Social justice is a concept that
has been considered since ancient times and has been advocated and promised by
all religions, regimes and social sects. Only with social justice is it
possible to establish a well-organized and systematic society without any
hatred or grudge among its individuals and classes.
Social justice means that
everyone gets his due in proportion to his work, knowledge, talents and
success, and no one is misused or exploited. Social justice means to recognize
the right to live, even for a person who does the least amount of work. It is a
primary requirement of social justice that each working individual shall reach
a minimum living standard.
Social justice does not mean
social equality. It would not be justice but injustice for everybody to have
the same income, just as it is for all the students in a class, whether
successful or not, to pass their courses. Neither in nature nor in society, nor
elsewhere, does absolute equality exist.
Juridical equality means to
apply the same treatment to people in the same cases and conditions. It is both
unnecessary and impracticable to look for or to desire social and especially
economic equality, since it does not conform to the concept of justice. The
point under consideration is not how to divide and distribute the existing
stock according to the number of heads, but how to provide the conditions for
working and earning for everyone equally and to ensure that everybody shall get
the equivalent of his labour and shall receive his due.
Social justice secures the most appropriate
distribution of the national income and eliminates exploitation and violation.
It prevents the accumulation of capital in the hands of only a
certain
and very small group. It gives every one the right to lead a life according to
his own standards. It establishes a society with no hostility among its classes
and communities. Individuals of such a society feel secure concerning their
present and future.
Social justice can be realized
through a nationalistic view and a system of a mixed economy with a greater
emphasis on its liberalistic component.
Nationalism is the zeal used to
improve a nation. Nationalism means to love the nation one belongs to, to work
for its progress, to defend and maintain its national values, institutions, religion
and traditions. The power that produces the best and the most fruitful form of
social justice is the religion of Islam. Muslims believe that they are brothers
to one another and love one another as such. They do not attack even
non-Muslims’ property, life and chastity. The religion of Islam provides mutual
love and help among people, prevents disunion, commands working and earning
money in a halâl way, gives every working person his due and protects
everybody’s property. Every Muslim, being contented with his earnings, lives in
comfort and peace. Nobody harms others’ property and lands. Those who know what
social justice is and who are sincere in their cause must revere and support
Islam.
Socialism does not mean social
justice. Despite their common nomenclature, they are different and even quite
opposite. They are like îmân and kufr (unbelief), that is, one of them cannot
exist where the other is.
Socialism defends enmity against
individual ownership, centralized state control of all the means of production
and trade, establishment of a dictatorship, enmity against religion, turning
all the working people into labourers, and annihilating the ideas of religion,
history, nation, country and state. Except for very little food, clothing,
essentials of a home life and one or two rooms, which can barely keep a person
alive, all the income and earnings of an individual are taken away from him.
Thus, people are deprived of every kind of enterprise, competition,
exploration, belief and improvement. All their talents and personalities are
done away with. Like slaves or robots controlled with severe oppression and
torture by a single, cruel and merciless center, they are employed until
exhausted of all their energy.
Today, socialism has become a
mask and a tool for the dictatorship of red and yellow imperialisms. If one or
more of the aforesaid principles of socialism are applied mildly or not applied
at all, it is called national socialism. If all of
them are applied with torture and murder, it is called revolutionary socialism
or communism. The
terms socialism and communism are, so to speak, the first and last names of the
philosophy of nihilism. Both of them make man worship matter and sensuous
desires. Making him unaware of Allâhu ta’âlâ and of his own soul and conscience, they let him live only for
food, like beasts. And the governing, dictatorial minority, like mad dogs,
attack and murder the people and one another insidiously, perfidiously. Thus,
millions of people are murdered in Russia and China every year.
Communism is not only cruel and
barbarous but also insidious, beguiling and contagious. With cunning methods
and devilish persistence, it works relentlessly and inexhaustibly. It not only
can assume various guises but also knows how to strike at the weak, loose
points of its target area. Taking advantage of distress and poverty and
spoiling the social order through provocative methods, it brings about class
conflicts. It spins networks of espionage and propaganda like a spider’s web.
Distributing money, it easily entraps base, mean, ignoble people in its red
net. Then, threatening them with death, it makes them commit every evil. It
plays well its devilish, fine trick of getting the utmost use out of them in
disintegrating and destroying its target from within.
