Looking at the Muslim ummah or society today, the fundamental concept which will lead to unity is missing – the concept of Al-Wala’. Al-Wala’ contains 4 sub-concepts: love, care, help and protection. These fundamental concepts are missing from the Muslim ummah and therefore we need to revive these concepts in order to unite the ummah. This is the reality of the Muslims today. How can we talk about the supremacy and the dominance of Islam if the Muslims are in such a weak condition where there are so many discrepancies, contradictions, obstacles, shortcomings, etc. These are aspects where great efforts and a great jihad are needed. But to do jihad in a compelling manner, i.e. by fighting, does not work and may create even more problems. There are some groups of Muslims today who confine jihad to fighting as the main and only way to establish the aforementioned goals and this is destroying the image of Islam and is not doing any favour to the Muslims. Those people interpret this hadith to mean fighting but this may not be applicable to the condition of the Muslims today where fighting may cause more and greater harm.
External challenges encountering Muslims The Muslim community is confronted with two kinds of challenges – the internal challenges (some of which were previously mentioned) and the external challenges which are being imposed on them by the enemies of Islam. Those opponents are coming up with diverse ways of ‘fighting’ and trying to rule the Muslim world. These external challenges comprise all aspects of globalisation, modernity, change of lifestyle, technology misuse, changing values, etc. The battle field of these challenges are none other than the minds and attitudes of Muslims especially the young generation, where the focus is on influencing the attitudes of the Muslims through influencing their way of thinking and altering their sense of imagination. The opponents of Islam are promoting vice and negative concepts through new ways and methods. One of them is altering our perception about things, where wrong-doings and evil deeds are being retarded as acceptable or even preferable. The latest findings of researches and studies, like cognitive psychology, are used to influence the world, including the Muslims, to amend their attitudes, values and even beliefs.
If we accept the situation of Muslims as it is and not do anything about it, the negative consequences will be greater in the near future. Today everything, including the future, is being preplanned and designed but the Muslims are not cognizant of this. We are not cognizant of the fact that we are the subjects of the schemes of others – that we are being used or victimised as target groups where the Muslim minds are being manipulated and brainwashed. Therefore we need to find ways and means to counter these external challenges. This is also a tremendous jihad because these enemies of Islam are using such means and ways to threaten our values, beliefs and identities as Muslims. We need to be aware of the condition and think about what is being designed to negatively affect us and we should use the same means to counter these negative influences.
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