Do we really appreciate the problems we face???

[Beard]

Bismillah,

 

Do we really appreciate the gravity of the problems

we face as somalis and muslims?

Not from gaalo but somalis who claim to be well educated and enlightened.

 

This man could be from your clan and from your home village/district.Many others are more hateful to the diin but are silent.And are found every where in Somalia.

Interestingly there is no appropriate response and mechanism in place to counter this people.

When are going to wake up from this complacency and self delusion that our Islam is untouchable?

 

 

Remarkable Transformation in the Horn of Africa region

My recent Somaliland visits have been quit an eye opener and an astonishing experience for me. The degree of Wahabi fundamentalist influx into our society is breathtaking. What was more stunning to see was the dress code of most residents in my hometown Borame that bear resemblance to Gandahar Afghanistan residents. I later realized that a well-organized and institutionally indorsed group is spearheading this societal makeover campaign from outside and already established strong bases in many towns throughout the region. A well-orchestrated transformation is underway in full speed.

 

I’m not only talking about girls as young as 4 years old and women wearing Taliban designer female jalapa and full-face veils, or men wearing Afghani turbans and Afghani vests, it is a whole new world coming to live. Just so you taste little of what such transformation looks like, let me share with you readers a common practice among the practitioners of this new doctrine. When a couple go shopping in the market, customarily the man goes inside the store while his wife (completely covered with Jalapa with full-face veil) waits outside and do not go with him inside. So? What is wrong with that? Some borderline supporters of this new doctrine would say. OK, nothing is wrong about a woman waiting outside while her husband is conducting business inside, except, she is waiting for him outside facing the wall, yes, facing the wall away from the sins of other pedestrians until her husband comes out and then she starts following him. Case close.

 

Following is the verses in the holy Quran that pertain to Muslim women’s dress code:

 

"O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons...that they should be known and not molested." [Quran Karim, Chapter 33, verse 59]

 

And say to the believing (Muslim) women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and adornments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers...(a list of exceptions)" [Quran Karim, Chapter 24, verses 30-31] Also,

 

Islam blessed the people of the area and dominated the horn of Africa region since the 7 th century and was never challenged and never objected to by naturally faithful people of the region. Even during colonial era, the people in the region never felt that their religion was under attack. Since the independence and during multi party elections, religion was never politicized. And although not politicized thus far, yet, this rapid transformation is mystifying and the way I see it, it is just a matter of time. While the level of illiteracy is incredibly high, yes, people need to learn about their religion and be sanctified by its deeds. Yes, people need the benefits of being enlightened through the wisdom of the “Quran Karim†so that such knowledge may help ease their anguish and guide them out of ignorance. But, what happens when organized groups hijack the sanctity of our noble religion for their own well-planned political and economical interests?

 

Somalis are naturally people who are quick to point out groups with a cynical agenda but these clever people found a good cover. A cover not so easy to probe into. A cover that makes any one that dares question their motives be censured for being with the infidel or being brainwashed by the West. And the cover they use is our Islamic believe. It is an assurance that those who do not share their religious viewpoint are not really "true Muslims" It is a tactic they mastered to put down even sincere critics and simply get away with it. You just have to let it go… is the attitude of the common man. They simply call them (Gadh dheerayaashii) or Al-Itihad. In practice, they emphasize those portions of our holy Quran Karim that suit their needs and trim their actions accordingly.

 

All Muslims agree on the authenticity and inerrancy of the Quran Karim, they do differ on its interpretation, a task traditionally reserved for learned jurists and theologians for the past 1400 years. Over the course of time, literal or rationalist theory emerged to accommodate changing conditions and the growth of human knowledge has been challenging these theologians. But fortunately, those Muslim theologians were also getting enlightened through the developments of human knowledge and therefore corresponded their interpretations with their comprehension capacity. Look at places like Senegal and Indonesia where Islamic nations flourish without resorting to ancient customs.

 

But this group is not about all that. They have a different set of agendas. First and foremost of their agendas? Complete transformation of society to medieval Arabia at any cost. No questions asked!! According to their view, any initiative that seems to interrupt them from their journey back to 7 th century Arabia is anti-Islam or Western orchestrated conspiracy against Islam. The leadership core is well-funded and well determined group of men who are the forefront of secret sociopolitical movement that has a confirmed political and economical agenda. Their best interest is not the well being of the society. They do not participate any communal activities unless they call the shots. They do not help other institutions unless it is one they fully control and therefore their membership only. This cult follows certain set of rules and instructional discipline that has been programmed into their psych in far away places.

 

Because of human sinfulness, people of faith must constantly wrestle with themselves and strive to do what is right and good, but when such continued daily effort is disturbed by these extreme agenda followers, with their own interpretation of Islam, the common religious person often get confused and even questions the way they were practicing Islam for centuries. Were we uninformed all these centuries? What is more frightening is that these people hate healthy discussions and debates in civilized manners without calling you and I infidel for such a proposition. It is not an accident that they have flourished in a chaotic state of depressing conditions in regions they have succeeded so far ( Afghanistan, The Horn of Africa and parts of Pakistan).

 

Like all religious traditions, Islamic history includes various schools of thought and legal structures. It is well understood that Islam constitutes an ideology which goes far beyond only praying or enforcing women’s behavioral conduct, it provides universal principles for all crucial aspects of social life including education and social development in different parts of the world. This Wahabi army of gloom and doom did not care to address the evils of society in the region such as wars, diseases, illiteracy and bad customs. As a matter of fact they seem to flourish in such state of horrendous human conditions. With organizational order like the one they have, they could do more then focusing only to brainwash and take our desperate societies back to the dark ages to fulfill their spiritual experiment and in search of their supposedly authentic Islamic society.

 

This sorority is the first wave trained, programmed and empowered from outside the region and then unleashed into our society with purpose. It is noticeably evident that they are serving that purpose diligently, thanks to Saudi money and Saudi influence. Djibouti is the only area they did not succeed because of the continued existence of order and authority that do not welcome their madness plus a hostile climate that would not accommodate their Taliban designer garments, especially for women.

 

The question that needs more serious deliberation is “whether “freezing the time capsule to 7-century Arabia†is the only way to practice true Islam†and if the role of women in Islamic society should be centered in the views of centuries ago Arabian men.

 

If a woman fully covered with a heavy Jalapa in 100 degree heat with full-face veils, facing the wall, and away from the real world (that these strange people consider sinful world) is shocking enough to you, wait what these people have stored for us when they get their chance to reign over our way of live.

 

Abdirahman Waberi