Once a country falls under its
horrible talons, there is no hope for salvation. Communism is a political
catastrophe as dangerous and as fatal to a country and its people as cancer is
to individual life.
One should not deceive oneself
by supposing communism to be a system of one of those political parties that
are founded on democracy; and under the roof of freedom with its future destiny
completely dependent upon the people’s will, will come to power and fall by
their votes; and, as observed in the free world, follow a civilized and
humanitarian approach. By believing its attractive and alluring words, one
should not get placed in the position of a poor frog seized by the venomous
teeth of a big snake.
What communists try to show as a brilliant
“Garden of
Paradise”
to credulous people at a distance is the pitfall of murder concealed with the
cover of propaganda, but full of the bones from millions of innocent people.
Those who take too much and
become intoxicated out of their curiosity to taste the doses of propaganda
scattered on the lands of the free world by the red enchanters, who fall in
love with communism under the influence of the illusions and fancies caused by
this intoxication, turn away in remorse and regret when they recover.
In 1952, Masento, a communist
leader in Italy, was sentenced to three years of imprisonment by an Italian
court for his subversive activities. Somehow he managed to escape from prison
and fled to Czechoslovakia, which had already attained the “Garden of
Paradise.” Upon waking up in the midst of his dream and seeing the bitter,
naked truth, he could not stay there long. For a while, he tried to conceal his
regret and disillusionment, but at last he fled to a free country, Austria,
where he asked to be handed over to Italy with a view to completing the three
years of imprisonment he had been rightfully sentenced to. He said, “Life in
Italian prisons is more comfortable and better than living in communist
countries, which we have assumed to be Paradise.” A number of the names of
those who, with the same regret and disillusionment, have escaped from that red
pitfall of murder are known by the free world: Kravchenko, Sakharov, Kasyanova,
and many others. It is a well-known fact that nearly one and a half million
distressed people, most of whom villagers and workers, fled to the West and
took refuge in various free countries by taking their chance when the Second
World War tore a gap in the iron curtain. Then, how will those eccentric
leftists explain the lamentations of these doomed people who managed to escape
from the red world, which they try to misrepresent as “Paradise”?
The masked big red serpent promises
factories and other industrial lines to the workers, vast land areas to the
peasants, and peace, freedom and prosperity to the people of the countries it
aims to swallow. Let us now see what it has bestowed upon the Rusian people and
upon Caucasus, Turkestan, Ukraine, Latvia, Liuthuania, Estonia and its other
satellites. Instead of the factories and lands it had promised to the workers
and peasants, it offered not only the vast, blank
Siberia,
which is covered with its perpetual snow and ornamented with its fifty
degress-below-zero temperatures, it also gave them the chance of easily dying
by felling trees in wild forests, with a hungry belly, in that unaccustomed
cold. Instead of the freedom promised, there was handcuffing and gagging
slavery; instead of welfare, it gave tearful destitution, wretchedness and
hunger. And it made countries into prison camps surrounded by walls of shame
and isolated behind iron curtains. From 1927 to 1939, seventeen million
innocent people were annihilated in Russia, alone, where freedom, peace and
prosperity were promised. These are no stories, but naked facts.
Before the revolution and civil
war in Russia, many socialist parties appeared all of a sudden. Labourer
Democrats, Peasant Democrats, Bolsheviki, Mensheviki, Rightist and Leftist
Liberals, and the Kadet Party were amongst them. Each of them came forward with
different ideas and propaganda. They made speeches before every gathering
whether big or small. These activities were persistent in villages, factories,
small workshops, squares and even on narrow streets. Explaining their programs
with attractive words and with all kinds of promises to the people, these
parties deceived and gathered well-to-do people as well as the unemployed. This
turmoil went on for months. The unending speeches and noise amazed the people,
who became too stupefied to distinguish between right and wrong. The people
were next to being unconscious and intoxicated.
The most powerful of these
parties was the one that made promises the most, the Bolshevik Communist Party.
They addressed only the workers and peasants. They said that the workers and
peasants would take the places of their employers and become equal shareholders
in businesses and lands, that there would no longer be slavery to the rich,
that they would live in the apartments where the rich lived, that the rich
would clean and sweep up the streets, that the peasants would be made
landowners, and that the lands of the farmers would be distributed to the
working peasants.
What was common in the
propaganda of the Bolshevik Party and the Labourers Party was the promise of
ending their servility and slavery. They forecasted that the day of salvation
was near at hand.
