranic terminology. We – as the Quranists – are preaching the real Islam in the Muslim World to make Muslims convert to the real Islam. This is the only way of reforming them from within Islam. It is also, the best way in war of war of ideas against the fanatic and terrorist Muslims.

2 – Muslims are not the same.

Muslims are hundreds of sects and cults. Let’s give some examples.

*The activist Muslims are only about one million among one billion and about half billion.

The minority among the activist Muslims has many different categories: the nationalists, the atheists, the communists and the seculars who have Western culture.

The majority of the Muslim activists are the religious leaders and scholars.

They are different types; Sunni, Shiites, Sufi and Quranists.

There are is a tough competition among them in reaching out the silent Muslim majority.

3 – beside some minorities like: Al Ebadheya, Al Mo’tazelah and the Quranists, the Muslims are generally three main sects: The Sufi, the Sunni and the Shiite Muslims.

 4: The Sufi Muslims are the biggest in numbers.

The Sufi Muslims are generally peaceful but they are thousands of different sects. Briefly they are three lines: Sufi who is Pro Sunni, Sufi who is Pro Shiite, then the minority Sufi who are extreme in the Sufi faith.

5 – The Sunni Muslims are the second in number.

They are four main schools: Al Ahnaf, Al Malekeyya, Al shafe’eyyah and Al Hanabelah.

There are many minute sects among these schools.

For example:  Al Hanabelah is the most fanatic school among the Sunni, : 

Al Hanabelah has fanatic trends, Ibn Taymeyah people are the hardest line among Al Hanabelah. However, the Wahabi sect belongs to Ibn Taymeyah, and it is the hardest cult inside Ibn Taymeya people.

The Wahabi cult has many different trends, some of them official scholars, other Wahabists are oppositions. Even the Wahabi oppositions in London are not the same. There are many disputes between the two leaders: Al Masary and Saad Al Fakeeh.

6 -Shiite Muslims are the third in numbers. Traditionally, they are three main categories: Al Ghaleyah or the extreme, Al Imameyya and Al Zaydeyya. Every one of them has different cults and schools and lines.

For example:

Al Ghaleyah Shiite has 15 cults. The powerful recent cult among them is Al Naseereyyak Al alaweyyah who rule Syria now.

Bashar Al Asad and his people belong to Naseereyyak Al alaweyyah. Their number in Syria is only about 2 millions. The Syrian Sunni used to persecute them during the past centuries. By the flag of Arabic Nationalism they control the Syrian army and Syrian State.

Al Zaydeyyah Shiite has many traditional cults, but its famous followers now live in Yemen.

Al Imameyyah Shiite: They are 24 cults.

The two most famous cults among them are Al Ithna Ashreyyah and Al Isma’eleyya.

Al Ithna Ashreyyah Shiites live mainly in Iran and in Iraq. In the beginning of the last century Al Babeyyah has separated from Al Ithna Ashreyyah, and then Al Baha’eyya has separated from Al Babeyyah.

Al Isma’eleyya Al Imameyyah established the Fatimi impire in Egypt, north Africa and Syria, and has lasted about 250 years ( 909 – 1171 ).The Fatimi Empire built Cairo and Al Azhar as the oldest university in the World.

Al Isma’eleyya has divided in 1094 into two sections: Al Nezareyyah and Al Mosta’aleya.

In about 1017 Al Dorzeyya has emerged from Al Isma’eleyya.  Al Dorzeyya is still live in Lebanon ( Waleed Jonbolat ) and in Palestine. Because of persecution Al Dorzeyya people in Palestine support Israel and have

become Israeli citizens. The Egyptian Shiites belong to Al Isma’eleyya Al Imameyyah.

 

 

 

Chapter 2

 

Define your enemy and how to deal with him

 

1-In military war, the enemy is visible and easy to be recognized. It is army against army. But in our war of ideas it is not easy to define your enemy. In military war, your enemy is the human soldiers and its military weapons and it is a must in military war to kill or capture this human enemy and destroy his weapons. But in our war of ideas, our enemy is not the human but the terrorist culture in his mind. Once he quit these terrible ideas he/ she  becomes brother and/or sister.

2- As our enemy is just ideas not people, there two kinds of this proposed enemy: the sheikh or the religious scholar who advocates these ideas, and the people who embrace these ideas and become ready to blow sacrifice their lives in order to kill innocent people.

Actually, we have here a real criminal (The Sheikh) and his follower who is victimized by this sheikh. May be it is easy to undeceive and save the victim but it is very difficult to convince his (Sheikh). Here we need help from political policy makers, if it fails the military troops and specialized agencies are needed.

 3-As our enemy is just ideas not people, it is ridicules to fight it only by military troops. It was painful tragedy in Iraq war where the American tank was unable to define its enemy, if it moves it may kill innocent people, if it stops, it may be destroyed. It is 90% war of ideas in Iraq and Muslim World. Using 90% military means failure and wasting of billions of money and thousands of lives. Using 10 % randomly and blindly it gives the same failure. More over it will give the enemy more support and more triumph and more publicity and more followers and partisans and suicide bombers.

It’s needed to have a harmony between handling war of ideas and using means of power, of   military. Generally, it is necessary to handle war of ideas under the protection of military power to deter the enemy, and /or when our war of ideas is unable to stop the fanatic leaders..

Our war of ideas could not do without military power and other tools and weapons. Having high qualified dedicated sincere Muslim scholars is not enough without power that protects and supports them. The Quranist Muslim scholars have the commitment and the knowledge and the expertise in that kind of war, but being poor and helpless gives the enemy the opportunity to persecute them and arrest them 4 times.

4-Military action should be the last option because the nature of our war of ideas belongs to political field. It has to deal mainly with states more than individuals and groups and trends. Define your enemy in this political field is so essential that save more than 90% of victory in advance. This also needs more understanding of your enemies and sorting them in order according to the danger they pose. In this regard, the US may have the Saudi Kingdom as a friend in its public policy but it has to deal with it as number one enemy in the field of war of ideas. This proves how it is must to define your enemies and how to highlight it giving it the number one priority inside the American policy making circles.

5- Understanding the map of the Muslim Arab world and the battle field of our war of ideas defines our enemies in a very different order.

Number one enemy is the Saudi regime. Number 2 is the Salafi trends. Number 3 is Muslim Brothers and their trends. Number 4 is: The Iranian regime and Hezbollah. The last is Al Qaeda because it has been exposed and encountered.

 

Knowing our enemy:

 

The Saudis

It is the source of evil since its first state (1745 – 1818).

For more details read these articles about the Saudis and their Wahhabi different organizations and movements.

Article one:

The official Saudi responsibility in September 11,

The Religious Historical Roots of September 11

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=6312

 

Introduction

Here, when you say:” it’s history”, you probably mean it’s dead, out of date, no longer belongs to our time. But in the Middle East when we talk about history it may mean it’s very much alive than usual. Middle East is the Historic core of the world, where you could not understand the current life without its historic roots. September11th, is the clash point between the two civilizations, the Western and the Historical one. It was analyzed according to the western culture; let’s try the other historical analytic way to complete the picture.The criminals of September 11 belong to the Saudi State and/or its Wahabi faith, presenting themselves as the real Muslims against the [Infidel West]. Those criminals are just the bitter fruits of 258 years old Saudi Wahabi tree. We taste the bitter fruit, but we need to understand its roots to eliminate them, otherwise the alive historic roots will continue to produce more painful poisonous fruits.

The Saudi State was established three times and was destroyed twice.

The current Saudi kingdom is the third Saudi State after destroying the previous two Saudi States.

The first Saudi State and its Wahaby faith [1745- 1818]

The first Saudi state was established by the agreement in 1745 between Ibn Abdel Wahab, the zealot Sunni scholar who revolted against the Sufi and Shiite Muslims in the 18th century, and Ibn Saud, the prince of Al Dare’iah in Najd, north of the Arabian Peninsula. Under this accord, the Saudi Prince received from Ibn Abdel Wahab the religious justification to conquer his neighbors and occupy their lands under the banner of Jihad. Creating Wahaby dogma from the most extreme of Sunni tradition, the first Saudi State used the name of Islam and Jihad to occupy most of the Arabian Peninsula and to invade and massacre Shiites and Sufi Muslims in Iraq and Syria. In response, the helpless Ottoman Empire asked the Egyptian strongman Mohammed Ali to defeat the Saudi menace. After seven years of a fierce battle, Mohammed Ali destroyed the first Saudi State and its capital in 1818.

The second Saudi State

The defeat of 1818 destroyed the first Saudi State, but also strengthened the zeal of the Wahabists.  In the Arab world, military action against an ideology only adds to public support.  The Wahabists set about helping the house of Saud to establish a second state in Najd for a short time in the last decades of the 19th century.  Even though the second Saudi state collapsed quickly under internal conflicts, Wahabism grew.  Wahabi scholars insulted other Muslim Sects, accusing them of being idolaters; the other sects were unprepared to defend themselves rhetorically from the Wahabists.  Seeing that the others lacked a strong counter-argument, hundreds of thousands of Muslims switched their support to Wahabism.

The regional and international situations helped in creating the third Saudi State. The European super powers were busy in their own problems and conflicts, while the Ottoman Empire in its last days was unable to fight the coming Saudi State. The Arab Muslim countries were under the Europeans colonists and the Arab Muslims masses were ready to help any coming Muslim movements as long it would not fight them.

Al Ikhwan built the third Saudi State for Abdel Aziz, then revolted against him

Abdel Aziz, son of Abdel Rahman [Ibn Saud], founded the third Saudi State – which exists to this day -- with the help of fanatic guerrilla soldiers known as Al Ikhwan, or “The Brothers”.  For more than 10 years the Ikhwan fought for Abdel Aziz to reestablishing the Saudi State, [1913 – 1925]. It was ultimately named the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932.  The Ikhwan, who were lawless, tough Bedouins, were steeped in Wahaby dogma, believing it to be the real forgotten Islam, to be enforced with swords and Jihad.After adding the Hejaz and the Muslim Sacred Mosques to their conquered territory, the Ikhwan wanted to continue their jihad by invading Iraq and Syria where they had committed many massacres. This was a threat to the mighty British Empire and its allies. Abdel Aziz saw this and made a strategic decision to distance himself from the Ikhwan, thereby keeping his kingdom secure by avoiding conflict with the British.

This was the first time the Saudi political authority and its religious authority were at odds. Al Ikhwan, who believed in a continuous Jihad, condemned Abdel Az6iz.  They accused him of being an accomplice of idolaters [the Egyptians] and the infidels [the British].

Abdel Aziz tried to eliminate this dissension but the Ikhwan used their Wahaby teachings to bolster their condemnation of Abdel Aziz, calling on statements made by Wahabism’s founder and the oldest imams, Ibn Taymeya and Ibn Hanbal.Abdel Aziz did not reform the Wahaby dogma to up-to-date his modern time. Abdel Aziz’s policy was to protect the state rather than reform Wahaby faith.

It was clear even in the early 1900s that Wahaby doctrine needed reforming, but the helpless Saudi scholars were incompetent at doing so. There was a peaceful attempt to reunite Abdel Aziz and his Ikhwan in Riyadh conferences in 1927 and 1928; but it failed to head off a brewing conflict.

Abdel Aziz had to fight his own brothers [Ikhwan], and defeated them in 1929. But he could not defeat their dogma, nor could he reform it. So the problem was left unsolved for decades, until the present day.  This is how it has become a danger to the Saudi State, the Muslim World and the Western World as well before and after September 11, 2001.

Abdel Aziz abandoned reformation and chose instead to protect his new state from its internal and external enemies.  Shiite Muslims stood at the borders in Iran, Iraq, and Syria and in Yemen; they also were inside the Kingdom, in the Eastern region and in Al Hejaz.

 

The results of his policy

The King’s plan was to focus on non-Shiites:  He wanted to persuade all Sufis to convert to Wahabism, especially in Egypt and India, home to the biggest oppressed Sunni and Sufi populations.  He would then use Wahaby doctrine as a religious motive to revolt against their Christian oppressor, the British Empire.

Once Abdel Aziz took control of Al Hejaz and the Sacred Mosques 1925, he had the perfect opportunity to recruit his converts and spread the Wahaby faith in Egypt and India, in particular.

By 1928 the Muslim Brotherhood [Al Ikhwan Al Muslemeen] organization was created in Egypt by Hassan El Banna and his spiritual master Rasheed Reda, who was Abdel Aziz’s agent in Egypt. From 1928 to1948, Hassan El Banna established fifty thousand branches of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout Egypt, while creating an international organization and a secret military organization. The Muslim Brotherhood partnered in fomenting the Egyptian Revolution, which changed the history of Middle East.  After the Revolution they came into conflict with Nasser, the leader of the Revolution.  Most escaped to Saudi Arabia, and waited till Sadat was in power to return to Egypt.  Sadat gave them the authority to control Egypt’s education and culture, which they used to create public and secret organizations.   Their plan was to take over Egypt, which involved a member of one of their secret organizations assassinating Sadat.  The Muslim Brotherhood produced two infamous leaders, Sheikh Omer Abdel Rahman, the blind cleric currently in a U.S. prison, and Ayman Al Zawahiri, the right hand man of Usama Bin Laden.  Another Brother was Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the September 11 attacks.

Returning to the early 20th century, Abdel Aziz found it easy to recruit Indian Muslims to his plan.  They hated the British and the majority of their fellow Indians; and they found in the Wahabism the justification to revolt and divide India into two countries.  Thus Pakistan was created as one of the greatest mistakes of the 20th century.  Pakistan, with the help of the Saudi State and its [Madaris] or Islamic schools created the Taliban, which later took over Afghanistan.

 Instead of modernizing Wahabism after his clash with his Saudi [Ikhwan], Abdel Aziz preferred to export Wahaby teachings in their original medieval form to the rest of the Muslim world; this created bloody religious turmoil from Algeria to Indonesia and from Sudan to Russia, and finally to the West and the U.S. before and after September 11.

 

 

The sons of Abdel Aziz keep the way of not reforming the Wahaby dogma
Following Abdel Aziz, his sons, King Saud, Faisal, Khaled and Fahd have maintained Wahabism in their kingdom; spurred by new oil wealth, they aspired to make their owned family-state the leader of the entire Muslim World.

Because of political and economic interests, the West -- especially the U.S. – accommodated this Saudi policy. Moreover, facilities were given to the Saudis to create Islamic Centers in the West to spread Wahaby dogma as the real religion of Islam.  This gave Wahaby the opportunity to influence and brainwash Muslim communities in the West.

Many new Islamic schools and centers were opened with Saudi money and were controlled by Wahabists.  They controlled ancient Muslim centers, schools and mosques with Saudi funding; they introduced Wahaby books and cultural resources as the “pure” Islamic teachings, publishing them in both Arabic and English.

This campaign began as early as 1970. After ten years I became an active reformist inside Sunni groups in Egypt; I was persuaded by the Saudi propaganda that America would completely convert to Islam by the 21st century.  One might argue that, upon failing to reach this grandiose goal, their response was September 11.

 Oil wealth gave the Saudis the ability to modernize the material life of their people while their religious, social and cultural life remained controlled by backward Wahaby dogma. This created a huge contradiction, exacerbated by a strategic decision by the house of Saudi to ally itself with the so- called: “infidel” Western countries instead of waging Holy War on them.

This situation has established two different kinds of Sunni Wahaby oppositions; the traditional simple Wahaby opposition of Johayman which repeated the opposition of Al Ikhwan in the time of Abdel Aziz, and the current opposition which produced Usama Ben Laden.

The movement of Johayman

State could respond was by banning and confiscating Johayman’s books and messages.

The current opposition which produced Ossama Ibn Laden?

This opposition was a part of the Saudi regime and the product of its policy in education inside the kingdom and in establishing the Wahaby movement inside and outside the Saudi State. They have made it and are punishing by it. It is easy to remember that Ossama Ibn Laden fought the Soviet Union and the communists in Afghanistan as a response to the Saudi policy and its Wahaby doctrine of Jihad. The only difference here is the Saudi State wants to limit this Jihad according to its political situation and its needs for the American and Western protection, while Ossama and his people are willing to continue in battling all the infidels as it is written in their scriptures. They have access to battle the West but Johayman had not.

The only difference between Johayman and the current Wahaby opposition

Johayman and his group were simple regular Wahaby people. They read the books of Ibn Abdel Wahab and Ibn Taymeya and believed in them. They were obsessed by the contradiction between these teachings and the Saudi policy in dealing peacefully with the West and the non- Wahaby Muslims. Johayman was not convinced by the justification of Abdel Aziz Ibn Baz; the official Wahaby religious leader of the Saudi State. On the contrary, he believed the same belief of Al Ikhwan when they revolted against Abdel Aziz, accusing him to be anti Islam for the same reason. Johayman and Al Ikhwan used the same teachings of Ibn Abdel Wahab and Ibn Taymeya against the House of the Saudi and their state. They even use these accusations in its traditional way and terminology, as they live in the same time.

It was not the same situation of the current opposition which has a high educated people; most of them were educated in the modern Western universities by the help and the support of the Saudi State, using this modern education in supporting their Wahaby faith, even against the West and the U.S it.

Many of them were graduated from the Western Universities but are against the West

The fanatics who comprise the current Wahaby cult did not become extremists because of their Western educations.  Rather, most of them belong to ancient tribes shamefully defeated by Abdel Aziz.  While studying in the West, they came to realize the extent to which the Saudi royal family suppresses their human, social and political rights. Upon returning to their homeland, they were reminded of their humiliating lower status. The Saudi family usually gives the high ranks in its administrations for its followers from certain tribes and clans, ignoring the other tribes, even if these tribes have the most qualified high professionals. Those depressed qualified intellectuals and scholars wanted to oppose the regime, but could not do so with help from the West.  So their only hope was the Wahaby faith, which offered them the platform for challenge:  That is, to destroy the Saudi state by declaring it to have no religious legitimacy.

Abdel Aziz had used the Wahaby faith only in establishing the third Saudi State. He made it as the first step, leaving the other steps for the coming generations. The current Wahaby opposition is the generation of this mission. They were taught in the West, and some of them are living in the West, but they are battling the West in different ways, including the support of Ibn Laden by money and men.It means Abdel Aziz, the founder of the current Saudi State was unable to fulfill all the demands of the Wahaby teachings, and the current oppositions, led by Ossama Ibn Laden are completing what Abdel Aziz and his sons could not do.

King Faisal, after adding Egypt to the Wahabi faith, prepared the Saudi Kingdom to assume its new leadership in Muslim World to serve the Wahaby faith.

Khaled Al Islambolly, Abdel Salam Farag, Ayman Al Zawahery, Omar Abdel Rahman, Abou Hafs, Mohammed Atta and other terrorist leaders, are samples of that Egyptian generation which have been indoctrinated the Wahabi faith between 1970’s- 1990’s, according to the new development made by the King Faisal.

Ossama bin Laden has been taught the same faith inside the new Saudi schools and universities, built by the King Faisal.

By the Egyptian blood in the War of October 1973, the oil price has become very high giving the Saudi family billions and billions while the Egyptians have gone through time of economical crises and suffering.

As the Egyptians usually say in their traditional sayings: “they bought me and paid the price from my own money”, the Saudis utilized the Egyptian blood and sacrifice in the war of October 1973 to rise the oil prices and to use the new billions in enslaving the starving intellectual and workmen Egyptians - using them for minimum wages and in hard work and humiliating terms - in educating and developing the Saudi State. Slavery has been legal in the Saudi kingdom, until it was officially abolished in November, 6, 1962. However, it is still in another different way named: “Al Kafeel”, means the Saudi citizen can bring the foreign workers and be their sponsor, and accordingly the Saudi law gives him the total authority to use them as he likes. The Egyptians and other “foreign” Muslims are the victims of this Saudi new slavery.

The Saudi fund inside Egypt has been used in deepening the Saudi influence inside the Egyptian administrations and officials, and to recruit the desperate young men to serve the Saudi Wahaby public organizations as an access to be used inside the secret terrorist organization.

This Saudi fund and the intellectual Egyptians build the new powerful Saudi stage between 1970’s and 1990’s, and this is the background of the terrorist attack of september11, 2001.

This policy made by King Faisal is still working until now, especially in the field of education in spite of the current call for reforming the Saudi education. Thousands of schools and many new universities were built by Faisal, and thousand of the Saudi students were sent to the West universities to get higher educations. But all of this progress was and still in the service of the Wahaby faith as the students were – and still - indoctrinated it as the only real Islam, even they are Shiites or Sufis.

The kingdom used to have some different ideologies and movements; communists, leftists, and Arab Nationalists and Nasserists, but King Faisal used severe persecution and the new stage of oil wealth to destroy all of these movements and ideologies, leaving the Wahaby culture control the people inside the kingdom.

Beside education, Faisal established many official agencies to disseminate the wahaby faith in Muslim World and inside the Muslim communities in the West. Among of them are the “administration of religious researches, verdicts, advocating and guidance”, the “league of Islamic World” and “the International Society for the Islamic youth.” It is clear that Faisal wanted also to replace the wahaby ideology instead of the Arab Nationalism and its leaders in Iraq and Syria.

Many Saudis graduated from the Western universities having the very modern sophisticated science along with their Wahaby culture, using their new modern technology and science in service of the Wahaby faith. In the same time there are hundreds  thousands of the religious scholars and teachers work inside the official agencies of the state, and others are volunteers, serving the cause as their own Jihad to advocate the Wahaby faith in the seasons of Al Hajj [pilgrimage], or out side the kingdom. Others give fund to speed the Jihad and activate it.

All of them were united under one cause; to face the atheist Soviet Union and its communist ideology, and to advocate Islam in the West and the U.S to convert them to Islam, using the western freedom of speech and belief and their alliance with the U.S, against the Soviet Union.

The cold war in that time was their wonderful chance to establish – gradually and slowly - the final aim; the one Wahaby state.  That is why they forgot the very necessary duty; reforming the Wahaby faith from inside Islam to up-to-date the current world culture of human right, democracy and tolerance.

This is what Egyptians are supposed to do if they have a democratic independent regime.

However, the Saudi State, its official Wahaby agencies and its volunteers along with Muslim Brothers were united under on goal; establishing the one Islamic State peacefully, gradually and slowly by the help of the Millions of Muslim Americans and other millions in the West who will convert to Islam in its Wahaby version.

The war of Afghanistan gave some of them the necessary military training, but the dramatic collapse of the late Soviet Union has left only one cunning enemy; the West and the U.S. who have not converted to Islam in its Wahaby version. The first Gulf war has divided them into two sects; the official scholars of the Saudi regime who have to justify the Saudi policy, and the Wahabi volunteers who fought the enemies in Afghanistan for the Wahabi cause and were eager combat the U.S and the entire infidels. It is very easy to activate the same Wahabi teachings of Jihad, not only against the Saudi Kingdom, but also against the U.S.

This is the birth of September 11 after time of pregnancy lasted from 1745 until 2001.

Article two:

Why The Saudi Regime needs Al-Qaeda ?

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=6380

 

 Before answering this question we have to recognize these facts:

Firstly:

 Wahhabism contradicts the religion of Islam in its faith, its values and its Jurisprudence.

The Wahhabis are a very minute sect within the Muslim population; they are less than 1% of one billion and half.

Through the Saudi oil and influence, and with US support, the Saudi were able to portray Wahhabism as the religion of Islam.

Secondly:

Wahhabism is the religion of the Saudis and Al-Qaeda as well.

 Wahhabism has revived and restored the most fanatic Sunni sect in Muslim Medieval Age history and brought it to our modern times in the name of Islam. Accordingly, the Saudis and Al-Qaeda uphold together the same Sunni doctrine of Jihad that divides the world into two camps, (Muslim camp: Camp of belief and peace) (Enemy camp: camp of war and disbelief). They believe in the final holy war between the two camps at the end of this world. This is their Jihad against the West and the US. To make this Jihad they have to preside over and control all Muslims by imposing their fanatic Sharee’a on them.

Thirdly:

The Wahhabi Saudi regime and Al-Qaeda have different tactics in applying this fanatic Jihad.

1-              As an underground secret organization, Al-Qaeda could not impose Wahhabism on all Muslims, invade and conquer Non-Muslims. So, it murders them directly and randomly any time any place. Beside this terroristic Jihad, Al-Qaeda also uses the war of ideas in recruiting Muslims and in raising funds. In all its activities, Al Qaeda has only one direct face and one discourse.

2-            The Saudi Wahhabi regime has a very complex tactic.

3-              Inside the Saudi kingdom, they impose Wahhabism and persecute other Muslims sects which refuse Wahhabism. They condemn to death, Muslims who convert to other religion. They forbid any preaching of Christianity inside their Kingdom and frown upon it inside the Muslim World, while they preach Wahhabi Islam in the West and in the US.

4-             They use their influence in other Muslim countries (like Egypt and Pakistan) to persecute Muslims who are not Wahhabis, like Shiites and Quranists, and to persecute Non-Muslim minorities, like Copts and Baha’is.

5-             They use their influence in waging war of ideas inside Muslim World to impose Wahhabism and to justify persecuting others who are not Wahhabis.

6-              To prepare for the final battle between Muslims and the West, the Saudi regime has a long term plan. It uses its influence in the West and the US in waging war of ideas to impose Wahhabism on Muslim communities and to convert Christians to Islam, Wahhabi style. They exploit them as a fifth column inside the enemy camp. This is exactly what the Saudi Wahhabis are doing in the West and the US. They plant their people inside the West (Enemy camp) and brainwash them through schools and mosques, to prepare them for the coming final holy war as their Sunni tradition talks about the last holy war between the two camps in the end of this world. They hope to Islamize America and the West after some decades to overcome the enemy camp peacefully.

