Dear Abdul Allah, I am raising the point that acting out of place is inappropriate eg in time of war you do not tie your hands and in time of danger when you have fear of harm it is silly to act out of place and trap yourself more making yourself an even easier target. All rules are subject to exceptions.
Western society is not free dear brother, in western society each person is slave of an economic system which divides people into masters and slaves.
There is three different kinds of imperialism.
a)Absolute imperialism. In this kind of imperialism a person is subject of emperor. The king has absolute power over any other person and the king is the law.
b)economic imperialism. In this kind of imperialism people with most economic power rule the one's who have the least.
c)Moral imperialism. In this kind of imperialism moral rules rule the people.
As we all know in today's world absolute monarchies are almost gone and any still there do not have the power to take over the world due to set up of economic system imperialism.
Today, we have most of the world based on capitalism therefore many of us who can are slaving day and night to make ends meet and the rest are dying in great pain and suffering. It is dog eat dog world out there and if you do not make a kill then some one will make a meal out of you like animal food chain.
This is what the west has given to the world. The question is why it succeeded? It succeeded because the system in place before it was yet more corrupt ie absolute imperialism. In that system absolute power was in the hands of a king. In the capitalist system power is in the hands of all those who have ownership of land and resources.
Obviously given the choice between absolute imperialism and economic imperialism, people would be wise to choose the later. Since capitalism took over we can see that humanity has made progress a lot more than it did in the olden times when all power was in the hands of one person. So power distribution does work better and power concentration does not. Likewise when absolute imperialism existed people still struggled to get more and more power in their hand hence there were always reforms. However the reforms needed to ensure better life for more and more people imperialism could go only so far. Therefore the stretch people needed tore imperialism. This needed new way of ruling system and that is how communism and democracy came in to being.
Communism failed because democracy gave more say to people in regard to their affairs as individuals and as a people.
So if we look at choices people had to make at certain stages of their existence were quite clear.
Today none of us is in doubt that what we have today was the most successful combination of political and economic systems. However time has come that even this system is thought of as no longer good for serving humanity properly.
All new systems work better at the beginning but as time goes on things saturate and need change. For example, people need pencils and we start making them and distributing them, a time will come when almost all will have pencils so we need to concentrate on another goal or direction.
The need for change is dictated by realisation of humanity due to increase in knowledge that there are still people out there whose basic needs and desires are still far from being fulfilled.
Thus world will keep going through changes as and when it can till it reaches absolute moral values with which people are happy. This is where islamic imperialism comes in and that is what the quran is all about ie moral imperialism. Paradise on earth, the one Adam was told to keep as a divine khileefah but he failed due to conspiracy of a tribal chief called Iblees and humanity is still struggling to get back to that stage of things.
These things are foretold in the quran if people could leave dogmas aside and study it thoughtfully.
So west is not yet at that stage that the quran predicts but it may well reach it because various interested parties are interacting and pushing things in a direction that is changing the world bit by bit for the better without may be many of us realising.
Despite all its ills west is better at handling things but in no way perfect till it becomes beacon of moral values the quran states. However it takes time for people to become educated and then think out better than what they have and then devise systems, structures and practices that can bring about what is aimed for.
Reading the quran and the hadith and accepting what others say without any real evidences and trying to discover what they really mean are two different things. Islam may be ultimately brought about by kufaar the way things are happening in reality. Muslims are not doing much other than holding on to the quran and hadith like a baby holds on to his milk bottle.
We are making plenty of noises we want ilsam but most of us have no idea what the quran contains if I may say so. Or in other words, we are holding on to the divine message but we do not know what the message is. Allah talks about bani israel and tells us example of books and donkey. I wonder what has that to do with us?
When Allah blesses any people, it is due to law of cause and effect ie people get what they deserve. Only those people are given power in the land who are able to take it. Muslims want islam in the land then they need to be more knowledgeable people than those who rule the land. This means coming up with ideas, systems, structures and practices that work better than what people already have in place. Only if we can convince people this way that there is a chance that we can win the game.
Till we become better than other people and be an example for them to follow, they will not follow us. In fact we ourselves will be forced to keep on following others who are doing better than us or we will perish.
At the moment as I see it we muslims are actually giving bad name to islam and the world is fed up with us. Unless we can do something to change things and the perceptions thing do not look that good for us.
To do that the first thing we need to do is not be dogmatic and start studying the quran and the hadith as we ought to. This will stop us from condemnation of each other and help remove divisions from between us. Then we can concentrate on how to properly deliver what we have to others. Once we have worked out the common ground there is no going back.
All this calls for new thoughts on islam for our time. The quranic message is for all and for ever. The people in time of the prophet interpreted it according to their situations and circumstances and we need to to do the same for our situations and circumstances. The quran is not about same size fit all. If it was then there would not be any need for hadith and after hadith for fiqh. All these developments in the muslim ummah point us in the direction that no situation or set of circumstance is permanent.
I hope this explains thing a bit more
regards and all the best.
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