Zahir
Ebrahim | Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
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Postscript Tuesday, November 26, 2013
12:00 pm
A
new phenomenon is unveiling in Pakistan. A new Hegelian Dialectic is
being fashioned once again in the blood of innocent Muslims. The
previous Hegelian Dialectic of “Moderate Islam” (reformed
Islam advocated by the Jewish Islamophobe Daniel Pipes to
Tahir-ul-Qadri of Pakistan --- the get along with empire version of
Islam just like Sufi Islam) vs. “militant Islam”
(antediluvian Islam advocated by Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeeda, good and
bad Talibans, basically the fanatic Sunni-Deobandi-Salafi-Wahabi
mongrel --- the hate everyone else in Islam including the empire and
its infidels, created by the empire itself and sustained by all its
vassals and proxies) already being a spent force drawing diminishing
traction among the Western public, the new Hegelian Dialectic
“militant Islam” vs. “revolutionary Islam”
(the valih-e-faqih advocated Shia Islam as established by Ayatollah
Khomeini in Iran which is both revolutionary, militant, and guardian
of its own peoples, reenacted by the Hezbollah in Lebanon) is being
fashioned in Pakistan as we speak. The soil of Pakistan has been
diabolically fertilized for it with the calculatedly spilled Shia
Muslim blood.
I
wish to draw your attention to my letter to “Hujjatul Islam”
Syed Jawad Naqvi, the iconic Head of Jamea Orwathul Wuthqa, a new
Islamic University in Lahore, Pakistan. The letter is
self-explanatory and is reproduced below.
To:
“Hujjatul Islam Syed Jawad Naqvi”
contact@islamimarkaz.com
From:
“Zahir Ebrahim, Project Humanbeingsfirst.org”
humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com
Date:
Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Cc:
two personal references of prominent personalities in Lahore,
Pakistan
Subject:
Your speech of Nov 18, 2013 - Allama Iqbal
Dear
Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi,
as-salamu
'alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
I
write you this urgent letter from California where I have been
listening and watching your amazing Muharram majalis speeches with
great interest. The speech of 13th Muharram which you just moments
ago concluded from Quetta, Monday November 18, 2013, like in
virtually all your lectures, you once again brought up the lofty
teachings from the mufakkar-e-Pakistan, Allama Dr. Muhammad Iqbal.
The speech, and quotations from Iqbal, once again remain prophetic,
powerful, empowering --- the domain of great poets.
Why
do I say "great poets", and not great marde-momin scholar
as you continually present him?
Because,
as is historically self-evident, lofty versification and actual deed
do not match for Allama Dr. Muhammad Iqbal.
Since
you quote Allama Iqbal so liberally, and employ his teachings, as his
eager exponent, before your own flock almost continually, I am most
puzzled that perhaps you have penetrated some dark mysteries of
hypocrisies that ordinary unemotional students like myself haven't
been able to comprehend.
I
therefore invite you to most generously spend a tiny bit of your most
valuable time in reading my analysis below and to provide your own
learned comments on what I have examined as the historical facts
pertaining to the acts of Allama Iqbal. I invite you to offer your
own scholarship to explain why these documented acts of both
egregious commission and egregious omission don't appear to match the
lofty proclamations that you continually attribute to Dr. Muhammad
Iqbal from the Shia pulpit. I will be bold and truthful in what I am
about to state. I believe you are misleading your flock by your
one-sided focus on Iqbal's writings while disregarding his factual
acts of supporting the British empire on the ground.
Perhaps
you shockingly remain unaware of the actual acts of Allama Iqbal? How
is that possible for a scholar of your knowledge and political
shaoor?
Or
perhaps it is I who is unwittingly incorrect in my perception of
these facts (?), in which case I strongly invite your learned
corrections to the analysis lest I, and others reading my analysis on
my website, be misled by distortions, falsehoods, and misperceptions
that may have inadvertently crept into it despite my utmost efforts
at due diligence to be factual, analytical, and both Socratic as well
ba-baseerat. The latter of course always takes far more perceptive
scholarship and honesty of purpose than mere pious claims to it which
anyone can make – and therefore I invite you to adjudicate for
yourself:
Download
PDF:
http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/sacred-cow-allama-iqbal-marde-momin-or-superman-zahirebrahim-4.pdf
Since
you do not know me, by way of introduction, I am copying on this
letter two prominent personalities from Lahore who I believe have met
you, and/or at least you may know them. One of them is my teacher
from UET Lahore, the other is a personal friend of many years. Feel
free to interlocute them for reference on me if my million-word-plus
writings on my website are not sufficient or credible
self-introduction.
I
eagerly await either your solid corrections of any of my
mis-perceptions, or, I await your own admission that you may have
(surely only inadvertently) ignored some pertinent facts, and
therefore accordingly at least your revision of your statements on
Allama Iqbal made in public.