Fourthly:

So, the Saudi regime needs Al-Qaeda. Not only because they uphold the same faith, the same Sharee’a and the same Jihad, but also for many other reasons:

1-      The Saudi peaceful tactic of war of ideas is not enough. One of the rules of war of ideas: It cannot stand alone; it needs military power to assist it and to protect it. The Saudi army is not capable of facing America and the West. So, Al-Qaeda is doing the job instead of them.

2-      In this regard, we remember that the Saudis, during the first Saudi State (1745- 1818 ) and in establishing the current Saudi Kingdom ( 1902 – 1932), they used to kill civilians. The Saudis could not do this in our time, so, Al-Qaeda is doing it for them.

3-      As the Saudis have many faces and many discourses, they are experts in deceiving the West and the US. Their war of ideas is built on this deception. They convince the West and the US that Al-Qaeda is their ardent enemy. So, the Saudis have the American support in fighting Al-Qaeda. Fighting Al Qaeda militarily only is hopeless. It is endless war with no victory in sight. It is just wasted time, money and endless bloodshed. So, the deeper the US sinks in this swamp, the more the Saudis benefit.

4-      Attrition  of the Americans in this endless war by Al-Qaeda will shorten the time for the glorious victory in the final holy war between the two camps

      That is why the Saudi regime insists on keeping Wahhabism included in its educational system and imposes it in the daily life of the people inside the kingdom; moreover, it uses its influence to persecute the Quranists, especially outside Saudi Arabia, who are sincere Muslim scholars, experts in the war of ideas against Wahhabism.

Finally

The key word is War of ideas. They use it against the US and the West. They are successful because of two reasons:

1-      They, Wahhabis and Al-Qaeda, use the name of Islam against the West and the US, while the West and the US refer to them as (Islamist), thereby indirectly earning the wrath and hatred of Muslim people

2-      The West and the US are refusing, till now, to use war of ideas in fighting them back, relying only on military means.

In this regard, we have to recognize these facts:

1-     It is impossible to defeat terrorism without war of ideas. It is impossible to fight ideas by military means.

2-      (Islam) is the magic word in this war of ideas. They win among Muslim populations by using the name Islam, so we can defeat them by proving the contradiction between them and the religion of Islam.

3-    Our international Quranic center represents thousands of Muslim scholars who have good expertise in fighting war of ideas from within Islam against terrorism. We have been engaged in this war since 1977. Although we have very limited resources and lack money and influence, we were, and still are, so successful in our war of ideas, that the only way left for our enemy to confront us, is to persecute us, by prison, torture and exile

4-      Moreover, since it is a global war, it needs global Muslim movements to work with you. Our IQC (International Quranic Center) is better equipped to help in this matter. We have many Muslim scholars in Europe, in North America along with the entire Muslim World.

5-      War of ideas requires the political power to protect its scholars and experts. That is why Quranic Muslim scholars are being persecuted and oppressed. It is a must for the Quranists to be protected and supported.

6-      America has all the elements that it can use to be the superpower in this war of ideas. America can :

 *Recruit Quranists and other open minded Muslim scholars in this war against terrorism.

* Use Hollywood to produce movies to undeceive the silent Muslim majority.

*Use its universities, its Islamic, Arabic and Middle Eastern departments in analyzing and exposing Wahhabism, instead of leaving those departments under Saudi influence and control, through their funding.

* Use its Muslim communities, their schools and mosques in this war of ideas to free Islam from those who are abusing and misrepresenting it.

America must have an (Agency) dedicated to war of ideas, to save thousands of lives and billions of dollars.

 

Article 3

For how long will this violation to God’s Sharee’a last?

For how long will the Sacred Mosque and the obligatory pilgrimage be held hostage to the Saudis?

Originally published on November 6 2009-11-07

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=5954

 (First)              

In every pilgrimage season, hundreds of cases of death occur due to congestions of millions of pilgrims for one week to perform the pilgrimage (Hajj) ritual. I have written an article confirming what Allah (Glory be to Him) have attested to in Chapter 2 in the Quran –(002.197) (The pilgrimage is (performed in) the well-known months; so whoever determines the performance of the pilgrimage therein, there shall be no intercourse nor fornication nor quarrelling amongst one another; and whatever good you do, Allah knows it; and make provision, for surely the provision is the guarding of oneself, and be careful (of your duty) to Me, O men of understanding

I started that article by saying: You can perform Hajj during 4 months. From the beginning of Zul-Hijja to the end of Rebee’ Al-Awwal (names of lunar months)

 Following is the link for the article in Arabic

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/show_article.php?main_id=1480

Before that, an article in English dealing with the same topic

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=653

Although this divine Quranic facilitation when performing Hajj, is in most need these days, yet it is impossible for the Saudi state to implement it, by allowing the Hajj to last for 4 months, because Wahhabism is founded on strictness and complication, contrary to Islam founded on facilitation, easiness, moderation and alleviation of constrictions, and because Salafi Wahhabism sanctifies “what our forefathers were doing” and what the ancestors agreed upon. And as long as the forefathers chose to gather all the pilgrims to start the season, in order to protect them from the marauding Nejdees (Inhabitants of Nejd region south of Iraq and Syria) and others, then the status quo should remain. Consequently, if those Nejdi tribes, who used to attack pilgrims’ caravans and commit highway robberies, and kill innocent people, were responsible for hording pilgrims in unified caravans for protection purposes and creating the new title Emir Al-hajj, then the Wahhabi Nejdees of today, are responsible for ripping off millions of pilgrims annually by imposing those high fees under the guise of protection and better accommodations, at the same time they pack millions in one week ,many of whom die suffocating, others trampled under the feet. All that contradicts Islam.

(Second)

This is not the only violation committed by Wahhabi Saudi Arabia when it comes to Al-hajj.

During the 90’s, I wrote that Al-Hajj is an obligatory ritual open for mankind to perform, and that the Holy Mosque is, like the Holy Months (mentioned in the Quran), for mankind. For, as mankind has One Lord (Glory be to Him), He also has but One Original house of worship, the Sacred Mosque, in this Earth. And to Him, there is a sacred time, the sacred months. It is the duty of mankind to perform pilgrimage to God in His sacred House, in His appointed Sacred Months. At that Sacred House, the human soul should rise above all mundane thoughts, all earthly desires, all evil intentions, even rise above, otherwise normal instincts, like marital activities, to soar above argumentation, and for all present, to enjoy and feel secure and safe including those on their to the Sacred House:

(Chapter 5:Verse 2)   

 A sense of safety and security shared by Man, Bird and Animal. This is the meaning of being in a state of Ihram-(state of ritual consecration of the Mecca pilgrim), a meaning that has been corrupted and perverted by man-made Muslims’ religions. It perverted it from attire of piety to disgraceful attire naked clothes.

And as usual, nobody paid us any attention back then…so here we go again:

1-The Sacred House and performing pilgrimage to it is not restricted to those who call

themselves Muslims. It was the first House of worship assigned by Allah to the whole of Mankind, and whoever enters it should feel safe and secure, and pilgrimage to that House is obligatory on every capable person from mankind.

 (3. 96 -97 )( Most surely the first house appointed for men is the one at Bekka, blessed and a guidance for the nations. In it are clear signs, the standing place of Ibrahim, and whoever enters it shall be secure, and pilgrimage to the House is incumbent upon men for the sake of Allah, (upon) every one who is able to undertake the journey to it; and whoever disbelieves, then surely Allah is Self-sufficient, above any need of the worlds.)

2-The sacred House, The House Of Allah (Most Glorified), is the place where all people come to, seeking reward, seeking requital, recompense, where people should feel secure and safe. These, in brief the injunctions that were sent to Abraham and Ishmael

00(2.125) ((And when We made the House (at Makka) a resort for mankind and sanctuary, (saying): Take as your place of worship the place where Abraham stood (to pray). And We imposed a duty upon Abraham and Ishmael, (saying): Purify My house for those who go around and those who meditate therein and those who bow down and prostrate themselves (in worship).

3- All mankind are equal in this Sacred House, be it a resident of Mecca who lives close by year round all his life, and the one who covers vast distances to get to it. And whoever puts himself, his people, his state, in a position of authority above people , to control the Sacred House and the guests of the Almighty (The Pilgrims), banning some from entering it, and dominating its affairs without a just cause, then it is him who repulses and drives away from the Sacred House those who wish to comply with Allah’s injunction.

(22. 25) (Surely (as for) those who have rejected (Allah ), and hinder (men) from Allah's way and from the Sacred Mosque which We have made equally for all men, (for) the dweller therein and (for) the visitor, and whoever shall incline therein to wrong unjustly, We will make him taste of a painful chastisement.)

We notice that the verse is in the present tense (hinder), hinting at the possibility that after the Glorious Quran has been sent, there might come those to repeat what the enemies of the Prophet Mohammed “Qureish” (leading tribe in Mecca) had done of controlling the Sacred House and turning Al-Hajj into a business, and this is what we witness these days, of the Saudi state control of Al-hajj and the Sacred House contrary to what Al-Islam decrees.

We also notice here, that Allah Almighty punishes for the mere evil intention, or ill intentions, still in the present tense, at the end of the above verse, 22:25.

4- After that, Almighty Allah describes those who come to the Sacred House in Chapter 22:26 :( And when We assigned to Ibrahim the place of the House, saying: Do not associate with Me aught, and purify My House for those who make the circuit and stand to pray and bow and prostrate themselves. And proclaim among men the Pilgrimage: they will come to you on foot and on every lean camel, coming from every remote path.)

So the Sacred House is for Mankind. And whoso wishes can come to circumambulate it and pray, coming from any deep gorge any where on the face of earth.

5- And because it is a house of safety, security and peace, for all people, even birds and animals, where hunting is forbidden in its sanctuary, then there should be no place for those transgressors who muddle the peace and tranquility of others and threaten their lives.

Islam has 2 meanings, a doctrinal one relative to Allah Almighty, which means submitting, yielding and surrendering to Him and His will alone, no partners or associates.: (6.162 ) (Say. Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds. No associate has He; and this am I commanded, and I am the first of those who submit.)

This part, the convictional, the creed, is private between the individual and his Lord; it is based on freedom to believe or to disbelieve, no one has the right to interfere in this relation between the individual and his Creator, every person is responsible for his or her choice on Day of Resurrection.

The other meaning of Islam is the behavioral one, by that we mean Islam is peace. Every peaceful person is a Muslim on the outside, regardless of his faith, his official religion and his denomination. People have the right to judge a person based on his behavior, is he peaceful or an aggressive aggressor criminal? There are divine laws and man-made laws to protect a man from the aggression of his fellow man.

And by the same token, disbelieving and associating partners has 2 meanings. In dealing with Allah the Almighty, disbelieving is covering the natural inborn instinct of submitting to one Creator, to believe in additional partners to Him, to believe in saints that can affect one’s destiny. This portion of belief is left to Allah to decide because everyone considers oneself to be right and the others wrong, and what concerns us is the behavioral disbelief, meaning aggression and injustice committed by one person against others. It is the right and obligation of humanity to judge and curtail such behavior to protect and preserve the rights of individuals and rights of society.

Connection of what we are discussing to Al-Hajj is as follows

 It is the right of every peaceful person to perform Hajj regardless of his official religion. It prohibited for any one to be armed. It is a must to provide security for the pilgrims. It is from within this context that we comprehend Allah’s directive in Chapter 9:28: (O you who believe! the transgressors are nothing but unclean, so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year.).  The subject matter here is aggressors who were habitual in attacking pilgrims, breaking all covenants, they needed to be dealt with firmly, first by declaring disavowal of their actions, then giving then a period of 4 months for repentance, This is how chapter 9 –) started

And then He describes their attitude and behavior with aggression: (9 : 10) (And they observe toward a believer neither pact nor honor. These are they who are transgressors)

But if they cease and desist then they are brothers for the believers

(9.:11 )(But if they repent and keep purifying themselves, they are your brethren in faith.);

But if they resort back to aggression and to breaking of covenants, then:(9. :12 )( And if they break their pledges after their treaty (hath been made with you) and assail your safety , then fight the heads of transgressors - surely their oaths are nothing-- so that they may desist.)

Consequently, they should be denied access to pilgrimage as long as they continue their aggression against pilgrims, moreover, they should be banned from getting close to the Sacred House that Allah Almighty has decreed it to be a safe haven and place for people to return to seeking forgiveness. That is our understanding, in this context of Allah’s words in verse 28 of the same Chapter: ((O you who believe! the transgressors are nothing but unclean, so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year.).  

The subject matter here is the disbelieving idolater who commits aggression, murder and blood shedding of the innocent.

(Third)

The Wahhabi Saudi Regime contradicts Islam in all of the above

1-Their ancestors in Nejd, used to commit highway robberies against the pilgrims during the Umayyad, Abbasid and Memluk periods. Some of those raids were conducted in a non-religious context, meaning no religious justification. It was worse when religiously justified, because the killing, the bloodletting, raping women and plundering all become Jihad. That was what the Saudi ancestors, the Qaraametah committed .It was not enough for the Qaraametah to commit highway robbery; they even attacked Mecca itself, murdered those inside, threw their bodies in Zemzem well then uprooted the Black Stone, all of this well known and historically recorded.

After centuries, this Qurmuti phenomenon reappeared under a different name; Wahhabism. Led by the Saudi family, they repeated what Qaraametah committed of killings, murder, pillage, plunder and raping women, all in the name of Jihad. This happened during the First Saudi State (1745-1818), which conquered Al-Hejaz and the Sacred House, in 1805, plundered Al-Medina, and prevented the pilgrims’ caravans from reaching Mecca in 1806, prompting the Ottoman Empire to order Mohammad Ali Pasha, governor of Egypt to dispatch an expedition in 1807 to free the sacred places from the Saudi occupation. Mohammad Ali sent his army to fight the Saudis in 1811. The war ended in 1818, with the destruction of Der’yya, the capital of the Saudis.

Then Abdul Aziz Al Saud founded the current third Saudi State, between 1902 and 1932. In trying to establish his state he committed many massacres and atrocities in the Arabian peninsula, Iraq and (old ) Syria. Most of his victims were innocent civilian villagers. The Ikhwan (Abdul Aziz’s soldiers), devoted themselves to raiding Arab and Muslim villages killing in the process more than one million victims.

The Al-Hejaz was not saved from their bloodshed, for on their way to Al-Hejaz, they committed At-turbah massacre in 1919, where the blood of innocent inhabitants of At-turbah filled the palm trees trenches, as related by an actual eye witness, Shereef Aoun who fled the scene and was fifteen at that time. That was followed by Attaa’f massacre in 1924, which ended with the extermination of almost all of its inhabitants of men, women and children. The viciousness and barbarism of the Saudis forced Mecca and Al-Medina to give up within less than one month. Let us not forget the aggression committed against the Sacred Mosque in 1979, was carried out by an ardent Wahhabi ,Juheiman Al-Uteibi and his associates, followers of Sheikh Bin Baaz.

Meaning that all what Qureish, the disbeliever, committed and was condemned by the Glorious Quran is nothing compared to what the Saudis inflicted.

 

2-Under the dominion and control of the Saudis, people were tortured, intimidated and chased around by the ENFORCERS (Al-Mutawwe’a), still in practice today, does not matter and no distinction between the pilgrims, and the rest of the kingdom. But for the royal Saudi family, not even the staunchest of the Enforcers, can approach any of them no matter how degenerate, immoral and disobedient they can get.

3-As for Hajj and pilgrims, the Saudi regime requires proof of Islam of those desiring to perform Hajj, especially if they were non-Arabs, giving themselves thusly, a divine authority to investigate people’s beliefs and convictions. The capacity of managing and facilitating Hajj should be restricted to security issues like any other port of entry in the world, delving in issues of conscience should be out of consideration.

4- The worst of what the Saudi state does in an effort to spread its brand of Wahhabi religion is propaganda. At the same time, it utilizes its dominion over Hajj and the Sacred House and other things to persecute pilgrims of Shiite, Sufi and Ahmadeyya and other non-Wahhabi affiliations. It also exploits Hajj to advertise and publicize in a vulgar manner, the generosity and the bounty bestowed by the Saudi family on the pilgrims, which first, when compared to the assistance rendered by the western institutions to poor Muslims amounts to nothing. Second, it is nothing compared to what it supposed to contribute from the oil returns under Zakatul Maal (Charity imposed on money earned), third, it doe not compare to what they annually collect in fees and taxes from pilgrims, and lastly, it does not compare with the damage they brought Islam and its reputation throughout the whole world.

5-With all this, we conclude that what Allah said in Chapter 22:25, applies to the Saudi family, through their actions and deeds, not minding their beliefs

(22.:25 )( (22. 25) (Surely (as for) those who have rejected (Allah ), and hinder (men) from Allah's way and from the Sacred Mosque which We have made equally for all men, (for) the dweller therein and (for) the visitor, and whoever shall incline therein to wrong unjustly, We will make him taste of a painful chastisement.)

6-The history of the Saudis, their current conduct, their Wahhabism, all contradicts Islam, so how can they be entrusted with the Sacred House and the Hajj? And for how long will the noble, freemen; genuine and emancipated Muslims keep silent about these conditions that contradict Islam? Is the Sacred House a monopoly of the Wahhabi Saudis only? Do they have evidence from the Glorious Quran? Or even from their man-made Wahhabi sect that gives them legality to control the Sacred House? Or is it their capturing of the House in 1924, gives them the legal right to conduct its affairs, control it and to perform Hajj according to their Wahhabi doctrine which contradicts Islam? Is it not enough for them the tremendous massacre they committed at At-Taa’f on their way to Mecca, to subdue it, instilling fear and horror in the hearts of Meccans, to get them to give up easily? Is aggression a lawful Islamic means to control the Sacred House and to control the guests of the One God, The Merciful? Or should it be condemned islamically and nullified with all its consequences, that permitted those people to stranglehold the House of the Lord of all people?

Finally!!!

1-Liberating the Sacred House from the Saudi occupation is a form of Jihad to raise the religion of Allah to the lofty heights it deserves. Let us start this peaceful Jihad by re-educating Muslims through conferences and group meetings to discuss what has been hushed all along, of history and of truths of Islam.

2- I call upon all free minded Muslims, everywhere, Shiite, Sunnite, Sufis, Ahmadeyya, Secularists and those with legal backgrounds, to convene a conference about the inevitability of placing the Sacred Houseunder the auspices of a neutral international committee that guarantees access to anyone wishing to perform Hajj, Umra, or plain visit to the sacred places, for all humanity, with no discrimination or distinction, guarantees the pilgrims’ safety for the duration of 4 months of Hajj

3-My Lord, Have I delivered the message?     My Lord, you be my Witness. 

Article 4   

 

To Free the Sacred Mosque From Saudi Family Dominance…Enlightenment Conventions are Required

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First

(1)    Though the Saudi family hegemony over the sacred places contradicts Islam and necessitates Islamic Jihad against that family and its state, yet lack of courage to discuss the topic, led to acceptance of the status quo. With the passage of time, this acceptance slowly turned to a form of Islamic conviction in the Saudi’s right to that dominance, which in turn, gave the Saudis and its Wahhabi sect, the chance to lead the Muslim World and to represent Islam.

(2)    The number of Saudi family members, who are controlling the Islamic Hajj obligation, the Sacred Mosque and the sacred places for Muslims, is nothing compared to the number of Muslims worldwide, which nears the billion and a half, and the number of those who adheres to the Wahhabi Hanbali sect, is nothing compared to the number of Muslims and their different sects. The Saudis and Wahhabis do not have a proof from the Lord of the Worlds that warrants their domination over the Islamic Hajj obligation and the Sacred Mosque. They managed to reach that status through invasion, aggression and massacres of innocent civilians. This by itself, torpedoes their claim and confirms the religious duty of armed Jihad against them for the sake of God Almighty, glory be to Him.

 (3)    Our goal is never to ignite an armed struggle to deliver the Sacred Mosque and the Hajj obligation out of the Saudi family hands to put them under the dominance of another state. Certainly, we do not wish for a war to erupt, out of concern for the sanctity of the Sacred Mosque and the sanctity of Human lives. Our goal is enlightenment and reeducation, to form a public opinion, a pressure group and international political movements to force the Saudi family to withdraw from those Sacred Places to be put under the control of a neutral international administration that guarantees Hajj and visitation to all peaceful humanity, and guarantees their protection and their freedom of worship. Facilitates their travel and their stay, as Almighty Allah intended the Sacred Mosque to be...(A place for people to resort and come back to, and a safe haven)

(4)    The Saudis succeeded in imposing the status quo, since they occupied the Sacred Mosque and Al-Hejaz in 1924. They also managed to distract and divert the Muslims from bringing the issue for discussion, Islamically, legitimately and legally. They were successful in getting the Muslims to engage in local and regional wars. They even tried to impose Wahhabism on Muslims throughout, to assume leadership of the Muslim World as the camp of Belief versus the West and its camp of disbelief and war.

(5)    Then came a generation of Muslims who believes in Saudi Arabia more than believing in God Almighty, believes in Wahhabism and rejects Islam, believes that Saudi Arabia is the birth place of Islam and that it is the state where the prophet of Islam was born and grew up. All this nonsense could be eradicated with enlightenment and education.

(6)    Through education, Truth becomes evident. That this Bedouin (family-state),is more befitting Allah’s saying in the Quran (The Bedouins are more prone to disbelief and hypocrisy ), and that they repel from the way of Almighty God, which is the Glorious Quran, and that they repulse away from the Sacred House, and that they are the worst enemies of Islam, not only due to their corruption, tyranny, injustice and their bloody history full of massacres, but because the commit all this oppression, injustice, aggression, tyranny, slaying and plunder in the name of Islam, and because of them, Islam stands accused of terrorism, extremism, fanaticism, backwardness, rigorism and bloodshed.

(7)    The worst mistake committed during the eighteenth century was the establishing of the first Saudi state 1754. The nineteenth century witnessed its destruction, and its re-establishment and then its demise again. Then, again the same profound mistake happened in the twentieth century with the formation of the third Saudi state (1902-1932).

(8)    We hope to see, in this century, the complete disappearance of this terrible state, to spare the world its wickedness. Suffice to know that this family and its Wahhabi sect, were responsible for murdering more than 4 million Muslim, due to massacres, conflicts, tumults and wars that spread from the Arabian peninsula to India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Afghanistan, then to Indonesia eastward. Then to Syria, Iraq, Egypt, North Africa then to Maghreb westward , then North Europe and America with the advent of this century. This Saudi Wahhabi epidemic turned all those acts of aggression into an Islamic Jihad, Relying on the Sunni religion on the one hand, and on their control of Al-Hejaz, Hajj, Holy places on the other. For that reason, education and enlightenment is inevitable.

(9)    This process of re-education starts with holding conventions attended by Moderate Sunni Muslim Scholars, not Wahhabi ones, along with Shiite, Ahmadeyya, Sufi and Quranists scholars. The first convention objective is discussing the non-legitimacy of Saudi occupation of the holy places, and control of Hajj, Islamically, historically and legally within the framework of introducing the issue. The first conference to be concluded with specific recommendations and steps to implement for following conventions, and formation of follow up committees. It is important to hold that first convention in Washington D.C., for politically, it is the most suitable. It is as important, the participation of all free thinking political and religious leadership, scholars and media personalities.

Finally…..

 1-      I wonder about the silence exhibited by free people of both Arab and Islamic world, for not giving this idea the support it deserves.

2-      I wonder more so about the reaction of Shiites and Sufis in Iraq and Syria, considering it was the Saudis who butchered their forefathers in Iraq, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula, and they are still destroying and desecrating their holy places.

3-      Along with that wonderment…there is still hope

4-      This hope will be fulfilled. God willing   

 

Article 5

Salafiya, the roots and the evils
SALAFIYA is derived from the venerable forefathers

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 With the ousting of Hosni Mubarak and collapse of the State security Apparatus, the physical Salafi presence became obvious to observers, threatening the Egyptian peaceful social fabric and its future.

Beforehand, it was the Muslim Brotherhood that dominated the scene in terms of source of threat, now it is the Salafis that occupied the whole spectrum instead.

In the past, our website Ahl Alquran published numerous articles and religious opinions about the Muslim Brotherhood, always being careful to differentiate between the Brotherhood as an organization, and the Brotherhood as a cultural phenomenon, and by that, I meant the culture of Wahhabism or Salafiya.

We pause here to shed some light on this Salafiya, its historical roots up to nowadays.

FIRST

1-In a glance, we will broach the subject of (sect, creed, faith) of prophet Ibrahim, or true orthodox Islam., which he, peace be upon him, brought along, and through him, a number of prophets came afterwards, starting with Isaac, then his son Jacob or Israel, then Joseph and the rest of prophets of the children of Israel.. Then, the Seal of all prophets came through the Ishmaelite branch. Ishmael is the father of (arabized) Arabs of the north. Ibrahim and Ishmael collaborated in rebuilding the sacred mosque after Allah, Glory Be to Him, guided Ibrahim to its location and original foundation.

