Know ISLAM
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Do you know ISLAM is actually an Ideological System and NOT just a Spiritual system?
Islam
is a comprehensive system, able to govern all aspects of Man as an
individual, and Society with all its complex political, economic and
social interactions and relationships. Islam has a comprehensive:
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Spiritual System – built on the five pillars of Islam. The Shahada, Salat, Zakah, Sawm & Hajj
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Political System (A Unique Ruling System and Government Structure), Economic, Judicial, Education & Social System - Manifest and institutionalized in the System of State called KHILAFAH (Caliphate)
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Do you know ISLAM recognizes Christianity and Judaism as legitimate spiritual religions?
The
presence of Christianity in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, and other
(places) all these centuries, under the shade of the Islamic Khilafah
(Caliphate), is the best proof that Islam was taking care of
Christians, embraces Christian in its state, fosters Christians,
protects Christians, and provides for Christians a noble life that
befits a human being. Or else, Christians would not have been patient
under the shade of Islamic rule and its state, all these centuries,
with the presence of an existing Christian alternative in nearby
Europe.
Verily,
we address Christians with honesty and sincerity. We do not seek
anything but victory for our religion and values, and diligent care
over our human kind, its righteousness, guidance, happiness, and the
integrity of living together successfully. Thus, we say to you:
Islam, is the truth. Islam is the only comprehensive ideological
system that can govern man, and solve his greatest problems in a
manner that agrees with his mind and give him tranquility.
We
call Christians to become part of the Islamic Ummah, and not against
it. Side with it, and be with its political agenda. Even if you do
not believe in its Spiritual creed, its Political, Economic &
Social system being divinely revealed will bring order and
tranquility to all of humanity. You are part of humanity, and have
always been part of the project to revive it. The relationship
between us in our lands, never got disturbed, except when the
colonialists came. The evil colonialists "divide and conquer",
destroying and burning everything in the process. Even when there
aren't any Christians or Jews in the land, they trigger
tribal/nationalistic prejudices, as is the case in Algeria with the
Berbers, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria by pitting one tribe against another
as is the case in Darfur, as is the case in Afghanistan, enticing the
Tajiks and Pashtuns against each other, and as it did between the
Kurds, Turks, and Arabs even though they are all Muslims.
The
Prophet Muhammad (SAW)
said: "He
who abuses a non-Muslim citizen then I will be his rival and dispute
him on the Day of Judgment."
History
is a testament to the Muslims implementing these commands under the
Khilafah for over hundreds of years. Sir Thomas Arnold in his book
‘The Preaching of Islam' states: "But of any organised attempt
to force the acceptance of Islam on the non-Muslim population, or of
any systematic persecution intended to stamp out the Christian
religion, we hear nothing.' Had the Caliphs chosen to adopt either
course of action, they might have swept away Christianity as easily
as Ferdinand and Isabella drove Islam out of Spain, or Louis XIV made
Protestantism penal in France, or the Jews were kept out of England
for 350 years."
Fellow
Christian citizens, DO
NOT
permit the false feeling of fear to destroy you, or transform you to
fuel for wars the American colonial imperialists create to accomplish
their devilish ulterior political and economic motives.
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Citizenship in the Ideological System of Islam
Citizenship
in Islam is based on someone permanently living within the lands of
the Khilafah (Caliphate) regardless of their ethnicity or creed. It
is not a requirement for someone to become Muslim and adopt the
values of Islam in order to become a citizen of the state. Muslims
living outside the Islamic State do not enjoy the rights of
citizenship, whereas a non-Muslim living permanently within the
Islamic State (dar ul-Islam) does. This is derived from the following
hadith.
The
Prophet (saw) said: ‘Call
them to Islam, and if they agree accept from them and refrain from
fighting against them, then call them to move from their land to the
land of the Muhajireen (the emigrants), and tell them if they do so,
then they will have the rights which the Muhajireen enjoy and they
will have duties like the duties upon the Muhajireen.’
This
hadith means if they do not move to the land of the Muhajireen they
would not enjoy what the Muhajireen enjoy, i.e. the rights of those
who are living in the land of Islam. So this Hadith clearly shows the
difference between those who move to the land of the Muhajireen and
those who do not move to the land of the Muhajireen. Dar
ul-Muhajireen was the land of Islam (Dar ul-Islam) at the time of the
Prophet (saw), and all other lands were Dar ul-Kufr.
The
Islamic state is forbidden from discriminating between citizens on
the basis of race, creed, colour or anything else. In origin all the
rules of Islam apply equally to Muslims and non-Muslims. The Islamic
scholars have agreed, especially the scholars of Usul (foundations),
that the divine rules are addressed to every sane person able to
understand the speech, whether he is Muslim or not, male or female.
However,
there are exceptions to this. If the Shari’ah rule is dependent on
belief in Islam such as praying salah or giving the zakat tax then it
applies only to Muslims. These exceptions are not discriminatory
rules as some have claimed, but take in to account the beliefs and
values of the citizen so as not to cause oppression to them. They in
no way detract from being equal citizens.
The
Dhimmi
Dhimmi
are those citizens of the Khilafah that hold different beliefs and
values to the ideology of the state i.e. Islam. The word dhimmi is
derived from the Arabic word dhimmah, which means pledge or covenant
(‘ahd).
The
state makes a pledge to treat the dhimmi in accordance with the
specific terms of the peace treaty made with them (if applicable) and
not to interfere in their beliefs, worships and those actions that
contradict Islam but were permitted to the dhimmi by the Messenger of
Allah (saw) such as drinking alcohol. In all other areas they are
viewed and treated in the same way as Muslims unless belief in Islam
is a condition for the action. There are parallels for this in Roman
and Jewish law.
