Question
Is there a reason why Ulama from English speaking or Arab countries are scarcely called to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to deliver Bayaans? Yet Ulama from those countries are always sent/called all over the world. It is obvious in this day and age that the Indian perspective is the only perspective and is out of context outside of India a lot of the time. The time may have come, whereby Ulama from other countries should be called to give speeches in India to the Muslims in India, so that they understand a different perspective and context of the wider Muslim world, from their own. Even though it is absolutely necessary to learn and remember Urdu, it may have become a quaint, archaic and antiquated language of a secondary nature and Arabic and the (khabees) language of English take precedence over it due to the way things have developed in the world. Urdu minded concepts are delivered to non-Urdu speaking people all over world which they are struggling to grasp as per intent of the speaker. (Our comment: There are no Urdu concepts. Pure Islamic / Sunnah concepts are expounded by the Urdu-speaking senior Ulama who have visited western countries. It was their expositions which have inspired innumerable westernized Muslims. Having acquired the true Deen from our Urdu-speaking Akaabir, we turned direction from the west to the Deen. They had simply delivered the Sunnah – Islamic concepts – via the medium of the Urdu language. This had great appeal to thousands of westernized Muslims. We saw the light which was handed to us by our Urdu-speaking senior Ulama.) In the countries Muslims have migrated to over the last century, the new generation have become more clever and stronger than the previous one - the original migrants - in terms of grasp of the local language and context, yet the seniors (from the awaam) sometimes struggle to understand or accept a new perspective because the working of the mind is different. (Our comment: In fact, the new generation is stupid, having retrogressed Islamically, and they are also weaker in almost every aspect. The ability to speak English does not make them more clever and stronger.) Hence the reason certain individuals such as Mufti Menk, Ml. Bham, Ml. Ragie, etc. may have taken a 'different' approach which seems to be prone to error. (Our comment: Individuals of this ilk are bootlickers. They suffer from the disease of mental inferiority, hence they follow the Yahud and Nasaara right into the "lizard's hole" in a mad stupor of emulation). Can a set strategy be put in place to amend the situation and bridge the gap between the seniors and juniors stemming from a difference in languages and culture? (Our comment: The only viable strategy is propagation of the Sunnah in the same old style which has come to us down the long passage of 14 centuries from the Salafus Saaliheen). How up-to-date are people supposed to be and how traditional should they remain? (Our comment: We are aware of only one tradition, and that is the Sunnah. We eat on the floor. We dress Sunnah style. We abhor western educational institutions. We abhor bootlicking. We do not look at Islam through colonial eyes. Rasulullah – Sallallahu alayhi wasallam – said that we are illiterates, and we are unable to calculate and understand 'scientific' theories). Where do we strike a balance between the two? (Our comment: Any 'balance' between Haqq and baatil is to compromise the Haqq, and this is haraam. There is no balance between the two. There is only one way, and that is Siraatul Mustaqeem – the Path understood and imparted to us by our Urdu-speaking Akaabir of Deoband – Deoband of yesterday – not deoband of today.) If Muslims have no focus on advancing in the fields of science and technology, would they become backwards or is that just a fallacy in people's minds? (Our comment: Never will they become backwards. On the contrary, with taqwa they will advance and subjugate the world and dominate the kuffaar as our illustrious predecessors, the Sahaabah, had raised the Flag of Islam on the hilltops of the world).
Answer
AND FURTHER COMMENTS
1) Yes, Muslims should acquire expertise in arts and ways to defend themselves. However, do understand that as a whole, the community will never embark on such programmes. There will be isolated and unsustained attempts, but nothing on an organized basis. Muslim lethargy and retrogression in all fields of life are due to lack of Taqwa and to gross disobedience. When Muslims abandon the Sunnah, Allah Ta'ala fossilizes their intellect. Then they become bootlickers of the kuffaar. So while your understanding is valid, the objective is unattainable as long as Muslims are morally corrupt and bereft of spirituality.
2) It will be an exercise in great futility and squandering of wealth to call Ulama from the English-speaking and Arabic-speaking countries to deliver Bayaans in the Indo -Pak subcontinent. There are sufficient senior Ulama in those countries to guide the Muslims.
Furthermore, there are no senior, muttaqi Ulama in western and Arab countries of whom we are aware. The English-speaking Ulama will only further corrupt the minds and the hearts of the English-speaking people in India and Pakistan. Their minds are already corrupted by gross inferiority complex. Everything western is laudable and worthy of adoption and emulation to the westernized Pakistanis, Indians and Bangladeshis. They still languish in the chains of the kuffaar western colonists. The Arab ulama who are primarily Salafis will corrupt the beliefs of the masses.
There are no two perspectives in Islam. The Sunnah is only one. It is the same Sunnah which existed 14 centuries ago, and it is that same Sunnah which we have to guard and implement. There is no different perspective. We have been born and bred in a western country and we have attended western institutions of education. We understand western life and we have seen and understood life in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. Both sides of the coin are in front of us. We are no strangers to western life. Western education damages the brains, corrupts the heart and diverts one from the Path of the Deen. It is pure satanism.
As far as Urdu is concerned, although it is not our mother-tongue, we believe that it is imperative for our people to learn Urdu and to maintain a strong link with our Ulama in the Indo-Pak subcontinent, although we do concede that there are today very few uprighteous senior Ulama remaining in those countries. Urdu is an Islamic language which comes with Islamic attitudes whereas English comes with corrupt western attitudes. Few remain unscathed by the evil western culture which they acquire from western education.
We have seen almost every molvi who plunged into western education after having acquired Islamic education, falling into corruption and fall by the wayside. All of them are bootlickers who look up to the western kuffaar for guidance. Thus we have chaps like Menk, Sooliman Moolla, Bham and the innumerable other scholars for dollars all masquerading as ulama when in fact they are the epitome of jahaalat. Mingling with the kuffaar is also dangerous for Imaan and Akhlaaq. Just look at a very senior Aalim such as Mufti Taqi. His free mingling with the riba capitalists of the western world has transformed him into a liberal, hence he has westernized his Madrasah thereby unceremoniously displacing the Sunnah culture.
The awaam (the ordinary laypeople) may struggle to understand the senior Ulama because of jahaalat. Their Deeni bearings have been cut, hence they are adrift in confusion. The strategy is only to revert to the Sunnah as it was taught during the era of Khairul Quroon.
If Muslims adopt the Sunnah and submit fully to the Shariah, Allah Ta'ala will create the circumstances for their rise and domination over the kuffaar. The Qur'aan and the Ahaadith testifies for this.
H a d h r a t U m a r (Radhiyallahu anhu) ruled a great empire, but he was a shepherd. Yet, he evolved systems of government which surpassed all other systems. Our success, victory and salvation are not dependent on western education and science. Our progress and success are reliant on Itaa-at (obedience to Allah) and Ibaadat, and nothing else.
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Appears under THE DEEN IS ONE NO TWO PERSPECTIVES (approximate).