These socialist and communist parties
repeatedly said that
they
struggled to protect the rights of the workers and peasants so as to provide
them with a high standard of life. If the workers and peasants followed them,
they would share the honour of being saviors.
“O you workers and peasants! If
you wish to be saved from the claws of the bourgeoise, capitalists, Lords and
all other exploiters, vote for the Communist Party and gather around it,” they
said.
Especially ignorant workers and
peasants could not differentiate between what would be good and what would be
bad for themselves, and they fell victim to the lies even more. The wretched
and disastrous situation of today’s Russian workers is, sad to say, the
consequence of their inattentiveness and stupidity.
At the beginning of the
revolution, the communist authorities pushed around many gullible people like
mad dogs and had everything ruined. They butchered innocent people without
interrogation. Most communist leaders were Jewish, who revengefully made great
efforts in setting the Russian people against one another. Lenin (d. in
1342/1924) and Trotsky (sent by Stalin into exile in Mexico where he died in
1358/1940), following in the footsteps of Karl Marx (d. in 1300/1883), carried
on his policy of massacre under the banner of communism. The murders they
committed were so unsightly that people with a conscience could not admit or
even believe it. First, social classes were made hostile to one another. Then
it became hard to differentiate the friends from the enemies all over Russia,
so much so that it was not known who was with whom. This gave birth to civil
war, which made fathers fight against their sons and brothers against brothers,
and Russia was thoroughly covered with blood. The civil war lasted for years,
and millions of people died. The country was burned and ruined everywhere. All
public works stopped, and unemployment, destitution and illnesses destroyed people.
Before the revolution, however, communists,
with the view of dominating the whole of Russia, had founded a cruel
administration and established a dictatorship that had given so many promises
to the workers and peasants that their ignorant heads had assumed that they
would attain a paradise life. It took the workers and peasants a few years to
realize that they had obtained nothing, that they had been fooled, trapped and
blundered
from head to foot. Yet it was too late. Now the dictatorial state was
preventing them from even sympathizing with one another and was organizing
massacres from time to time.
Soviet Russian President K.
Vocoshilov described the following event to American Ambassador William C.
Bulitt during a feast given in Russia in 1934: “In 1919, I persuaded ten
thousand officers of the Czar to surrender together with their spouses,
promising that they would not be harmed if they would surrender. They believed
me and surrendered. I had all ten thousands officers executed together with
their sons. And I sent their wives and daughters to brothels so that they would
be used by Russian troops.” He also added that the destitute women could not
endure the horrible treatment they had been subjected to and died within three
months.
Shortly after the 1917
revolution, Czar Nikola and all his household, including his children in
cradles, were killed in the forests of Bryask. The number of people who were
killed or died of hunger and destitution, as a result of the bloody revolution
that reigned over Russia from 1917 until 1947, was 63,800,000. The following
figures and documents are given to demonstrate manifestly what an irreligious
regime, founded on blood and bones, will bring to the countries it invades.
These documents are collected from very reliable sources. How unfortunate those
are who do not wake up!
Fourteen thousand large and
small mosques in Turkestan, 8,000 in Caucasus and Crimea, and 4,000 in
Tataristan and Main Kurdistan were destroyed. In Bukhara city alone, 360
mosques were destroyed. Only one madrasa (school) was left and it is now used
as a museum of atheism. And in Semerkand city, the Ulugh Bey madrasa survives,
as a museum of atheism, and two churches are used for indoor basketball and
volleyball.
More than 270,000 Muslim
religious scholars were killed. Others were exiled to camps in Siberia, where a
cold temperature of 65°C below zero reigns. As for the religious people, more
than three million people were martyred on account of their religious beliefs
in Turkestan, alone. When they entered Afghanistan in December 1979, the
Russians
immediately attacked the villages. They confiscated all sorts of
food, clothing, househould utensils and jewellery. They killed the Muslims they
came across, women and children alike. For example, when they entered the town
of Kunday with tanks, they bombarded the great mosque with artillery and
martyred hundreds of Muslims while they were praying.
The above-given figures on the
communists’ terrible massacre or banishment to Siberian camps of those who
opposed the revolution and paganism portray an alarming scene of savagery that
should be a lesson for all humanity.
