Faced with the horror of the Sh‘ia massacre of the Syrian Muslim population, coupled with the frozen inaction of the Muslim peoples of Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula, with the shame of the Palestinians not man enough to admit defeat and half converted to Shi‘ism, and with the Arabs claiming Wahhabism while chained to dollars for petrol – surely it is time to review where in all this stands the Divinely ordained Deen of Islam, and to rediscover what in fact it is.
In order to see clearly it is necessary to go back in time and recognise the click by click mechanisms which have redefined Islam into being this distorted current reality, or ir-reality.
When I entered Islam in the early sixties... [Continue Reading Here]
Piercing insight! What a wonderful article.
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Each of these violent transitions was preceded by the total fragmentation of the society’s trade and fiduciary system. This was achieved by two practices. The abolition of an intrinsic value metals currency and the imposition of paper money. The introduction of usury into every transaction. What was named ‘development’ and ‘modernisation’ was, in fact, devaluation (from the real value to numerical value) and usury (increase in the exchange)."