BaKhabar, July 2010, Page-9

better light a candle than curse the darkness

The consciousness of Ummah and the Question of Unity

Mohammad Allam (mohammad_allam@rediffmail.com)

How to divide the might of ocean into a useless power? This is very simple. Divide the ocean into seas, then seas into rivers, then rivers into canals and then canals into drains and drains into tiny water buckets of houses. The same logic applied on the consciousness of Ummah, and Islam has been divided into nations based on particular identity, nations have been divided into states/provinces/Subah, then states into districts/regions, then districts into villages and villages into Muhallas and Muhallas into families. In this entire process of multiple divisions the consciousness of Islam has been lost somewhere without being noticed. The theory of self realization over causes of Ummah in all aspects is coming in between the consciousness of Muslims.

This is the reason why one by one the Islamic nations and people succumbed to the western imperialism (Imperialism a term coined by the western scholars to hide the western response to Islamic world after crusade. These scholars used the expansion of Islamic states in term of jihad and Swords in religious nature but western Response to Islamic hegemony in secular terminology. Why this duality is in term of use of terminology for the same course of history?).

Take an example from Indian history, how the British applied the “divide and rule” policy. Bengal was captured after the battle of plassey, Hydrabad yoked with subsidiary alliance(a system by which the British government put his army in the territory of Indian states to save them from internal uprising on the cost of the Indian states. Later on these armies were used against the Indian states to expand the British Empire in India. What America is doing by keeping own armies in Islamic states in the name of countering the activities of Al-Qaeda and insurgency of internal factions) ,Delhi was captured in 1803 ,Awadh was annexed in 1856 and finally the last Mughal ruler Bahdur Shah Zafar was imprisoned and sent to Rangoon. What one can see is the similarities between these two trends started by the British in India and American led coalition in the world of Islam in present time?

With passage of time every progressive nation of Islamic world succumbed to America and UNO led pressure. The remaining has been completed by war and post war fighting. The ongoing post-war fighting should be ceased immediately to revoke the long term stay of the Army of other nations under banner of UNO peacekeeping mission. One could not find such trend in post world II Japan, Germany and Italy. This is the reason, why they started and completed the reconstruction so quickly that historian has to say about Japan that America won the World War II but Japan won the peace. The war torn Japan worked so silently and in unity that within span of some years Japan conquered America financially (America is indebted of Japan of billion Dollars). Cannot nations of Islam follow the model of Japan?

The case of Iran in present is hidden the war of Israel by American led imperialism. Can Islamic world see the destruction of another Islamic nation? One can see the duality of UNO in case of Israel and Iran. Wisdom says don’t destroy powerful enemy if it’s living in peace. Muslim nations have to overcome from the narrow mindedness of sectarian outlook of religion. If they hope that some one will help them, they are in an illusion. See how Russia and China sold Iran in UNO over present sanction. And in the past how many Islamic nations have been sold by permanent members of UNO for business. Muslim nations have to work for third block of their own by rejecting the block politics under America, china, Russia, European Union etc. Muslim Nations Have to understand that these different blocks are operational to divide them into useless power against the hidden combined approach of all these blocks. They can create such block if they bring Turkey, Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Iran, and India and so on. The policy of running from American,

European, Russian and Chinese Camps should be avoided. They have to be united in UNO. If sanction cannot be imposed on Israel for the same cause then why on Iran, North Korea or Sudan. In present cases Muslim nations either mould UNO or come out from UNO. What is the use to be in UNO when they not getting their problems solved rather creating problems for their own brothers? More than 55 nations and more than billion people or one among five in the world are helpless because they represent the case of tiny particle of atom scattered here and there, no consciousness of unity, no sense of brother hood, no sense of slavery of Allah Rabbul Alameen, no common interest for the Ummah.

What we have to do at this instance when the world is witnessing unprecedented fast changes at every level of power? The need of this time is to come in touch with peace loving nations, let the peace prevail in all conflicting zones of Islamic world, the reaction of violence should be suppressed. The march towards political empowerment should be started in all the nations of Islamic world, the reconstruction process should be started in all the nations with huge investment in education, science and technology and character building of the nation. There is a work to develop a common consciousness of Ummah stretching from Indonesia to America. The role they have to play should be raised above the nations, regions, race and creed. What Islam brought to humanity had been lost by Muslims. The aim should be to serve the people of world as started by the Islam not to rule on them as started by the kings and emperors of the Islamic world. The sense of self belonging should be changed into belonging of Ummah. What a person posses that is not of him but Ummah to serve the people irrespective of nations, regions, creeds, and race. Once we will develop such sense of service, hope that the hidden enemy of Islam will be defeated, the Imperial march will be stopped and a golden era of peace and prosperity will be started. Other wise what the British did to the Irani and Turani parties of Mughal in 1857, the American led coalition would continue doing with the world of Islam to benefit Israel whose sons and daughters are working at every level of American establishments to realize the dream of greater Israel by displacing America as sole power of the world in post-Greater Israel era (see this in term of America-Israel relationship and the question of middle East particularly Palestine). What the people of the world in general and Muslims in particular should know is that America is not a nation but a project started by a particular people from post-Columbus days to present to achieve a goal (the creation of Greater Israel). A project ends when aims and objectives are completed. So, America will also be dismembered (See who controls all powerful establishments of America from army, economy, media, education, bureaucracy, industries, Hollywood, Foreign policy etc?) America from a federal states structure like past USSR. The present ongoing conflicts around the world and the free hands to Israeli hegemony with destruction of Palestine, Iraq and now Iran is witnessing the reaching of the project in final stage. This is the duty of all peace loving people to unite to suppress the ongoing violence around the world in general and Palestine in particular started due to this project. Other wise what a better comment did by a German of Hitler time: “they (Nazi) came first for Jews we did not pay any attention; then they came for Non-German we also did not pay any attention; then they came for socialist and Marxist we still did not pay any attention; at last they cam for us and there was no escape”. This may be true for the all nations of the Islamic world waiting for their line-up without any savior. The duty of every Muslim is to forge the unity on consciousness level to answer the question of unity of world of Islam and all the peace loving people and nations.

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