In the cities of Bukhara,
Semerkand, Kakant, Kazan, Khiva, Ufa, Baku, Tashkent, Bakhchisarai, Derbent,
Timirhan, Kashgar, Almasta, Tirmi, etc., which had been ornamented with
monuments by the Turks after their embracing Islam and had been turned into
masterpieces of the East by Islamic architecture, the communists seized all
religious works, mainly copies of the Qur’ân
al-kerîm and the books of Hadîth ashsherîf, and shamelessly
and mercilessly tore, trampled, and burned them in the streets. Also, after
ordering the people to give the religious, national and historial books they
had been keeping to the State, they confiscated these books and likewise
destroyed them. Meanwhile, some Muslims ran the risk of life and, instead of
giving their books to this murderous and villainous gang, buried them in
chests. In the process of these events, thousands of religious people who would
not hand over their books were martyred.
The pagan communist State,
established on the corpses of millions of innocent people after a heavy blow on
religion and the massacre of men of religion, carried on mainly the following
oppression and propaganda against religion:
1 — Teaching religion in schools
was prohibited.
2 — Praying in mosques and in
all kinds of temples was prohibited.
3 — Men of religion were given
no place in State affairs.
4 — Religious or national
education of youngsters in their homes was strictly
prohibited.
5 — Systematic propaganda
against religion was carried on through newspapers, magazines, TV and radio
broadcasts, and slanderous plays were performed.
6 — It was constantly explained
that Allâhu ta’âlâ -may He
protect us from saying so!- did not exist and that holy books were
superstitious fables.
7 — Conferences were held in
cities and villages by organizations called The Godless Society and The
Association of the Young Godless. Religions, Allâhu ta’âlâ and Prophets (alaihimu ’s-salâm) were mocked, and regular night
courses were arranged for inoculating people with atheism.
8 — At places of entertainment,
such as theatres and cinemas, Allâhu ta’âlâ, Islam, the Qur’ân al-kerîm, Prophets, men of religion and pious people were continuously
made an object of derision; thus, young brains were being poisoned.
9 — The main religious duties of
Muslims, such as salât, fast, hajj and zakât were definitely prohibited; it was
considered a crime even to utter the Kalimat ash-shahâda or to mention the name
of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Pious
people were under relentless prosecution from the secret police for the
above-mentioned duties and, being accused especially of “propagating
superstitions,” “opposition to the State,” and “opposing the regime and
revolutions,” were driven to death camps.
1 — Performing the namâz of
janâza and washing corpses were thoroughly prohibited.
2 — One who died was simply
thrown into a ditch and covered first with lime and then with earth.
3 — Human bones unearthed from
cemeteries in the cities and rubble from monuments were used to fill depressed
areas of the city.
4 — Human bones unearthed from
village cemeteries were used in manuring the fields.
Dear Readers! With all their persecutions,
massacres, banishments and oppressions, communists were not able to expunge the
divine love that exists in human beings; they were not able to break that
sacred bond. Of the present 140 million Muslim brothers under communist regime,
the number of those whom they have managed to bring to their side and make
irreligious does not exceed 5 per cent, despite all their
systematic
efforts and tortures. Then no material power will be able to annihilate the
religion or îmân, which are innate. They can be prohibited, but not
annihilated. A Muslim gives his life away, but he never sacrifices his religion
and chastity. This was very well understood by the Russians in the Afghan
tragedy of 1986; hundreds of thousands of red troops attacked with rockets and
aircraft and killed villagers, including women. Muslim children were taken to
Moscow to make them irreligious. Mosques, schools, houses and foodstuffs were
burnt. The number of Muslims killed from 1979 through 1986 was over one
million. But the Muslim warriors, though thousands of them fell martyrs, did
not surrender to the irreligious. In order to conceal this vulgarity of theirs
from Muslim nations, Russians have prepared and distributed, in Muslim
countries freely, books explaining that there is freedom of religion, Islamic
sciences and rituals in Russia. Muslims in Russia are unaware of these books
since they are only distributed outside Russia. Their distribution in Russia is
prohibited; otherwise, it would be treachery against communism. Some of these
books, distributed among the people of Algeria in 1986, were sent to us. High
quality paper and gilded bindings were used in these offset-processed Arabic
books on which “1400 A.H., Tashkent” is written. In them, some communists
wearing a Muslim turban and robe are portrayed in pictures as if they are
muftîs, imâms or heads of religious offices. This communist propaganda
contradicts the cruelty done to Muslims by Russians in Afghanistan. It was
prepared so cunningly that one who does not know of the Islamic religion and
the inner aspects of communism will get deceived by these tricks and lies
easily and, thinking that this excessive enemy of Islam is a friend, will fall
into endless calamity.
