- Excerpt from Islam and The Problem of Israel – by: Prof Raji al-Faruqi
The problem of Israel confronting the Muslim World today neither precedent nor parallel in Islamic history. The Muslim World has tended to regard it as another instance of modern colonialism, or at best, as a repetition of the Crusades. Prof Ismail Raji al-Faruji (1921-1986) is widely recognized as an authority on Islam and comparative religion, a Palestinian by birth, Faruqi was the author of several books among them ISLAM AND THE PROBLEM OF ISRAEL. The Faruqis fell victim to an assassin’s knife in the hours of May 27,1986 in their house in Philadephia, U.S.A.
Islam and it basic premise, though, is that providence always takes care of us all and that in the end good always triumphs over evil. Al-Faruqi clearly acknowledges the validity of a principle of justice and defense of the oppressed stipulated in our situations and to oppose the oppression of those who were destitute and powerless. Infact Islam and its message came to confirm the substance of a treaty that human conscience had already independently formulated.
It may be asked , How would the application of the Islamic solution affect the actual state of affairs in the Near East?
First , the Arab states of the Near East must undergo a transformation from being caricatures of the Western national states to becoming a single , united Islamic state. The Arab states are literally all creations of Western colonialism. They must all be dismantled and their populations reorganized into the Islamic state. Their laws which against for the most part they had inherited from Western colonialism ought to be discarded in favor of the Shari’ah, or law of Islam. The Islamic state emerging from their union should abolish all frontiers between them, all their individual defense establishments, and assume all responsibility for defense and foreign affairs. Only if this is achieved may the Arab Muslims of the the Near East stand ready to implement the Islamic solution of the problem of Israel.
Second, Israel , the Zionist state , would bee dismantled; by force, if necessary, The institution of the Zionist state is a positive evil, and so all its defense establishment. This leaves the ummah of Jews as covenanter with the Islamic state for peace. The Jewish citizens of Israel world not be required to move . On the contrary , they would be invited to dwell in any city or village of the whole Islamic state, not only in some pieces of real estate on the West Bank of the Jordan Gaza strip as and the Zionism is presently asking. But no Jew may disposes a Muslim of his land, house or other property as Zionists have so far done. The transactions is personal; and both parties, buyer and seller, have to will the sale and be satisfied with it. As for the Palestinians, they would have to be rehabilitated in their own homes and lands , out of which they had been forcefully ejected firstly by British and then by Zionist arms. Moreover, they would have to be compensated, under Islamic law, for their damages.
This means that the Jews presently living in stolen homes and cultivating stolen lands, will have either to vacate or to compensate their owners. If the owners insist on evacuation, the capital necessary for compensation could be used to buy new land and home elsewhere. If , as Jews claim, the Kingdom of David extended from River of Egypt to the Euphrates, there is still plenty of land for them to purchase and occupy. According to Islam , as it has been already said, there is no restriction whatever on the number of Jewish immigrants, nor on the area or locality of the land they may purchase to dwell in throughout the Muslim World.
Thirdly, once the bouleversement this solution brings has settled down, there is no reason why the Jews, as dhimmi citizens of the Islamic state, may not keep all the public institutions they have so far developed in Palesttine (Courts of law, learned societies of art and culture, public corporations, schools, colleges and universities) to continue in their operation , whether in any locality of Palestine or anywhere else where Jews might choose to dwell. Henceforth, their vision and their efforts would be directed toward upholding and promoting Judaism, not the Western ideologies of decadence and aberration. No one will make war against them. No one will persecute or molest them. Their task is to be as Jewish as they care to be.
Then , when the Jews of the emerging Islamic state have organized themselves and began to breathe as Jews, free for many threat, the chief of the Islamic state might repeat the message which an earlier predecessor of his (Muhammad, “ the second, “conqueror of (Constantinople) had sent to the chief of an earlier non- Muslim ummah in the Islamic state (Gennadius Scholarius,Patriarch of Constantinople): “Be the Patriarch of friendship is pledged in all circumstances and under all conditions, wherever it may benefits you. May you enjoy all the privileges hitherto enjoyed by your predecessors!”
(G. Papadopolous, les privileges du patriarchat oecumeniques (communaute grecque-orthodox) dans l’empire ottoman, Paris, 1924, p. 10)By Palestinian born- Prof Raji al-Faruqi
(May Allah grant him peace and blessing –InsyaAllah)
DON’T FORGET YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN PALESTINE AND GAZA THOSE WHO BEEN OPPRESSED!!!See also:
Suhaib Webb on MuslimUnity:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7d8e6Ovbs
We were once Men:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AEAH7tyzPQ
Shame on the Saudi regime and the other ''islamic countries''!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg-CJYPSkpU
GazaGazaDontuCry:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPWYRSeMaA
Gaza Missile Strike Uproar:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_pJdzKWTeI
Gaza: The Ummah Needs us:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWgpLkVIhRg
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