Moderate Conspiracy

Moderate Conspiracy"

By Shamsul huda Qasmi

"And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion. Say, “Indeed, the guidance of Allah is the (only) guidance.” If you were to follow their desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have against Allah no protector or helper." (The Quran-2/120)

The glorious Quran clearly states that the Jews and the Christian would never be pleased with the prophet ﷺ until he followed their way of life and it was never possible for the prophet ﷺ to recognize it as the truth had been revealed to him by Allah. This verse also proves that the battle between truth and falsehood in its all forms and sections had begun from the very beginning of Islam and its believers defended it well to all fronts. The companions of the Prophet ﷺ and later the scholars of Islam undertook all challenges to remove the threats posed by the falsehood on the way to Islam. The falsehood in its all pomp and show is still posing many great challenges and threats to the Muslims across the world to weaken their faith in the true religion, given by Allah. The entire world appears to be totally obsessed with the high glamour and material progress made by the west and people everywhere seem to be ready to gladly accept all what come from the western world, be it positive or negative, useful or harmful in their way of life.          

Today, Muslims across the globe are being badly targeted and defamed with full determination. The anti-Islamic elements leaves no stone unturned to malign the Muslims as a whole. The Islamic teachings, which guarantee to deliver peace to each and every human being, are made believe to be a great threat to the peaceful world and Islam is brazenly linked to terrorism by the western rulers and international media every day. Wherever a mishap takes place, anti-Islamic elements readily find link with Muslims and without delay declare them to be terrorists. Undoubtedly, it’s a western conspiracy to forcefully distort the true image of Islam and destabilize the faith in the hearts of Muslims. It’s an intellectual and psychological fight between the truth and the falsehood. Taking up the fight further ahead, the west has coined terms of "moderate" and "radical" Islam" to divide the community and undermine its faith and belief. Now many so-called modern Muslims feel secured using moderate and radical terms with no knowledge of the ulterior motives of creating such words to harm the religion and its followers. Recently, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad Bin Salman, speaking at major investment conference, promised the country (Saudi Arabia) would return to moderate open Islam and would not waste years of lives dealing with extremists ideas. Here, we should clearly keep in our mind that there is no moderate or radical Islam, it’s a western term and such self professed moderate religion only belongs to the west. Over the prince's remark, Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rightly lashed out at the term “moderate Islam”, saying the term only aims at weakening the religion itself rather than distancing it from extremists. The western rulers know well that manipulating the entire world forever and plundering its wealth is not always easily possible without weakening the Muslims world. In order to achieve their goal, they have fully launched a scathing attack on Islam, attributing extremism, terrorism, chauvinism and intransigence to it and hurling every fabrication at it with the aim of reducing its influence and diminishing its stature. 

In fact, Muslims have nothing to do with extremism or terrorism but are peace loving people as the holy Quran again guides us saying, "And thus we have made you a just community…" (2/143). We should not be deviated and carried away with the western conspiracies and fake slogans. Islam is a perfect religion given to mankind in the shape of the final book, the Quran and the hadith as its complete explanation. Nothing can be incorporated or excluded from the holy Quran and ahadith to please the hypocrite world. Allah Almighty says in the Quran, "This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. (The Quran: 5/3)

We, as Muslim, have a complete deen (religion) to lead our lives accordingly and don’t need any suggestions to make our deen more flexible and acceptable in the sight of the double dealing and hypocrite world. Moreover, the falsehood, to any extent, would never be pleased with Islam as the Quran has straightforwardly stated. We should know it’s a fight of supremacy of civilizations and materialism that the western rulers want to conquer and defeat the Muslims world. However, the true believers will never give up the straight path as the real success of this world and the hereafter lies in abiding by Islamic teachings. May Allah enable us to be the true believers and followers of the final religion given to the Prophet !ﷺ  Ameen.