Senses under Captivity Are Insensible towards Ramadan and towards the Ummah’s Agony

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Once again, the Ummah wasn’t able to start Ramadan in unity... Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt decided to start Ramadan on Thursday, a day after the rest of the Muslim lands. The Ummah is still shattered... one limb burns furiously, another limb groans bitterly under the dominance of tyrant kufr systems... The kuffar and their agents cause ruffle (make noise) with all their means to prevent the Muslims from hearing the guidance that will rescue them from their tyranny. In Turkey, the Islamophobic seculars act out their enmity towards Shariah with more intensity and more impudently... The government of Tajikistan has banned Islamic dressing in public, the name Muhammed for newborns, and even the celebration of religious holidays. Right in the beginning of Ramadan, Pakistan killed 16 civilians, including 12 children, in an airstrike in Afghanistan... In East Turkestan, many Muslim homes are invaded by Chinese kuffar, other families are being deported in the midst of winter – no one knows where they are taken to... Kashmir, Pattani, Myanmar are long forgotten... The slaughter in Sudan continues... And the never-resting beloved Gaza...

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Mankind has become insensitive... For in order to be sensitive, the senses must be free. However, even the senses of the majority of the Muslims are under captivity like the rest of mankind... The Muslims - who could awake mankind - are not able to free themselves from the tyranny of the kufr systems, imposed on them by their blind, deaf, and headless rulers.

For as long as their senses are under captivity, they are not able to learn... They do learn everything related to kufr, vicious conduct (fisq), and oppression (dhulm); but they cannot learn anything about the maxims of Islam, about Ramadan and being an Ummah. They cannot learn about the obligation of being a united Ummah, the reasons for the fragmentation of the Ummah, and causes of the oppression upon the Ummah... For they are desensitised by the glittering pursuits of Kufr, blinded by false heroes. Their ears became deaf by delusional promises, their hearts turned insensitive by ineffectual actions... For senses under captivity are incapable of sensing Ramadan, the Ummah’s agony, and the escape out of the tyrants’ oppression. How accurate the description of our Lord is:

[وَقَالَ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا لَا تَسْمَعُوا لِهٰذَا الْقُرْاٰنِ وَالْغَوْا ف۪يهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَغْلِبُونَ]

“And those who disbelieve say: “Listen not to this Quran, and make noise in the midst of its (recitation) that you may overcome” [Fussilat: 26].

Therefore; this blessed month, in which the Qur’an was revealed as guidance for mankind, and with clear proofs and a criterion of Truth and falsehood, has reached us once again during these times of rumpus, clamour, and deceptions. Without doubt the Qur’an was revealed at the same exact circumstances for the first time. Its arrival turned the tyrant in power even more wild and more savage. Yet, none of their efforts were able to prevent the Qur’an from settling on this earth, and Islam from rising to power. Eventually in the 8th year after the Hijra, on the 20th day of Ramadan, at the Conquest of Mecca, all the idols across the world started to crumble one by one. And no one was able to challenge the spread of Islam...

Thus, the reason for why our Lord blesses us again and again with the rise of Ramadan upon this globe and mankind, is the vow that He (swt) made to us: He (swt) will replace the rule of the Kuffar with the rule of the Muslims, He (swt) will establish the authority of Islam upon this earth, and He (swt) will change our present state of fear into peace and security. Simply, because the Muslims are the witnesses over mankind to guide them out of darknesses into light. Under their leadership people will enter Islam in crowds... Thus, another blessing of our Lord to us is that He (swt) granted us God-fearing (muttaqi), upright (mukhlis), and beneficent (mukhsin) Believers among us, who have dedicated their lives to reviving the numb corpses with His message of salvation for all of mankind. Alhamdulillah!

Therefore; aspire the Eid of this Ramadan by engraving these words of Allah (swt) into your hearts:

[اِنَّ هٰذِه۪ٓ اُمَّتُكُمْ اُمَّةً وَاحِدَةًۘ وَاَنَا۬ رَبُّكُمْ فَاعْبُدُونِ]

“Verily, this Ummah of yours is a single Ummah (unity of those who believe in the Tawhid of Islam). And I am your Lord, so worship me alone” [Al-Anbiya: 92].

Unless we become again a single Ummah united solely by Islam, our Lord will not fulfill His vow for us. Because this is the only legitimate deal between the Lord and His slaves. This is the most profitable deal ever!

Let our Ramadan be the beginning of our unity, the end of all oppression, and the liberation of the Ummah and the entire mankind.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Zehra Malik