2-Tribes, descendents of Ishmael son of Ibrahim, multiplied and grew in numbers. The most powerful amongst them all was Qureish, being the dwellers of Mecca and the custodians of the Sacred Places and overseers of pilgrimage. During those times, there were some disturbances and difficulties that affected the (Silk Road) connecting trade routes between China-India and Europe through central Asia. A substitute road, a maritime- land route, through Yemen, Arabian Peninsula, Syria ending in the Byzantine State, replaced the old one, known as the journeys of summer and winter, whereby Yemenite traders would bring Indian products by sea over the Indian ocean and the Arabian sea, sell it to Qureish traders, who in turn carry it to Syria and trade with the Byzantines, Rulers of the region. On the rebound trip, they would buy European goods for resale to the Yemenites, who in turn would trade it with the Southeast Asians. Hence, and through this international commerce, Qureish used to garner steep profits. The concord, the harmony, the coalition, the state of entente among the Arab tribes, emphasizes the success of this trade. For those Bedouin tribes living north of and south of Mecca between Syria and Yemen, they mastered the profession of raiding and marauding trade caravans, yet through the condition of entente, they became the guardians of those Qureishite caravans, and by allowing them to place their idols inside the Sacred Places, thereby acquiring a semblance of sanctity of the shrine, and to visit during pilgrimage season. Under this entente condition, Qureish thrived peacefully, whilst the rest of the Arab tribes suffered from inter-fighting, scarcity of resources and plenty of hardships. By doing so, Qureish had violated the faith and creed of Ibrahim in exchange for own trade benefits. That was the main reason why Allah, Glory be to Him, sent the Seal of all prophets, Mohammad, peace be upon him, to purify the creed of Ibrahim, calling for religion to be (in principle and in practice), for the sake of Allah alone, Glory be to Him. Naturally, Qureish stood fast against Islam in defense of its interests, though they believed the Quran to be a true guidance, as mentioned in chapter 28:57, hence they opted to deny and refute the Quran to preserve their livelihood. 56:82.

3-Inspite of Qureishite oppression of Muslims and wars waged against them, even after their migration to Medina, the Quranic exhortations to submit hearts to the will of Allah, elevated the intellect of Arabian tribes, causing them to realize the absurdity and silliness of worshipping deities made out of stones. It dawned on them how Qureish exploited and controlled them through venerating graves, false deities, mortals and idols. Upon accepting Islam, they restarted attacking Qureishite caravans; the latter realized the importance of protecting their interests, so they joined the new movement ISLAM .This took place a short while before the parting of the prophet, peace be upon him. Not long after that, the tribes found out that Qureish resorted to old ways of dominance, prompting to revolt under what it came to be known (The war of apostasy). After violently quelling that revolt, and to forestall any revenge on their part, Qureish conceived the idea of redirecting the tribes’ military capabilities to the outside, thereby leading them to foreign expansion. By doing so, an Arab empire was established under the leadership of Qureish, who ruled most of the known world from the time of the rightly guided caliphs until the end of the Abbasid dynasty, again under the banner of ISLAM. That led to many consequences, most notably were:

A- The return of old Qureishite form of religiosity which neutralized the religion of Ibrahim. Additionally, they perverted and corrupted the concept of Islamic Jihad which was centered on defensive jihad, and turned it into aggressive offensive warfare against others leading to occupation. This Qureishite perversion was formulated under what later came to be known as Sunnah, which represents the highest form of Qureishite hegemony. Along side this Sunnite religion, the rival Shiite religion popped out on the scene representing the Farsi (Persian) culture. Then the Sufi religion came along claiming to represent all man-made religions.

B-The known world was split into two camps, an Islamic camp, and a Christian camp in Europe, with the Muslims controlling the trade routes between India and Europe.

C- Due to Europe’s dire need for the Eastern trade, its dream was to find a route to India far off the control of its Muslim enemy, another dream was to ally itself with Christian Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to pose a threat to Mecca and Medina. The European undertaking to regain lost lands started in Spain with the fall of Andalusia, followed by an attempt to reach India, where Christopher Columbus stumbled upon the New World thinking that he arrived in India. With those geographic explorations and discoveries, the Christian Western camp not only dominated the New World, it also colonized the Muslim camp too.

Second

As the Ottoman state was fading away, the Islamic Arabic revival movement was heading into two directions, the direction of returning to the past (Essalaf) led by the Wahhabi call or mission which established the first Saudi state (1745-1818). The other direction opposed to the first one, spearheaded by Egypt under Mohammad Ali, calling for modernization after Europe.

The two approaches collided, and Mohammad Ali succeeded in destroying the Saudi state in 1818. Then the second Saudi state rose and fell due to inter-family strife. Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud was successful in re-establishing the current Saudi state (1902-1932). To protect his state against falling, Abdul Aziz took it upon his self to promote and spread his Wahhabi faith throughout Egypt which professed a mixture of Sufi Sunni doctrine, meaning the Sufi creed in venerating saints, and the Sunni in daily life affairs. His opportune chance came about when he took over Hejaz and Mecca, controlling the sacred places and Hajj rituals in 1924-1925. He tried to promote Wahhabism by contacting Muslim leaders, paying more attention to Egypt and India. The (Shari ‘a Association) was the most widespread religious association or organization in Egypt that held a Sufi doctrine. Resheed Redha, a senior Saudi agent, succeeded in penetrating the organization, and with time managed to turn it into an austere Wahhabi one. Later on, other agents for Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Hamid El Feqqi), formed (Ansaar Sunnah) organization to promote and advocate (Salafiya), instead of Wahhabism which was detested in Egypt. After that, the Saudis formed (The Muslim Youth Organization). A year later, Resheed Redha chose a bright young man from (the Muslim Youth) Hasan El Banna, to head another organization (The Muslim Brotherhood) dedicated to political activities, whereas the (Ansaar Sunnah) were relegated the missionary work and the task of spreading Wahhabism under the guise of Sunnah and Salafiya.

Within twenty years (1928-1949), Hasan El Banna succeeded in establishing fifty thousand branches for the Brotherhood throughout Egypt. He also formed the International Order of Muslim Brotherhood, the special military unit, and was successful in igniting the (Covenant Revolt) in Yemen. The Muslim Brotherhood also participated in the 1952 coup led by Abdu Nassir, yet a schism developed between the two, and after the incident of (El Mensheyya) in 1954, Nassir stormed them out of Egypt, forcing most of them to flee to their (ideological motherland), Saudi Arabia, during the rein of Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz. Beforehand Abdul Aziz prohibited the Muslim Brotherhood from having a branch in his Emirate and later on in his kingdom, but events forced his children to give them protection and safe refuge in the kingdom.

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, with their Egyptian background, could not stomach the primitive absolute rule of the Saudis. Wide was the difference between Liberal Egypt that they have lived and witnessed (1921-1952) and Saudi backwardness. Wide was the difference between Saudi absolute rule and constitutional rule of Mohammad Ali’s dynasty. Wide was the difference between freedom of thought in Egypt and slavery and oppression which were the essence of Saudi rule, and not the mere sequestering of thought and opinion in Saudi Arabia. Wide was the difference between Egypt that enjoyed political activity, and that kingdom (Saudi Arabia) that was owned by a family who monopolized wealth and power. The Muslim Brotherhood inside Saudi Arabia realized or thought (wrongly) that Al Saud family relied on Wahhabi doctrine in fortifying their rule, and being the scholars of Wahhabism and of the decision making caliber( literally, Those who tie and untie) , they saw fit that they should be included in government. This understanding on their part contradicted the Saudi understanding which considered the sword as the foundation of their rule and authority, by which they established their first Saudi state, including the current one. The Muslim Brotherhood started secretly to call for and to propagate their understandings of how things should be implemented, thereby precipitating a schism that evolved in the formation of a home grown Saudi opposition after the Gulf war. This opposition movement was led by Mohammad El-Mes’ry and Sa’d El-Faqeeh outside the kingdom, and internally was headed by Safrr El-Hawaaly and Salmaan El-Awda, and eventually produced Usama Bin Laden. Due to this political schism, the Saudis concentrated on supporting (The Ansaar Essunah), a Salafi oriented group with no political ambitions.

It is well known that Sadat allied himself with the Salafi trends, with its so many different branches, the political and missionary ones. During his reign, different organizations and sub organizations emerged, like the Jihadists and Al-jamaa’a Al-islaameyya, others flourished too of lesser presence. During Mubarak’s period, the politically inclined ones were subjected to persecution,(The Muslim Brotherhood, Al-jamaa’a Al-islaameyya, the Jihadists), whereas the major part of the Wahhabi movement, the Salafis, fell under the influence of the state security apparatus. With the Saudi monetary aid and the Egyptian government illicit support, the non political Salafi missionary trend expanded and its organizations spread out, its mosques multiplied by the thousands. It infiltrated Al Azher, the educational system, the media, different clubs and places of assembly. Due to their influence, the Hijab and the Veil became widespread. The Quranists suffered the most, simply because they confronted Wahhabism from within Islam. Moreover, the Salafi trend engaged in chasing secular thinkers with an Islamic style inquisition (Al-Hisba) and pursuing Copts. The state security exploited them to stir strife within to prolong the emergency state laws.

With the infiltration of the main Salafi body by the state security, they succeeded in organizing many groups of them in the service of the state security. They even managed to strike a deal with the imprisoned leaders of the Jihadists and Al-jamaa’a Al-islaameyya, in what came to be known as (intellectual revision), to abandon (violence), political activism and the methods of (The Brotherhood), to return to square one, that is missionary work, to non-political (Ansaar Essunnah) or (Essalafeyya), to be one of the many secret Salafi organizations working for and in cahoots with state security, carrying out some of the dirty deeds, like the bombing of the church of the Two Saints in Alexandria, and the explosions of Sherm Sheikh in Sinai.

Thirdly:

1- Then Mubarak was toppled, and along with him, the State Security system fell down. They left the Salafi Presence with no authority to return to, with lots of resources to expand and spread more and more, with satellite channels at its disposal, with influence at Al Azher, at the Ministry of religious affairs, within the educational system and within the media. More importantly, they had millions of followers and supporters throughout the land, in villages, in hamlets, and in inner cities. They manifested and exercised their influence at the last referendum, by their transgression against fellow citizens, by their leaders’ declarations hinting at political ambitions exploiting the current conditions of symptoms of freedom, and their recent emancipation from the grip of State Security, by taking advantage of Egypt’s fluid conditions, of the setting of a police state and the outward appearance of chaos, numerous daily demonstrations, factional demands, a military junta incapable of running a civilian administration, the leftovers of a State Security system, and an old regime busy working in the dark trying to hold on and to salvage whatever remnants of influence it once had, by engulfing Egypt in more turmoil, hoping to elude and maybe escape punishment, the way to accomplish that is by cooperating with hoodlums and  extreme Salafis, by creating a state of havoc through church burning and desecrating graves.

It is obvious that the Salafis’ ascension to power is connected to creating a state of Chaos, and in this aspect, the Salafis are in agreement with Mubarak’s regime remnants and his state security organization, especially since the current Salafi leadership is the product of this security apparatus, and had the opportunity for thirty years to be trained and goaded by it.

       2-The biggest losers as a result of the Salafi prominence are the Muslim Brotherhood and the Copts.

      A/2---The Muslim Brotherhood itself is experiencing a division among its ranks, some of their ambitious leadership are splitting off, like Dr. Abdul Mun’m Abul Futooh, and Mohammad Habeeb. Also the state of (schizophrenia) that exist between the leadership at Secretariats General and the younger Muslim Brotherhood, who want to participate in the leadership and not mere indoctrination and obedience. All this, in addition to the biggest obstacle; their deficiency in modernization and inability to formulate progressive enlightened thought as exhibited by the Quranists, meaning the Islamic Thought at the roots of a Civilian Secular state, human rights, democracy and total and absolute freedom of religion. The Brotherhood could not accomplish these objectives because they are Wahhabis believing in (Hadiths) that have nothing to do with GOD.

        B/2—The Salafis represent a more severe crisis in Egypt; in a most critical situation. During these fluid times, as Egypt tries to ease its way through the bottle neck of impending chaos, a police force that is absent, negligent, indifferent, conspiring or simply petrified, and on the other hand, opposing power centers, crouching in the dark, ready to leap, other groups that became professionals at cooperating with the state security carrying out dirty deeds for them, it would be very difficult to distinguish between what is (hatchery) and what is (coddled hatchery),that is the Salafis. As Mubarak used to victimize the Copts by letting his Salafi agents loose against them, the same method is still prevalent between the remnants of Mubarak and their Salafi servants. The gravity of the situation is not restricted to the current conditions; it transcends it to the nature of the Salafi movement. They do not posses the cautiousness and political expertise of the Muslim Brotherhood. On the contrary, the Salafis have never engaged in politics, they have never experienced dealing with political, intellectual or ideological adversaries except through sequestering, accusations of blasphemy, aggression and even murder. They were overwhelmed when they found the political arena wide open for them with no prior preparedness or plans. So they entered it with what they have learned and mastered, the culture of accusations of blasphemy, degradation, insults, transgression and instigation with fowl language. Before, they used to (talk) only; now in these exceptional times, they have the opportunity to (do), to put their word to practice, or some of it. The stage is set for them, thanks to Mubarak, who divided Egypt into two warring camps, Muslims and Copts, and between them both, freedom of conscience was lost. It became prohibited for a Copt to accept Islam, and r a Muslim to revert and become a Christian. It becomes more sensitive and ignitable if it was a female that wants to exercise that right. The Salafis were the leaders of the (Muslim Camp). Before, all they could do was agitate, now they can enforce their words and impose it on their first and major enemy: The Copts.

No doubt, the Salafis have their eyes set on Copt women to convert them to their Salafi religion. As the Copts are spread throughout Egypt, in its villages, hamlets, towns and inner cities, so do the Salafis, meaning the confrontation is going to be throughout populous Egypt.                  

        3-In addition, there are other potential victims for the Salafis, namely the Quranists, the Sufis, the Shiite, the Secularists and unveiled women. The Salafis already are threatening the demolition of venerated graves and tombs of Sufis and Shiites, like El-Hussein’s and Zeineb’s, in Cairo. The Sufis in turn are threatening huge demonstration to defend their tombs. The Quranists do not have any venerated graves or tombs; they do not believe in its sanctification, they think it is deviation away from true pure trust and belief in Allah, yet they do not condone its physical demolition, since this act is not found in Islam, rather what is needed is to demolish the deviant belief in its sanctity through education and exchange of ideas and relying on the Quran as a guide for us all, to render it no more than a collection of stones and ornamented building material.

          4- It is imperative upon the actual and potential victims of this Salafi Monster to band and cooperate together peacefully, culturally, educationally and politically to teach, instruct, guide, correct, polish, refine and tame him before it destroys itself and others.

In conclusion…The solution lies in the headline that I used to start my articles with in Al-Akhbar and other periodicals in 1989. The headline was (The Quran is the solution)…and it still is…. 

Article 6

 Bin Laden’s Festival

Published in Arabic in 5- 3 - 2011

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/show_article.php?main_id=8089

In English:

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=8098

 

 1---Pursuant to God’s law, Glory be to Him, the penalty of warfare should be meted out to Bin Laden and Bin Laden’s ilks. He says in the Quran, chapter 5:33

 

 : The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.

There is a criminal murderer who murdered an innocent soul, he is deserving of a likewise punishment. Then there is this criminal who is worse as a murderer for murdering many more innocent human lives. He is well-deserving of a severe punishment. Then there is this ruler who kills thousands of innocent souls, in phases, to instill terror in his people hearts. If they revolted against him, He massacres them with all his might, as Gaddafi is doing now, and as Mubarak and Bin Ali would have liked to have done. Those tyrants should be extinguished, no questions asked.

But there remain those murderers with lesser criminality than those terrorists of Bin Laden’s ilk.

Bin Laden’s ilk do not only do injustice to people, more importantly, they do injustice to God Almighty. Hulagu, Mubarak, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Gaddafi and all oppressive butchers did not attribute their crimes to Divine Law; none of them said their crimes were Jihad in the cause of Allah. None of them legitimized murdering people in the name of their God, yet Bin Laden’s ilk did not fight the people only, they fought the people’s God too, and did Him injustice by attributing their evil burdens and crimes to Divine Law, thereby rendering the Great Islam, the religion of peace, benevolence, tolerance, justice and freedom, they rendered it accused worldwide as the religion of terrorism and random killing of innocent people. All our screams and outcries to clear The Great Islam of those accusations were drowned in the uproar of Bin Laden’s ilk terroristic crimes, the apparent ones and the hidden ones, still, the naïve clueless world keeps on calling them Islamic.

2—Bin Laden’s ilk, the terror criminals, are of two types; the civilian branch of provocateurs sheikhs with their fatwas and proclamations, a very effective participants in these crimes, amongst whom thousands of Wahhabi preachers and who followed them in their delusion until Judgment Day, then the military branch which carries out those crimes with blood and violence. Cooperation between the two branches is continuous and stable. The intellectual warfare starts with claims of apostasy, damnations, and accusations of treachery and fatwas of exiting the folds of Islam. With this (Green) light, the crime is executed, and then the sheikhs of evil from the civilian branch of terrorism come along to perform ablution with the blood of innocent victims, while lecturing others about the benevolence of Islam….condemning in a very gluey hypocritical fashion the blood letting.

Between these and those, there lies a more ominous thread that connects the two types together in the cause of Satan. One of them would carry a gun in one hand, and the Quran in the other. Sheikh Mohammad Bin Abdul Wahhab was one of them, who took part alongside his friend Mohammad Bin Saud in establishing the first Saudi state and led its armies, and then the Saudis murdered him where he would not end up with the whole pie without them. This is documented history. Amongst them also are Abdullah Azzam and his protégé Bin Laden.

3- The slaying of Bin Laden created what could be called the festival of Bin Laden

Just like any Sufi Festival, you will encounter (passion, emotion, ecstasy), rekindled and stoked religious fervor. You will also find rhythmic dancing (Zikr), Sufi style, and of course, religious (chanting). In all this discord, you will find what baffles the mind. Some are weeping passionately over the loss of (Sheikh El-Mujahedeen), others obviously fidgeting (embarrassingly) over what has been rumored about Bin Laden’s lavish lifestyle in an opulent castle and, when things got too dangerous, him taking a woman as a human shield, hiding behind her, leaving her to face armed men with her bare chest  protecting him….what a shame. Others suppressed their anger, assailing the Americans because they killed a suspect, forgetting that Bin Laden was not a suspect but one who proudly admitted his own crimes. They also forgot that God Almighty has granted the relatives of a wrongly killed innocent person, the power to avenge from the perpetrating murderer. America did not treat Bin Laden as a suspect, but exactly like he wanted to be treated as a principal active participant in the blowup and the massacres of the two American embassies in Africa, and in the carnage of the two New York towers. Some even were simple minded to the extent of criticizing America for burying him at sea instead of a know location, forgetting, those sheikhs, forgetting that the bodies of some of Bin laden’s innocent victims were incinerated and melted beneath the ruins of the two New York towers, and before whining over pitiful nonsense like burial under ground or at sea, we should know that we are talking about a butcher, a killer of thousands of innocent souls with no faults or guilt on their part, who knew nothing about Bin Laden ,his plans or aspirations.

The biggest loser in Bin Laden’s Festival is what the near future is going to bring forth, after the American experts finish examining, checking, downloading, uncovering the secret information mines they captured on tapes and on CD’s and among Bin Laden’s paper documents. Then, the hidden will become wide-open, and we will know why Emirates and Sheikhdoms enjoyed peace, tranquility, opulence, comfort, affluence, all with the blessing of Bin Laden in exchange for paying him off. Perhaps…what we will see is the foundation of another Bin Laden Empire based on Mafioso’s of drugs, production and marketing wise. We are on rendezvous with some terrible news that will topple the truthfulness, authenticity, validity of some major personalities that mastered playing on different ropes.

4- Bin Laden’s Festival will not end with his demise. Questions have been raised about the sustainability of Al Qaeda after him, who will lead, is it Az-Zawaahri or some unknown figure? In my estimation, Al Qaeda as an organization lost much of its glow after the fall of Taliban and its entry into the cocoon of disappearance between Tora Bora, Pakistan and Afghanistan. But Al Qaeda as a terror culture, I think it will intensify and increase with Bin Laden’s killing, especially after the collapse of current dictatorial oppressive regimes. The Salafi trend will grow and spread more and more, they will recruit more Salafi enthusiasts, producing hundreds of thousands of Bin Laden, new combatant terror organizations will sprout carrying his name, looking to avenge him…. like Al Qassam brigades in Gaza.

The Bin Laden Festival will remain in session…for they have extinguished the person and left the ideas…The Wahhabi culture will never be stopped through arms…it will instigate it.

Be in wait for more victims….

                                   

 Iran as an enemy:

 

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Iran is working hard to lead the entire Muslim World against the West and the U.S and Israel.

Iran aims to have the oil of the Persian Gulf and in central Asia, and to make – for the first time in history –its Muslim minority Shiites preside and lead the majority of Muslims who are not Shiites, and restore the glorious time of the ancient Iranian Empire when it was the Eastern power against Rome. Iran looks at the U.S as the ancient Rome, which must be fought by Iran.

The Iranian plan has two stages: Firstly: Controlling the Arab World, and then the central Asia.

Having control on Arab countries will enable Iran in the second stage to restore the Muslim countries in the central Asia and its oil fields. Some of these countries used to be Iranian territories in the middle Ages and in ancient times as well.

To achieve this, Iran must be a super power by having the atomic power to control the Muslim people and Muslim oil. Iran is in the midst of the Muslim World and in the midst of their history and civilization, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union; it is her time to lead the Muslim World against the West, Israel and the U.S. 

So, America has a new tough enemy now beside Al Qaeda and other Sunni Wahabi terrorists. By facing the U.S and Israel successfully, Iran can get the support of the Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

The most dangerous step will be when they win the silent Muslim majority which is more than one billion and some hundreds millions of people. This is the mighty challenge that The U.S has to deal with.

Until now, the Iranian influence is the biggest player in Iraq and in Lebanon; it has also reached Hamas, and other Shiite in Yemen (Al Houthy movement) and Egypt, through the Egyptian Shiites.

For many reasons, it is impossible for Iran to accomplish its dream. This is understood inside the Iranian authorities, but they take it as political maneuver to achieve their biggest and first dream, to control the (Persian Gulf) and its oil field and have the Shiites of Gulf under the Iranian custody. Iranian authorities are not interested that much in influencing the Muslim communities in the US and the West. Its concern is about its Gulf, its oil and its Shiites around its borders. Iran takes the US as enemy because the US is allying the Saudis, the ardent enemy to the Shiites and Iran, beside the US has its interest in the oil Persian Gulf as well. Here, the US has Iran as a political enemy, not as religious permanent enemy. The political enmity could be solved by different ways and different compromises, but it is not the case in the Sunni religious enmity that has no room for any deal or any compromise.

 

For more details, read these two articles:

Article 1:

 

 Did the war return between Persia and Byzantium?

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=5902

 

Originally published in Arabic on August 09 2006

 

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In this article, we are still pondering over the ongoing war in Lebanon between Hezbollah and Iran on the one side, and Israel and America on the other. We think it will revive the ancient struggle between the Persian Khosrauite Empire and the byzantine Roman Empire. A struggle that persisted until the Arab Muslims appeared on the global historical scene, bringing down the Eastern Persian Empire, shattering the Western Byzantine Empire, reducing it to a mere head in its capital with no suitable body to match.

It may sound as a strange deduction, but we ask of the reader to be patient with us until the end.

In the previous article, we described the conflict between Iran and America as a conflict over (Gas) meaning petroleum. And that Iran considers itself the real power broker in petroleum rich areas in the Gulf and Iraq, and that this region contains most of the world’s oil reserves, meaning power in the future will be in the hands of whoever controls the last oil well in this region. And without this petroleum, its reserves diminishing by the day, no vehicle will move, and no machine will turn. It is the wheel that the world’s civilization runs on, and whoever controls this wheel, from today, controls the future.

In future articles, we might broach the subject of the nature of contemporary war in this century, which America did not grasp yet, and the role of America’s war in Iraq in bringing the world to the end of America’s unilateral supremacy and the formation of new centers of power worldwide, not bi-polar like it used to be, but multi-polar with varying alliances, yet the confrontation is set between Iran and America.

 

And without going in many details, this war in this century gives Iran strong factors enabling her to face and still defeat America. This in itself answers the surprise of those who wonder about Iran being a counterpart in a military confrontation with America renewing the ancient Persian-Byzantine conflict.

Let us imagine a struggle between a Dinosaur and a Bee. A Dinosaur is as big as a skyscraper, conceited with his muscles and strength, but the size of his brain is less than one over one million the size of his body. He walks on earth, shakes everything about him, but can not see what is under his feet. The Bee, on the other hand is smart and agile, it has antennae that helps in identifying earth, air and water, it understands the battle field completely, and more importantly, understands the extent of the Dinosaur strength, and uses it against him. The fight starts between them, the bee stings him, he rages destroying every and all things in his path trying to catch the bee with its claws, and the bee swerves and maneuvers avoiding him, it stings him in his eye, unable to see he flails aimlessly trying to catch her, it buzzes next to his ear, he gets more outraged, falls in a deep gorge, beaten with tons of rocks and dirt falling on top of him, meanwhile ,the smart clever bee flies out of the dust victorious.

Rules of engagement in this age make of Iran the smart, clever and naughty bee. And if the American administration insists on dealing with other using its muscles, the end will be like that of the Dinosaur.

Let us remember that the Dinosaur during his time was THE super power, land, air and sea. His era ended and another came on the scene that he did not understand or adjust to accordingly. It was the age of the Mammals. Little mice ate his eggs, those little naughty conniving mammals, he failed to see and exterminate, yet it was those mammals that finished him off, turning him into fossils.

