Enslavement of the West vs The Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam
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What is Tashabbuh? What is Mushabahat? Is there a difference between them?
TASHABBUH:
Tashabbuh means that a person willfully imitates. He intends to become like something else. He wants to be seen and identified as something else. This is not permissible at all.
MUSHABAHAT:
A person does not willfully intend to look or become like something or someone else, but by his actions, he resembles others automatically. This is not forbidden in itself, but Sayyiduna Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam emphasized that we stay away from it also. There must be a clear distinction that remains between the Muslims and the non-Muslims. It must not be that people see us and they don’t even know whether the person is a Muslim or not. From head to toe, a person is dressed and groomed such that the onlooker does not know whether to greet him with salaam or not.
Sayyiduna Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam emphasized that the Muslim Ummah refrains from allowing Mushabahat to creep into even actions of worship. The reason for this is that the Deen that Allah Ta’ala blessed us with is unique and different from every other religion and way of life, and it is much higher and loftier than other ways. For this reason, the outer and inner of a Muslim must remain unique and different from that of non-Muslims; one’s dressing, one’s worship, one’s actions, one’s character, they are all different from that of non-Muslims.
Islam is unique and different, it has not come to be watered down and changed, but it changes everything around it. Appreciate this great Deen of Islam, it is to be lived and experienced, and not seen as something trivial to be done away with whenever one feels like. May Allah Ta’ala bless us with the reality of Islam. Ameen
In essence, the matter is that the thought has settled in our hearts and minds that whatever the western nations do, that is worthy of following and imitating, and the Sunnah of Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam is something minute, insignificant, and not worthy of following. In fact, we feel that it is a barrier in the path of progress.
However, what is cause for concern is that if you eat with the right hand, then how does that impede progress, or, how is that a barrier in the path of progress?
The issue is that slavery has been set upon our minds. We have abandoned bondage to Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and have adopted enslavement of the western nations. The result of this is that we are living in enslavement and dying in enslavement. Now, we want to come out of this enslavement and we cannot. We see no path or way of coming out of it.
The truth is that we will not be able to come out of this slavery and we will not be able to gain honour and respect in this world until we do not fully and truly accept to be the slaves of Sayyiduna Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, and until we do not walk in the footsteps of the best of creation.
__Islahi Khutbat vol.7 p.181, Islam aur Daur-e-Hadir ke Shubuhat wa Mughalate
adapted from: maktabahimamghazali.blogspot.com
