[IslamCity] THE SOCIAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD OF ISLAM BY Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari

[Abdul Wahid Osman Belal]

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3. THE SOCIAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD OF ISLAM
   BY Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari
 
  Combined with this tragic intellectual situation is the still more tragic social situation which renders the world of Islam vulnerable to all kinds of external influences, especially Marxism. Since the day when Yazid aimed his first blow at the Islamic democracy and the Muslim Welfare State, the Muslim world has been gradually and persistently drifting away from the social and political ideals of Islam, substituting for classes for the original classless society, monarchy for the original democracy and Individualism for the Islamic type of collectivism. It was this tragic transformation which in the fullness of time, brought about the political downfall of Muslims two centuries ago and it is this which again is inviting today the substitution of Islam by such heretical socio-economic ideologies as
 Communism.
  The fact is that there is hardly a social, political or economical evil, which does not exist in the world of Islam today. Feudalism is the order of the day in our countries for a long time past now. Lastly it was reinforced by mercantile Capitalism. Industrial Capitalism is being added now. As the Islamic social vales have receded into the background, the sufferings of the common man have multiplied until they have become intolerable today under the combined pressure of internal and external exploiters. Love of money and lust for power, which had been ruled out by Islam as symbols of infidelity, crept stealthily into the Muslim society and have now come to stay with only light opprobrium sticking to them. Social evils borrowed from non-Islamic systems have been sanctified and legalized by the passage of time, so much so that the ignorant would consider it an act of impiety to voice a protest against them. Our social conscience has been benumbed and the vested interests in our midst have even had the courage of justifying their evil ways on the basis of pseudo-religious sanctions.
  The Muslim body-politic has lost its backbone. The contented middle class forms only a virtually impotent minority. The bulk of Muslim  society consists of poverty-stricken masses groaning under the dual tyranny of the Muslim vested interests and the imperialist bloodsuckers. The rich and the well-to-do have deleted philanthropy from their code of life, and with few honorable exceptions worship the demon of wealth instead of Allah. The consequence is that widespread poverty, hunger and want, ignorance and illiteracy, disease and debility, frustration and bad government have become the hall-marks of the Muslim society all over the world. Poverty and want, said the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Allah’s blessings on him) lead people to infidelity. Can we, therefore, wonder
 if we find that the Muslim masses today are susceptible to all sorts of un-Islamic and anti-Islamic influences and are eager, in utter desperation, to catch hold of any helping hand, even though it may be that of a non-Muslim!
 
Reproduced from 
THE COMMUNIST CHALLENGE TO ISLAM- A Warning to the Muslims
BY Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari
Published 1951 by The Makki Publications, 100 Brickfield Road, Durban South Africa
Suggested for further reading:
1. THE QURANIC FOUNDATIONS & STRUCTURE OF MUSLIM SOCIETY – 
   2 VOLUMES BY DR.Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari
Available from:
1. Islamic Book Trust Kuala Lumpur
   609, Mutiara Majestic, 6th. Floor, Jalan Othman 
   46000 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Available from:
1.ISLAM VERSUS MARXISM BY Muhammad Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari
2. World Federation of Islamic Missions
   Islamic Centre Block B, North Nazimabad, Karachi-74700
   PAKISTAN  Phone 92-021-6644156 Fax No: 92-021-6627021
   E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.wfim.org.pk 


ABDUL WAHID OSMAN BELAL

		
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