Your
Shia followers in Pakistan, it is already evident from their behavior
and sloganeering and the unfolding circumstances of tyranny upon the
Muslims of Pakistan, never appear to challenge anything you state. A
new SAVAK has been created in Pakistan to “tickle” a
Pakistani “Hizbollah” into coming into existence in
self-defence --- and you appear to be its de facto leader today. As
that leader in the making, your public and private attitudes betray
what is in store for us poor Pakistani peoples: another Iran-Iraq
like fratricide between Pakistani armed Shias and Pakistani armed
Sunnis in the format of Hizbollah vs. Taliban; or great sanctuary
from all tyranny.
If
you accept public challenges, and respond to them with great
scholarship and great wisdom as is the maarfat of anyone occupying
the “takht-e-salooni” in its original exponent's name as
his self-claimed “inheritor”, it will surely demonstrate
that we Pakistanis are not looking to a Shia dictatorship if you, or
your exponents, tomorrow or in ten years, come to power in Pakistan.
This simple and straightforward question on the facts and acts
pertaining to Allama Iqbal is merely the first and very preliminary
test of that openness, to be both forthright and straightforward in
intellectual and/or political engagement, and open to being
corrected when shown to be misled. Many more tests to come, for sure.
Passing
in these tests of the public's intellectual and/or political
challenges with genuine humility, deep wisdom, and a demonstration of
possessing unsurpassed ilm which is put to both constructive and
beneficial use, will surely increase confidence in your valih-e-faqih
solution-space as indeed the panacea for Pakistan for all Pakistanis.
An
arrogant silence or marginalization of the petitioner will
demonstrate the converse --- of merely new tyrants to replace the
old!
Wasslaam,
Zahir
Ebrahim | Project
Humanbeingsfirst.org
The
reference to New SAVAK in the letter can be understood in my previous
analysis of the unobvious political motivations behind the otherwise
senseless slaughter of innocent Shias in Pakistan: The
New SAVAK in Pakistan - Understanding Shia Killings.
Much realpolitik insight into what can easily transpire when a state
has no will to act to protect its own peoples – either by its
own ineptitude, or, as should be evident to even dumb-ass observers
of the crisis that Pakistan is passing through in these times, when
the state is itself complicit in the creation of "revolutionary
times" in its own nation – can be gained by perceptively
examining what transpired in 1953 against another defenseless
minority in Pakistan: The
'Ahrar-Ahmadiya controversy' of 1953 and Shia Killings today in 2013.
A
fate far worse potentially awaits both the Shia and Sunni Muslims of
Pakistan than has been experienced by the Qadianis --- because, if
the diabolical Hegelian Dialectic of the “militant Islam”
vs. “revolutionary Islam” is successful outside the
parameters of the weak Pakistani state, both Shia Muslims and Sunni
Muslims could become the common losers no different than was
witnessed in the Iran-Iraq war. The only winners in that fratricide
were, and still are, the Western hectoring hegemons who got the two
brotherly Muslim national armies to wage the eight-year fratricide
upon each others peoples.
It
will be worse in Pakistan because anytime two extra-state armed
groups willing to die for their respective cause are brought into
existence, one un-apologetically aided by the state and its
politicians, the other visibly opposed by the state but nurtured
nevertheless by its calculated policies and the protection of its
agencies, and both sides aided and abetted into existence to wage war
upon each other by Western agenda to fabricate artificial enemies,
blood of the innocent flows into the nation's streets. Armed
extra-state domestic combatants can become far more an uncontrolled
harbinger of “revolutionary times” as was seen in Ireland
than was enacted in the far more controlled Iran-Iraq war that was
orchestrated between the two brotherly nations. By some counts, 4
million on each side of the border paid the price of protecting their
respective nations in this artificial war. Neither recognized the
real enemy in any practical sense (the Iranian Ayatollah's rhetoric
not withstanding), nor did either nation take practical measures to
unite against their common foe.
By
my last count, the leadership on either side of the Iran-Iraq
fratricide in the name of God sacrificed exactly zero members of
their own immediate family in that eight year war. I am open to being
corrected on that count however. Please send me a list of either the
names of the dead children or grandchildren of Ayatollah Khomeini and
Sadaam Hussein respectively who died on the battlefields between 1980
and 1988 on the Iran-Iraq border. Same is true of their respective
cabinet members, ministers, and other Ayatollahs from Qom to Najaf.
Unwilling sacrifices made by non-combatant stay-behind scholars and
Ayatollahs to cowardly bombings in civilian centers does not count
quite as much as holding the principled gun in one's hand while
facing the enemy on the battlefront like the rest of Iranian and
Iraqi “basijis” were made to pay for Islam.
