Masajid of Allah : The Leaders Fortress or Agents Workshop
When Muhammad (saw) established the Islamic state in Medina, the Masjid that he constructed served a multitude of functions that were instrumental in maintaining the integrity and solidarity of the state. Muslims would gather within the Masjid walls to exchange, ideas, discuss the vital issues that confronted them, and to administer the functions of the state. In the Masjid, the Prophet (saw) taught Islam to the Muslims, met with non-Muslims delegates, judged among people, set armies on missions, etc. the Masjid provided an open forum for the circulation and cultivation of ideas that served to maintain the elevated intellectual status and clarity of Islamic concepts in the minds of the public.
Throughout the Islamic state, the Masjid helped to sustain the vibrancy and dynamism of Islamic concepts as centers of education, exchanging ideas and discussing the problems and contemporary issues of the Ummah with enlightenment. Today, In the absence of Islam as a political force and the resulting subjugation of the Ummah by Kufr from all fronts, the masajids posses a vital role in the process of revival that the Muslims cannot afford to underestimate of overlook.
In the absence of the Khilafah as a strong political entity to shield the Ummah, Muslims today feel stranded, alone, and isolated, like stray sheep surrounded by wolves with no shepherd to shelter them. The masajids provide a place of Muslims to converge and reinstate the feeling of unity and brotherhood that centuries of intellectual onslaught by the kuffar had dampened and the political disunity maintained by the Muslims regimes continues to censor. As community centers where Muslims gather to exchange ideas and invest in indoctrinating their families and youth with Islamic education, the masajids ideally assume the role of revitalizing the Islamic way of life by serving as the crucible that melts away the thoughts and ideas of kufr and feeds the flame of the Islamic revival.
Unfortunately, those who have assumed the position of leadership have, through their personal interests and political submission to the interest of the kuffar, causes the masajids to fail miserably in nurturing brotherhood and consolidation among the Ummah and in empowering the Islamic revival by consolidation the Ummah�s resources towards reestablishing the Khilafah and revitalizing the Ummah�s political initiative in the world. Instead of providing an open forum for the circulation of ideas and the development of Islamic thought, the masajids have metamorphosed from instruments of Islamic revival and veins of solidarity among the Ummah into workshop teeming with security where the development and exchange of ideas remain under tight scrutiny and affairs of the Ummah barred and stagnated by rigid shackles of control. Rather than serving as the crucible where kufr melts and Islam ignites, such fortress-Masajids maintain an ice box atmosphere that works to harden the existing kufr and freeze the momentum of the massed in initiating a change in the Ummah�s deplorable status quo. The control rod that manifest the fortress environment radiates from a static hierarchical pyramid of ��leaders,� prominent scholars, and others bearing titles of eminence, who have handcuffed themselves in diligent servitude to their lords in the west, in exchange for a lifetime of service by endeavoring day and night to kill the fruits of the Islamic Dawah,. Such �leaders� or �agents�, as they have the audacity to announce themselves as such � have exchange the deen of Allah (swt) for the transient pleasures of this life by bartering the Ayat of Allah (swt) for a few crumbs thought to them by their masters in the white house and the Land of Saud in much the same way as pedestrian throws crumbs of bread on the park curb for the flocks of birds who scavenge the sewage muck.
A person who plunges himself into such an environment in a quest to experience a sense of belonging and self-revival but lacking the political sharpness to realize who resides at the control panels would discover to his dismay that he is alone, everything around him moves in a controlled, monotonous fashion, and forces act from all directions to mold him into the static ineffectiveness of a life of donations, writing letters, baseless khutbas, and a showering epic tale of conference that provide an abundance of glamour but a scarcity of solutions. Most of the Ummah, who seek to nurture their children with Islamic personalities and contribute their resources towards reviving the Muslims from their beaks status quo are unsuspectingly swept by the currents of assimilations into the tasteless, stagnant life of �20the century Islam� which stifles the dynamism of the Islamic dawah with democratization of Islam.
Those who assume the intellectual initiative and emulate the Seerah of Prophet (saw) in working towards restructuring the society according to the Sharia suffer a fate much worse. As soon as they raise their voice and being calling for the total implementation of Islam and the destruction of all faces for kufr, the workshop�s wall descent to kill. Such an ideological personality � one that truly would spearhead the Ummah�s revival � is instead silenced, his name and reputation tossed between weddings, conferences, banquets and gatherings and stripped of its dignity by a vicious backbiting campaign. All relations are abruptly severed between him and the community, and, whenever he steps into Masjid, conference, or gathering, he received could, empty states, he finds his words and advice resounding off dear ears, and he finds himself alone � a stranger in the world that he belongs to.
The mere presence of the fortress style of administration smack of mockery and contempt. During the early Islamic state, even the Khalifah slept without guards, yet today, as mute testimony to the state of the Ummah, armies of security squadrons patrol the Muslims within their own masajid to fend the relentless onslaught of the malevolent, ominous danger of a few Muslims and their vicious, atrocious tactics of asking questions or demanding daleel. In the meantime, the khateeb or speaker stands tall and dignified, a beacon of hope and enlightenment whose kufr �stained words and kufr trained Ph.D. and kufr � maimed ideas all combine to polish the Daii�s prisons halls and beef up the masjid�s fortress walls.
Those who wish to reinstitute the Houses of Allah (swt) towards their rightful status must strive to topple the workshop�s walls that guard kufr that seeps into Muslim mind and jails the Islamic thoughts from attaining fruition. As it stand today, those in charge of administration the affairs of the Ummah and directing the revival process have renovated the masajid into citadels that bar the Ummah form its intellectuals and cultural identity and allow kufr thoughts and ideas to flourish within its confines by issuing drugs every jummah to those who reside within its battalions and mesmerize the Ummah into an opious pattern of begging the kuffar , chasing abstract concept of unity and revival mottled with human innovation and imagination, and attending lavish banquets and seminars devoid of tangible solutions. The Ummah must strive to reconstruct the masajids as open forums where any person or group or institutions from within its body can present its ideas and the Ummah, untainted or distracted by any vague, ambiguous ideas or erroneous concepts, can evaluate all of this possibilities and, naturally arrive at the correct solution and establish from within itself the correct structure that will initiate the correct revival. The masajid belongs to Allah (swt) and His Messenger Muhammad (saw) and not to those that Horde of directors or any other honeycomb from any rulers beehive.
�And Masajid belong to Allah, so call none next to him.� (al-Jinn : 18)
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