Dinosaur’s fossils are the most important in the American natural history museums, but the American Administration did not take heed of the Dinosaur’s fate and history, and that is the real issue for the current American Administration in dealing with the Muslims and the Middle East. It does not understand history and fails to benefit from its lessons. The word History in the American culture denotes something that died finished and has no use any more. When an American describes something or someone with “He is history” , he means it died, finished and does not exist any more. But in the culture of Arabs and Muslims it is exactly the opposite. For the historical “thing” and the historical person and whoever is mentioned in a historical context, is the more alive in the consciousness of people, even among artist (consider when a firmly established singer talks about his ARTISTIC history, or when FIFI ABDU, the virtuous lady of belly dance, brags about the history of her high-bred style of belly-dancing which extends over half a century.

Problems in the Middle East specifically, have its roots embedded historically, religiously, sectarian and denominational. You cannot deal with it without understanding the historical underpinning. The Middle East is where divine messages were sent and where human civilization started, from there human history branched off, and today is the petroleum energy storage bin for humanity, and hence the arena for warfare in this century.

America enters this arena with its muscle only, regarding Middle East history as non-existent and a dead past. The American giant is a mere newborn; he is less than three centuries old, so how will he fair compared to a village or a city in Egypt, Syria, Iraq or Iran?

In short, the Iranian Bee is familiar with its land and its history, matter of fact; its history is the essence of its Shiite religion. To Iran, history is sacred; its rituals are part of its daily and yearly life, it practices it in place and in time, in mosques and in religious sanctuaries, during the festival of A’asuhra and the rest of feasts and religious festivities. But for the American Dinosaur, he is repeating the same mistakes of Vietnam. He does not take heed of the fall of his archenemy- The former Dinosaur – The Soviet Union in the same caves of Afghanistan, the same Afghanistan whose mountains cradle Al-Qaeda now, where it wages a war of ideas against America. The essence of this war is religion and history. The American Administration is fighting back this war of ideas with military muscles; somebody please tell me, can the world’s missiles, all of it, chase religious ideas? And the American Administration occupies Iraq, putting itself right next to the bee hive, subjecting itself to its stings. And now, this naughty shrewd bee forces the American Giant to plunge into an unknown in the Iraqi quagmire, every time he tries to pull out, he sinks deeper, still heeding no advice nor learning from his mistakes, clinging to his error. So the naughty shrewd bee pulls him, along with Israel, to the Lebanese quagmire, which is more dangerous and complicated, and it could well be the last gorge for the new world order.

I hope by simplifying matters like this, the reader will recognize that Iran is on equal par, in a new war that Iran knows well about it, while America is well ignorant about it.

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Here comes the second question, as long as we are in the Middle East and its effective vibrant historical roots, is there any resemblance between the current war between Iran and America and the ancient war between Persia and Byzantium?

I say yes…and we briefly give some indicators.

The Iranian system presently, politically, culturally, Shiite-wise is the closest to the Khosrauite system. The same theocracy and the Shiite Twelvers in Iran is an honest repetition of old pre-Islamic Persian doctrines except with Arabic, Islamic symbols and names

America is the closest to Rome in terms of its political system and its representatives of congressmen and senators and with its defeat and fall, then the transfer of seat of power to the Byzantine Roman State in Constantinople, the similarity still exist in the form of Christian culture within the Neo conservatives of the Republican administration and the adherence to Christianity by the Byzantines.

The Persians and the Byzantines were feuding with one another to control the Middle East, and that is what is taking place now between Iran and America, this conflict will get more intense in the near future.

Sometimes the war between these two super powers would take place directly .The clashes were primarily enacted with in the sphere of influence in Syria, Iraq and Asia Minor. And if the direct clashes between Iran and America were to take place nowadays, the same region, add to it the Gulf would be the theater of operations.

Other times the war would be conducted by proxy. One camp aligned with Persia, the other with Byzantium .After the collapse of Ma’reb Dam in Yemen, most of Qahtani Arabs (Southern Arabs who basically dwelt in Yemen and Oman areas) migrated northward, some went to southern Iraq, The Manazera among them, managed to establish a satellite Emirate loyal to the Persians in Al-Hera, whereas their cousins, The Ghasaasena, migrated to southern Syria and established their satellite Emirate loyal to the Byzantines.

The cousins often fought one another on behalf of their respective masters. This is approximately what is going on in Lebanon today. The Arabs and the children of Israel are Semite, they are cousins, and both descended from Abraham (PBUH), and they are fighting in proxy for Iran and America. Do not say America is pro Israel; instead say America is pro oil. Israel her is a vassal of America and will understand in the future, may after it is too late, that she is the loser in this alliance, and we might return to this particular point later on.

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The reader might wonder, why Iran? Why don’t we say the Arabs are in the forefront? And Iran is helping them against Israel and America?

My reply is: in this region, the real states are only two; Iran and Egypt. Anything besides and in between is temporary. Many states appeared and disappeared in the past, and the same will happen in the future, but Iran and Egypt will remain. It is possible for Egypt, or for Iran to be occupied or removed from the sphere of influence, but both will remain genuine states. It is possible that the one might take advantage of the other’s weakness in the shadow of eternal competition between both, this competition might flourish and be evident some times, and wither and be hidden others, but ever-present despite those cycles of strength and weakness. This is a historical fact, to be discussed in detail on another occasion.

Egypt and Iran together are the pillars of the Middle East, what lies in-between (Syria, Iraq, Arabian Peninsula and gulf area) are mere geographical regions, where temporary states erupt and then vanish, owing to world power struggle, when both are weak, and a sphere of influence and point of contention for both when strong.

 Due to this competition, they were at odds in political, religious and sectarian directions. It applies to the roles of being Shiite and Sunnite here and there. For when Egypt was Shiite under the Fatimid Rule, Iran was under a Sunnite system. And when Egypt returned to the fold of Sunnite sphere, a Shiite regime appeared in Iran very fanatical about Shah Ismaa’eel A-ssefwi. And when Egypt assumed the role of leadership for Pan Arab nationalism, the Shah was reveling in his Persian pride and the Iranian peacock throne. When Egypt joined the Soviet sphere of influence, the Shah was the greatest ally for America and the genuine loyal friend to Israel. And when Sadat joined the American camp and reconciled with Israel, there came Khomeini Iran to consider America to be the Great Satan, and to celebrate the assassination of Sadat, who welcomed the Shah when no body else would.

Under Hosni Mubarak, Egypt tendered its resignation from any effective role. And by its retreat to secondary roles, (others) who mounted Egypt’s shoulders, bosses of Pan Arab Nationalism, sectarian Sunnism in those transitory temporary states in Iraq, North Africa and Arabian Peninsula, those others tried to fill the Egyptian Vacuum and lead what is known as the Arab world, they failed, and because of them, the Arabs failed too. Pan –Arab Nationalism died, Saddam walked in its funeral procession when he invaded Kuwait, Qaddafi read its eulogy when he turned to Africa. There is no existence for Arabs or Pan Arab Nationalism without an effective dynamic Egypt.

 Without Egypt, the coast was clear for Iran to spread its hegemony over the Arabs and the Middle East, and in order for her to have a role in the future; Iran has to control the oil reserves of the Middle East before America exhausts it. This oil will be in the future the essence of life.

With the Egyptian absence, America and Israel exercise control over the Middle East. They both are the obstacle in her effort to control the Arabs. By confronting America and Israel, Iranian leadership ismaterialized, not only in the Middle East, but throughout the world, all within new war criteria perfected by the Iranian Bee and ignored by the American Dinosaur

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A reader might wonder; what about the Muslim Umma (the whole body of Muslims)?

Why don’t we say ,the Muslim Umma, is in the forefront , and Muslim Iran assists its Muslim Umma against the Jews and the Christians?

Quranic Truths, Historical Truths and Truths in today’s Iraq and the realities we are living in, all negates what is referred to as Muslim Umma. Yes, there are Shiite nations, with varying Shiite denominations, agree amongst themselves in fundamental concepts, but differ in secondary issues. And there are Sunni nations that will never agree to mend relations with the Shiite nations. The war between the two sets of nations, started with the beginning of Arab conquest, and it has been going on ever since. Some of those landmark battles constitute the basis for the Shiite faith, like Karbala and Aashura. Anyone reading the history of the Abbasid era during the medieval ages will get acquainted with how much the Shiites in Al-Kerekh in Baghdad suffered at the hands of the Sunnites for centuries, the serial story of the Shiite suffering is still going on since the medieval times till now. The animosity between the extremists of both factions by far exceeds the animosity towards America and Israel. All efforts of rapprochement among sects are nothing but gathering strength for another bout in a continuous long conflict and an attempt by one group to deceive the other.

These are painful truths we must admit to and recognize if we were seeking a true permanent solution. To jump over it with shiny, deceptive slogans, is a misleading practice that has to stop to save that innocent blood being shed every day in Iraq

There is no such thing as one Muslim nation. It is a fact. What is more painful of a fact, is that the dispersal of Shiite and Sunnite denominations, discordant, disharmonious, conflicting and clashing, all lack a strong coherent leadership and a cause that solidifies the masses against a common enemy. Adding another dimension to this dispersal is the possibility to attract another one from the non-Muslim world under the banner of “the dispossessed on Earth”…This world consists of masses brimming with discontent, looking and searching for a strong leader, emerging out of the womb of the unseen, riding a white horse to deliver them out of their misery, bringing them justice and comfort. They do not care if it was (Viva Zapata), Guevara, or the Awaited Mehdi (Savior). They do not care if it was Chaves or Hassan Nasrallah, as long as America is the Enemy.

Based on that, it is a golden opportunity for Shiite Iran to dominate the Muslims and the dispossessed in the world raising the slogan: Jihad Against The Arrogant On Earth, America and Israel. The biased American Policy coupled with Israel’s cruelty in attacking civilians in Palestine and Lebanon, gives Iran glad tidings of victory in the future, starting NOW. It is enough to consider that Al-Qaeda, the most ardent enemy of Shiite, extended its hand to Iran, which means that this war waged by America and Israel, against Lebanon and Palestine today, will enable Iran to lead a billion and a half Muslims, in addition to hundreds of millions of other in this small universal village, and confront the American Giant in their name.

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The reader might still be wondering; if it is so…what is the historical connection between Iran and Persia on the one side, and America and Byzantium on the other? And how it is related to the world struggle between them?

To that, I respond: since the beginning of recorded history and the world is divided into two feuding camps, Eastern and Western. The military feud started with the western power represented by pharaoh’s Egypt under Remsis the 2nd and the Eastern power of the Hittite. It was then, that the first peace treaty in history took place. After that, the struggle between East and West continued, and the areas of conflict expanded to cover the whole Middle East.

In the last century, the Soviet Union burst on the scene facing America, and the arena of confrontation widened to include, in addition to the Middle East, other places like Latin America, Africa and Asia.

 In an exceptional historical period, this middle ground area, the arena of military confrontation between the two warring powers, was able to rise and take hold of the reins of global conflict, representing one of the warring factions. This coup came about from a region; no one paid it any mind or attention, the Arabian Peninsula. After the passing of prophet Mohammad (PBUH), the Arabs surged out in a tremendous wave, fighting both superpowers at the same time, and in a very short record time completely obliterated  the Persian super power, passing it by to reach central Asia, India and China eastward. And at the western front, they defeated the Byzantine might, laid siege to its capitol twice, and the Mediterranean became an Arab lake. They continued with their conquests till they reached southern France.

With these achievements, the Arabs came to represent the East facing Europe and the West. With these conquests, the Arabs acquired two enemies:

An external one, represented by Byzantine Roman Empire, the feud between them and the Umayyad then the Abbasid lasted until the arrival of the crusaders who occupied parts of Syria and Asia Minor. That was the Western enemy outside the boundaries.

 The other enemy was from within. They were the sons of the firmly-rooted Persian Empire destroyed by the Arabs. Its people turned into (Mawali),in the newly formed Arab Empire, to serve as partisans and subjects of the fourth degree in the Umayyad era, those Persian partisans where the pillars of every revolt against the Umayyad, among them ,the creed of Shiites started to flourish, and within that sect , the Persian doctrines (of believing in two Gods, one representing what is good and light, and the other representing what is evil and dark), became part of the Shiite doctrine, known as (disavowing and clientage) , or devotion for and deifying of Ali Ben Abi Talib and his offspring, representing goodness and light, and hatred and damnation of Abu Bakr, Omar , Ossmaan and Mu’aaweya representing evil and darkness. And if you thought of who the gods of evil were in their culture, you will find them to be those who decimated and befell the Persian empire---Abu Bakr, Omar, Ossmaan, etc..

 Then the Persian managed to bring down the Umayyad State, for they were the backbone of the Abbasid army led by (Abu Muslim Al-Khurasaani) , who held Persian tendencies and sentiments, so the Abbasid for his assassination , his followers revolted led by his daughter Fatima .the Persian rebellions against the Abbasid since, had always had connotations to revive Persian religions and doctrines, even with the presence of (Shu’oobeyya-The refusal to recognize a privileged position for Arabs within the state), which in essence was fanaticism for Persian nationalism, and the presence of various forms of Shiite expressions, the open, public, and the hidden secret. The Persian Shiites were able to form many states for themselves in Iran; the most important among them was the Safawi Dynasty, which because of it, Ismail Safawi murdered one million people, and fomented a feud between the two Sunnite states, the Memluk and the Ottoman, that ended with the downfall of the Memluk at the hands of the Ottoman in 1517.

 At the end, came this current Persian Shiite state, a mixture of Persian nationalism and Persian Shiite religion. It came to renew in our times, the behavior of the Khosrau state and its struggle with the Western power that by coincidence happened to be America. Its feud with America will realize her goal in leadership of the East and in exploiting its resources. This feud appeared in a more suitable time for Iran, at the international level, when both America and Israel are suffering from the worst wave of hatred, and at the local level, by having Egypt removed from the regional equilibrium formula, and at the Arab level, by having the Arab League declaring the demise of the Arab brethren.

With no consolations to the full brother: Hosni Mubarak.

 

Second article:

 

A Guide for the Puzzled In The Affairs of Iran

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/show_article.php?main_id=5878

 

Originally published in Arabic on 06-08-2006

 

 In the Arabic language, there are two types of verbs; transitive and intransitive. The intransitive verb needs only a subject. You say, “Mohammad rose”, “Ali Stood up”, “Ossmaan shouted”. The transitive verb requires an object. You say “Mubarak murdered the Egyptians”. The verb here is “murdered”, and the subject is “Mubarak”, that is President Hosni Mubarak, and the object is “The Egyptians”. You say also “Mubarak plundered Egypt’s wealth”. The verb is plundered, the subject is Mubarak, and the object is the wealth, possessed by Egyptians, but plundered by Mubarak. Along the same format of transitive verbs, you say, “Mubarak corrupted the Egyptian political life”, “Mubarak wasted Egyptians’ dreams”, “Mubarak drowned Egypt in debts” and “Mubarak forged the elections”…etc….

Every verb requires a subject; otherwise it would not be a verb. In the Arabic language, the subject could be either known or unknown, meaning you do not mention his name because, either you do not know him or because you are afraid to mention it. So if you were in Egypt surrounded by State Security Officers, you would say “Egypt’s wealth WAS plundered”. The subject could be very well known, like the previous examples, or could be a prominent pronoun, like when you say “They plundered Egypt”. The subject here is “They”, meaning Mubarak family, his aids and the leadership of his governing party. Or the subject might be a hidden pronoun like “He had plundered Egypt”, the hidden pronoun or subject here is “HE”, meaning Hosni Mubarak.

Language is an evolving “being”, if we can borrow this term, which conveys messages about, and describes people, their actions and modes of thinking. Sometimes it describes the types of policies followed by some states. There are intransitive states (non-aggressive) concerned with improving their economies, raising their inhabitants’ standard of living, ensuring their well being and protecting themselves. Because they are intransitive (non-aggressive) states, usually they are peaceful. You will find this type in most of nowadays Europe excluding England. And there are other transitive states (aggressive), which live by the logic of force alone, disregarding justice. Those transitive (aggressive) states are of two types; a dictatorial type that practices its aggression upon its own people first, then outside its boundaries, given the opportunity. Another type is a liberal democratic which because of arrogance of power, it interferes in the affairs of others. Prime example is America under the leadership of the Neo Conservatives. It is noble of Super Powers to interfere to enforce human rights and to help the oppressed under tyrannical regimes, this is considered mutual cooperation in spreading what is good and beneficial, democracy, justice and lofty principles in our small universal village. Yet, for America to invade Iraq to spread democracy, at the same time that its allies in the Middle East are the worst of oppressors, she will be committing a grave mistake, the cost of which will be borne by its name, its reputation, its history and its value system. As a Super Power, there are moral obligations she has to uphold.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Neo Conservatives in America had to find a replacement enemy for them to contend with. Instead of them creating this new enemy, the theocratic regime ruling in Iran at that time, offered the Neo Cons. a golden opportunity by starting this feud through occupying the American embassy in Tehran, thereby contradicting all values, Islamic, human and legal, serving the Neo Cons. the best favor they could have hoped for. And that is how enmity started between two (Transitive) states, one the sole remaining Super Power, the other belongs to the third world, determined to spread its brand of Shiite Islam throughout the Muslim world.

By doing so, as if it was putting to practice an old Egyptian proverb since the Memluk period… (Going astray…yet insisting upon leading the prayers…By God this is pitiful)

 Iran belongs to the transitive(Aggressor ) dictatorship

This type in turn is divided into two kinds, a kind that restricts its injustice and aggression to its own people, appearing to outsiders as peaceful, yet submissive and obedient to Super Powers. To this kind belong most if not all oppressive Arab regimes, in the forefront is Mubarak’s regime and Al Basheer’s in Sudan, who shoved his buddy At-Turaabi in jail, after burying his concept of spreading Sudanese Wahhabism throughout the Muslim world. The other kind of this specimen is the dictatorial kind, who in addition to suppressing his own people; he tries it on outsiders and interferes in their internal affairs under different guises: religious, like exporting the Islamic revolution (Iran), creed reforms (Saudi Arabia), Baathist, Arab nationalistic (like Saddam with Kuwait and Al- Assad, the father and the son with Lebanon), or propagandized, arabized, revolutionized, socialized, greenishized, populist-sized, grandiose-sized, Africanized, whatever-sized , as Qaddafi, Wonder of his Times, had us all entertained .

The oil upheaval, which came unexpectedly on the scene, was the common denominator among all those repressive (transitive) regimes, inside and outside its boundaries, and instead of using this bounty to improve their citizenry’s standard of living, they wasted that wealth in wars, corruption and conspiracy, and because of them, the Middle East became front page news in the world, not in accomplishments, progress or acts of charity, rather in evilness, disgrace, murder, bombardment, destruction, kidnapping, ransoms, massacres and famines.

Iran, and by that, we always mean the theocracy, stands out as a unique model among those transgressing dictatorial regimes, internally and externally. It claims that they are defending the oppressed Shiite throughout the Sunnite dominated Muslim world, yet it persecutes the minority Sunnite within Iran, especially the Arabs in the regions that once was Arabic, but was annexed at the turn of the last century. Even in its assistance to Arab political and religious organizations, to carry out its aggressive plots, it does not fully trust those movements, either for ethnic differences or sectarian ones. As a consequence to their policies, the Shiite Muslims, within the vast Sunnite Muslim Ocean, suffer a great deal from their oppressive regimes and from the Wahabi thought at the same time.

 Iran, after its Khomenite revolution, did not do much for the poor and dispossessed, as in any other revolution, the new revolutionaries occupied the dwellings of those oppressors who preceded them, and the wealth was diverted to the pockets of the new saviors, while poor Iranians remained wrapped in black tatters in wait for the promised Mahdi (awaited Savior) to bring them the impossible justice. In the shadow of a lame democracy, the Iranians expressed their discontent with the elites’ corruption, by electing a simple man who camouflages the flimsiness of his experience with sectarian and political extremism, and that is how Ahmadinijad came to power, who does not know the difference between responsible political statements and wisecracks and jokes exchanged between commoners at coffee shops and clubs. President Nijad caused quite a stir of worldwide protests with his uncalled for statements that caused the Iranian ministry of foreign affairs to explain ,re interpret and sometimes, indirectly apologize for. Then came the straw that broke the camel back, when he positioned Iran in a confrontation with the international community over his insistence on uranium enrichment and developing Iran’s nuclear program.

The West thinks that nuclear power should not fall in the hands of a dictator, who rules by himself with no laws and regulations to abide by. A dictator who finds no one to stand up to him, in case of a decision which might affect and literally wipe out millions. An oppressor as such, can always disdain the lives of millions of his own people and others. He can, if he posses nuclear power, easily use it, as he easily uses his military and police force in quelling any opposition, in killing thousands of his people and in fomenting and starting wars with others. Saddam used poisonous gas in extinguishing the lives of tens of thousands of innocent peaceful Iraqi farmers. And Khomeini killed, or using revolutionary terms, sent to heaven, tens of thousands of young Iranians in the war with Iraq, he put them in front of regular units, to clear with their bodies mine fields. They rushed to those suicide missions, egged on by his fatwas promising them paradise. In a letter that instilled fear in the West, Khomeini wrote Carter, that we love death more than you love life.

This utter disregard for sanctity of human life is the culture of the Eastern tyrant, his intellectual provision and historical cultural heritage, that is why, he would not have any qualms about using the nuclear power if he had access to it, and that is why every one of them, tyrannical aggressors, aspiring to extend their sphere of influence internally and externally, vow to acquire that power, for no reason except to duel with those Superpowers that possess nuclear capabilities but do not use, for fear of nuclear retaliation, and because of restrictions set by its people and their representatives, and because of that sense of responsibility towards humanity. Since Hiroshima, America never used, nor any other state, used nuclear power, content to just improve upon it to deter others from launching an offence.

Israel which belongs to western culture and its democratic system, maintains a humble nuclear arsenal for defensive reasons. The West understands the reasons and motives behind Israel’s need for such a move. Security is the key to Israeli psyche. Because of historical factors (The Israelis, despite their low numbers, were the most among others, subjected to persecution and slaughter throughout history), and because of present reasons, for there are many a voice calling for their extermination, being a minority surrounded by large numbers of Arabs and Muslims who hate and despise them, the West recognizes the importance of a nuclear bomb for Israel, to deter those Arab tyrants from even thinking of overcoming Israel, if given the opportunity, and to induce them to acknowledge its right to exist. And finally, the West is certain that Israel will never use the nuclear option unless its very existence is threatened, otherwise Israel can and have defended itself using the same weapon that the Arabs have. The West also recognizes that Israel’s use of nuclear power will be disastrous even for Israel itself, because of its small surface area and because of the intertwining of its border with neighboring countries. That is the reason the West allows Israel to acquire nuclear power and prevents the other dictatorships from doing the same.

You might agree with the West in this regard or you might not, you might accuse this West of measuring with two sets of measures, but Iran with its nuclear policy, is the one that gives credence to the West’s argument.

The important question here is what is the motive for Iran to arm itself with nuclear power?  She does not have enemy occupying parts of her land; rather it is Iran who is occupying Arab islands, its Arab neighbors are weaker than to demand their rights, they rush for its approval and not to anger her. Iran’s neighbors are not in a state of hostility with her. America’s dilemma in Iraq strengthened Iran; the removal of Saddam added a new magnitude she did not dream of before. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of those republics with Islamic ties which are reviving their Islamic roots, added a new depth for Iran she can move about within its perimeter peacefully and politically for its advantage. Russia, with all its nuclear capabilities, is the friendliest among Iran’s friends. All geographical and political factors enable Iran to accomplish peacefully and easily all objectives; besides, Iranian oil allows her to extend its political influence as far as China and Japan eastward and Europe westward.

Therefore, Iran does not need nuclear power to defend itself against a lurking enemy ready to pounce on her; rather it needs it to disturb and annoy the “Greatest Devil”, America and its western allies, according to that age old conviction whereby the world is divided into two camps, the abode of faith or peace, and the abode of disbelief or war. Khomeini himself started this war by occupying the American embassy in Tehran, and by taking unilateral measures to foment this conflict since the breakout of the Iranian religious revolution in 1979.

It is normal for the West to feel threatened by the Iranian nucl">What the Iranian state is doing now, the Venerable Colonel Qaddafi of Libya tried in earnest and vigorously, although he was in no state of war with anyone, except that he put himself and his country in a state of war with everybody. He wanted the nuclear bomb as a medal to adorn his chest on the Arab and African level, and to tease the envious among the Arab leaders and to scare them when attending summit meetings. So when Brother Saddam Hussein was toppled and put in a cage for the world to see, the Venerable Colonel backed off, repented and came to his senses seeking pardon and forgiveness and declared surrender to Uncle Sam.

Nijad the Iranian proved Qaddafi to be better than him, since Qaddafi had some leftover sense, made him back off before it was too late .But Nijad the Iranian kept the world at bay with his tactics, instead of taking advantage of the situation in Iraq peacefully and politically to garner local and regional gains .The whole world now is against Iran who forfeited the compulsory duty and held on to the impossible, or at least to the supererogatory, non-compulsory.

Before hanging on and being dragged by these nuclear dreams, did the Iranian regime fulfill or accomplish a scientific, economic and social renaissance for the country and its people? Did it utilize its petroleum wealth? Did it take advantage of its agricultural, industrial and mineral output? It is of higher importance for the regime to uplift, to upgrade, to advance the country and its people by completely eliminating poverty, ignorance and disease, and to give every Iranian the opportunity to soar inside and outside his country, after we accomplish those lofty goals, we can turn to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, keeping in mind that, the advanced world started to abandon using it for the dangers associated with it, and the difficulty in getting rid of its waste, and the hardship in maintaining its reactors.