The
same kind of religious rhetoric that got these co-religionist
brothers to kill brothers for eight long years when the peoples of
the two nations weren't even antagonistic to each other, in fact,
shared the same sect in common among their majority peoples, can far
more easily be harvested in Pakistan today after three decades of
deliberate domestic polarization on all possible axes of people
differentiation (sectarian, tribal, ethnic, feudal, linguistic,
provincial, immigrant) among a people who can hardly be termed a
“nation” in a country where its own military and state
apparatus have demonstrated little sympathy, let alone any empathy,
for their own public. See for instance how Pakistan was artificially
and arbitrarily carved by imperial fiat in the historical document
titled: Indian
Independence Act of 1947
to appreciate why Pakistan remains a perpetual harvest of
dysfunction.
If
you are Urdu enabled, you can learn a great deal of how the rise of
“revolutionary Islam” is being encouraged in Pakistan in
reaction to Shia slaughter from the emotional lectures of Allama Syed
Jawad Naqvi archived at his most educational website:
http://www.islamimarkaz.com.
The Muharram lecture referenced in my letter to Syed Jawad Naqvi
quoted above is in fact a series of 5 two-hour long speeches titled:
Dushman
Kay Saath Muqabley Kay Qurani Usool.
The topic may be summed in English as: Identification of the Enemy
and Principles of Engagement with it in the Light of the Holy Qur'an.
These
lectures are most revealing for two reasons. Firstly, these contain a
great deal of inspiring knowledge from the Holy Qur'an and from
mankind's history noted in the Holy Qur'an to awaken the sleeping
Muslims to stand up for themselves; to harken the Muslim public mind,
both Shia and Sunni, to break their bonds of servitude. Secondly, and
most pertinent to this report, these speeches draw Determinate
linkages to the conception of valih-e-faqih as the only governance
principle of life encased in the Holy Qur'an for all times (see
vilayat-i faqih, governance of the faqih, Ayatollah Khomeini, Islam
and Revolution,
translated by Hamid Algar, 1981). This latter connection I am simply
unable to ascertain in the Holy Qur'an myself. While I am not a
scholar, let alone scholar of the Holy Qur'an, the matter appears to
be entirely Indeterminate
in the Holy Qur'an. This nomenclature has been defined in my book
Hijacking
the Holy Qur'an and Islam,
pg. 80.
But
like any public mind beholden to a superlative orator who has command
over his subject matter, the Shia mind too is easily persuaded by
simple rhetoric, especially when a lot of it is actually correct and
easily verifiable. It is the ten percent half-truths that is aliased
under that ninety percent provably truthful envelope that is of
concern for those savvy of social
engineering. The manufacturing of consent with cognitive infiltration
and perception management is an art as old as hegemony, as old as
mankind. Especially at a time when the Shias across the world, and
especially in Pakistan, are under mortal attack and will clutch at
any straw, any messiah, to promise salvation. Including theological
salvation --- die fighting with dignity under the valih-e-faqih's
banner rather than standing still and being slaughtered anyway
in the most undignified ways, is the basic
argument. Incidentally, essentially a similar argument was made by
Patrick Henry to awaken the early American colonists who seemed to be
rather too complacent under the British empire's guns: “Is
life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course
others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
When
does awakening the dead Muslim Ummah (Qur'anic word for nation) stop
and fabricating “revolutionary Islam” start --- I leave
up to you to decide. In my view, I wish the former, an awakened
public, but not as the new enemy of the West. Only as the enemy of
the handful of hectoring hegemons who control both the Western and
Eastern states from behind the scenes and are riding the back of the
sole superpower du jour to orchestrate global primacy in a one-world
government. Before every nation completely loses its national
sovereignty in a fait accompli, I would much rather that non
conformist people endeavor for the Eastern and Western publics to be
commonly allied against this one common enemy of all mankind,
irrespective of their religion, race, hemisphere, caste, color and
creed, as the common good in every people's own national interests.
Whereas
"Hujjatul Islam" Syed Jawad Naqvi makes me a tad nervous
because of his superlative brilliance and eloquence. He is a new
phenomenon in Pakistan. A most dynamic and unusually learned scholar
by my measure. What makes me nervous is captured in my letter to him
by way of calling him out bluntly on his egregious omissions on the
Superman Allama Iqbal. It is not possible that such a brilliant
scholar would be ignorant of the fact that the British empire had
knighted his hero “Sir”. The full details of this
celebrated anomaly is in my report cited in
the letter. This letter is my first baby step in intellectually
engaging this great and most eloquent scholar because I only see a
path of bloodshed ahead for Pakistanis as the game-theorized stooges
of the Rand Corporation. To preempt that statistically engineered
coercion in the preferred direction requires a great deal of
intellectual and political sophistication.
