The Role of South Asia in the sight of Prophet Muhammad PBUH Almost 1431 years has been passed, and the ummah of Prophet PBUH have seen many eras. We can divide this long period in three segments after Prophet Muhammad PBUH. The first one was the most glorious period known as the Khilafat{according to a hadees (Musnad Imam Ahmed 4/273)}, during which the Muslims gained a lot of success, then came the era of Mamlokat (kingdom), whether it was the kingdom of Umayyad, the kingdom of Mughals in India, this period brought declinefor the umaah and the Great Muslim Empire started to see downfall. Then the 3rd but the worst period known as Slavery came, and since the last 300 years, we Muslims living in any part of the world are facing direct or indirect slavery. We don’t want to go in detail as We are sure we all know well that before we were directly under the colonial rule, and now all the decisions of each Muslim country are made in USA. We are not free to impose any order in our country, for each and every step our governments takes permission from their masters. There is not even a single muslim country which has impose complete Islamic Sharia System, in other words there is not any muslim country by system but yes by name they are 55. Now the question arises that what is the future of our Muslim Ummah? We are sure every sensitive Muslim think about that and feel depress. The answer lies in the Hadees of Prophet Muhammad PBUH narrated by Abu Huraira R.A in Tirmizi Shareef vol.no.2 hadees no.152, which is also the topic of my discussion. “The army carrying black flags will come from Khorasan, no power will be able to stop them and they will finally reach Jerusalem where they will erect their flags." * The area of Khorasan mentioned here is not only the province of Khorasan in Iran, but it also includes the area of Afghanistan, Malakand Division of Pakistan and some part of Russian ex-states like Azbakstan. As we all know that first time it was Hazrat Ummar R.A who conquered Jerusalem from Jewish but after that because of the ignorance of Arabs it went again in the hands of Christians, and this time Arabs were not strong enough due to their internal quarrels.So Slah u Din Ayubi who was a Kurd, won the fight and eventually recaptured Palestine. Now the third time this great opportunity will come in the hands of South Asian Muslims according to Prophet Muhammad PBUH. To analayze further the words of Prophet Muhammad PBUH, we have to throw light on the importance of this region. Mujaddids are those great people who restore the original beliefs and practices and explain the true intent of Shari‘ah. The word Mujaddid has been derived from a well-known Hadees reported by Imam Abu Dawood in his Sunan, one of the six Authentic Books of Hadees. The text of the Hadees is as follows: “Surely, Allah will send for this Ummah at the advent of every one hundred years a person (or persons) who will renovate its religion for it.” [Sunan Abu Dawood] This Hadees indicates that at certain times some group of people among the Ummah may go astray and forget the original teaching of the Holy Quran and Sunnah, which will allow the un-islamic elements to creep into the original beliefs and practices. Even though this distorted version of Shari’ah will not achieve the universal acceptance among the Muslims, but if a large number of Muslim gets attracted by it, then Allah will send a person or number of persons who will correct the errors, and restore the original beliefs and practices of Sharia’ah. This act of renovation is called “Tajdeed” and those who carry out this remarkable work are named as “Mujaddid” (renovator). The history witnessed that the center of gravity of Islam was first known as Baghdad, and then it shifted to Spain, then further moved to North Africa where people like Ibn e Khaldoun played an important part in the renovation of Islam, and now this gravity has transferred to South Asia. The prove lies in the list of the Mujaddids that appeared during last 1400 years. If we analyze it deeply, the first 10 Renovators were mostly Arabs or from the surrounding areas. Now from the last 4oo years the Mujaddids are appearing in this region of South Asia. For example in * Eleventh century A.H.: Hazrat Mujaddid Alif Sani. Twelfth century A.H.: Hazrat Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlavi. Thirteenth century A.H.: Hazrat Sayyid Ahmad Brelvi. They all were non-Arabs. As far I concern, I personally feel that the Mujaddids of Fourteenth century can be Allama Iqbal, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, Dr.Tahir ul Qadri,Maulana Ilyas Attari, Moulana Ilyas,Dr. Israr Ahmed and Dr. Zakir Naik and many more listed in this link( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern-day_Muslim_scholars ). As they all have and are contributing the same efforts and work as of the Mujaddids (these are my personal views, no one has to agree with that, but I have my evidences to prove my word). Further more the two great scholars Malik Bin Nabi from Aljazair and Dr. Shariati from Iran were also of the same view.
Dr. Shariati has once said that “Intellectual and Spiritual center of gravity of the world of Islam has shifted to South Asia”. These facts show that the Muslims of this region have been honored with this great reward, but great honor brings great responsibility. This center of gravity has shifted from Arabs to us because they forgot their responsibilities and duties as Muslims, and if we repeat the same mistake again then it’s easy for Allah to remove the previous and bring new people.It is the duty of the muslims to unite again and become Muslim Ummah. Because there is a concept of one Muslim Ummah but we have many Muslim States. We pray tht Allah give courage to such people who r practising muslims n wants to bring Islamic revolution and working on unity of muslims.
Our First Mission is to Establish a United States of Islam based on Unity then from this plateform Khilafat will be announced as It will be strong Khilafat which will based on the mutual Unity of all Muslims.
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