Regrettably, the periodic quakes that afflict Iran, exposes the other Iran to the world, where poor condition villages, disintegrating homes, prevailing poverty and local authorities who always get caught off guard with those earthquakes and never prepares for them, reek havoc on thousands of victims every time it happens because of limited capabilities.

Here we are forced, regrettably again, to pose another question, How can a backward country like that be determined to enter the nuclear club?

Here we are not only talking about human rights abuses, citizenship rights, inequity in distribution of wealth, the spread of poverty and disease, abuse of management, lack of transparency, the dominance of corruption and the sway of dictatorship, all the above is enjoyed by Iran and the Arab States together; but we are also talking about the absence of a certain scientific level and a technological culture that qualifies the Iranian Mentality to reach the desired nuclear level. This scientific and technological level is still far off for Iran, Pakistan and the rest of the Middle Eastern countries. This level is achieved step by step beginning with manufacturing locally an automobile engine all the way to the heights of scientific and technological advancement culminating with nuclear industry. By doing so, a country can recognize its dangers even in peaceful use, also for protection as a deterrent to prevent military aggression. It is a contemporary culture living the present, and working for the future, according to a secularist methodology that you cannot find, especially in Iran. Iran of today is still preoccupied with the murder of Al-Hussein in Karbala’ and what took place at Asseqeefa pledge of allegiance and at battle of Seffeen. It considers its religion is to back Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib against Abu Bekr, Omer, Othman and Mu’aaweya.To them, this is the basis of religion and life itself, not just a mere historical incident that went by. If your respectful self, got entangled with this past vanishing history, considered it to be a religion, a policy, a doctrine and the issue of today and tomorrow, you would not have enough time left to specialize in current scientific knowledge, including nuclear and atomic partition and its technology. If you messed around with atomic power, you would be like a child playing with live electric wires. There must be a scientific foundation, scientific methodology, and scientific culture that spread gradually through out the society by study and research, application and practice eventually leading to higher levels. This is what the West followed through its course of advancement for decades and for centuries. But this revolutionary jumping from manufacturing cart and bicycles to importing specialists and replacement parts to build a nuclear bomb or military vehicle, this will not create a scientific foundation. This “revolutionary skip and hop” in the scope of Technological knowledge is identical to the “revolutionary poverty” in the field of Economics .Iran and the Arabs, both are victims of those two types, poverty and jumping.

Finally…Perhaps what keeps the dream of reforming Iran alive and well; is the presence of some elite educated and enlightened Iranians, inside Iran and outside, leading in that effort is the Iranian Cinema and its excellence in international forums, at a time when the Egyptian Cinema, due to blessed (Mubarak), regress reached the abyss of decline.

In the movie (Children Of Heaven), the plot revolves around a boy and a girl, living with their parents in a small narrow room, in one of Tehran’s poor neighborhoods. The father is semi-unemployed, incapable of supporting his family. The boy took his little sister’s shoe to repair it, but he lost it. He was faced with a problem, for he could not tell his father, and his sister needed her only shoe to go to school. The solution was for him to give her his shoes to go to school ,waits for her to finish her class, gets his shoes and runs back to school late, subjecting himself to reproach for being late, never divulging the reason why. The sister found out that another girl in the school was wearing her shoes, so they followed the girl to retrieve her shoes; they found out that the girl lives with her blind father, a beggar. They went back embarrassed to ask for the shoes. The father takes his son along looking for work. Here, the brilliant director gives us glimpses about the other side of Tehran, its luxurious, splendid castles and its charming public parks. The boy enters a contest at school hoping to win the third prize; a pair of shoes. But because of his bad luck, he wins the first prize, a trophy; the boy did not even get the trophy, because the school principal kept it. The boy, the scholastically outstanding boy, lost all hope in getting the shoes. That was the end of the movie.

This wonderful, magnificent film representing Iranian Cinema, won prizes at Cannes film festival, for its simplicity, Sincerity and its human touch. It said plenty through its cinematic language without a single word in the script criticizing or blaming. He left it up to the viewer to say what the movie intended to say.

After watching the movie, I said to myself; wouldn’t it been better for president Nijadi to have bought a pair of shoes for the star of the movie, instead of the adventure of nuclear partition?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 3

 

Define the title in discoursing Muslims: (Justice for all)

 

Islam between peace and justice

 

1 - Islam is the religion of peace in dealing with people. Any peaceful human is a Muslim according to his/her peaceful behavior regardless of his/her faith. No one has the authority to judge people’s faith. It is only up to Allah on the Day of Judgment.

On contrary, idol worshippers, infidels, or atheists in dealing with people are those who use religion or any ideology in killing people and persecuting them. We consider them criminals and terrorists according to their crimes, not their faith.

Islam in faith is the religion of submission to Allah, the Only God who gives us unlimited freedom of belief and speech to be responsible before Him in the Last Day. Allah ordered Mohamed to say : (039.046  :Say: O Allah! Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen! Thou (only) judge between Thy servants as to that wherein they differ.).  So, humans should live in peace regardless of their different religions, colors, gender and cultures.

2- Islam also is the religion of Justice. All the Holy messages, all the prophets and the messengers of Allah in human history have one mission; establish justice in this earth, or (Justice for all). Allah says: ( 057.025  :We sent aforetime our messengers with Clear Signs and sent down with them the Book and the Balance (of Right and Wrong), that men establish justice; and We sent down Iron, in which is (material for) mighty war, as well as many benefits for mankind, that Allah may test who it is that will help, Unseen, Him and His messengers: For Allah is Full of Strength, Exalted in Might (and able to enforce His Will). ). Without justice it will be war and bloodsheds. So Iron, the symbol of war is the alternative of the Holy book. In Islam, there are two kind of justice, in faith and in dealing with people.

Islamic justice in behavior in dealing with people

1-Generally Allah orders us to maintain justice among other high values: ( 016.090:Surely Allah enjoins the doing of justice and forgiveness and the giving to the kindred, and He forbids indecency and evil and rebellion; He admonishes you that you may be mindful. ).Allah ordered the Prophet Mohamed to say:(007.029:Say: My Lord has enjoined justice,)

Justice in court is more needed for the safety of the society: ( 004.058 : Surely Allah commands you to make over trusts to their owners and that when you judge between people you judge with justice; surely Allah admonishes you with what is excellent; surely Allah is Seeing, Hearing. ).

 

2- Justice could be violated by friendship and / or enmity. Most of people prejudge their enemies even their enemies have the right situation and incline to support their friends and relatives, even they are wrong. The biggest challenge is upholding justice equally in dealing with your enemies and your relatives and friends. In the time of wrong, bloodsheds, and persecution, the Holy Quran has ordered Muslims to uphold Justice of equality between friends and enemies. Allah says: ( 004.135  : O you who believe! be maintainers of justice, bearers of witness of Allah's sake, though it may be against your own selves or (your) parents or near relatives; if he be rich or poor, Allah is nearer to them both in compassion; therefore do not follow (your) ego, lest you deviate; and if you swerve or turn aside, then surely Allah is aware of what you do. ).

Allah also says:(  005.008  : O you who believe! Be upright for Allah, bearers of witness with justice, and let not hatred of a people incite you not to act equitably; act equitably, that is nearer to piety, and be careful of (your duty to) Allah; surely Allah is Aware of what you do. )

Maintaining justice is a big part of the ten commandments in Islam: (006.152: And do not approach the property of the orphan except in the best manner until he attains his maturity, and give full measure and weight with justice-- We do not impose on any soul a duty except to the extent of its ability; and when you speak, then be just though it be (against) a relative, and fulfill Allah's covenant; this He has enjoined you with that you may be mindful.).

3- Prophet Mohamed was ordered to uphold justice in dealing with Jews who were around his Islamic State. : ( 042.015 :To this then go on inviting, and go on steadfastly on the right way as you are commanded, and do not follow their low desires, and say: I believe in what Allah has revealed of the Book, and I am commanded to do justice between you: Allah is our Lord and your Lord; we shall have our deeds and you shall have your deeds; no plea need there be (now) between us and you: Allah will gather us together, and to Him is the return. )

Some of them tried to deceive the Prophet Mohamed, Allah said to him: ( 005.042:(They are) listeners of a lie, devourers of what is forbidden; therefore if they come to you, judge between them or turn aside from them, and if you turn aside from them, they shall not harm you in any way; and if you judge, judge between them with justice ; surely Allah loves those who judge equitably.  005.043 :And how do they make you a judge and they have the Torah  wherein is Allah's judgment? Yet they turn back after that, and these are not the believers.005.044 :Surely We revealed the Torah, in which was guidance and light; with it the prophets who submitted themselves (to Allah) judged (matters) for those who were Jews, and the masters of Divine knowledge and the doctors, because they were required to guard (part) of the Book of Allah,) .

 Justice has many details in the Islamic Jurisprudence.

For example:

In dealing with the orphan:

 ( 004.002: To orphans restore their property (When they reach their age), nor substitute (your) worthless things for (their) good ones; and devour not their substance (by mixing it up) with your own. For this is indeed a great sin. ). (004.127: .. and that you should deal towards orphans with justice ;). (002.220:  . And they ask you concerning the orphans Say: To set right for them (their affairs) is good, and if you become co-partners with them, they are your brethren; and Allah knows the mischief-maker and the pacemaker. )

In the fields of debts and writings them

 Allah says: (002.282:O you who believe! when you deal with each other in contracting a debt for a fixed time, then write it down; and let a scribe write it down between you with fairness; and the scribe should not refuse to write as Allah has taught him, so he should write; and let him who owes the debt dictate, and he should be careful of (his duty to) Allah, his Lord, and not diminish anything from it; but if he who owes the debt is unsound in understanding, or weak, or (if) he is not able to dictate himself, let his guardian dictate with fairness; and call in to witness from among your men two witnesses; but if there are not two men, then one man and two women from among those whom you choose to be witnesses, so that if one of the two errs, the second of the two may remind the other; and the witnesses should not refuse when they are summoned; and be not averse to writing it (whether it is) small or large, with the time of its falling due; this is more equitable in the sight of Allah and assures greater accuracy in testimony, and the nearest (way) that you may not entertain doubts (afterwards), except when it is ready merchandise which you give and take among yourselves from hand to hand, then there is no blame on you in not writing it down; and have witnesses when you barter with one another, and let no harm be done to the scribe or to the witness; and if you do (it) then surely it will be a transgression in you, and be careful of (your duty) to Allah, Allah teaches you, and Allah knows all things. ).

In buying and selling:

(011.085 :And, O my people! give full measure and weight fairly, and defraud not men their things, and do not act corruptly in the land, making mischief  )

026.182 :And weigh (things) with a right balance, 026.183 :And do not wrong men of their things, and do not act corruptly in the earth, making mischief.  )

(   017.035  :And give full measure when you measure out, and weigh with a true balance; this is fair and better in the end. )

(055.007::And the heaven, He raised it high, and He made the balance .055.008 :That you may not be inordinate in respect of the measure. 055.009 :And keep up the balance with equity and do not make the measure deficient).

(083.001 :Woe to the defrauders, 083.002 :Those who, when they have to receive by measure from men, exact full measure, 083.003 :But when they have to give by measure or weight to men, give less than due. 083.004 :Do not these think that they shall be raised again .083.005 :On a Mighty Day, 083.006 :The day on which men shall stand before the Lord of the worlds?  )

In the international affairs:

( 049.009 :And if two parties of the believers quarrel, make peace between them; but if one of them acts wrongfully towards the other, fight that which acts wrongfully until it returns to Allah's command; then if it returns, make peace between them with justice and act equitably; surely Allah loves those who act equitably. ).

( 060.008  :Allah does not forbid you respecting those who have not made war against you on account of (your) religion, and have not driven you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly; surely Allah loves the doers of justice. 060.009  :Allah only forbids you, with regard to those who fight you for (your) Faith, and drive you out of your homes, and support (others) in driving you out, from turning to them (for friendship and protection). It is such as turn to them (in these circumstances), that do wrong. )

Justice in faith

 

It means to believe in Allah alone and to worship Him alone, without idolizing any creatures beside Him. He is the only God because He is the only One who created us.

It is against justice to worship anyone and/ or anything beside Him. Allah says: ( 007.191  : What! they associate (with Him) that which does not create anything, while they are themselves created! ),( 016.017  : Is then He Who creates like one that creates not? Will ye not receive admonition? ). Some idols are dead, put in sacred tombs, but billions of people – including Muslims - worship those dead idols. It was in the time of the Prophet Mohamed and it still in our time. Allah says:  ( 016.020   Those whom they invoke besides Allah create nothing and are themselves created.  016.021  : Dead (are they), not living, and they know not when they shall be raised. 016.022  : Your Allah is one Allah ).

Allah is addressing all of them in any time saying :  ( 025.003 : And they have taken besides Him gods, who do not create anything while they are themselves created, and they control not for themselves any harm or profit, and they control not death nor life, nor raising (the dead) to life.)

It is unjust to deal with Allah in such way. The wise man Luqman said to his son: (031.013  Behold, Luqman said to his son by way of instruction: "O my son! Join not in worship (others) with Allah: for false worship is indeed the highest wrong-doing.”).

 

Most of Muslims idolizing Mohamed

 

Muslims have many religious differences, but most of Muslims are idolizing Mohamed and other saints and Imams. Every Muslim sect has its own idols but all of them in their practical actual religious life believe in Mohamed as a real God beside Allah. They do not say it directly like Christians in their belief in Jesus, but they male Mohamed partner beside Allah in their faith and their worshipping. Idolizing Mohamed, Jesus and / or any mortal contradicts Islamic faith.

The human nature of Mohamed is confirmed many times in the Quran:

( 018.110 :Say: "I am but a man like yourselves, (but) the inspiration has come to me, that your Allah is one Allah: whoever expects to meet his Lord, let him work righteousness, and, in the worship of his Lord, admit no one as partner. )

(010.002  :What! is it a wonder to the people that We revealed to a man from among themselves,).(062.002  :He it is Who raised among the  Gentiles  an Messenger from among themselves, who recites to them His verses and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and the Wisdom, although they were before certainly in clear error,  )

 Do not believe in Mohamed but believe in the Quran, the message revealed to him

 There is no believing in Mohamed or any prophet as a person. The belief is in the message that was revealed to him from Allah. So, the belief in the messenger of Allah means belief in the message itself. The word (Mohamed ) comes in the Quran four times to confirm him as a mortal. In one of them Allah says: ( 047.002 :And (as for) those who believe and do good, and believe in what has been revealed to Muhammad, and it is the very truth from their Lord, He will remove their evil from them and improve their condition. ). It does not say (believe in Mohamed) but (and believe in what has been revealed to Muhammad). But most of Muslims add Mohamed as partner to Allah in their Muslim creed in a manifest contradiction to the Islamic doctrinal creed.

The Islamic doctrinal creed is one, not two

1-It is one only: There is no god but Allah. But most Muslims insist to make it two, saying (There is no god but Allah and Mohamed is his messenger).

2- During his life in Mecca, the Prophet Mohamed tried hard to reform the idol worshipper to say only (there is no god but Allah) but they insisted on adding their idols beside Allah, accusing Mohamed to be mad poet.: ( 037.035 :Surely they used to behave proudly when it was said to them: There is no god but Allah; 037.036  :And to say: What! shall we indeed give up our gods for the sake of a mad poet? ) Allah said to them: (037.037:Nay: he has come with the truth and verified the messengers.).

3-It is a common belief in idol worshipping to refuse to believe in Allah as the only One God. They usually insist to add partners. They disbelieve in one God. They believe in Allah if there are partners with Him. In the last Day they will be in hell fire trying – in vain - to repent , but Allah will say to them : (040.012 :That is because when Allah alone was called upon, you disbelieved, and when associates were given to Him, you believed; so judgment belongs to Allah, the High, the Great.).

Actually, most of humans are the same in this regard. Allah says: (012.106:And most of them believe not in Allah without associating (other as partners) with Him!). So Allah said to the Prophet Mohamed about the majority of the mankind: (006.116:And if you obey most of those in the earth, they will lead you astray from Allah's way; they follow but conjecture and they only lie.).

During Mohamed’s life, the majority of people refused to believe in Allah alone and refuse to utter the creed of Islam (There is no god but Allah). Some centuries after his death, Muslims idolize Mohamed himself adding him as a partner to Allah. Until now, they refuse to say the Islamic creed (There is no god but one God, Allah). They disbelieve in it unless it becomes (There is no god but One God, Allah, and Mohamed is His messenger).

The one Islamic doctrinal creed is confirmed in the Quran in different ways. One of them is ( Al Tashahhod) or the pure Islamic creed which is a part of the Islamic five daily prayers; ( ( 003.018 :Allah bears witness that there is no god but He, and (so do) the angels and those possessed of knowledge, maintaining His creation with justice; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise. 003.019 :Surely the (true) religion with Allah is Islam.). Most of Muslims neglect saying ( Al Taheyyat) in which they greet Mohamed in their daily five prayers.

4- All prophets before Mohamed were ordered to say this Islamic creed, pronouncing it by their different languages: ( 021.025 :And We did not send before you any messenger but We revealed to him that there is no god but Me, therefore serve Me. ).

Mohamed, the final prophet was ordered to say it and to know it: ( 047.019 :So know that there is no god but Allah). He was ordered to say: ( 039.011 :Say (O Muhammad): Lo! I am commanded to worship Allah, making religion pure for Him (only).  039.012 :And I am commanded that I shall be the first of those who submit. 039.013 :Say: I fear, if I disobey my Lord, the chastisement of a grievous day. 039.014 :Say: Allah (it is Whom) I serve, being sincere to Him in my obedience: 039.015 :Serve then what you like besides Him. Say: The losers surely are those who shall have lost themselves and their families on the day of resurrection; now surely that is the clear loss. )

Islamic mosques are for worshipping Allah only

1-Quraysh in distorting (Millat Ebraheem) , the religion of Abraham, used to worship Allah and idols in the same mosques. Mohamed as a prophet announced to them that mosques should be for worshipping Allah only. They crowded on him, trying to kill him. This is mentioned in the Quran: ( 072.018  :And that the mosques are Allah's, therefore call not upon any one with Allah: 072.019  :And that when the servant of Allah stood up calling upon Him, they crowded on him (to death). 072.020  :Say: I only call upon my Lord, and I do not associate any one with Him. ).

2- Some centuries after Mohamed’s death, most of Muslims have idolized Mohamed himself in mosques, adding him in (Azan) or calling for prayers and adding his name beside Allah in their mosques. If you try to admonish them reciting the Quranic verse : ( 072.018  :And that the mosques are Allah's, therefore call not upon any one with Allah), they will try to kill you , exactly as the infidals of Quraysh in the time of the Prophet Mohamed: (   072.019  :And that when the servant of Allah stood up calling upon Him, they crowded on him (to death). Then you should say: (072.020:Say: I only call upon my Lord, and I do not associate any one with Him.).

Do not make Mohamed distinguished among prophets. Make no difference between one and another of them. Do not make any distinction between any of them.

1-Most of Muslims - in idolizing Mohamed – believe that he is the master of all prophets and the best among them. Some believe that he was created from the holy light of Allah as a part from Allah, or a copy from Him, means his son, saying the same creed of the Christians in Jesus but in different expression. Sufi Muslims believe that Allah has created all the universe just for Mohamed and Mohamed was created before Adam.

All these beliefs not only contradict the human nature of Mohamed as a mortal and as the final prophet and the follower of Abraham’s religion, but they contradict the first Islamic Quranic fact: Do not make Mohamed distinguished among prophets. Make no difference between one and another of them. Do not make any distinction between any of them.

2-This fact is repeated in the Quran:(002.136   Say: We believe in Allah and (in) that which had been revealed to us, and (in) that which was revealed to Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq and Yaqoub and the tribes, and (in) that which was given to Musa and Isa, and (in) that which was given to the prophets from their Lord, we do not make any distinction between any of them, and to Him do we submit. )( 003.084 :Say: We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed to Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq and Yaqoub and the tribes, and what was given to Musa and Isa and to the prophets from their Lord; we do not make any distinction between any of them, and to Him do we submit. ).( 002.285   The messenger believes in what has been revealed to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers; they all believe in Allah and His angels and His books and His messengers; We make no difference between any of His messengers; and they say: We hear and obey, our Lord! Thy forgiveness (do we crave), and to Thee is the eventual course. ).

Allah also ordered Mohamed to announce it clearly :( 046.009: Say: "I am not distinguished among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with me or with you. I follow but that which is revealed to me by inspiration; I am but a Warner open and clear.”).

3-Allah make a distinction between real Muslims and real infidels: ( 004.150 :Surely those who disbelieve in Allah and His messengers and (those who) desire to make a distinction between Allah and His messengers and say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others, and desire to take a course between (this and) that. 004.151 :These it is that are truly unbelievers, and We have prepared for the unbelievers a disgraceful chastisement. 004.152 :And those who believe in Allah and His messengers and do not make a distinction between any of them-- Allah will grant them their rewards; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. )

4-Moreover, as the final Prophet, Mohamed was a follower of the religion of Abraham, not the master of Abraham:  ( 006.161 :Say: Surely, (as for) me, my Lord has guided me to the right path; (to) a most right religion, the faith of Ibrahim the upright one, and he was not of the polytheists. ).   ( 016.123 :Then We revealed to you: Follow the faith of Ibrahim, the upright one, and he was not of the polytheists. ).

He is ordered to follow the guidance of the previous prophets, not to be their master:( 006.090 :Those were the (prophets) who received Allah's guidance , , therefore follow their guidance.).

 Pilgrimage to Mohamed’s tomb in (his sacred mosque) in Al Madina

1-In Islam, there is one sacred Mosque, in Mecca: (005.097:Allah made the Ka'ba, the Sacred House, an asylum of security for men).

 To this Holy mosque Muslims go to Al Hajj, or pilgrimage during the four sacred months. In their five daily prayers, Muslims turn their faces towards the Sacred Mosque :(002.149 :And from whatsoever place you come forth, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque; and surely it is the very truth from your Lord, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do. 002.150:And from whatsoever place you come forth, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque; and wherever you are turn your faces towards it. ).

To confirm Mohamed as a God beside Allah, Muslims made Al Madina as sacred as Mecca and make his tomb like (Al Ka’ba) and make the mosque of Al Madina the mosque of the Prophet and usually make pilgrimage to it believing their pilgrimage to the sacred mosque in Mecca is not acceptable without glorifying the sacred tomb of Mohamed. They believe that Mohamed is alive inside this tomb. So, their main goal of Al Hajj to this sacred tomb in Al Madina is to pray to Mohamed to intercede for them in the Day of Judgment. They believe in Mohamed’s power of intercession and hope they will go to Paradise by his intercession. This is the main aspect in idolizing Mohamed. As usual, it is against Quran and the Islamic faith and the Islamic first high value of justice. This false belief in the intercession of Mohamed in the Day of Judgment confirm to Muslims that they are the best and will go to paradise whatever crimes they committee. So, this false belief of intercession needs more details.

False Muslim belief in Mohamed’s intercession on the Last Day

In Muslim traditions there are thousands of (hadeethes) or sayings attributed to the Prophet Mohamed two centuries and more after his death. This (Sunna ) has two main subjects: Shreeah, or the (Hadeethes ) of laws and (Hadeethese ) talking about the future, especially what will happen in the Day of Judgment , like (Ahadeethese) of (Shafa’ah ) or intercession.

In (Ahadeethese) of (Shafa’ah ) or intercession, they claim that Mohamed will intercede for all humans in the Day of Gathering all of peoples to shorten it to stop their suffering, and he will intercede for Muslims to let them go to Paradise , and intercede for the criminal Muslims who are doomed by Allah and destined to go hell fire to save them from entering it and will intercede also to get other Muslims who will be inside hell fire to get them out from it and put them in Paradise.

This falsehood contradicts these main Islamic facts:

1- Mohamed did not know the future and the unseen and was ordered to announce it:

This is clear in these verses:

( 046.009  : Say: "I am not distinguished among the messengers, nor do I know what will be done with me or with you. I follow but that which is revealed to me by inspiration; I am but a Warner open and clear.”).

( 006.050 :Say: I do not say to you, I have with me the treasures of Allah, nor do I know the unseen, nor do I say to you that I am an angel; I do not follow aught save that which is revealed to me. Say: Are the blind and the seeing one alike? Do you not then reflect? ).

( 072.025 :Say: I do not know whether that with which you are threatened be nigh or whether my Lord will appoint for it a term: 072.026 :"He (alone) knows the Unseen, nor does He make any one acquainted with His Mysteries,- 072.027 :"Except a messenger whom He has chosen ).

( 007.187:   They ask thee about the (final) Hour - when will be its appointed time? Say: "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord (alone): None but He can reveal as to when it will occur. Heavy were its burden through the heavens and the earth. Only, all of a sudden will it come to you." They ask thee as if thou Wert eager in search thereof: Say: "The knowledge thereof is with Allah (alone), but most men know not." 007.188    :Say: "I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as Allah will. If I had knowledge of the unseen, I should have multiplied all good, and no evil should have touched me: I am but a warner, and a bringer osf glad tidings to those who have faith.”)

2- Mohamed has no power of harm or benefit anyone:

In the battle of (Ohud), Mohamed was defeated and injured. Being very upset and angry he doomed his enemies as losers. Allah blamed him saying: ( 003.128 :it is not up to you in the affair whether He turns to them (mercifully) or chastises them, for surely they are unjust. 003.129 :And whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is Allah's; He forgives whom He pleases and chastises whom He pleases; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.)