Whereas
this respected new theological savant in Pakistan, “Hujjatul
Islam” Syed Jawad Naqvi, is visibly an overzealous exponent of
the “Khomeinist revolution”. He most eloquently employs
the poetic verses of both Allama Iqbal, and the Holy Qur'an, to argue
for that mode of national governance for Pakistan as the only way out
of the subjugation of the Pakistanis, to be led by the Shia in
Pakistan under the spiritual and political guidance of the global
valih-e-faqih du jour who is presently Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the
current Supreme Leader of Iran.
How
are the Sunni of Pakistan ever going to accept Shia hegemony directed
from Iran in a nation that is 80 percent majority Sunni, when the
Sunni Muslim mainstream throughout Muslim history have rarely
accepted the Shia even as a legitimate sect, never mind its hegemony,
with the sole exception of the Ismaili Fatimids who ruled Egypt a
thousand years ago?
Well
let's just assume that the Sunnis of Pakistan are miraculously made
to agree to accept Shia rule under the imammate system of
valih-e-faqih for political expedience. When Pakistanis can easily
accept all forms of dictatorships which are duly sanctified and
legalized by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, it is not beyond
imagination that a more moral and willing basis can be found to enact
it. Let's just say that happens.
The
question that principally begs all questions however is this: Is this
mode of governance, the supposed guardianship of pious angels, still
in the best public interest of a nation fragmented and polarized on
so many parochial axes like Pakistan, a nation fabricated on the
grand chessboard by the British empire in the blood of the
sub-continent, a nation with a long history of blind servitude to
whosoever can wield the stick?
I
presume that the obvious question of servitude to pious guardian
angels is already settled in the mind of the obdurate Shia readers
like in their fellow Catholic brethren obeying the pious Pope. But to
make sure that the non Shia readers are not left at sea while the
shores of intellectual thought are in plain sight,
please permit me to make matters of obedience and voluntary servitude
to fellow man directly explicit.
As
most anyone with any perceptive knowledge of political theory and
history can easily appreciate, the good Allama of Pakistan, “Hujjatul
Islam” Syed Jawad Naqvi, is in fact arguing for a new form of
dictatorship to supplant the Western designed modern dictatorships. A
new form of dictatorship which is in fact as old as hegemony, as old
as mankind: the pious dictatorship in the name of God. An absolute
dictatorship in fact; and of course where ordinary mortal power
corrupts, surely absolute power in the name of God is beyond absolute
corruption!
Apart
from the matter of voluntary servitude of the Shia masses to the
Muslim turban as the Catholic masses to the Christian pope in the
name of their respective God, more pertinent for ordinary peoples
like myself who seldom align themselves to any form of voluntary
servitude unless it is at the point of the bayonet, is not how the
majority are treated in any “tribal” system, it is how
the minority and “outsiders” are treated. Especially that
handful of minority who may disagree with power, the ruling
paradigms, or not belong to the majority tribe.
Therefore,
most pertinent to me is the broader question: is the valih-e-faqih
system as seen in Iran better able to form a just and fair society in
a pluralistic non homogeneous nation like Pakistan without the
hegemony of narrow self-interests ruling everyone else than any other
system?
Is
Iran an example of that egalitarianism even in its own more or less
homogeneous Persian society?
A
simple measurement of how those who have dissented with the
valih-e-faqih in Iran, and what political representation or
disenfranchisement its twenty percent Sunni minority (about the same
percentage as the Shia minority in Pakistan) has received
in Iran's governance and its military, should be sufficient empirical
evidence of the reality of absolute “tribal” and
theological power.
A
theologically absolutist and perpetual enemy of the West has been
fashioned in Iran due to the “happenstances”
of the Islamic revolution which, to my observations at least, has
only been employed, perhaps unwittingly by the Iranian leadership, in
diabolically furthering the Hegelian Dialectic with which the Western
oligarchy has continued to impose global governance upon the world
under the pretext of fighting “revolutionary times”. That
Machiavellian phrase in quotes due to David Ben-Gurion, “What
is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times;
and if at this time the opportunity is missed and what is possible at
such great hours is not carried out – a whole world is lost”,
is surely not lost to the astute students of political history
and realpolitik, but is most assuredly alien to the rest of the
innocent scholars of the world.
In
fact, I will take a bet that absolutely no intellectual of the
Iranian revolution, including Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi today and his
valih-e-faqih, has ever even heard of this concept of Hegelian
Dialectic and its Machiavellian dynamics to seed and harvest
“revolutionary times” wherever and whenever it is fully
played out. And if they have, it is only the Superman mind that would
still pursue policies which continue to foster that very agenda in
the guise of opposition.