There
are many ahadith ordering good treatment of the dhimmi and not
abusing them or treating them as second-class citizens.
The
Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “He
who harms a person under covenant, or charged him more than he can, I
will argue against him on the Day of Judgement.”
The
Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “He
who hurts a dhimmi hurts me, and he who hurts me annoys Allah.”
The
classical scholars of Islam also detailed the rights of the Muslims
towards the dhimmi. The famous Maliki jurist, Shaha al-Deen al-Qarafi
states:
The
covenant of protection imposes upon us certain obligations toward the
ahl al-dhimmah (people under covenant). They are our neighbours,
under our shelter and protection upon the guarantee of Allah, His
Messenger (saw), and the religion of Islam. Whoever violates these
obligations against any one of them by so much as an abusive word, by
slandering his reputation, or by doing him some injury or assisting
in it, has breached the guarantee of Allah, His Messenger (saw), and
the religion of Islam.
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Do you know Islam has been in this geopolitical region for over 1,000 years?
Islam
in this vast region has different and diverse histories. For our
purpose we discuss Kenya in particular.
Archaeological
evidence found in Shanga, on Pate Island (Lamu archipelago, Kenya
coast) indicate that Muslim settlements on the East African coast
started as early as the 8th century. However, after 1100 A.D., the
Muslim presence along the coast increased considerably, stimulated by
the expansion of trade in the Indian Ocean. These settlers came from
Oman and Iran and after the 13th century, most of the migrants came
from Yemen and Hadhramaut. The migrants settled mostly on islands and
spread along the entire coast – from the Somali coast, the Lamu
archipelago, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Kilwa, the Comoro Islands, and all
the way south to Sofala in present day Mozambique. The Swahili people
and Swahili culture emerged from these island city-states through the
interactions and inter-marriage of Africans(island natives and
settlers from the hinterland) and Arabs, Iranians and some Indians
settlers (from across the Ocean). This process took place over
several centuries and with successive waves of migrations. Islam was
at the core of Swahili culture of these city-states which were
actively involved in the international trade of the Indian Ocean. At
the time the World Economy was centered on the Indian Ocean.
The
coming of the European not only brought about Colonial rule,
administration and economic exploitation, but Church missionaries
came in force. Their main mission was to convert Africans to
Christianity and this was done through their capture of the
educational system throughout the region. Through Church activities
and education, and later through the colonial education and media,
both Church, Colonial Administration and the European settler
communities, propagated very strong anti-Arab and anti Islamic
mis-information and propaganda. Hence Swahili/Arab political
influence essentially came to a halt in the emerging countries of
Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique. But despite the European
civilising mission under the auspices of the Colonial powers, the
spread of Swahili culture and Islam as a religion (often the two went
together) continued and intensified during the colonial period as
well as after independence. This process which was taking place at
grassroots level inevitably came into conflict with the Christian and
colonial ideology of the ruling group and the African educated class
coming from Christian missionary and colonial government schools. And
the line of the struggle which emerged, was on the one hand the
forces of the Colonial Government/Church alliance supported largely
by a Christianised and anti-Arab/Muslim elite, and on the other hand
the force of Swahili Culture and Islam which spread and gained
converts mainly amongst the urban poor and some section of the rural
population – throughout the region.
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Why are Western geopolitical entities and Multinational firms investing so much in destabilizating nations (from Nigeria, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Venezuela), creating civil strife and generally terrorising society in a bid to malign/slander ISLAM and subjugate humanity? (watch Aljazeera – the Secret of the Seven Sisters http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/04/201344105231487582.html
A four-part series that reveals how a secret pact formed a cartel that controls the world's oil.)
Do
you know Islamic Sharia Law dealing with the Economic System dictates
that oil and other minerals must either be distributed directly to
the citizens or sold and the profits directly distributed to the
public? One can directly see what this would mean for Western
imperial colonialists and their multinationals Shell, BP, Total,
Chevron, ExxonMobil if humanity adopted Islam as a way of life.
Widespread awareness and adoption of Islam and Shariah Law would
break the back of the current economic system which depends on the
ignorance of humanity with respect to its right to natural resources
to enslave and bleed it. If Muslims and the rest of Humanity were to
implement Sharia Law, the Western imperialists dominance over the oil
& mineral resources in the Middle East, Somalia, Asia, Caucasus,
South East Asia. This is why they are making every effort to malign,
slander and demonize ISLAM. ISLAM as an IDEOLOGY can liberate
Humanity from its enslavement to Western Imperialism.
ISLAM
is being demonized and slandered by the West because it is the only
ideological system that can liberate humanity from slavery to the
West:
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The Islamic Economic System prohibits private ownership of Mineral Wealth. The Shari’a dictates that God-given wealth like Oil, Gold, Limestone etc. should be distributed to the public free or sold for gold and the proceeds directly distributed to the public on invested in the public’s welfare. Unlike in Secular Democratic Capitalism where the Oil in Turkana is owned by Tullow Oil (a private British company), the Titanium in Kwale is owned by BaseResources (a private British company), the Limestone mine in Athi River is owned by Lafarge Bamburi (a private French company), enslaving you through ownership of your own vital resources!
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The Islamic Economic System prohibits invention and imposition of taxes by Man, Value-Added-Tax (VAT), Pay-As-You-Earn, Corporate Tax and all other man-made tax regimes are illegal, inhuman and are only meant to enslave humanity to America and the West.
ISLAM
ONLY ISLAM AS A
COMPREHENSIVE IDEOLOGICAL SYSTEM COMPLETE WITH POLITICAL, ECONOMIC
AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS can bring TRANQUILITY and REVIVAL to all of
HUMANITY!
References
Islam in Eastern
Africa:
Historical Legacy
and Contemporary Challenges - by Abdalla Bujra
Hizb ut-Tahrir