Allah ordered him to say:." 007.188    :Say: "I have no power over any good or harm to myself except as Allah will.).(072.021:Say: I do not control for you evil or good. 072.022:Say: "No one can deliver me from Allah (If I were to disobey Him), nor should I find refuge except in Him,).(010.049:Say: "I have no power over any harm or profit to myself except as Allah will.).

In a direct way, Allah confirms that Mohamed could not save any soul from hell fire if Allah doomed it to retribution:  (039.019:What! as for him then against whom the sentence of chastisement is due: What! can you save him who is in the fire?).

3-Allah is the only master of the Day of Judgment

 -Allah is the only master of the Day of Judgment. This Islamic fact is repeated 17 times in every five daily prayers. It is third verse in )(Al Fateha) or the (opening ) of the Quran: (In the name of Allah, Most Almighty , Most Merciful. 001.002  : All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. 001.003  : Most Almighty , Most Merciful; 001.004  : Master of the Day of Judgment. 001.005  : Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help. 001.006
 : Guide us the straight path. 001.007  : The path of those upon whom Thou hast bestowed favors. Not (the path) of those upon whom Thy wrath is brought down, nor of those who go astray. ).Muslims usually repeat this fact saying Allah is the master of the Day of Judgment, but in their faith , they believe that Mohamed is the master of that Day by the permission of Allah.

  - In their stories, they make the Day of Judgment as noisy crowded market and all people concentrate about Mohamed, ignoring Allah, mentioning Him only when respond to Mohamed. As the master of Day Judgment, we read in the Holy Quran:

(011.103 :Most surely there is a sign in this for him who fears the chastisement of the hereafter; this is a day on which the people shall be gathered together and this is a day that shall be witnessed. 011.104 :And We do not delay it but to an appointed term.  011.105 :On the day when it shall come, no soul shall speak except with His permission, then (some) of them shall be unhappy and (others) happy. )

 (078.038 :The Day that the Gabriel and the angels will stand forth in ranks, none shall speak except any who is permitted by (Allah) Most Gracious, and He will say what is right. )
Allah says about the end of this world and the Day of resurrection and the Day of Judgment: (
020.105 :They ask you concerning the Mountains: say, "My Lord will uproot them and scatter them as dust; 020.106 :"He will leave them as plains smooth and level; 020.107  You shall not see therein any crookedness or unevenness. 020.108 :On that day they shall follow the inviter, there is no crookedness in him, and the voices shall be low before the Almighty Allah so that you shall not hear aught but a soft sound. 020.109:On that day shall no intercession avail except of him whom the Almighty Allah allows and whose word He is pleased with. 020.110  :He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not comprehend it in knowledge. 020.111:And the faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Self-subsistent Allah, and he who bears iniquity is indeed a failure. ).

 - The process of intercession will be controlled by Allah, the Almighty, as He is the master of the Last Day. So, He will be the only guardian or intercessor: ( 032.004  :Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and He mounted the throne (of authority); you have not besides Him any guardian or any intercessor, will you not then mind? ).

 - Believing in human intercession is one aspect of the faith of idol worshippers. It was during the time of Mohamed. Allah says :( 039.43:Or have they taken intercessors besides Allah? Say: what! even though they did not ever have control over anything, nor do they understand. 039.044 :Say: Allah's is the intercession altogether; His is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, then to Him you shall be brought back. ).

Muslims after the death of Mohamed fabricated sayings that make Mohamed himself intercessor beside Allah. In advance, Allah says to them: (010.017 :Who is then more unjust than who forges a lie against Allah or (who) gives the lie to   His verses ? Surely the guilty shall not be successful. 010.018:And they serve beside Allah what can neither harm them nor profit them, and they say: These are our intercessors with Allah. Say: Do you (presume to) inform Allah of what He knows not in the heavens and the earth? Glory be to Him, and supremely exalted is He above what they set up (with Him).

-Allah will be the only one who controls that Day: ( 082.019  : The day on which no soul shall control anything for (another) soul; and the command on that day shall be entirely Allah's.).

4 -Mohamed could not overrule Allah’s decision

At the end of the Day of reckoning Allah will say: (050.029:My word shall not be changed, nor am I in the least unjust to the servants.).  According to His decision and His absolute justice this will go to Paradise while that will go to hell fire. No one can overrule Allah decision in this life and / or in the Day after. This Quranic fact is confirmed and repeated in these verses: (013.041
 :(Where) Allah commands, there is none to put back His Command: and He is swift in calling to account.), (006.034:  There is none to alter the decisions of Allah.), ( 018.027:And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord, there is none who can alter His words; and you shall not find any refuge besides Him.). So, Allah said to Mohamed: ((039.019:What! as for him then against whom the sentence of chastisement is due: What! can you save him who is in the fire?).

 5-Day of Judgment is the day of absolute justice

This is repeated in the Quran:

( 021.047 :We shall set up scales of justice for the Day of Judgment, so that not a soul will be dealt with unjustly in the least, and if there be (no more than) the weight of a mustard seed, We will bring it (to account): and enough are We to take account. )
( 010.047 :To every people (was sent) a messenger: when their messenger comes (before them), the matter will be judged between them with justice, and they will not be wronged. )

( 010.054:And if every soul that has done injustice had all that is in the earth, it would offer it for ransom, and they will manifest regret when they see the chastisement and the matter shall be decided between them with justice and they shall not be dealt with unjustly.  )

Read this short report describing that Day: ( 040.016 :The Day whereon they will (all) come forth: not a single thing concerning them is hidden from Allah. Whose will be the dominion that Day?" That of Allah, the One the Irresistible! 040.017 :This day every soul shall be rewarded for what it has earned; no injustice (shall be done) this day; surely Allah is quick in reckoning. 040.018 :Warn them (O Muhammad) of the Day of the approaching (doom), when the hearts will be choking the throats, (when) there will be no friend for the wrong-doers, nor any intercessor who will be heard. 040.019 :He knows the stealthy looks and that which the breasts conceal. 040.020 :And Allah will judge with (justice and) Truth: but those whom (men) invoke besides Him, will not (be in a position) to judge at all. Verily it is Allah (alone) Who hears and sees (all things).

6- All prophets and all nations will be questioned equally

-All the prophets will be questioned and also all the nations. Allah says : (007.006: Most certainly then We will question those to whom (the messengers) were sent, and most certainly We will also question the messengers ;)

-Mohamed and his enemies will be questioned equally as the Quran is a reminder for all of them: (043.044:And most surely it is a reminder for you and your people, and you shall soon be questioned.).

In more details, Allah says:( 039.030 :Surely you shall die and they (too) shall surely die. 039.031 :Then surely on the day of resurrection you will contend one with another before. your Lord. 039.032  Who is then more unjust than he who utters a lie against Allah and (he who) gives the lie to the truth when it comes to him; is there not in hell an abode for the unbelievers? 039.033 :And he who brings the truth and (he who) accepts it as the truth-- Such are the dutiful. 039.034 :They shall have with their Lord what they please; that is the reward of the doers of good; 039.035 :That Allah will remit from them the worst of what they did, and will pay them for reward the best they used to do. ).

-In this Day of Judgment, Mohamed will be responsible for himself, not responsible for his companions. His companions will not responsible for him. With clear equality Allah says:( 006.052:And do not drive away those who call upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, they desire only His favor; neither are you answerable for any reckoning of theirs, nor are they answerable for any reckoning of yours).

It is the same equality between Mohamed and his enemies Allah says:  ( 045.018 :Then We put you on the (right) Way of Religion: so follow thou that (Way), and   : Then We put you on the (right) Way of Religion, therefore follow it, and do not follow the low desires of those who do not know. 045.019 :Surely they shall not avail you in the least against Allah; and surely the unjust are friends of each other, and Allah is the guardian of those who guard (against evil).

7-No human soul will intercede for another

( 002.048 :And be on your guard against a day when one soul shall not avail another in the least, neither shall intercession on its behalf be accepted, nor shall any compensation be taken from it, nor shall they be helped.) ( 002.123 :And be on your guard against a day when no soul shall avail another in the least neither shall any compensation be accepted from it, nor shall intercession profit it, nor shall they be helped.)

 Every soul will be responsible for itself : (016.111 :(Remember) the day when every soul shall come, pleading for itself and every soul shall be paid in full what it has done, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly. )

This includes father and child: (031.033:O mankind! Keep your duty to your Lord and fear a Day when the parent will not be able to avail the child in aught, nor the child to avail the parent. Lo! Allah's promise is the very truth. Let not the life of the world beguile you, nor let the deceiver beguile you, in regard to Allah. ).




Real intercession in the Quran

1-Meaning of intercession

Generally, it means help and support. You may support someone in doing bad thing, or supporting him in doing good deeds. In the two cases, you are his partner in good or bad deeds. This is the meaning of intercession in this life. Allah says: 004.085:Whoever recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner therein: And whoever recommends and helps an evil cause, shares in its burden: And Allah hath power over all things. ). So, it comes clear in the Quran to cooperate in goodness not in sin: (005.002:and help one another in goodness and piety, and do not help one another in sin and aggression ;).

This kind of intercession in goodness or sin has nothing to do with the intercession in the Day of Judgment. Allah says: (002.254:O you who believe! spend out of what We have given you before the day comes in which there is no bargaining, neither any friendship nor intercession, and the unbelievers-- they are the unjust). This world is full of trade, compromise, bargaining, recommendations, and intervention. The Day after has not that kind of one helping another because every soul will be concern about itself has no time to look for others. Allah says (080.034:That Day shall a man flee from his own brother, 080.035:And from his mother and his father, 080.036:And from his wife and his children. 080.037:Every man that day will have concern enough to make him heedless (of others).). The loser in that Day will be in the worst situation when looking at the hell fire: (070.011:The guilty man will long to be able to ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children, 070.012:His wife and his brother, 070.013:And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter, 070.014:And all those that are in the earth, (wishing) then (that) this might deliver him. 070.015:By no means! Surely it is a flaming fire. ).

He will deserve this retribution because of his sins and crimes during his life in this world. He will be tortured by his bad deeds: (027.090:And whoever brings evil, these shall be thrown down on their faces into the fire; shall you be rewarded (for) aught except what you did? ). (010.052 :Then it shall be said to those who were unjust: Taste abiding chastisement; you are not requited except for what you earned.). They will deserve it according to the absolute justice of Allah : 010.044 :Verily Allah will not deal unjustly with man in aught: It is man that wrongs his own soul. ). (029.055 :On the day when the chastisement shall cover them from above them, and from beneath their feet; and He shall say: Taste what you did. ). (032.014 :So taste, because you neglected the meeting of this day of yours; surely We forsake you; and taste the abiding chastisement for what you did. )

By their good deeds and good faith, the real righteous souls will have paradise. Angles of death will welcome them and giving them the good news: (016.032 :Those whom the angels cause to die in a good state, saying: Peace be on you: enter the garden for what you did.).While enjoyment in Paradise, they will be reminded that it is their good deeds: (007.043 :And We will remove whatever of ill-feeling is in their breasts; the rivers shall flow beneath them and they shall say: All praise is due to Allah Who guided us to this, and we would not have found the way had it not been that Allah had guided us; certainly the messengers of our Lord brought the truth; and it shall be cried out to them that this is the garden of which you are made heirs for what you did. ).(043.072:And this is the garden which you are given as an inheritance on account of what you did.).

Generally, every soul will be rewarded according to its deeds, good or bad. Allah syas about the Day of resurrection: (036.051:And the trumpet shall be blown( Voice of blast ), when lo ! from their graves they shall hasten on to their Lord. 036.052 :They shall say: O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? (A voice will say :)  This is what the Beneficent Allah promised and the messengers told the truth .036.053:It will be no more than a single Blast, when lo! they will all be brought up before Us! 036.054:So this day no soul shall be dealt with unjustly in the least; and you shall not be rewarded aught but that which you did. ).

Allah says about the Day of Judgment: (045.028:And you shall see every nation kneeling down; every nation shall be called to its book: today you shall be rewarded for what you did.). Their deeds will be recorded and kept and written down in a book; (045.029:This is Our book that speaks against you with justice; surely We wrote what you did.).

 The key word here is our deeds in this world and in this life. This key word means intercession for people who will have a good record of righteousness. Linguistically, in Arabic Language, the Arabic word ( Shaf’a) means the one who supports the individual. So, (Al Shafa;ah ) means the support that comes to support the individual. In the Day of Judgment, every soul will come alone as individual: (019.093:There is no one in the heavens and the earth but will come to the Beneficent Allah as a servant. 019.094:Certainly He has a comprehensive knowledge of them and He has numbered them a (comprehensive) numbering. 019.095 :And everyone of them will come to Him singly on the Day of Judgment.). The good individual will be supported by his good deeds. His good deeds will be carried by angles. Coming alone, this good deed will be his intercessor before Allah. This is the meaning of (Shafa’ah ) or intercession in Islam.

Our freedom in this life is actually our test. It is very hard because most of humans usually and mistakenly enjoy this unlimited freedom in religion without knowing that this religion will have its day, the Lasting Day, The Day of Religion or the Day of Judgment. They enjoy this religious freedom forgetting that freedom means responsibility. This responsibility will be carried out in this life by angles who write down and record every one’s deeds during his life time in this world. Then in the Day of Judgment the two angles that used to accompany him during his mortal life will be accompany him in the reckoning Day carrying his book of deeds. If his book is full of righteousness, it will be his intercessor. If not it will be the cause of his retribution and torture in the hell fire. This needs more Quranic details.

2--Absolute freedom in religion in this life means our responsibility for our choice in the Day of Judgment

 It is up to us as individual, to believe or to disbelieve. Allah says: ( 039.007 :If you disbelieve, then surely Allah is Self-sufficient above all need of you; and He does not like disbelief in His servants.).

This unlimited freedom is accompanied by its responsibility. It simply means if you believe and maintain the righteousness you will be rewarded by Paradise, if you disbelieve and maintain sins and crimes, you will be ended in hell fire. Allah says:  (018.029:Say, "The truth is from your Lord": Let him who will believe to believe, and let him who will, reject (it) to disbelieve: for the wrong-doers We have prepared a Fire whose (smoke and flames), like the walls and roof of a tent, will hem them in: if they implore relief they will be granted water like melted brass, that will scald their faces, how dreadful the drink! How uncomfortable a couch to recline on! 018.030  :As to those who believe and work righteousness, verily We shall not suffer to perish the reward of any who do a (single) righteous deed. 018.031:For them will be Gardens of Eternity; beneath them rivers will flow; they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and they will wear green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade: They will recline therein on raised thrones. How good the recompense! How beautiful a couch to recline on! ).

So, it is our choice and it is our funeral and our future in the Lasting Day. We can decide it by ourselves from now. So, simply Allah says:  (041.040:Lo! those who distort Our revelations are not hid from Us. Is he who is hurled into the Fire better, or he who come secure on the Day of Resurrection? Do what ye will. Lo! He is Seer of what ye do. ).

No one can escape from Allah

No one can escape from Allah. This includes every human soul and all their deeds: (007.006:Most certainly then We will question those to whom (the messengers) were sent, and most certainly We will also question the messengers; 007.007:And verily, We shall recount their whole story with knowledge, for We were never: Then most certainly We will relate to them with knowledge, and We were not absent.).

Everything will be recorded, even we forget it: (:058.006:On the day when Allah will raise them up all together, then inform them of what they did: Allah has recorded it while they have forgotten it; and Allah is a witness of all things. ) (027.075 :And there is nothing concealed in the heaven and the earth but it is in a clear book. ).More details in these verses:  (082.010  :And most surely there are keepers over you. 082.011  :Honorable recorders, 082.012  :They know what you do. 082.013:Most surely the righteous are in bliss, 082.014  And the Wicked - they will be in the Fire, 082.015 :They shall enter it on the day of judgment. 082.016 :And they shall by no means be absent from it.).

Allah, asks us: (023.115:What! did you then think that We had created you in vain and that you shall not be returned to Us? ).Allah answers the question : (023.116 :So exalted be Allah, the True King; no god is there but He, the Lord of the honorable dominion,)

Recording our deeds

Recording our deeds includes our privacy and in publicity. So, the records are two kinds; one record the society, and one for every individual.

Allah says about the book of deeds of all the society: (018.049:And the Book shall be placed, then you will see the guilty fearing from what is in it, and they will say: Ah! woe to us! what a book is this! it does not omit a small one nor a great one, but numbers them (all); and what they had done they shall find present (there); and your Lord does not deal unjustly with anyone. ). From it, every soul will get its copy that records its deed: (045.028 :And you shall see every nation kneeling down; every nation shall be called to its book: today you shall be rewarded for what you did. 045.029  :This is Our book that speaks against you with justice; surely We made copies of what you did. ).

These Quranic verses inform us about the book of any individual:

 (017.013 :And We have made every man's actions to cling to his neck, and We will bring forth to him on the resurrection day a book which he will find wide open: 017.014 :Read your book; your own self is sufficient as a reckoner against you this day. 017.015 :Whoever goes aright, for his own soul does he go aright; and whoever goes astray, to its detriment only does he go astray: nor can the bearer of a burden bear the burden of another, nor do We chastise until We raise a messenger. ).

(069.018:On that day you shall be exposed to view-- no secret of yours shall remain hidden. 069.019 :Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book: 069.020 :Surely I knew that I shall meet my account. 069.021 :So he shall be in a life of pleasure, 069.022 :In a lofty garden, 069.023 :The fruits of which are near at hand: 069.024 :Eat and drink pleasantly for what you did beforehand in the days gone by. 069.025 :And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say: O would that my book had never been given me: 069.026 :And I had not known what my account was: 069.027 :O would that it had made an end (of me): 069.028 :My wealth has availed me nothing: 069.029 :My authority is gone away from me. 069.030(It will be said): Take him and fetter him.069.031 :Then cast him into the burning fire, ).

( 084.006  : O man! surely you must strive (to attain) to your Lord, a hard striving until you meet Him.084.007  : Then as to him who is given his book in his right hand, 084.008  : He shall be reckoned with by an easy reckoning, 084.009  : And he shall go back to his people joyful. 84.010
 : And as to him who is given his book behind his back, 084.011  : He shall call for perdition, 084.012  : And enter into burning fire. ).

 We will lose our freedom in the Last Day

We enjoy our freedom until the moment of dying. Since our soul leaves its body, it leaves bits freedom. Coming again in the Day of the resurrection, every soul be under the control of Allah;s presences. People of Paradise will enjoy their freedom while others of hell fire will be in chains forever. The Quranic context in telling the Last Day usually uses the passive voice describing its events. As example read these Quranic report:( 039.067 : And they have not honored Allah with the honor that is due to Him; and the whole earth shall be in His grip on the day of resurrection and the heavens rolled up in His right hand; glory be to Him, and may He be exalted above what they associate (with Him). 039.068 : And the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon, except such as Allah please; then it shall be blown again, then lo! they shall stand up awaiting. 039.069 : And the Earth will shine with the Glory of its Lord: the Record (of Deeds) will be placed (open); the prophets and the witnesses will be brought forward and a just decision was pronounced between them; and they will not be wronged (in the least). 039.070 : And every soul shall be paid back fully what it has done, and He knows best what they do. 039.071 : And those who disbelieve shall be driven to hell in companies; until, when they come to it, its doors shall be opened, and the keepers of it shall say to them: Did not there come to you messengers from among you reciting to you the communications of your Lord and warning you of the meeting of this day of yours? They shall say: Yea! But the sentence of punishment was due against the unbelievers. 039.072 : It shall be said: Enter the gates of hell to abide therein; so evil is the abode of the Arrogant!" .039.073 : And those who are careful of (their duty to) their Lord shall be conveyed to the garden in companies; until when they come to it, and its doors shall be opened, and the keepers of it shall say to them: Peace be on you, you shall be happy; therefore enter it to abide. )

(069.018:On that day you shall be exposed to view-- no secret of yours shall remain hidden. 069.019  :Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he will say: Lo! read my book )  .( 069.025  :And as for him who is given his book in his left hand he shall say: O would that my book had never been given me.).

In the Quran, the meaning of (arrest) is used in this regard. About all people Allah says :( 6.032 :But each one of them all - will be brought before Us (for judgment). (036.053:It will be no more than a single Blast, when lo! they will all be brought up before Us!).

 As for, the losers, they will be forced to enter hell fire. (030.016:And as to those who disbelieved and rejected Our verses and the meeting of the hereafter, these shall be brought over to the chastisement).( 034.038 :And (as for) those who strive in opposing Our verses, they shall be caused to be brought to the chastisement.).

They will be stay there forever, they will try every time to escape but in vain .!: ( 032.020 :And as for those who transgress, their abode is the fire; whenever they desire to go forth from it they shall be brought back into it, and it will be said to them: Taste the chastisement of the fire which you called a lie. ).

For more details read: (22.019:These are two adversaries who dispute about their Lord; then (as to) those who disbelieve, for them are cut out garments of fire, boiling water shall be poured over their heads. 022.020 :With it shall be melted what is in their bellies and (their) skins as well. 022.021 :And for them are whips of iron. 022.022 :Whenever they will desire to go forth from it, from grief, they shall be turned back into it, and taste the chastisement of burning.). This means, all the power will be to Allah, not Mohamed. As s sign of His power, the angles of intercession will be under His control and His permission.

 Angles of intercession after Allah’s permission and under His control and knowledge

1- Talking about His power, the Almighty Allah says:( 010.003  :Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods, and He is firm in power, regulating the affair, there is no intercessor except after His permission; this is Allah, your Lord, therefore serve Him; will you not then mind? ). Under His permission means He is the intercessor : ( 032.004 :Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six periods, and He mounted the throne (of authority); you have not besides Him any guardian or any intercessor, will you not then mind? )

For more detail, Allah says:(002.255  :Allah is He besides Whom there is no god, the Ever living, the Self-subsisting by Whom all subsist; slumber does not overtake Him nor sleep; whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His; who is he that can intercede with Him but by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend anything out of His knowledge except what He pleases, His knowledge extends over the heavens and the earth, and the preservation of them both tires Him not, and He is the Most High, the Great. ). Allah will give the permission because He will know the people who have the good deeds and their good deeds will qualify them for intercession. So, Allah will give His permission to their angles that carry these good deeds to come and testify for the benefits of those good souls. (Testify for) means intercession.

2-Actually, intercession is linked also by the knowledge of Allah and whom Allah is pleased with: ( 020.109:On that day shall no intercession avail except of him whom the Almighty Allah allows and whose word He is pleased with. 020.110 :He knows what is before them and what is behind them, while they do not comprehend it in knowledge. )

3- Allah will give order to the angles who will be entitled to this mission (019.087: None shall have the power of intercession, but such a one as has received order from the Most Almighty).  In the time of Mohamed, Arabs used to worship angles as offspring of Allah. Commenting on it , Allah says:( 021.026 :And they say: The Almighty Allah has taken to Himself a child !  Glory be to Him. Nay! They are honored servants. 021.027:They do not precede Him in speech and (only) according to His commandment do they act. 021.028:He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they do not intercede except for him whom He approves and for fear of Him they tremble. ). These are some aspects of the angles who will be entitled to intercession.

It is confirmed by this verse:( 053.026 :And how many an angel is there in the heavens whose intercession does not avail at all except after Allah has given permission to whom He pleases and chooses. ). But there are many kinds of angles. Who among them will be entitled to intercession?

Angles of intercession are those who write the deeds of humans in this life

Everyone in this life is accompanied by two invisible angles. They are commanded to write down all his deeds and sayings and keeping them in records to be his true history in the Day of Reckoning:  (082.010:But verily over you (are appointed angels) to write your deeds.082.011:Kind and honorable,- Writing down (your deeds): 082.012 :They know what you do. )
So, those angles will be witness to the truth as they know exactly what is done:
(043.086:And those whom they invoke besides Allah have no power of intercession;- only he who bears witness to the Truth, and they know (him). Allah describes them as a messengers appointed to write down our deeds. The righteous people know this, so, they fear Allah even in their privacy: (036.011), while others are unaware of it. Allah says warning them: ( 043.080 :Or do they think that We do not hear what they conceal and their secret discourses? Aye! And Our messengers with them write down. ).

These verses give us brief report:  ( 050.016 :And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein.050.017 :Behold, two (guardian angels) appointed to learn (his doings) learn (and noted them), one sitting on the right and one on the left. 050.018 :Not a word does he utter but there is a sentinel by him, ready (to note it). 050.019 :And the stupor of death will come in truth; that is what you were trying to escape. 050.020 :And the trumpet shall be blown; that is the day of the threatening. 050.021 :And there will come forth every soul: with each will be an (angel) to drive, and an (angel) to bear witness. 050.022 :(It will be said:) Certainly you were heedless of it, but now We have removed from you your veil, (human body), so your sight today is sharp. ). Everyone has two invisible angles to register all the details of his life. In the resurrection Day the two angles will visible to him after he lost his human body. The two angles will have a new mission in that day; one of them will carry his book of deeds as a witness, while the other one will arrest him and to bring him to the Devine justice. This is the process of intercession.