For
the rest of the politically suave scholars who are nevertheless
reading the term “Hegelian Dialectic” for the first time
in their life, and for those who have little or no understanding of
its pertinence to modernity except calling it “conspiracy
theory”, please see: Hegelian
Dialectic – What is it?.
For a radically different perspective from the mainstream discourse
on Iran by pro-revolution Iranians and the Shias themselves, of how
revolutionary Iran was perhaps diabolically orchestrated into that
very paradigm to serve Western interests as West's perpetual enemy,
please see my book: Hijacking
the Holy Qur'an and Islam,
pg. 175 and surrounding pages.
Syed
Allama Jawad Naqvi is indeed most persuasive, I am sure to many of
his followers and listeners, when he eruditely draws for
justification for valih-e-faqih under the imammate system from the
verses of the Holy Qur'an. You can hear the boisterous cheers and
emotional sloganeering from his spell-bound audiences wherever he
speaks, with shrill cries of “death to America”, “death
to America” resounding in the air with the same intensity as
the chants of “alive is Khomeini”, “alive is
Khomeini” and other rallying cries appealing to the Shia soul.
And
thanks God nothing happens to the Good scholar in a nation where the
life of any ordinary Shia Muslim (and Sunni Muslim) is spent in cold
blood for far less crime than that --- their name merely being a
Shia sounding name for instance, taken off passenger busses and shot
point blank for merely that offense! No murderous drone attack has so
far been launched on Jamea Orwathul Wuthqa by empire. And no suicide
bomber from among the Tafriki-Deobandi pirates has dared lower his
arms at Jamea Orwathul Wuthqa in return for the good Allama routinely
labeling these terrorists “waeshi darinde”, meaning, wild
animals. And no intelligence agency has opened an investigation into
how the imposing and rich campus of Jamea Orwathul Wuthqa in Lahore
is being funded any more than they ever bother to look into how the
Tafriki-Deobandi madrassas throughout Pakistan are being funded.
Surely the donors and their trail of money is trivial to uncover in
today's day and age when just to open a bank account in Pakistan
entails the bankers know not just your DNA, but also your wife's and
children's DNA under the American KYC (Know Your Customer) Act
officially adopted by the State Bank of Pakistan to protect the world
from the curse of Pakistani money launderers. May God and the powers
that be continue to protect all servants of God from all harm.
Caption
The beautiful campus of Jamea Orwathul Wuthqa, a Shia Islamic
Seminary in Lahore Pakistan. Who is funding, and protecting, this
Shia madrassa in Pakistan which is so openly pro-Iran and pro
Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei? Does Pakistan want the broad
envelope of its domestic and international policies determined from
Iran --- to replace Western hegemony with Iranian hegemony? The
justification for “revolutionary Islam” in Pakistan is to
prevent the innocent Shia blood from being spilled. Imagine if you at
the Rand Corporation wanted just that outcome – that the Shia
rise up and form “Hezbollah” all across the Muslim world?
This nemesis would be even better than Nazi Socialism and Russian
Communism --- a perpetual global enemy without borders --- what
better way to create a world without borders, meaning a world
government? (image source islamimarkaz.com)
Here
are some images of the “new terrorists” propaganda system
in the making --- can you imagine the global headlines that Daniel
Pipes would give to these images of self-flagellation in Muharram by
the Shia devotees, aided and abetted by the valih-e-faqih and the
majority of the Ayatollahs who encourage this bloody display of Shia
faith by silently condoning it, when Dr. Pipes has already daringly
captioned “militant Islam” and “radical Islam”
as “It's
Not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the Civilized
World and Barbarians”?
Is this what Shiaism is all about --- is a
question that is even asked by the majority of the Sunni Muslims
worldwide, never mind the world's public.
Caption
Can anyone guess what Islamophobes would caption this display of
“revolutionary Islam” to frighten the Western audiences:
'It's Not a Clash of Civilizations, It's a Clash between the
Civilized World and Barbarians'! The latter headline has already
been employed by the Jewish reformer of Islam, Dr. Daniel Pipes, to
awaken the Western public against the curse of the Taleban's and the
Al-Qaeeda's version of “Islam” reaching them. (Images
gathered from various news reports on the web, please check in the
JPG image property for any copyright information of the original
source)
Imagine
the thought experiment if you will, that
you are taking an undergraduate class in media studies under Dr.
Joseph Goebbels of the Third Reich --- come up with an emotionally
tickling caption for these images of the bloody ritual of Ashura that
would effectively rally the Western public to fight “revolutionary
Islam” with an equal or greater zeal than they have thus far
waged “united we stand” against “militant Islam”.
