I am not sure if I would trust this as being anything more than a CIA act of desperation. Amjed Unais Imam Anwar Al Awlaki transcript from lecture State Of The Ummah Brothers and sisters, we are on the verge of an Islamic revival, and there is an evidence for this, I’m not just speaking out of my good hope and good expectations for the ummah but there is evidence for this. Rasulallah (saws) says in the hadith that is authentic: Every century (100 years), Allah (Azza wa jal), would send someone [or some people] who would revive the religion again. If we go back and see when the Islamic khilafah offcially fell down, its in year 1924 (AD). That is when the last Islamic khilafah (the Ottoman khilafah) was ended. Since then we have not had a khalifah but we have borrowed the western (actually we didn’t borrow it, but it was forced upon us) concept of the nation state. Since then as Muslims we have been living in such a political environment. If we take this hadith of Rasulallah (saws) to mean that Allah will revive for us the aspects of our religion that need revival, one of the most important aspects is governance. Rasulallah (saws) says: “The rituals/aspects of Islam will fall down one after the other, the frst one will be Governance and the last one would be Salah (prayer).” So if we will take the hadith to mean that Allah will revive for us the aspects of our religion that need revival, one of the most important aspects is, as I mentioned, governance. Now since we have been missing Islamic governance since 1924 we hope and we expect that 100 years since that date will not pass until Allah will bring back Islamic rule for us in the form of a khilafah. And that would mean that before the year 2024 Bi ithnillah, obviously no one knows the unseen except Allah, but we can derive this meaning from the hadith that Allah (Azza wa jal) will not leave us for more than a hundred years, without Islamic rule. So we are on the verge of an Islamic revival; a revival not limited to the intellectual realm but a revival in governance, in jihad fe sabeelillah and every area that needs to be revived. There are more and more Muslims who are coming to the conclusion that jihad must be part of our program of revival and change in the Muslim world, that the occupying enemy must be fought and that the tyrants also must be fought. Now Pakistan and Afghanistan with their long and steep history of Islam, their large populations, and their location, are and will be charting the new history of this ummah. So you need to realize where you are now, you are in a focal point, you are in centre stage, you are in a place where probably you may have already recognized, that history has been made in that particular part of the world, the world is watching it closely, and all of this instability and turmoil that is going on is a refection of this. This is one of the unintended or unwanted consequences of bring change that is does bring, inevitably, with it turmoil and instability, but in the end the result is something that we all need to strive for.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:38:36 +0000
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