From: jodar@aludra.usc.edu (Nicholas Jodar)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.afghanistan
Subject: Re: The Muslims, ...
Date: 17 Dec 1992 00:33:45 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu
Summary: Think it, do it, and THEN ponder....
Keywords: Just Do It


Assalamu Alaikum....

Auzu Billahi Min Ash-Shaitan Nirajeem.  Bismillah...

In article <92351.201633SAYED@auvm.american.edu> <SAYED@auvm.american.edu> writes:

>Tell them little sis,  a lesson that every one should learn, including
>me.   At times we may disagree on things, but we all have to realize
>we are all Muslims.   For as long as we are divided, every one will take
>advantage of us and destroy us.  

Shaitan and his minions work in concert.  So should we.

Allah (AWJ) demands action before 'He' produces results.  
Did not Moses (AS) have to use his stick before the Red Sea 
parted?  Did not Mary (RAA) have to put her hand to the tree 
before the dates fell?  Did not Rasulullah (SAW) have to 
fight alongside his men before the enemy was vanquished?

>Now I did get some questions about my
>view of United States of Islam,  I am all for it, but as long as there
>will be the State of Afghanistan, an identity totally independant and
>free to govern itself.  More like the European community, not like
>USA.  

Read your history and follow the example set by Rasulullah (SAW).
Under his Khilafa, each nation (nay, each TRIBE) had their own
land, their own leader, and their own community, but each was
part of the Ummat, responsible to the Khalifa and Allah (SWT).
This was the Sunnat followed by the Sahaba (RAA).

>The reason we can't be USA, is there are many languages and we
>have different cultures and different customes and it will be very hard
>to converge all of these.  

Under Rasulullah (SAW) and the Sahaba (RAA), there were many
WIDELY differing cultures (and religions!) within the Khilafa,
but they were still one Ummat.

>Many think this is a dream, 

Not those of us who know it has already been done....

>but did any one
>think there will a united states of America 400 years ago?? or 250
>for that matter?????  Right now the European community is working on
>UNIFIED Europe, but most of the plans are for the year 1999, or beyond.
>Why can't we plan for the year 1999 or beyond???? Didn't people think
>that Soviet Unions power was unbreakable and we proved it otherwise.

There are people who think that the power of the U.S. is
unbreakable.  These are usually the same ones that think the U.S.
is wonderful, a paradigm of civilization.  The natives know 
better....

>Today's dream could be tomorrows reality.  To do this we have to set
>goals and start working on them one at a time.  Did Europe go to sleep
>to wake up and find out they are part of a commenwealth now?? no,
>every thing takes time and we have to have patience in order to do
>anything.  

La Haula Wa La Quwata Illa Billah.  The only power is Allah (AWJ).
You couldn't get out of bed in the morning if 'He' didn't make it
happen....

If you want something to happen,

- make the intention,
- trust in Allah (SWT) to make things work out for the best,
- and take the first step.

Forget the obstacles.  If Allah (AWJ) wants you to succeed,
'He' will remove them, one at a time.  Anything worth doing 
is considered 'impossible' at some point....

>United States wasn't perfect at first, they had to work on
>things to be what it is now.  Not that it is perfect today.   

Brother, you don't even know....

>You have
>to understand that the people in the US get to vote and elect, where
>in the Middle East do we see this??  Every day one of the Ameers will
>break off from the unity because the vote didn't go the way he wanted.
>We must start from our home country and then work on a regional unity.

We need the unity of the Ummat, not the unity of <insert your
favorite 'ism' here>.

>To my fellow Afghans, don't get me wrong, I am not trying to sell
>my country or anything else, I know that most of the countries in the
>middle east have their eye and interest on their neighbours.  We can see
>that from our war, while our country was at war we did take refuge in
>Pakistan and Iran, but it was not like Pakistan opened their arm and
>give us everything as a blessing.  I lived in Pakistan, if you wanted
>to rent a house, it was 1000 for Paki's and 2500 if they knew you were
>an Afghan.  SO much for the Islamic brotherhood.   The US claims that
>100's millions of dollars was given to Pakistan to be distributed among
>the Afghans,  I know and a lot of other Afghans on net who lived in
>Pakistan will agree that the money made it to ISI and never any further.

:-)  Sounds like our government here in the U.S. ....

>So to all of those who claim that Islam does not call for nationalism,
>you have to realize that Islam also does not call for 'duzdi'  from
>your neighbours.  Since Mariam Jan mentioned Rasul ASAWS, can you imagin
>if durring the hijra, if the Muslims from Mek'ka arrived in Madina only
>to find out they have to pay higher prices, because the people of Madina
>knew the situation they were in!!!!!!.  And now the same people want a
>Unified Middle East!!!!

The problem is that there are too many Muslims who fail to ask
'What would Rasulullah (SAW) think about this?'  And WAY too 
many who fail to ask 'What is Allah (AWJ) thinking about this
RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND?'

>So to all Muslims around the world, we can't change overnight, but if
>we start one step at a time, we can accomplish a lot.   

Yes we CAN change overnight!  Maybe not drastically, but we can
make one, single, tiny change IMMEDIATELY.  And another tomorrow!
And another the day after that!  And then we can encourage and
help our friends and family to make a little change, and so on.

We can be those who sit and think, or those who do and
accomplish.  Rasulullah (SAW) was a man of ACTION.  He didn't
wait for the enemy to come and assault him, when he found out
they were coming he went out to MEET them.  

If a person is only successful 1% of the time, but tries 1000
times, he's successful ten times! Meanwhile, his friend over
there, the one still considering his chances of success,
hasn't done anything, and winds up with -0-.  He's failed by 
default.

Who's fault?  HIS fault.  What's he going to say to Allah?

>Islam in it's
>origional form as was revealed to us by the Prophet Mohammed SAWS is
>the greatest religion on earth, so lets not add on our own little wahabi
>and other theories to it.
>
>'Oh Muslims Unite, Unite!!'

LA ILAHA IL ALLAHU, WA MUHAMMED UR-RASULULAH (SAW).

The example is there!  Let's DO IT already!

>>May Allah help us learn to love one another and unite against the true enemy,
>>kuffar.
>
>Ameen Ya rab-e-Aalameen

AMIN, YA AL-MU'MIN!

-AQ

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