An
authoritative account of the Misrepresentations and Distortions in
the popular Ashura narratives heralded from the ubiquitous Shia
pulpit itself is given in the series of four lectures delivered in
1969 by the notable Shia Iranian scholar Allama
Murtaza Mutahhari.
While ably capturing both the psychological motivations and the
misrepresentations and distortions made by latter day Shia pulpits
from Qom to Najaf, and from Karbala to India with reference to the
sacred penmanship of the pious scribes of history, the learned and
honest Iranian scholar notably failed to address the hagiographic
distortions in that sacred historical penmanship itself. A reportage
of the seminal events of Karbala compiled generations after the fact,
in a primitive parochial society by a partisan people not much
different than those occupying the pious pulpits today, but which is
treated as sacrosanct! Most revealingly, whatever is written in
those earliest historical narratives is treated as gospel truth by
even the highest authorities of the Shia pulpit in exactly the same
way as the Sunni pulpits treat their own hagiographic narratives of
history.
What
recuses that early reportage of Muslim history from the same type of
rigorous intellectual examination for the same kinds of psychological
motivations, misrepresentations and distortions, made by the same
kind of fertile imaginations and fallible pens incestuously
reinforcing their own shared ethos both wittingly and unwittingly?
See
my book: Hijacking
the Holy Qur'an and Islam, pgs. 209
to 228 for elaboration upon this concept of taking recorded history
with a forensic measure rather than an absolute one. Making history
sacred has many more uses than mere academic scholarship. It lies at
the very heart of mass behavior control. Novelist George Orwell most
perceptively captured the utility of the control of the narrative –
what is penned ab initio as well as what is made sacred posthumously:
“Who controls the past
controls the future; Who controls the present controls the past”.
There
is a lot more devilishness involved in effectively waging the
Hegelian Dialectic of the trifecta
“militant Islam” vs. “revolutionary Islam”
vs. “moderate Islam” to make the public mind. It has many
helpers not the least of whom are the useful idiots themselves. The
confusion created in the public mind, both Muslim and non-Muslim, and
the fear cultivated in the Western mind unfamiliar with Islam to
begin with, makes for a field day for the Mighty
Wurlitzer. But it will only be officially accepted
as official history by all and sundry ex post facto, when Western
officialdom, its historians, and its dissent
con-artists making much ado about the moral
responsibility of intellectuals, have a field day explaining world
government and how it was fashioned in the blood of the 'untermensch'
no differently than today the scholars of empire openly explain how
the Americas was resettled by administering the genocide sentence to
ten million of its indigenous inhabitants,
and how Palestine was, and still is being, resettled for Zion in the
cold blood of its indigenous
'untermenschen'.
Finally,
is there more depth to this topic of valih-e-faqih and “revolutionary
Islam” in the Holy Qur'an than I have uncovered, whereby my
admittedly non-scholarly findings of the matter are somewhat
different from the Shia scholars' advocating it in the name of God?
I
am sure that there is. I would like nothing better than for the
learned scholars who have studied in the centers of highest learning
in Qom under the greatest of Iranian Ayatollahs, to refute what I
have written, and to do so with such compelling evidence from that
Good Book alone – a Book that is singularly claimed by all two
billion Muslims on planet earth to be the Word of God – that I
would have no choice but to join that cause of Islam and make God's
appointed guardian my valih-e-faqih. If the ideology of valih-e-faqih
is unequivocally part of the religion of Islam to govern the affairs
of Muslims for all times, then it surely must also be expressed
unambiguously in the Holy Qur'an which calls itself “Kitabun-mubeen”,
a clear source of guidance for mankind, and therefore, be the primary
motivation for its universal adoption by all Muslims on planet earth
and not just by the Shias who gravitate
towards it as cultural Muslims no differently than the Sunni sects
gravitate towards the Caliphate as cultural Muslim. The valih-e-faqih
du jour and his scholarly exponents should be able to make the
intellectual and legal case for it directly from the Holy Qur'an. Why
do they fail to do so?
I
would like nothing better than to reliably learn that God, in His own
Divine Scripture in His best Wisdom, has ordered me to follow his
chosen valih as the divinely appointed guardian over us ordinary
peoples, and has reliably disclosed their identity so that impostors
can be hung and the genuine ones can be followed without question.
That does relieve a great deal of intellectual burden from my
overburdened soul; who doesn't want to be part of the divinely
anointed shepherd's flock and follow the leader?
Hey
--- when God speaks, the people better listen. And the
valih-e-faqih's claim of his being God's designated governor of the
affairs of man is offered with just as much compelling evidence as
all the other spokesmen of God who have ruled man throughout history.
We have believed and followed some of them on blind faith alone.