Whether it be called socialism, republic,
democracy or even guised in the fur-coat of a kingdom, or however sweet and
deceitful its propaganda is, communism is a regime that proves itself to be the
opposite of freedom at all times and everywhere. It is a dictatorship of an
irreligious, merciless and cruel minority. That is why it is the merciless
enemy of Islam. In fact, the name of Russia is ‘The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics,” which does not contain the word ‘communism.’ The name of communist
East Germany was “The German Democratic Republic”, and that of Yugoslavia is
“The Federal Republic.” Likewise, Red China, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and all
other
communist
countries carry some sort of republic in their names. Communism conjures up a
dangerous meaning to the world’s humanity and those who have fallen into its
trap hate it so much that even communists themselves abstain from using this
name and consider it necessary to camouflage the title of their own states by
attaching the titles of free states to them.
Whatever fur communism puts on
itself, the red and cruel regime reveals itself as soon as the guise opens a
little, What is the mark that represents communism at first sight? Despite its
various titles, namely Democratic, Republic, People’s or Kingdom, how is it
that communism is recognized at first sight? Let us point it out. The single
distinctive characteristic of communism is its policy of centralized state control
and enmity towards religion. A country wherein everything is controlled by the
State, where Muslims are called retrogressive and fanatical, and where
non-communists are marked as “fascists” is a communist country whatever its
name is. The further away from the policy of state control and the more
respectful a country is to Allâhu ta’âlâ and the Prophet (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam), the further away will it be from
communism. State control with enmity towards religion is the real name of
communism.
The purpose of those who support
the excessive policy of state control and who try to remove religious lessons
from schools is to establish communism. The technical definition of communism
is to “bring everything under state control, by means of collectivization and
enmity towards religion.” Once everything has been brought under state control,
the Godless Society is established within hours.
To the comrades bought by
communism beforehand, the World Communism Organization gives 18 directives for
the purpose of introducing and settling communism in free countries. Ten of
them are as follows:
1. “Try to encourage the establishment of
communist or socialist parties in your countries. If they are already present,
cooperate with them.”
2. “Divide your nation into as many classes
and communities as possible.”
3. “Always try to establish disagreements
between the employee and the employer.”
4. “Fight, and endeavour until the communist
regime is
established.
Make everybody believe that there is no such threat in your country by the time
the communist regime becomes deep rooted. Accuse those who notice your
intention and objectives and those who attempt to reveal the facts of being
illusive and provocative.”
5. “Instigate madhhab and tarîqa conflicts.
Practise enmity towards religion, openly and secretly.”
6. “Make banners for yourselves of the
heroes who are loved much by the people. Show them to be on your side.”
7. “Through novels, poetry, articles, and
cartoons write systematically using exaggerations that the laborers and
villagers are in poverty.”
8. “Maintain an antagonistic attitude
towards free countries and promulage enmity against the West.”
9. “Get control over labour unions, youth
organizations, and art establishments.”
10. “Search for reasons for discomfort and
find them; try to popularize them.”
In order not to be caught up in
the calamity of communism, even the slightest opportunity must be made use of
in rendering these seeds of communism harmless.
It is necessary to cooperate, to
get organized and to be on the alert against communist instigation. Greeting
communists, smiling at them, buying, exhibiting in shop windows or selling
their books, newspapers and magazines, or supporting their magazines and
newspapers thru advertisements, will sharpen the knife of communism.
The Czar used to invite
insidious Russion communists to his palace, compliment them, admit them to
dinner, and listen to their ideas. But when the revolution took place, it was
those same friends who butchered the Czar, the Czarina, their children and
grandchildren, including the infants.
Communism does not have
understanding, fidelity, human values, mercy, faith or reason.
Air raids on Afghan villages
carried out by Russians in 1980 are a new and terrible proof of communist
atrocities and barbarism.
The communist is hostile to
those who believe in Allâhu ta’âlâ, conscience and morals. He considers these human
feelings as an illness, idiocy and treachery against his regime
and principles. His password is “Divide and rule!”