 Title of justice, in our war of ideas

Fanatic Muslims have divided this world into two camps: ( Muslim camp) of peace and belief, and the (Enemy camp ) of war and disbelief. They also called their camp (Ommat Mohamed), or the nation of Mohamed who are the enemies of nation of Jesus Christ. They believe themselves to be the best because Mohamed will save them from hell fire in the Day of Judgment by his intercession.
They make it easy for any Muslim to enter Paradise just by saying (There is no god but One God, Allah). By uttering it he will be rewarded by Paradise even he commit fornication and / or rubbery. This has encouraged Muslims to indulge themselves in sins and vices and crimes without any motive for reform or purification, as they have a strong confidence in having Paradise available for them just because they are the nation of Mohamed, ( Ommat Mohamed). That is why the ordinary Muslim says ( Ya Bakhtena bel Nabi) , means : We are lucky by our prophet. In the same time they look at the Christians as the doomed people because they idolize Jesus calling him son of Allah, without understanding that most of Muslims are idolizing Mohamed and the saints, nearly the same way. In this state of mind, Muslims concern about other people who so far from them that they do not know Mohamed, believing that they have responsibility to reach them to preach them ( Mohamadism).

In the real life, Muslim World suffers from dictatorship, injustice, poverty, backward and some times, chaos and civil war. Most of the bad news come from (Muslim camp), and most of Muslims have a dream to immigrate to the (Christian camp) to enjoy freedom, justice, human rights and human dignity, tolerance and prosperity.  Inside the(Christian camp) there are Muslim communities, most of them keep the same Sunni dogmas without feeling any kind of shame.

 Using Justice for all as a title of war of ideas against those fanatics will expose them, giving more details in the three missions : Reform Muslims, defeat terrorist culture and defending the US and promoting its image in Muslim World. By this title, it will be very easy to prove the contradiction between fanatics and the religion of Islam, and to confirm the fact that says the Western culture has the same Islamic values of justice, tolerance freedom and peace, while fanatics are totally against all these high values.

By this argument, the majority of Muslims could be undeceived because this argument comes from their Holy Quran and has real evidence from the reality when comparing between the Muslim World and the Western World. Muslims love their religion and were raised to love it. In their inner most believe, they know that their religion is not responsible for their suffering and weakness and backward. Fanatics are doing their best to convince Muslims that the US and the West are the cause of everything bad happened and will happen to Islam and Muslims. Muslims are brainwashed to accept this complex of conspiracy to look at the US and the West as eternal enemy camp. By having Islam and its Justice as a title, it will be easy to convince the silent Muslim majority that their enemy is inside them, it is the fanatics and the dictatorships. They are together against justice and are together tarnishing the name of Islam, and our real peaceful Jihad is to face them to clear the image of Islam.

No one can dispute about justice.

 

Chapter 4   

 Weapons of war of ideas                                                                                                                             

(1 ) Weapon of Fatwa 

Fatwa is a unique weapon in field of war of ideas. It is only in Muslim culture as Islam has its real Islamic Jurisprudence and Muslims have different Shareeah that interfere in the daily life of Muslim people. It is needed to ask Muslim scholars many questions that cover all the details of life. Answering these questions means (Fatwa). One who is qualified to issue fatwa must be knowledgeable by his writings and lectures to have the trust and the credit from the masses, or has PhD from Al Azhar or any Muslim seminary to be officially qualified for this rank. I got my PhD from al Azhar in 1980.

Religious Muslims usually obey and apply the fatwa comes from the sheikh they respect. Some sheikhs make this fatwa as a means of living, some use it to support the dictators they serve ans some use their fatwa for their political agenda. The fanatic sheikhs usually use their fatwa in calling for killing their opponents and in terrorist random killings. All the terrorist action is applied by fatwa, while our fatwas help in stopping many of them as thousands of the Quranists used to be fanatic Muslims, then they converted to be peaceful Quranist Muslim scholars.

Before the Quranists, the field was open to the fanatic sheikhs who monopolized Muslim mentality and controlled their religious daily life. By the Quranists and the free internet, the fanatic sheikh have a big problem. They are too ignorant to refute the Quranists who prove the contradiction between the Sunni Salafi Shareeah and Islam. In the same time, they are too ignorant to give update fatwas that match our time because they depend only on the old scholars who lived and died in the middle ages, knowing nothing about the problem of time. The Quranists have the ability to give fatwas update our time. Having no argument against us, the only available way is to issue fatwas calling for killing us. This proves their failure.

Islamic fatwa
Pure Islam was applied only in the time of the Prophet Mohammed, but was mostly distorted because of the Arab Muslim empires and their bloody medieval culture.
The Wahabis have restored that culture in our time, giving Islam a notorious name. The fanatic fatwa reflects this Wahabi bloody culture. To recognize pure Islam, you have to read the Arabic Quran according to its terminology, and then you will understand Islam as the religion of peace, tolerance, justice, the unlimited freedom of speech and belief and pluralism.
(A)
According to the Quran, Islam means “Submission to God alone and Peace in the world.” This is why Allah, has sent the final prophet Mohammed with the Quran to be a mercy for all the mankind. [21/107] .
Hundreds of verses in the Quran confirm that God wants all people to believe in Him alone, the only God, and to submit themselves to Him only, but He gives them the total freedom of choice to believe or to disbelieve. They will be questioned by God only on the Day of Judgment concerning their belief and deeds. No one in this world has the authority to judge anyone else on his belief.
(B)
God has created mankind in many different ethnicities and cultures but they belong to one father and one mother. God says: “O mankind, we have created you from male and female and we made you into nations and tribes in order to recognize each other. Surly, the best among you in the sight of God is the most righteous. God is omniscient, cognizant.”[49/13].
This Quranic verse clarifies that:
1- All of us belong to the same father and mother, so we are brothers and sisters and equals as human beings regardless of the color, race, money, power and gender.
2- Coming from different nations and being different peoples and tribes give us the opportunity to recognize each other, not to fight each other. To recognize each other we need peaceful coexistence.
3- This Quranic verse clarifies the difference between two important values: equality and justice. Sometimes extreme equality establishes injustice. Suppose all of us are equal in this life and equal also in the paradise of the Day of Judgment regardless of our different deeds in this life? Then it will be wrong to make equality between the criminal and his victim.
God says: “Shall we treat those who believe and do righteous works like those who corrupt the earth? Shall we treat the righteous like the wicked?” [38/28] In the Quran, equality is supported by justice. Here in this verse, we are equal in this world as human beings regardless of the differences of color, race, culture, family, money, gender or anything else. But we are not equal in terms of our good or bad deeds and behavior. The delinquent is not equal to the diligent in the same work, and the criminal is not equal to his victim in the court. This is in our life. The real justice will be in Day of Judgment where the Almighty God will judge among the human beings according to their deeds and belief, not according to their race, culture and wealth. So God says in this verse: “The best among you in the sight of God is the most righteous.”
4- God only is the One who will identify the righteous people, because He is only the One who knows the innermost thoughts and secrets of every human being, so the verse says: “the best among you in the sight of God is the most righteous. God is omniscient, cognizant.”
5- So, the believer in this world is prevented from claiming this character to him, or to make it business and religious trade. God says: “Do not exalt yourselves; He is aware of the righteous.” [53 /32].
(C)
God said to the Prophet Mohammed and all Muslims and the Jews and Christians: “We have decreed statutes and methods for each of you. Had God willed, He could have made you one nation. But He thus puts you in test, according to what He has given you. So, you should compete towards the good deeds. To God is your ultimate return, then He will inform you of every thing you disputed” [5/48] .
Here there is pluralism inside the real holy messages, but this pluralism is to make Muslims and Christians and Jew competing each other in the way of righteousness, not in the way of fanaticism and bigotry. For example in establishing peace and advocating the high values and saving the needy and the poor.
Generally, competition in Islam is controlled by cooperation in doing the good deeds only as God says: “And you shall cooperate with one another in righteousness and pity, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.” [5/2].
God says “Surely, those who believe, those who are Jewish, the Christians and the converts, any of them who believe in God and the last day, and lead a righteous life, shall have their reward with their Lord, and they have nothing to fear, nor will they grieve.” [2/62] Read also [5/69].
The real religion of God is to believe in Him alone and in the Day of Judgment and to maintain a righteous life. Anyone who does this will go to paradise regardless of his affinity.
Those different sects have different houses in which they worship God. According to the Quran, all these religious houses should have respect and immunity. God Says: “If it were not for God’s setting up of some people against others, synagogues, churches, houses of prayers and mosques; where God’s names is commemorated frequently; would have been destroyed” [22/40]. This verse talks about Jihad in Islam indicating one of its purposes, not only to defend your country but also to defend all the houses of prayers for all the believers regardless of their different names.
The Islamic fatwa must reflect these Islamic values. The fanatic fatwas reflect the bloody Sunni Shareeah.

My experience in dealing with the fanatic Fatwa:

 1-Islamic Jihad of self defense does not need fatwa or religious justification, because it is acceptable as a high human value to defend yourself if you are wrongly attacked. The extreme Jihad needs this justification, and it is usually issued by verdicts or fatwa, to be applied by those who believe in those Sheikhs and their dogmas.

2- So, we have here two kinds of extremist, the sheikhs and their assistants who issue the fatwa and publish it, then the criminals who apply it by killing the people. Those criminal who applies the fatwa and kill the people is really victim also, because the sheikh and his assistant convinced him - by their fatwa - to do it as a jihad.

3- In my researches, books and lectures and speeches I usually issue fatwas that confirm the peaceful face of Islam, and proving the contradiction between Islam and the Salafi Wahaby religious culture and jurisprudence. It is my fatwas against theirs. Being unable to discuss all the Quranic verses I usually bring as prove in my fatwas, they accused me to be the enemy of Islam and apostate to encourage any terrorist to kill me.

4- In 1987, I used to give lectures in the mosques proving Islam as the religion of peace, tolerance, justice, democracy and human rights, and proving also that the so – called Sunna has the culture of fanaticism and terrorism. I was arrested with more than 40 peaceful scholars. While we were in the prison, the Egyptian media published the fatwas accused us to be fanatic enemies of Islam to encourage the fanatics inside the prison to kill us. Then we were released, but the Media continued insulting us by these fatwas, so I had to escape to the U.S for about ten months to save my life. Then I had to return back to Egypt to be beside my sons because they were so scared.

5-  In 1992, the Fanatics of Egypt committed many crimes against the peaceful Egyptian Christians, and threatened most of the secular intellectuals. So, I and my friend Dr. Farag Fouda worked together to establish a new political party named the Future Party , to defend the Egyptian Christians and to confirm the equality between all Egyptians regardless of religion. One week after the announcement of the new party and the indication of its approval, the fanatic issued their famous fatwa calling for the death of Farag Fouda and me, accusing us to be apostates and the fanatic enemies of Islam. Five days after publishing this fatwa Farag Fouda was assassinated in front of his office and his young child was with him, he was shot also, but survives after long treatment in the hospital.

6- The fanatic in the trial defended the two criminals saying that Farag Fouda was apostate and should be killed by any one as long as the government did not execute him. According to their jurisprudence, fanatics believe that anyone who converts from Islam should be killed. This punishment used to be applied in the middle ages, and is still applied in the Saudi Kingdom and Iran. The Egyptian Muslim fanatics are calling to apply this penalty in Egypt. Killing Farag Fouda and the trial of his killers was their opportunity to confirm this punishment to apply it by them against anyone who might dare to discuss them. It will be easy to issue a verdict or fatwa against him then he will be killed by any one anytime anywhere. This will terrify any one. The only one who could face them in that time was me. So, I published many articles proving that Islam is the religion of the unlimited freedom of belief and speech in the field of faith, and the religion of peace in the field of human rights.  On the weekly forum of the Egyptian  literary Najeeb Mahfouz in which we –Farag Fouda and me used to attend -Many intellectuals asked me to write a book refuting this killing of apostate, I did, and it was my book [the Penalty of apostasy] in 1993, which was published four times and translated into English language.

7 -Until 1994, the weekly open forum of Najeeb Mahfouz used to be held on the Nile every Friday after noon, to discuss the fanatic crimes. Najeeb Mahfouz is the only Arabic writer who wins the Noble prize, born in 1911. The fanatics threatened us not to attend his forum, but we insisted. Then a campaign against Najeeb Mahfouz began ordering him to repent because his novel [Awlad Haretna] or [the sons of our neighbors] has many heresies. This novel was issued forty years before and he was given Noble Prize for it. I wrote article in the monthly magazine [Al Kahera] or [Cairo] accusing them to commit the character assassination against Najeeb Mahfouz to encourage someone to kill him as it happened in the case of Farag Fouda. Six months after that campaign, Najeeb Mahfouz was stabbed in his neck in front of his home on October 14, 1994. The criminal confessed that he never read anything of Najeeb Mahfouz, but he was convinced to kill him by the Fatwa of the sheikhs in that campaign.

8 -From 1995 I worked with Dr. Sa’ad El Deen Ibraheem in his Ibn Khaldoun Center, moderating its weekly forum, and conducting the researches in my Islamic fields. In 1998-1999 we had a project to reform the Egyptian education to refine it from the fanatic dogmas, and another project to teach Egyptians their political rights. Because of those two projects, many fatwas issued against us, and many of my family members and Quranic trends were arrested, Dr. Sa’ad himself was arrested and the center was shut down, and I had to escape to the U.S for the second time leaving my sons behind.

Because of those fatwas or verdicts, bloodsheds are going on in Algeria, in the Middle East and now in the Saudi Kingdom itself which is punished now by its weapons. Those Fatwas were issued and published on line as the same way of this case

 So, we are using the (Weapon of fatwa) on line in our Ahl Al Quran web site against fanatics in Arabic  and English:

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/arabic/show_fatwa.php?main_id=795

http://www.ahl-alquran.com/English/fatawa.php

And we wrote this concept proposal to wage (on line war) against fanatics.

 

 

 

(2) Weapon of internet

Sample of concept proposal

On line War of Ideas

 

 

  

I.              Introduction:

 

The International Quranic Center, a 501c3 committed to articulating a vision of Islam as an inclusive and peaceful religion has established a website -- Ahl-alquran website (www.ahl-alquran.com) -- that has become a serious participant in the international debate about the future of Islam. IQC is the platform lead by Sheikh Ahmed Subhy Mansour, whose articulation of the Quran and writings have become the foundations of an enlightened view of Islam and its role in the religions of the world.

 

The majority of the Moslem people are left to the dominating influence of Aljazeera and other media institutions that promote fanatic ideas and hostility towards the west. This is not only taking place through satellite, but also through the internet. According to Alexa.com (the world largest ranking website engine) Aljazeera website is the first and the most read website over the Muslim world particularly, and among the first 500 websites all over the world generally. Furthermore, Islam online, the sister website, is among the first 800 in traffic rank over the internet. Both websites provide constant support for the Wahabi tradition and its militant leaders, by ideologically supporting their jihadist crusade in Iraq and elsewhere.

 

The Grouped States, the wealthiest nation in the world, is losing this “war of Ideas” against terrorism, according to the former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld himself. The Grouped States, who has previously managed to win the cold war against the Soviet Union through media and propaganda, is losing miserably in this encounter. The reason for that is that Americans lack the ideological, cultural, and historical backgrounds of the Wahabists terrorism phenomena. They are unable to reach out for Muslims through their own

 

 

II.              Objectives of the project:

 

a.     Analyze, Detect, and fight the extremist culture of terrorism inside the US and abroad

 

Before you launch a war against someone, you need to know who your real enemy is. There should be a clear understanding of who is who in this “war of ideas” in order for any success to be perceived in this war. 

 

The so- called moderate Muslims in the Saudi Kingdom and the Gulf States usually deceive the West and the U.S by their principle of Taqeyya (using double faces). They believe in Ben Laden as the Holly Sheikh Mujahid , the sincere Muslim who devotes his life for Al Jihad. This belief in Ben Laden comes from the basic belief in the Sunni Wahabi religion which divides the World into two camps: Their so- called Islamic camp and the camp of war (Dar El Salam Wa Dar Al Harb). They believe that they must fight the West (Camp of war, camp of infidels).

 

The difference between Ben Laden and the so- called moderate Muslims is just in details. The Saudis want to invade the U.S, and the West smoothly and peacefully using Islamic centers and mosques making them the fifth column inside America and the West. These mosques and Islamic Sunni schools are preaching Wahhabism in the name of Islam and making their best in converting the Americans and the Westerns to Islam in its Sunni Wahhabi vision. Since the late 1970’s the Saudi leaders built hundreds of mosques and Islamic centers in the U.S and the Saudi fund has infiltrated many Islamic and Arabic departments in the American universities to keep them away from discussing the Wahhabism. 

 

Ben Laden in that time was working in Afghanistan with American against the communist regime. The Saudi dream was to defeat the Soviet Union by the American help, then in two decades America itself will become Muslim country as the Wahhabi mosques and schools and fund are using the American values of freedom of belief and freedom of speech in preaching the Wahhabism in the American soil. By this way, they will accomplish the final triumph which was predicted in their secret sacred old scriptures.

 

By the end of the war in Afghanistan, Ben laden has chosen his way frankly in attacking the West and the U.S according to the sacred Sunni Jihad which is based on a false saying was attributed to the Prophet Mohammed two centuries after his death. This saying is: “I was commanded to fight all the peoples until they testify that I am the messenger of God). This saying was fabricated to justify to the Muslims in that time attacking the other nations. The Sunni Wahhabists have restored it in our time along with all the Middle aged tradition to attack the West and the U.S and to master and rule the entire Muslim World in this international war against the Jews and the Christians as it is manifested in the Sunni tradition as a sign of the end of the world.

 

So, all of them have the same belief, no real difference between the frank terrorists like Ben Laden and the so-called moderate leaders in the Saudi Kingdom, Gulf States and the Muslim Brothers. The only difference is in the tactics. Actually the so- called moderate Sunni are more dangerous than the frank terrorist Ben Laden.

 

 

b.     Understanding the culture behind terrorism and fighting it from inside Isla:

 

After answering the question of whom, the question of what needs to be fundamentally cleared. There should be decisive understand of the major facts in the extremist belief in order to know how to fight it.

 

According to their Sunni jurisprudence, they have to give Ben Laden %10 of their oil income yearly. The true believers in Ben laden ask for %50 of the new oil prices that the Gulf States get because this new high profits come because of  many changes happened by Ben Laden, so they should reward him for this new additional income. The very rich people in the Saudi Crown family and the Saudi State and other Gulf states usually give Ben Laden this right in( Zakat ) as an Islamic obligation for the true Mujahid of Islam.

 

The other Gulf States have their own reasons to satisfy, please and appease Ben Laden; otherwise he and his followers will destroy the splendid towns and the prosperity of these Gulf States. That is why the famous Aljazeera T.V channel is controlled by partisans of Ben Laden.

It is said in some Arabic sites that Ben Laden is living secretly in the Grouped Emirates. May be it is not true, but it reflects the real religious, political and economical relationships that unite them together against the U.S and the West.

 

 

c.      Incorporate Muslim moderates who struggle against the Wahabists monopoly over the Internet in the US administration’s effort to promote the American Image in the Muslim world

 

There is a great need to use the right credible people who are able to achieve your goals.

 

The recent news in the Arab media shows that “Al Qaeda calls media to an open debate.” [1] Al Qaeda is handling directly and openly the war of ideas by its master mind, Ayman Al Zawahery. This comes along with other news confirm that Al Qaeda is active now in North Africa and has established its secret groups in England. It is clear that the U.S is the next target. What does not appear in the Arabic news is more dangerous.

 

This explained why Al Qaeda and the other fanatics Muslims are successfully waging this war of ideas in Arabic language against the U.S, and the Jews. They are also doing their best in brainwashing the majority of the Muslims around the world. There is actually another reason in their success, given to them free by The U.S itself. It is painful to say that the Americans know a lot about the Iraqi oil, but they know a little about the Iraqi people. That is why they have this problem, not only in Iraq but also in the entire Muslim and Arabic World. It is 90 % war of ideas but America is fighting it by its military.  In the same times, America ignores the Quranists; the brave professional soldiers in this soft war of ideas, who are eager to serve the U.S, saving billions of money and thousands of lives.

 

The International Quranic Center was established in 2006 to comprise a worldwide network of Muslim reformers who are dedicated to fighting terrorism ideologically by analyzing their literature and showing its contradiction to the letter and spirit of the Quran. The founder of the center, Dr. Mansour, is an internationally respected and distinguished scholar of the Quran with expertise in Islamic history, culture, theology and politics.  His interpretation of Islam offers a fact-based understanding of the letter and spirit of the Quran and its systematic application in a manner that enhances the values of democracy and religious tolerance. 

 

America is under this new kind of war; war of ideas. It has to deal with Islam and Muslim all this new century. America has to be the super power in the Arabic war of ideas. It is not a big challenge because America has the Quranists in its side. The center can convince the fanatics by using the fanatic tradition against them. It is not hard to convince the Arabic majority that their real enemy is not Israel or America but the fanatic terrorists and the dictators. The Quranist Muslims can do all this if they have the U.S support and protection.

 

III.            Program Approach:

 

What can the Quranists do in defending the American image in the Arab Muslim World?

The Quranists have many of proposals in mind to help answering this question. This includes but not limited to: 

 

1) Leading an effort to convince the Islamic world to accept Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Islamic law according to the real core of Islam: By doing so, these resolutions could be the main source of legislation in Muslim countries instead of Islamic Jurisprudence, which actually means the fanatic Wahhabi legislations.

 

2) Leading an effort to reform Al Azhar of Egypt: Al Azhar is the oldest and the most prestigious university in the entire Islamic world. It is “the Vatican” and the religious authority of the entire Muslim Sunni world. Al Azhar currently is upholding Wahhabism and the bloody culture of Muslim Brothers and Hamas. Reforming it from within Islam, means we can terminate the main source of the violent culture of Wahhabism.

 

4) Establishing a school for research in the U.S to discuss the sacred secret side of the Muslim tradition. This can take the form of a high institute in which the open minded American Muslim will be graduated to work as (Imams) for American Muslims in prisons, navy, army and other agencies. The U.S agencies have to get Imams form the fanatic Wahhabi organizations like (Cair, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), or (ISNA: Islamic Society of North America). Those fanatic Wahhabi Imams reflect the same mentality of (CAIR and ISNA). It is the time to have an American high institute that educates the American Muslims to reform the American mosques and the so- called Islamic schools and to make them defend America in the name of Islam.

 

5) Leading an effort to reform the Islamic mosques and the so- called Islamic schools in the U.S.

 

Some would say: The Americans are not qualified to this kind of war. In the same times, it is not legal for the Americans to interfere in the religious fields.

Actually,this field of war of ideas needs very high qualified Arab Muslim scholars. They must be knowledgeable in the Arabic language which has many levels and different terms especially in the traditional field of the war of ideas. They must be professionals in Islam, The Holy Quran, Muslim Tradition and history and all the minute Muslim sects and cults and the other secret sacred side of the Wahhabism. They must also have this history and background in waging this war of ideas against the fanatic Muslims and have the commitment to continue it as their own peaceful Jihad. Finally, they must be pro-American sincere Muslims who believe in Islam as the religion of peace, tolerance, justice, freedom of belief and Speech, which is the mission of the Quranists.

We are the qualified Muslims to do it. We are Muslims, we are not official agency. We are doing it as free Muslim reformers. The Wahhabists have hundreds of Islamic centers here working as the fifth column against America, what about other Muslims who are willing to defend America?

Our international Quranic Center will do this mission as an independent Muslim center in the U.S. 

 

IV.            Program’s Activities:

This program has four activities:

 

1.     Survey Group:

 

The mission of this group is to survey all the Arabic sites on line and sort them out in different categories.  The group will begin by establishing the criteria that define each site and divide them accordingly. The Arab religious sites have different kinds of moderate and fanatic sites and others in between. They are also having different sects and cults and many lines inside each. It is very important to define the differences between the frank sites belong to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, and the so – called moderate sites, which are more dangerous than Al Qaeda because it have two discourses.

 

There are also the fanatic secular sites. They are owned by communists and leftists and the Arab fanatic nationalists who are against America and Israel. There are some Arabic sites that are owned by ex- communists who become Muslim brothers. Their discourse is not pure religious but it is strong and very active in fabricating lies and rumors to tarnish the American image.

 

Finally, there are neutral Arabic sites and other sites which have not decided its goals.

This first group makes this survey and continues its work dealing with any new Arabic site appears on line, and updates the new sites and the new changes inside the famous sites. This group has to educate other group the criterion that defines the fanatic terrorist Arabic website, the different categories of the fanatic Arabic websites according to this definition, the possibility of getting information about the terrorists from these websites and the professional high tech used in these websites.

 

2. Investigation Group:

 

The mission of this group is to investigate the entire fanatic and the so – called moderate Muslim sites.  There are websites seems to be moderates, have nothing to do with the political discourse, concentrating on the religious issues only. For the ordinary Muslim, they seem just religious websites, so they have a millions of partisans. Actually, they are the most dangerous sites. They use the religious tradition to prepare the ordinary Muslim to be fanatic, and then he may become suicide bomber after that.

The most famous moderate web site is Islam online, owned and controlled by Sheikh Al Qaradawy, the spiritual leader of Muslim Brothers. This so – called Moderate Sheikh has a famous bloody fatwa calling to kill all American civilians in Iraq. It is a must to face it and to analyze it.

 

The Saudis have the biggest number of the fanatic web sites in different discourses. There are the official sheikhs who attack Ben Laden and defending the Saudi Kingdom while they are upholding the same faith and same belief of Ben Laden. There are the sites of some Sheikhs like Salman Al Ouda and Safar Al Hawaly who were against the Saudi regime and put in prison, then were released in one condition: not to attack the Saudi State. Accordingly, they ignore the Saudi policy but focus on attacking the West and the U.S and encouraging the terrorists every where.