Sometimes mankind got it right. Other times, we were led into
perpetual serfdom and servitude. The Holy Qur'an alone among all the
divine books has claimed itself the “criterion” to
separate truth from falsehoods for just such reasons. Such a
criterion was not available in earlier times. For those who base
their faith on Islam, that Good Book is the definitive word as the
Word of God. So show me from that Good Book that Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei is the representative of God as the valih-e-faqih over all
Muslims. See my exposition: What
does the Holy Qur'an say about Taqlid - Blind Following the
Non-Infallible?,
in which I have already surmised that no Shia scholar nor Ayatollah
will dare touch it! Please prove my hubris wrong. If I am misled,
please guide me.
I
make the public statement that as a most ordinary common man, I will
join any valih-e-faqih, any leader, any system of governance –
even if a throwback to the stone-age where absolute power ruled
openly, for it is no different today, only disguised, and ruled from
behind the scenes, and therefore, far more treacherous and corrosive
– if such a system and its governors will wage an effective
struggle against the real hectoring hegemons to liberate all mankind
from its diabolical clutches. I don't much care what system it is,
and which theology runs it, so long as the ordinary common man living
within its governance gets both social and political justice,
fairness, and is able to realize his individual and collective full
potential as a living breathing human being first. The Qur'anic term
for enabling and realizing that man is “ashraf-ul-maklooqat”,
the best creature among all creations. A system of this nature,
whatever name it may go by, can only be divine. Those leading such a
system in the service of man, by definition, would be the noble valih
of the people. I will accept such a valih-in-chief.
Therefore,
show me a principled structure, a principled Bill of Rights, and the
principled enactment of an egalitarian and just system that
perpetually wages wars against the hectoring hegemons to enact
perpetual freedom from tyranny for its peoples without creating
perpetual police-states to imprison them in the name of their
protection, and I will sign-on to that system. Due to my limited
knowledge and acumen, I will refrain from asserting that no such
system is possible --- and all those who claim so are either Superman
con-men, or charlatans and fools. So, just show me, and I may surely
bite.
Barring
that --- why should anyone trust a pious pontiff holding a holy
scripture any more than one would trust a pious politician nobly
waiving the American constitution after killing off ten million of
the land's native inhabitants, or trust a virtuous scholar asserting
piety in his profound political treatise? I have dismantled many of
them as Superman, or great platitudinous theory. Man against Superman
appears to be the real score of mankind from time immemorial, since
the day Kaabil killed Haabil (Cain killed Abel), until this very day,
the virtuous paths laid out in the Ten
Commandments, the Good News, and the Holy
Qur'an notwithstanding.
Only
time, fait accompli, and any forthrightness present in Allama Jawad
Naqvi's response to my "tickling" letter, will reveal
whether the “Hujjat-ul-Islam” is himself a mard-e-momin,
or just another Superman! I hope it is the forthrightness – for
then we have the national opportunity before the fact, meaning,
before fait accompli, of either: joining a great national leader and
political movement in the making, anointed or approved by God
Almighty Himself, to finally lead the people in the land of the pure
out of their perpetual misery; or preempting another horrible future
staring us in the face.
As
always, I pray that my instincts and analysis are dead wrong, on all
counts.
---
END ---
The
response
by “Hujjatul Islam” Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi's spokesman
received today politely states: “shut
up.” The learned “Hujjatul
Islam” does not even have the basic courtesy, let alone moral
courage, to offer a reply himself. He puts up his useful idiot
bulldog to do the barking. Reproduced below is the full official
response from the Iranian sponsored Shia pulpit of Pakistan occupied
in the name of Imam Ali and the Ahlul Bayt of the Prophet of Islam.
Do Pakistani Shias want an absolute dictator like this valih-e-faqih
spokesman ruling them whose very first response to an intellectual
challenge is to bark “shut up” at you through his pet
bulldog? What do you think a real political challenge will entail? I
hope the good scholar of Islam will claim that he did not sanction
this poorly worded unbecoming reply which was sent in his name –
for I still await a forthright response from the learned man himself
to whom I wrote my letter. I have a genuine desire to be mistaken in
my preliminary assessment that the Allama is himself just another
Superman no different than his hero “Sir” Allama
Iqbal. That term Superman is Nietzschean, and means one who
treats himself as beyond the criterion that he postulates for others.
On that yardstick, the “Hujjatul-Islam” of Pakistan has
already hanged himself many times over as a Superman. While
Allama Syed Jawad Naqvi's sheepish flock in Pakistan and elsewhere
desperately seeking a savior may not always command much rational
intelligence in analytically parsing his brilliant oratory, emotional
sloganeering is all they are evidently capable of in these most
difficult of times facing the Shias worldwide, that and of course
barking at anyone who dares to challenge their master, there are some
who are not so easily fooled by pious words of salesman for
“revolutionary Islam”.
