The responsibility for the present-day hatred and violence in the name of Islam does not lie with those Muslim youth who driven by acrimony carry out violent activities. Rather the responsibility for such action is to be borne by those so-called Islamic thinkers who, in the name of bringing about an “Islamic revolution”, gave such a way of thinking to Muslim youth whose result could be nothing but violence and hatred in the name of Islam.
The method of Islam is that of dawah or peaceful dissemination of Islamic teachings. The way of politics is contrary to dawah. While the basis of dawah is peace, politics is based on confrontation with others. Present-day Islamic thinkers gave a political interpretation to Islam, as a result of which the Islamic movement became a political movement. This culminated in all those unpleasant aspects—generally identified with politics—to be associated with Islam as well.
Those engaged in dawah consider others as potentially their friends. The case of politics is totally opposite to this, as those who are involved in politics look at others as their rivals or opponents. This is why dawah culture fosters mercy and compassion between people, while political activism leads to the spread of hatred. All kind of good finds its way in a society where people have mercy for each other, while the culture of hatred breeds animosity and violence. No virtue can ever be found alongside hatred.
On November 26, 2008 Mumbai witnessed the worst kind of terror attack. Ten terrorists entered several buildings and indiscriminately fired at people living behind several dead and wounded.
In earlier times when communication was not so advanced, the news about which everyone discussed could only spread to become the “the talk of the town.” However, in this advanced age of communication, a news item spreads so far and wide as to become the “talk of the world,” that is, now all over the world people become aware of and discuss the news from any other part.
According to a tradition, at the time of the Prophet, there was a man whose only concern was to speak negatively of the Prophet and spread wrong ideas about him. The son of this man became very angry and asked the Prophet to allow him to kill his father. The Prophet told him not to do that, as then people would say that the Prophet allows killing among his people. The lesson, which is inferred from this incident, is that anything, which defames the name of Islam should not be done. These incidents are mentioned in books but people fail to infer or draw lessons from them as they do not do deep study.
In Israeli literature, Talmud, there are many stories. In one incident, Prophet Moses prays to God: “O! God, take anything away from my followers but do not take away their wisdom.”
God replied: “O! Moses, if We decide to take away something from a community, it is their wisdom that We take away.”
Today, Muslims have lost their wisdom, as is understandable from the events, which have taken place recently. Muslims, who were involved in terrorism in Bombay, gained nothing. In Palestine, the Arabs have been fighting since the last 60 years and have not achieved anything.
In UP there was a man who was had not done much study, however, he was a good orator. He made his speeches as the source of earning. He went to the mosques, which required donation. He told the people there that he would get the money for them on the condition that the fifty percent share of this donation would belong to him. Then in his speeches, he exhorted people to donate for mosques by telling them that if they help in building one mosque on earth, in return they would get one house in Paradise. He used the phrase: “kud jhama jham jannat mein” and people donated money to him immensely.
Used in the context of today’s events, it will be rightfully said that persons indulging in such activities are following: “kud jhama jham hell fire mein.” This is because Muslims are committing suicide bombing everywhere. Suicide is extremely unlawful in Islam. According to a hadith in Bukhari, ‘If a person commits suicide he would go to hell.’
This is a result of deterioration and lack of wisdom. It is like jumping into hell and those who are committing these suicides are not afraid of accountability and that they will have to stand in front of God.
What is the reason for this madness and how did it originate?
I realized that the reason for this madness was hatred. Hate can make a man do anything. Hate began from Satan. When God created Adam, He asked the angels and Satan to bow before him, that is, God asked them to ensure that there would not be any interruption in the freedom of man and his test. Satan however, did not bow and consequently, God said to him: “you and your followers will go to hell.” Satan had developed such hate for man that despite knowing that he will be cast into hell, he did not obey God’s command. Hence, hate is so blinding that it can take one to hell.
Muslims today hate everybody all over the world. I have studied in the Muslim seminaries, madrassas and have participated in numerous lectures delivered in Muslim gatherings, and everywhere pride is ingrained in the minds of Muslims, They are taught:
“we are the caliphs and vicegerent of God on earth.”
I once met an Arab whose first question to me was, “who are we?” He then said: “we are the caliphs of God on earth.” I told him that this is not written anywhere. There are two words in Bukhari “Muslims are witnesses of God.” That is, they have to spread the message of God on earth. The same is alluded to in the Quran, that is, the identity of Muslims is to do dawah. However, Muslims have made themselves the self appointed caliphs. Everywhere, all the movements of Muslims including Jamat-e-Islami in India and Muslims Brotherhood in Arabia propagate the ideology of politically capturing land and establishing God’s law. This is thinking which is given to Muslims because when the Ottoman, Spanish and Mughal empires declined, Muslims started considering the rest of the world as usurpers [zalims] - those who took away their rights form them.