There is a single formula for
defending ourselves against the evils of communism:
To counter-attack it with the
same method it uses, that is, by force, to spit in its face, to maintain severe
control over it, to keep it away from honest people, and to leave it alone with
its red-stained face.
The Russian revolution
slaughtered 52 million people, 40 million of whom were agricultural and
industrial workers. It came forth with the promise that it would “give peasants
land and make workers shareholders in businesses,” but it even grabbed the few
acres of land belonging to poor peasants and the cottages owned by penniless
workers and killed those who had faith and belief or who said Allah.
The red revolution is a greedy
monster that eats workers under the guise of workers’ power! It produces such
massacre and plunder that even those who practise this massacre and plunder
cannot escape its massacre and plunder.
With communism, the grudge which
was at the outset held against life, property, chastity, religion and faith,
turned into a sadism borne against humanity and began to work for the plans of
a handful of cruel chiefs. At that point it was realized how great a lie it
was, yet it was too late.
The following is the fourth
paragraph of the consitution of the secret communist party:
“The Communist Party is the
irreconcilable enemy of the native servants of imperialism, of the owners of
land, factories and buildings of the bourgeois artisans and tradesmen, of all
pious people and their priests and scholars, of all working and retired
military officers, policemen and civil servants, and, in short, of those who
are outside the lines of the revolution.”
Lenin’s password for the
revolution was: “Kill the active personnel as soon and in as great a number as possible
so that there will be little work left for us to do.”
As it can be concluded,
excluding those who were to be butchered, only the red leaders themselves
remained in one hundred per cent safety.
According to Lenin, “Maintenance of Red
dominance is dependent upon the continuation of the Red revolution.” This is
the
reason for the unending massacre of workers by the regime. In Red China, with
the order of communist dictator Mao, 300,000 labourers were shot dead during
each liquidation movement. These murders were committed by a minority hostile
to religion and belief in the next world.
What level has Russia reached
today? To what degree are the people happy? Without clarifying these things, it
will be narrow mindedness to evade the question by simply saying, “They are
travelling in space,” or to admire the luxurious, excellent, delightful and
pleasing life of a cruel minority. The Pyramids in Eqypt, too, were
masterpieces at one time. Can we point out signs of social welfare in the
factories and rockets, which were built on the blood and corpses of millions of
people and with the money grabbed from hungry, wretched workers and labourers
with the view of satisfying the desires of a despotic minority? Displaying the
means as the aim of life is treacherous to life itself.
We wonder if some writers or
others could even utter one per cent of what they write or say now, were they
in a communist country?
O Youth! Your pure hearts and
green souls are quite susceptible to the enchantment of such illusive promises.
But you will repent for it later.
The only remedy for protecting humanity
against the calamity of communism is not to fall for its sweet poisons and
varnished filth. And this, in turn, requires people to have a firm faith, an
undending trust in Allâhu ta’âlâ, a peaceful
heart, and to live in justice and freedom. But this can come about only by
following a divine, unyielding and unchangeable book, and by purifying the
morals and intentions. This purity can be provided by Islam, which is free from
all sorts of prejudices and oppression. Islam supplies perfect social justice,
a strong shield to protect people against the claws of the dragon of communism.
The destruction of communism can be achieved by serving Islam. Islam and
communism cannot stay together. It is a known fact that some dictators, who
have appropriated power and preside over Muslim nations, have given their
states such names as “The Socialist Islamic Republic.” The word “Socialism,”
used as such, is a term not for Muslims, but for communists. Their putting this
word and Islam side by side is one of the traps devised for deceiving Muslims,
for Islam and
socialism
cannot stay together. A Muslim cannot be a socialist. It is for this reason
that communist barbarians, in order to make the people of the Muslim countries
they capture communists, first attack Islam, laying much stress on it. The same
reason lies under communists’ enmity towards the religion.
In every nation, there exist
ignoble, irreligious, immoral, and base people who may be tempted, deceived and
cajoled into becoming communist. Through the tricks prepared by red and yellow
centers, they may plot a communist revolution. Protection of the nation against
the bursting and spreading of such a dark and bloody revolution can be
accomplished by instructing the youth with religious knowledge and with Islamic
ethics. Every father must teach his children how to read Qur’ân al-kerîm; send them to religious
courses; teach them how to perform wudu’, ghusl and salât; how to fast; what is
halâl and what is harâm and have them practise them. Communists cannot mislead
a person who is brought up to be such a Muslim. Apparent examples of this are
the millions of Muslims moaning under Russian and Chinese persecution and
savagery. They endure all kinds of oppression, torture and even death, but do
not become communists. They either die or escape.