“To:
humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com, CONTACT@islamimarkaz.com
From:
M. A. Naqawi naqvi@alumni.utoronto.ca
Subject:
your email/challenge to Ustad Jawwad Naqvi regarding Iqbal
Date:
Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:01 AM
Dear
Mr. 'human beings first' (I believe you parents named you Zaheer
Ebrahim)
I
do not know exactly which deity do you worship or what faith do you
promulgate, but what I can conclude from a quick look at your blog is
that you are somewhat of a functionally-atheist, humanist, new-age
guy (i.e. daharia), who thinks he is the greatest researcher and the
jack of all trades, and smart enough to the extent of even being able
to challenge and defeat the clergy on their own soil.
You've
criticized Ustad Jawwad Naqvi for glorifying Iqbal from the pulpit
because you've come to believe that he was a British agent or at
least a supporter. However, the fact that you are ignoring is that
Jawwad Naqvi has never presented Iqbal as the perfect 'Momin' or an
'Uswa' or a role model for the Muslims to follow. All he does is
praise him for his political insight and his understanding of the
system of governance in Islam that his poetry reflects. You don't
have to be a body builder to be a kinesiologist.
Iqbal's
case is also the same, he has a deep understanding of the principles
of governance in Islam and the Islamic approach towards running the
government, but finds himself in an era where the Muslims have
strayed away from the teachings of Islam and are far more interested
in running their day to day affairs than pondering who is ruling over
them and their lives and how. Therefore Iqbal expresses his concept
and understanding of governance in Islam in his poetry as he goes
about his daily business of being a middle-class, western-educated
academic living under British rule.
It
is quite remarkable though that even though Iqbal had never been to
any seminary, and even if he had been they wouldn't have taught him
Wilayat e Faqih there, yet still, he came up with an idea of running
the government that was very similar to the concept of
'Wilayat-e-Faqih' as presented later by Ayatullah Khomeini. This
convergence by the way is not a coincidence but rather due to the
existence of teachings in Islam that allow for no other system of
governance than Wilayat-e-Faqih. Islam is a social system and it
cannot be fully implemented in a society unless the government
running that society is also Islamic and no one can better run an
Islamic government than those well versed in the teachings of Islam
(the clergy, they have to be sincere to Allah and the Ummah though).
Just
as people like you today, that want to preach their ideas but do not
find any audience, set up blogs to spill their brains out before the
cyberworld, Iqbal also found in poetry a medium to preach his ideas
and what in his opinion would an ideal Islamic government be like.
How
does presenting his idea of governance in Islam make it incumbent
upon Iqbal to do something to implement it? Or to refuse to enjoy the
perks offered to him by the government of his time? Aren't the
silicon valley, Stanford/mit 'Malaa' (fat-cats ) like you enjoying
the perks of western life while at the same time criticizing poor
Iqbal for doing the same in his time? Would you give up your lavish
life in the West (compared to an average Pakistani) and go to
Pakistan to solve their problems? How ironic it is when people like
you feign to be the sympathizers and the saviours of the Ummah.
You're no less of a slacker (than Iqbal) when it comes to doing
something to help the people you so much claim to care about. So
at least stop criticizing those who are spreading awareness among the
public about 'Istakbaar' (global hegemons), its agents and its
tactics in Pakistan.
Lastly,
I would say that mostly when Ustad Jawwad Naqvi praises Iqbal and
quotes his poetry, he is referring to the poetry in the latter part
of his life wherein his ideas very closely resemble Wilayat e Faqih.
Most of Iqbal's latter poetry is in Persian and I highly doubt you
know any Persian. So that is also one reason to shut up.
Ustad
Jawwad Naqvi often says there are two ideologies today challenging
the Islamic Ideology (that has God at its centre and derives its
social system from teachings of God), the ancestor-worship ideology
(the name tells all) and the human-worship ideology (that people like
you practice and preach, that revolves around the human being).
Mind
you, it is GOD that has created the human beings and only GOD, the
one true GOD (The God/ Al ilah/ Allah) has the right to rule over the
Almighty's subjects. No one else except those entrusted by the
Almighty can run the affairs.
Sincerely”
About
The Author
The
author, a justice activist, formerly a Silicon Valley systems
architect (see engineering patents at
http://tinyurl.com/zahir-patents
), founded Project Humanbeingsfirst.org in the aftermath of 9/11. He
was, mercifully, most imperfectly educated in the United States of
America, which might explain how he escaped the fate of
“likkha-parrha-jahils” mass produced from its vast
manufacturing consent complex with all his neurons still intact, and
still firing on all cylinders. Bio at http://zahirebrahim.org.
Email: humanbeingsfirst@gmail.com
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