According to a verse in the Quran, “political power is a test paper, just like children and money”. Test paper can never be the monopoly of one; it would be change from people to people as God wants to take the test of every community. Hence if political power has been taken away from you then you need to have patience, when political power was with you then it was your test paper and now when it has been given to someone else, it is their test paper. No Muslim leader could tell this to the Muslims and pacify the political shock, which they received after the breaking of the Muslim empire. No one told them that their test paper of political power was over and now they should concentrate their effort on some other constructive activities like education, reform, dawah work etc. In Palestine, for example, it was God’s decision to give the political power to somebody else, hence the Muslims should have accepted it, but they started fighting and now 60 years of fighting has given them nothing. Muslims should have realised that God had now wanted to test some other community therefore, he gave them political power, but they fought and it was equivalent to fighting God’s decision and hence they attained nothing. As a result, all the Muslims got conditioned in hateful thinking.
Before Second World War, the thinking of the Japanese was same as that of the Muslims. Hirohito was the Emperor of Japan at that time. The Japanese had the concept of Imperial Divinity, that is, their king – the ‘god-king’ should rule the world. Consequently, they fought with many countries. It was the Japanese who started the concept of suicide bombing, known as “hara-kiri”. But in 1945 America dropped two atom bombs on Japan and the Japanese army was completely destroyed. Japan had a humiliating defeat. Then the Japanese developed second thoughts, that is, if the king was God then he would have saved them, but because they were severely wounded due to those bombs, they realised that the king was not God. Then the last king, Hirohito renounced the concept of Imperial Divinity and they never looked back since then. This made me to ponder as to why this hate does not get finished in Muslims? This is because Japanese had a living God while Muslims’ hate is a result an ideology. The living God of the Japanese was proved wrong and therefore the concept of ‘god-king’ died however an ideology cannot be killed on its own. The ideology, which inspires hate in Muslims cannot be killed like an individual - it cannot kill itself. This ideology can be killed by deconditioning alone.
Hirohito said “I’m not God,” and this led the Japanese to discard their unfounded notions and pave the path to progress. But the case of Muslims is very different. In their case, no such living being exists to accept this. The problem is that ideology has to be killed to change the thinking. The thinking of Muslims has to be changed. There has to be long process of deconditioning.
There are two kinds of deconditioning: one is the Prophetic deconditioning; that is, the deconditioning which the Prophet did of his companions. Then the companions did the deconditioning of some of their companions. But now there is no prophet and now self-deconditioning has to be done, self-deconditioning is the other kind of deconditioning. Earlier there was prophetic deconditioning and now there is self-deconditioning. There is nobody in history that has done self-deconditioning. This is a very difficult task. Ideological deconditioning has to be done among the Muslims to help them come out of hate.
The Taj Mahal hotel in which the terrorists have done bombing was made in 1903 by the British. It was made by buying material from different parts of the world and some very top notch people including millionaire businessmen, ministers, foreigners etc crowded there. One of the contractors of the building when it was being built was Jamshedji Tata, who was a very rich man by that time. When he once entered the Taj, he was not allowed to move inside because only white were allowed. The case of the Muslims is same; they are in wishful thinking that they will get entry in Paradise, however, what if they reach the gates of Paradise they are denied entry inside. What shall follow is beyond the scope of imagination.
It is essential to understand that one is negative engineering of mind and the other is positive engineering of mind. Today, all minds are being negatively engineered with hatred and pride. Muslims live in this fallacy that they are a special race [living in over-expectations], and when they are not treated specially then they are in frustration and hold others responsible for their not receiving the special treatment. The mission of CPS is to do positive engineering of mind. But this is very difficult. You have to do merciless introspection. It is our test to convert the thinking of people from negative to positive.
Terrorist who rocked Bombay had done extensive planning. This made me think that why were Muslims so capable of negative planning and completely lacks positive planning. Nobody is doing planning for dawah work. This is because as years passed by, the concept of dawah became dead in Muslims. Dawah work alone can breed positive planning as it requires well-wishing for mankind.
When the CPS team visited Cyprus, they distributed dawah material for 3 days continuously and did extensive planning for it. This positive planning was done by them because they had the spirit of well-wishing and love for mankind; they wanted to spread the message of truth to them and wanted to save the mankind from hell.
Therefore, the real work involves re-engineering minds and enabling people to judge between truth and falsehood. For instance, Muslims blame the media greatly for tarnishing their image, when actually Muslims are directly responsible for all the infamy as they are the creators of the news that media [merely] flashes.
According to a Hadith, “in the later years, killings and murders will rise.
Incidents like the one that happened in Mumbai serve as a warning that doomsday is near. The serious thing is that if we do not devote ourselves in dawah work then we will also not be spared - we are not on a safe side either.
At the time of Prophet Noah, a very powerful flood overwhelmed the people of his tribe and the only survivors were the Prophet and his followers who came aboard the Ark. Amongst the ones that chose to be left behind was his own son who refused his father’s advice and was ultimately drowned. In today’s times, dawah work is the Noah’s Ark and it alone will save us. If you want to save yourself from problems then we must do dawah work and spend all our time and energy towards spreading the message of God.