Seeing that they will never be
able to deceive Muslims or bring revolution to Islamic countries, cruel
communists try to improve heavy industry and the means of war to use it for
invading Islamic countries. They make preparations to attack with weapons,
rockets, fusion bombs, new jet-fighters and, chemicals to destroy all the
Muslims on the earth. Therefore, Muslims all over the world must cooperate, do
away with sectarian differences, and become united under the Ahl as-Sunna, the
only way to salvation. They must use all their energy to make new weapons in
order to surpass communists.
When unity in faith, unity in
morals, and unity in justice are established and sophisticated weapons are
made, the communist raid will no longer be a threat.
Through the gate opened in 1982
by Roger
Garaudy, famous man of letters in Europe,
Cousteau,[1] the Captain of the Oceans, turned the course of his ship towards
Islam, Bejart,one of the well-known figures of the ballet world, stepped into
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[1] Jacques-Yves Cousteau [1911-1997] French underwater explorer.
the Muslim community. The great scholar and writer RogerGaraudy said in a Conference Hall of Garyunes University in Benghazi on
April 8, 1983:
“It is true that I have embraced Islam. You ask why I chose Islam;
by choosing Islam, I chose the modern age.”
This was the same Roger Garaudy, aged 70, who had fervently defended the communist system for
France for decades. At universities and political platforms, he had repeatedly
explained Marxism to Frenchmen and to the West, thinking that the salvation of
men lay in that unique system. He had been known as the ‘Spiritual Architect’ of modern French communism. Where there was a meeting, conference
or seminar organized by communists, there was Garaudy. He carried on a serious struggle against Catholicism and
Christianity with his ideas, pen and rhetoric.
One day a bomb exploded in the
mids of the West’s world of arts, letters and politics: “Roger Garaudy embraces
Islam!”With the spread of this news to the whole world
through telexes of news agencies, the Kremlin was terribly shocked, since the
Kremlin was losing its greatest master of French communists; Garaudy was a well-known scholar, with whose pen Marxism had been
disseminated in the last years.
This great man was now telling
the truth: “Islam is the religion that drags the ages behind itself. Other
religions,however, were dragged behind the ages. That is, all religions except
Islam were altered according to the time and reformed, and their holy books
were distorted to conform to the conditions of the time. However, the Qur’ân al-kerîm has dominated over the
ages ever since its descent. Not the Qur’ân al-kerîm, but time followed
behind. As time got older, it became younger. This is an event thatoccurs
beyond the ages. This is an event much greaterthan all the terrible social,
political and economic disasters that followed so many wars in history. Islam
prevails against not only materialism or positivism, but also existentialism.
However, none of them prevailed over Islam.
“The Great Prophet of Islam (’alaihi
’s-salâm) explainedeverything by saying. ‘Work for the next world as if
youwere to die tomorrow, and work for this world as if you would never die!’ Islam
has control over not only the material but also the spiritual. Therefore, these
two cannot
be separated from each other. How
can they be separated since Islam states: ‘Learn knowledge even if it is in China,’
and ’Scientific knowledge is the lost groperty of the Believer; he should get
it wherever he finds it!’ Knowledgeand working are not limited in Islam.
Possessing no limitsconcerning these two facts, which bewilder the world, Islam
has bewildered the world.
“By defining man to be ‘the superior and the most honourable
creature,’ Islam means that he should not be exploited. It is a conglomerate of
systems that disapprovesextravagance, ostentation and luxury, defines income as
those earnings obtained thru the sweat of one’s brow, transfers growing capital
to the poor by means of a well-balanced and moral rule, prohibits interest, a
cause of laziness, and thereby destroys unlawful wealth. Islam has made it
obligatory that the Caliph and the slave shall share the same rights. There was
the case of the ‘camel’ which isa reality sharper than a king’s sword: Hadrat
’Umar and his slave rode a camel by taking turns as they travelled fromone town
to another, the halter being held by the Caliph and by the slave alternately...
Here is the revolution of Islam in the field of justice and law.
“Both Marxism and capitalism are systems that exploit man. In contrast to them, Islam is a heavenly religion that restores human prestige to humanity.”