Eid al Fitr 2015

Islam is a gift from Allah. He guides whom He wishes. Eid is a day of happiness, a day of gifts. It is not an empty religious rite, but one of Allah’s signs, a sign of togetherness, community. That we can still perform the sala al-Eid here in Europe openly is a miracle in this age of humanism, an age of man-made laws elevated to the status of inviolability.

This is a day to give thanks, for our Islam and for the freedom to practice our deen in many areas. We must take note however of the consequences of what happens when the Muslims abandon their laws and imitate those made by man, what happens when they turn the deen into a religion. Only then shall we realize why Allah has allowed the umma to disappear, allowed racist national states run by capitalists to rule the Muslims.

We must reflect upon the fact that fasting is forbidden in China. That Indonesia’s trade is controlled by China. That Malaysia has never recovered from the linguistic rape of the British administration. That more land is owned by the agricultural banks in Bangladesh than by the people. That the community with the greatest number of Muslims, India – not Indonesia as is widely cited in the press – is still imprisoned in the caste system. That in Pakistan corruption is so rife it has become the norm, that hardly any trees have been left standing, and that there is often no electricity. Afghanistan has been split into two by the vote, the ballot fever – between those who follow traditional leadership but who have been driven to extremism in their frustration at having lost authority and those who think that putting a piece of paper in a box every four years shall solve their problems. We must take note that the safavids are extending their influence over the Muslims from Mashhad through to Gaza. And may Allah protect the remnant of the Osmanli dawlat in its struggle to reassert the deen through democratic means. 300.000 killed in the war in Sham, 4 million refugees, unknown numbers tortured, a wasteland. In the Gulf they are still striving with each other to build higher and higher buildings while their hotels are filling with alcohol and their streets with prostitutes. Saudi is California plus the five sala per day and women in black sacks, any mention of the laws of trade of the rasoul, sallalhhu alayhi was salaam, is deemed unprogressive, almost on a par with terrorism. Egypt, where riba in its modern form began with the printing of endless bank notes, calls to democracy rhetorically and throws out the result when it disagrees with them – as has happened five times in so called Muslim countries to date. More food is now imported to Cairo during Ramadan than in any other month. Civil war still rages in Libya. Tunis is a tourist resort with a confused and angry youth. Algeria does not know if it is still part of France – having just recovered from one civil war, fighting has now broken out between the berbers and the arabs. In Morocco the King is struggling courageously to reintroduce a traditional Islam after two generations of wahhabi influence; but the water in the major towns is so contaminated with chlorine that legally speaking it may not be used even for wudu, livestock eat plastic bags on rubbish heaps and the enormous chickens, fed on steroids and hormones, are so dangerous that the French expats are importing meat from France. Caesarean births are preferred because they are more profitable for the hospitals and French drug companies.

Africa has become a social, political and political chaos run by ruthless puppets schooled in France and Britain. The noble Muslim Kings and Amirs have been replaced by ignorant puppets, ignorant of the next world. The great Muslim tribes have been replaced by the nuclear family.

But Allah is in charge and there is no changing the sunna of Allah. As He says in Al ‘Imran: ‘They plotted and Allah plotted. But Allah is the best of plotters’. Allah ta’ala says in Sura Muhammad: ‘Allah is Rich and you are poor. If you turn away, He will replace you with a people other than yourselves and they will not be like you.’ And He says in sura al Maida: ‘You who have iman! if any of you renounce your deen, Allah will bring forward a people whom He loves and who love Him’. The message is clear people have turned away from His deen in Africa and Asia and so He is bringing forward a new people.

We have a treasure but we must share it – through da’wa to the people of Europe. As one of the great shaykhs of this age has said: ‘If we don’t, they will come and rip from our hands as they are doing in Asia and Africa. We have community, we have balanced leadership. You who have come from these lands, you have made hijra. We too the Europeans have made hijra and are still making hijra from the land of kufr. The Rasoul, sallahu alayhi wa sallam, has said: ‘Actions are according to intention and each shall get what he intended. Whoever made the hijra for Allah and His Messenger,then his hijra is for Allah and His Messenger and whoever made his hijra for the dunya – in order gain something of it, or for a woman – in order to marry her, then his hijra is for that for which he made his hijra.’

When the Muslims new to Europe have learnt a European language, they naturally become European, no doubt. Together we have a lot to give, namely the fitra to a people who have abandoned the fitra for total sexual licence, we can reintroduce the reality of extended or tribal family which has been all but destroyed, we can reintroduce healthy living to a people exhausted by drugs both legal and legal. And if we recognize the achievements of the people of Europe in the dunya – clean drinking water, food still relatively healthy, abundunt trees, clean streets and civil order for example, there can only be growth and positive increase.