The Most Important Need of the Time - The Prophet's Strategy for Islamic Revolution

The Most Important Need of the Time

The most urgent and dire need of today is that the right way and methodology of bringing about a revolution should be made very vivid and clear. There is no dearth of sentiment amongst the Muslims today. Thousands of people are sacrificing their lives. They are tying bombs to their bodies and blowing themselves up. The whole world saw the sentiment that arose in Kashmir. It was said about the Kashmiris that they were not a nation of fighters. But now the fighting spirit has been kindled in them as well. How many people have gone there from Pakistan and embraced martyrdom. But this is not the methodology of the Islamic Revolution. There will be no success through such means. You can only give vent to your anger in this way. The bombardment of two American embassies in Africa resulted in the death of only ten or fifteen Americans whereas two hundred Africans died in retaliation. What was the gain? Just this that you expressed your anger! Hence one cannot gain anything through such means. We will not achieve anything from elections either. The dream of an Islamic Revolution will never become a reality by these means. 

Your sincerity not withstanding this method of violence and killing of innocent people is wrong and counterproductive. For bringing about an Islamic Revolution the method of the Prophet (SAW) will have to be adopted. Could the Prophet (SAW) have been successful in Arabia through elections? The Quran says, 
"And if you obeyed most of those on earth, they will lead you astray from the way of Allah" 

(Al- Ana'am 6: 116). 

In the elections it is only a matter of minority and majority. I will go one step further and say could Ayatollah Khomeni have come to power through elections in Iran? Absolutely impossible! For God's sake stop deluding yourself. Today the entire Ummah can escape God's wrath in only this way that in one country God's chosen faith should be implemented in toto and the entire world be invited to come and see that this is Islam, look at its blessings, equality and brotherhood, its freedom, the peace and tranquility. If we are unable to do this then God's wrath will go from worse to worst. The intensity of the wrath will increase and not decrease and above all else the lashes of God's wrath will fall on the Arab world because Allah (SWT) bequeathed on them the biggest favour. The Prophet (SAW) was from amongst them. The last book of Allah, the Holy Quran, was revealed to them in their own language. We can only learn Arabic after strenuous and laborious teaching but for them it is their mother tongue.

Moreover, the survival and solidarity of Pakistan lies in an Islamic Revolution. This is the only justification of its existence otherwise the condition of Pakistan is like the situation described in the last Rukuh of Surah Waqi'ah that when someone is in the throes of death and all his relatives are gathered around him but are helpless to do anything for him. It is said in the Holy Quran:

But why, if you are not in bondage, you do not bring it back, if you are truthful?

(Al-Waqi'ah 56:86-87)

That is exactly what is happening to Pakistan in my opinion. Then your palaces will not be your own but someone else's. Then your mills and your factories will belong to someone else.

If Islam is not implemented here in letter and spirit then Pakistan has no right and basis for continued existence. I have delivered two speeches on the broad theme of "The future of Islam and Pakistan in the perspective of current global conditions". The topics of the two discourses are:

i) The future of Islam in the current global conditions.

ii) Has the countdown for Pakistan's doom started? Or is there still a way out?

Indeed the only way out is that Islam is fully implemented here. But since the proper and correct methodology has not been made clear for those in whose hearts this sentiment is alive, they keep drifting hither and thither and waste time, energy and resources in counter-productive policies and actions.

Having been inspired and enlightened spiritually by the Seerah of the Prophet, I have placed before you the methodology of revolution which, if adopted with full consciousness and resolve, will lead to success. Otherwise for all your sincerity and good intentions, success will not be possible. It will ever remain an unrealized wish only.

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Source: The Prophet's Strategy for Islamic Revolution