 

Other Saudi oppositions in London have their own websites attacking the Saudi family and the U.S together and encouraging the war against the West. Al Mas’ary and Al Fakeeh are good example for this category. London has many other fanatic Muslims who have famous web sites attacking the Arabic regimes and the U.S and the West. Many of these fanatic websites talk in behalf of Ben Laden, while some of them attack Ben Laden but preaching the same bloody religious culture of Ben Laden but in different tunes and different accents.

 

All of this jungle of sites has to be investigated thoroughly in order to analyze all the details, especially how they brainwash the young Muslims and prepare them to be suicide bombers, how they recruit them, and how they raise fund, and how to face them.

 

3.     Fatwas Groups

 

This group is going to be specialized in the new kind of the war of ideas (war of Fatwa).  Fatwa is the religious verdict said by the high leveled Muslim scholars in the past, or in our time. The fatwa controls the daily life of the religious Sunni or Shiites Muslims. The fanatic Wahhabists and Shiites are using the fatwa calling for violence in the name of the Islamic Jihad, so, by their fatwa many of Muslims become suicide bombers. The fatwa issued by Al Qaradawy to kill the civilian Americans in Iraq has encouraged many of the so- called moderate Sunni Muslims to fight all the Americans and it has also endangered the American lives in any Muslim country.

 

This group (Squad of Fatwa attack) has to face this war of fatwa in many ways, includes, but not limited on:

·       Discuss the fanatic fatwas proving the contradiction between them and the Islamic laws.

·       Prove the contradiction between Islam and the sacred Sunni and Shiites scriptures of the Middle Ages, which are the resources of the fatwas for the fanatic sheikhs in our time.

·       Writing articles to ridicule these old and recent fatwas.

·       Prove and highlight the contradictions among the fanatic fatwas, using the continuous debate among the old Imams, and also the same dispute among the sheikhs of our time. This will undermine their credit.

·       Issuing a real Islamic fatwas that excommunicate Ben Laden, his people and the so – called moderate as well.

·       Prove the other side of the fanatic Shiekhs who seem saints while they are corrupted and very mean. This will undermine their fatwas.

·       Restore the old Fatwas of the respectable open minded Muslim scholars in the middle ages which contradict the fanatic Imams and their fatwas.

·       Some official sheikhs give fatwas to justify the political interests of the regime. This is usually done specially in all Muslim World, especially in the Saudi Kingdom and Egypt. This reflects the enmity between these regimes and Muslim Brothers. So, so – called moderate sheikhs have to issue fatwas to condemn some terrorist crime done by Ben Laden and others. These temporary fatwas contradict other fatwas they issued and contradict the old fatwas of their old sacred imams of the middle ages. The group can use this in fighting them back.

 

4.     Daily Guards Groups:

 

This group will search all the Arabic sites to defend America. Some of this team will comment on every thing said about America to clear the American image. Other will write article to support the American policy. They will prove that the real enemy to the Arabs and Muslims are not the U.S and Israel. It is the local dictators and the fanatic Wahhabists and Muslim Brothers. They will also make a comparison between the American values and the Arabic Muslim dictators, and how the American Muslim Community enjoys the freedom of belief and speech in America while there is no freedom in the Muslim World. They also will prove to the Muslim World that the American values are the same original Islamic values of justice, freedom and tolerance and loving humanity. This does not mean the American foreign policy has not big mistakes. It has but they are brave enough to admit it and correct it while every Muslim dictator punishes any one who dares to oppose him.

 

5.     Also:

 

The Center proposes also these five program activities in order to achieve its goals:

1- Creating a formal permanent committee to supervise this online war.

2- Establishing many active websites to serve in this war.

3- Recruiting and organizing the secular and other open minded Arab scholars and their web sites to be in our side against the terrorism.

4- Establishing new Muslim generation of advocates who will be specialized in this online war.

5- Translating and countering the Arabic fanatic websites to the Americans policy makers.

 

 

(3) Weapon of TV channel

Sample of concept proposal

 

Distinctive Production Company of TV Programming for “Freedom” Channel

 

 

 

Introduction:

 

The Company’s Goal: To produce a program that achieves:

1.     Reform and Introducing Reform by education

2.     Improving the Image of America in the Arab World

3.     Genuine competition to Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel.

 

The scope of these programs is in the following areas:

First: Reform:

1.     Constitutional Reform:

Approximately 200 45-minute episodes are suggested.

This starts with introductory episodes about the history of struggle to achieve the constitution and the condition of the first constitutions in the Arab region. Also, it will discuss the developments that emerged from the current constitutions. It will include a detailed discussion of each constitution one article at a time to demonstrate those that are no longer valid and what can be added. A comparison between the Arab constitutions and the western ones will be conducted. This will propose an Arabic constitution to be the base for a modern and democratic state in which checks and balances prevail. This constitution shall be a foundation for establishing the human rights and citizenship in the presence of a free press and speech. This will also prevent any attempt to override the constitution or create special laws without good reason. It will define the role of the military establishment in protecting the law and citizens and support the laws of autonomy and the local councils. This will prohibit special tribunes of any kind and using military courts for civil trials. It will outlaw the torture and make it a crime that will not be negated by the expiration status. Mostly, it will prohibit the establishment of religious authority and the clergymen from interfering in the governmental and political affairs.

 

2.     Reforming Al-Azhar:

 

Approximately 200 45-minute episodes are suggested.

To reform the Arabs and the Egyptians, it is imperative to reform Al-Azhar. To do so, it is essential to reform Al-Azhar basic law and its educational programs.

Al-Azhar is the oldest educational institution in the world. It is over a thousand years old. It includes seven universities in Egypt and it has its own educational system from the elementary level to the Secondary level. Al-Azhar wields huge authority on the religious life in Egypt from the mosques to the religious and educational programs in press and drama. It is as the Vatican status for one and quarter billion people.

The clergymen in the USA and the west come from Al-Azhar. Its culture is the one that is influential in these societies. Currently, Al-Azhar is under the influence of the extremist Wahhabi culture. So, it has a huge role in spreading extremism in the world. In reforming Al-Azhar, it is possible to halt and eliminate the danger of extremism. The start shall be in the form of preliminary episodes about Al-Azhar historical role in Egypt and the Arab world. Also, to include the reform movements in 150 years and why it ceased to exist. Episodes will discuss the development that carried out by late Nasser to reform Al-Azhar and why it ceased and Al-Azhar remained with its cultural syllables without reforms and how the Wahhabis took over through the Sadat-Brotherhood alliance. After that, a discussion can be conducted for the required reform on both legal and methodological levels. As far as the legal aspect is concerned, the discussion of Al-Azhar law (Number 103/1961) would be conducted on the basis of developing the positive articles and eradicating the ones that do not match modernization and reform.

The executive order that issued by Sadat shall be discussed. This order emerged as prejudiced, backward and allows Al-Azhar to interfere in the freedom of speech and thinking.

The discussion of the laws that give Al-Azhar graduates special privileges shall be explored in demand for change. One of these laws is the one that allow Al-Azhar clergy to retire at the age of 65 while the rest of the civil servants at 60. This is unfair and unconstitutional. By equating Al-Azhar clergy with the rest of the State civil servants, it will be possible to furlough a whole generation of extremists between 60 and 75 years old who are a stepping-stone in the way of reform.

Currently, the educational process at Al-Azhar and at the graduate level produces generations of ignorant graduates. Promotions depend on the professor’s opinion that is keen to make his student more ignorant than him. These processes need to be discussed and new regulations to be adopted for promotions and research. These should be under the supervision of neutral committees formed from professors outside Al-Azhar in order to graduate adequate Masters and PhD holders. In addition to the legal and rules issues, there come the education syllables. These can be explained as follows:

A full revision for the educational syllabuses in Al-Azhar of all levels is needed. This shall concentrate on the reform of the religious, interpretation, narrations, biography, history and belief items. At the university level emphasis shall be on the faculties of the religion fundamentals, legislations, Islamic studies and history.

Alternative syllabuses at all levels shall be proposed based on this revision exercise. These alternatives shall shed the light on true meaning of Islam including democracy, human rights, justice and absolute freedom in belief and the opposition of the terror and extremist intellect.

Also, a legal revision for the rest of Al-Azhar establishments, the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Religious Decree Committee and the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs is required. The objective is to make Al-Azhar the citadel that protects the human rights and the freedom of religion. Also, the other objective is to make Al-Azhar the patron of spreading the culture of tolerance and peaceful relationship among sects and religions.

 

3.     Reforming Higher Education in the Arab World starting with Egypt

 

The education in the Arab World is suffering from the Wahhabi influence. Not only in the historical and religious material but also in the methodology of education itself. This methodology is based on recital and retention without innovation and invention. Even the concept of “fabrication” is not accepted religiously. Reforming education in the Arab World requires continuous episodes that deal with the following example:

 

a.     Concepts Correction:

The Wahhabi medieval affected the common syllabuses that form the mentality of the students. Some of the concepts that need to be discussed are: fabrications, Sunnah, Islam, infidel, Shiite, Sufis, Moslem Brotherhood, Wahhabism, Jihad, education, people of the book, Jews, Israelites, Christians, dictation/eradication and several hundreds more of these concepts. These concepts have different perception and interpretation based on the sects and groups. However, the most dominant perception of all these concepts is the Wahhabi one. So, it is required to discuss these concepts and show the original Quranic meaning of them and how these concepts were modified through history and dominated by the Wahhabi interpretation as we see now. It is imperative to cleanse these concepts to match the principles of human rights, democracy and justice and deploy them in the essence of the civil education.

 

b.     Reforming the Religious Education Material:

It’s imperative to clarify the elements of extremism that encourages terrorism and the hate of the other who is different in belief, sect, sex and national origin. This is in addition to the disrespect of the women.

 

c.      Deploy alternative religious syllabuses that emphasize the human rights and democracy:          

This would lead to the abandonment of the beliefs that are controversial and leads into the freedom of religion and the respect of the right of every human being to choose his religion. It is an emphasis on human rights, freedom of belief, justice, peace, compassion, bravery and pardon.

d.     Reforming the History Material:

The current material concentrates on the Moslems’ positives and makes the Prophet companions sacred in addition to the important leaders. It prevents the discussion in their negatives or their roles in the civil strive. So, it is important to introduce new material that based on subjective discussion and discusses all the historical events.

The reform would be extended to the contemporary Arab history in the second half of the twentieth century. In these materials, it praises the founding fathers of the governing regimes and curses their opponents locally and internationally. They represent an unfair image of the west and non-Moslems. They are not fair to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the history of Jews in the Arab World. The alternative syllabuses need to be based on facts without camouflage.

e.      Reforming the National Education Material:

This is a brainwashing material for the students to enhance the image that the ruling regime represents the country and the ruler represents the people. An alternative syllabus is needed that emphasizes the human rights, the citizenship and the minorities’ rights. The alternative would enhance the justice and tolerance instead of consolidating the tyranny of the ruling regime.

f.       Discussion of the International Human Rights Charters in the Light of Islam:

The ironic thing is that the International charters of human rights are the closest human scripts to the Islamic law in Qur’an that had been distorted by the Moslems’ sects. It is sad to point out that the Saudi Wahhabism and Shiite rule in Iran and all the secular constitutions in Egypt and other countries are farthest from the Qur’an charter.

It is also, ironic that the Arab rulers and their opposition from Moslem Brotherhood are rejecting the International charters and treaties and stick with their rules that contrary to Islam under the Islamic banner. Clearly, their laws permit the oppression, corruption and persecution and the International ones are Islamic in essence.

This program shall provide discussions of all the articles of the International charters and treaties in the light of the true Quranic laws to prove that they are in synchronous with Islam. This will lead us to adopt the International Human Rights charters in the Arab constitutions or to replace the articles that state Islamic law is the source of legislation where the distorted Wahhabis and Shiites were meant to be their interpretation of Islamic Law that enhances corruption and totalitarianism.

 

4.     Legislative Reforms in the Arab World:

 

These reforms include the following:

a.     Reforming of the Elections Law in the Arab World:

The fairness and transparency of the elections need to be quarantined against forging. Also, the follow up on the election process from advertising to voting to votes counting and publishing the results. It is imperative to have an independent establishment to supervise the elections at all levels. The existence of international supervision is essential. Omission all the laws that facilitate the government control shall be abolished.

b.     Reforming the laws of Liberties:

These include the religious, civil, intellectual and civil liberties. This reform will prohibit the interference in the freedom of speech and opinion including religious and artistic aspects. Reforms will prohibit prosecution of the opinion or research in the fields of religion, intellect and politics and to decide the difference between free opinion and defaming without proof.

c.      Reforming the Criminal Law in the Arab legislation:

This reform will protect the individual’s rights in himself, his wealth and his honor. All the punishments that relate to the political , intellectual and religious activities shall be abolished. New laws shall be enacted that do not carry the possibility of double interpretation.

d.     Reforming the Islamic Societies in America:

1.     Reforming the mosque to defend America in the name of Islam

2.     Reforming the Islamic schools.

3.     Reforming the research centers of Islam in the American academia. This is essential to discuss Wahhabism and face its terrorism and extremism.

 

Second Reform: Here in the USA

This reform has two parts:

First: American Part:

This part depends on descriptive non-critique programs. It includes an informative description of America for the Arab viewer from old and contemporary history. Also, recognizing the American geography and philanthropy. This shall provide documentary movies after translating them to Arabic and give explanations suitable to the Arab viewer perception to satisfy his eagerness about the America: the dreamland.

Here are some details:

1.     The indigenous inhabitants of the new world and their origin.

2.     The old civilizations in the Americas before the Geographic expeditions.

3.     The original geographic explorations, their motives, Christopher Columbus, the Spanish expansion, European competition in settlements between Spain and Portugal, the French and English conflict and their competitions and wars with the indigenous populations, the importing of   Negros from Africa, the revolutionary War, Civil War, Monroe Doctrine, American social conflicts that gave women the right to vote and the civil rights movement, League of Nations, United Nations, Vietnam’s War, Iraq’s War,..etc.

4.     Major American landmarks such as the American Constitution, the Presidents, Type of Government, Congress, Supreme Court, Hollywood, economy, American society… and so on.

 

Second Part: Arab Americans:

This part concentrates on the Arab Americans and includes the following topics:

1.     The beginning of the Arab migration to USA and its relation with the Christian massacres in Levant in the middle of the 19th century.

2.      The most dominate nationalities of Arab immigrants.

3.     Distinctive Arab intellectuals in America.

4.     Diaspora Arab poets in North & South America.

5.     The current distribution of Arab population in America.

6.     The Arab & Islamic Museums in America.

7.     The departments of Arabic & Islamic Studies in American Universities.

8.     American Embassies in the Arab countries and the Arab embassies in America.

9.     Type of visas for American entry.

10.  Lottery system.

11.  Immigration laws in America.

12.  The political and non-political asylum in USA and the chances of Arabs in them.

13.  Citizenship laws and its withdrawal.

14.  Is there persecution of Arabs & Moslems after September 11?

15.  Alien’s rights in America.

16.  Most famous Arab events and cases in America.

17.  Academic scholarships for Arabs in America.

18.  Summary of Arab news in America.

19.  The freedom of religion privileges for Arabs. 

20.  The famous rich Arabs in America.

21.  Arab politicians & princes living in America.

22.  The Arab students and their unions.

23.  The Arabic clubs.

24.  The Arab ethnic & sectarian concentrations (Egyptians, Syrians, etc).

25.  Arab refugees.

26.  Arab political refugees.

27.  Illegal Arab Aliens.

28.  Stories of Arabs obtaining US citizenship through marriage.

29.  Arab & Moslem cases in the international tribunes.

30.  Arab in American Jails.

31.  Moslems & Arabs in the US Armed Forces.

32.  Moslems & Arabs in the Congress.

33.  Arab delis and cafes.

34.  Upbringing of Arab children.

35.  The social acclimation of first and second Arab generations.

36.  Mixed marriages among Arabs and Americans, Moslems & non-Moslems.

37.  Marriage of Moslem Arab women to non-Moslem.

38.  Arab girls and American social habits (e.g. boyfriend).

39.  Head cover for Moslem women in America.

40.  Education of Arab Moslem children in private schools.

41.  Problems faced by the immigrant Arab families.

42.  Connection between Arab Americans and their relatives in their original countries.

43.  Arab celebrations.

44.  Arab cab driver interviewing a passenger.

45.  Most famous Arab newspapers/magazines.

46.  Churches converted to mosques.

47.  Christians converted to Islam and the rationale behind it.

48.  Arab relations with Jews in America.

49.  American dream in Arab conscience.

50.  The songs, movies and Arab channels available to the Arab communities.

51.  The Arab American visits to their original homes and their impressions.

52.  Bringing relatives to America.

53.  Difference between “Arab Town” and “China Town”.

54.  Differences between Arab communities and other communities (Africans, Chinese, Indians, etc)

55.  Are there differences between the Arab communities such as the Lebanese, Syrians, Egyptian, etc?

56.  The pilgrimage of the Arab Americans and their difficulties from Arab and American prospective.

57.  The beliefs and habits of Arab Americans such as Prophet Birthday celebration or Shiites Ashoora, Ramadan, in addition to social beliefs like weddings, circumcision and virginity.

 

The third subject: The Victims in the Arab World:

 

The sympathy of “al-Horrah” Freedom channel with the victims in the Arab World would increase its respect with the number of those victims and the sympathizers with them. The programs here are varieties depend upon the situation of the victims, for example:

·       The victims of torture in the police stations.

·       The victims of the psychological torture because of terrorism.

·       The victims of torture because of opinion and belief.

·       Victims of torture for no reason.

·       Most famous cases of torture.

·       Torture cases in courts.

·       Most famous accused torturers

·       Treatment of torture victims

·       Most famous Centers for treatment of torture victims.

·       Most famous websites that expose the torture practice.

·       Victims of false accusations

·       Victims of administrative detention.

·       Victims of employment dismissal.

·       Street children.

·       In-house victims: Housekeepers, wives, orphans.

·       Victims of medical malpractices (dirt, contaminated blood and medicine, organs trading, greed, massage for sexual advances and advantages, bribery, etc.)

·       Victims in rural and poor popular areas (contaminated infrastructures, poverty)

·       News of the Human Rights organizations

·       Interviews with the most human rights activists.

 

 

The Fourth Subject: Free Tour in the Arab Art:

Arab Cinema and Television

 

·       Discussion of Censorship in light of freedom of opinion.

·       Most distinctive victims of censorship of Arabic films.

·       Most famous Arab directors and analysis of their works.

·       Most famous stunts/extras.

·       Genius Arab actors disappeared early in their careers.

·       Famous Arab documents and their directors. 

·       Movies with history in the Arab Egyptian cinema.

·       Political opportunism in the Arab cinema.

·       Wahhabi effect on critique writing for Arab and Egyptian Cinema.

·       Egyptian cinema industry between the foreign production and Arab brilliance.

·       Brief history of Arab & Egyptian cinema.

·       Egyptian movies copied from Hollywood.

·       Is there a distinctive Egyptian or Arabic specialty for the Egyptian or the Arab cinema?

·       The Soviet and communist effect in the Egyptian cinema during Nasser’s reign.

·       The Jew’s image in the Egyptian cinema before and after 1952 revolution.

·       The Israeli-Arab conflict in the Arabic drama.

·       Most famous Arab comedians.

·       The western and American images in the American cinema.

·       Egyptian cinema between reform and popular satisfaction.

·       Egyptian movies that caused change in the Arab and Egyptian societies (Cairo 30, The Innocent, etc)

·       The image of the Coptic and the terrorist in the Egyptian cinema.

·       The influence of Wahhabism on the Arabic Drama and society.

·       The influence of the heritage of Islamic drama in spreading extremism and terror.

·       The methodology of the historical cultural drama and its superficial political handling in the TV works.

 

 The Fifth Subject: The Enlightened Arabic Heritage:

 

Regrettably, Wahhabism reverted the modern Arab and Moslem life back to the worst and bloodiest extreme dogmas and beliefs in the age of human rights and democracy. More regrettably, Wahhabis is a mere school of thoughts belongs to the Sunni sect. However, it monopolized not only the Sunni sect, but also the whole Islam and Moslems.

In fact, the medieval had witnessed many Islamic sects that were more civilized than the contemporary Wahhabism. There was a reform movement that called for human rights. It’s imperative to shed the light on such movements after the Wahhabis tried to overshadow them.

This subject shall handle these dogmas and their patrons who called for liberty and human rights like Abu Haneefah and Mohammad Abdo who was the most famous reformer. He died a hundred years ago and tried to reform Al-Azhar. He also founded a first civil party that separated religion from politics. This subject shall also demonstrate the most important books that were written by this enlightened group and discuss them based on our time requirements and convention. Some of these scripts were ahead of their time such as the books of Al-Jahedh in Abbasid, Ibn Khaldoun Epilogue in Mamluk and the books of Taha Hussein, Ahmad Amin, Sheikh Shaltout and Mohammad Abdo in the last century. It’s also possible to produce documentaries about these personalities and discuss the subject after viewing the films.

This subject can include Arabic anecdotes either old from the heritage books or new from whatever published on the Internet. It’s possible to produce them as short documentaries and comment on them later.

 

 

(4) Weapon of drama

Sample of concept proposal

Building TV drama production, distribution and broadcasting company

 

I. Background:

 

The US forced into the war of ideas with the Wahabian fanatics through Al-Hurra TV. That didn't work because the semi official channel was compromised by internal managerial issues and external politics with governments in the region, which turn it into worthless tool in the war. News about corruption inside the station and the growing influence of Egyptian and Saudi governments on the channel are overwhelming.

 

Most importantly, despite its huge funding, Al-Huraa content was focusing on news about trivial political topics, that doesn't deal with the essence of the war of ideas: the Wahabian culture.

 

II. Goals and objective:

 

The failure of Al-Hurra experience lays the ground for a deferent possibility: a truly private and independent company that:

 

1.     Produces political, religious, and cultural TV shows in Arabic primarily, but with following translations into English, French, Persian, Urdu, and other languages for Muslims around the world.

2.     Produce historic and current TV drama soups.

3.     Market the company productions through local and international distributors.

4.     Launching a satellite channel to broadcast productions globally.

 

The main objectives of this company are:

 

1.     Conduct the war of ideas against fanatics from within their culture.

2.     Defend the American image in the Arab, Muslim world.

3.     Spreading the culture of democracy and human rights and assist the reform efforts in the targeted countries.

4.     Liberating the silent majority of Muslims from the Wahabian media control.

 

III. Strategic Approach:

 

These goals are feasible, even if the company was managed based on for profit market oriented approach. Fair risk assessment reveals that all factors of success are available: 

1.     Low costs:  Al-Hurra channel receives annual funding of several hundreds millions of dollars every year.  The appropriate financing for the proposed company won't exceed 2o million dollars for establishment costs, and the prospective profits can cover the annual expenses. The main costs include:

a.     Buying appropriate space in North Virginia, similar to the one owned by Al-Hurra, with enough space for permanent residence for staff.

b.     Establishing production studios and main headquarters

c.      Funding for first year salaries.

2.     High market needs: The target audience in this case is very approachable:

a.     By increasing the number of language for productions, it is going to be a global market (includes 1.3 billion Muslim around the world).

b.     The attention is going to be permanent since the subject (Islam) and target regions are and will continue to be the center of threats to the US in the near and foreseen future.

c.      The TV will attract existent and new audience because it will explore many of the off limit topics that current TV station, like Aljazeera, were not able to discuss. This includes critical views of various political, social, and religious aspects of life for Muslims and Arabs. 

3.     Proficient management: The company will be managed by professional management specialized in drama industry. It will be headed by a board of trustees from influential American public figures.

4.     Qualified staff: The station will bring the talent and experience from everywhere. It will includes:

a.     American professionals from the media production field, including management and administration, marketing, public relations, advertisements, and financial management.

b.     Targeted Arab and Muslim staff. This include recruiting around 50 drama professionals (directors, actors, interior designers, couturiers, etc) and 50 Quranists , along with their families, to perform the following:

                                                    i.     Writing drama and T.V programs. The Quranists have already 22 scenarios , and have prepared a full proposal for new T.V programs to defend the American image in the Muslim World.

                                                  ii.     Act in groups when needed for big dramatic scenes.

                                                iii.     Participate as backing crowds in TV shows and seminars.

                                                 iv.     Participate in advocacy campaigns, like demonstrations and public actions, when needed to defend the American policy or to expose the Wahabi trend.

IV. Preliminary Steps:

 

1- Forming a board of directors and trustees to register the company and recruit an executive manager who will;

 

2- Secure enough funding to buy appropriate space and;

 

3- Recruit professional staff and Quranists from around the world;

 

4- Coordinate with American officials to provide support, when needed;

 

5- Work with the board to establish the first year implementation plan.

 

 

 

 

Rules of engagement in war of ideas against Jihadists

Rules of engagement in war of ideas against Jihadists


Appre ciation and clarification

1- I would like to express my appreciation to Woodrow Wilson Center for international Scholars for giving me this chance to write this book ( Rules of engagement in war of ideas against Jihadists).
By this help of Woodrow Wilson Center, I have enough time to examine my 25 years of expertise in war of ideas against Jihadists to generate these rules. However, as it is a pioneer work – I think – it will need more thoughts and insights and updates.

2- The Jihadists are called (Islamists) while they contradict Islam in its faith, its Jurisprudence and its high values of freedom, justice, tolerance and peace. Jihadists and their religious culture should be terminated by very sincere Muslim scholars. So, this book- in its subject - is addressing the Muslim mentality having the religion of Islam against the Jihadists.
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