society of believers - a work in progress

[ansari shakur]

Society of Believers

I was brought under the Christian Church. The hot humid Sunday
mornings. The steamy hot sanctuary mixed in with the cool air
conditioner. My first remembrance of Church is seated next to my
Grandmother as she got the holy ghost and ran toward the front of the
church. I remember thinking of why this man preaching had such control
of my Grandmother. I have received so much love from my family and
they are Christian, but I say they are true Christians trying to do
GOD’s will; they are Spiritual and they love GOD and the Law of GOD.

I believe GOD does not need our worship GOD requires we are obedient
to GOD’s Laws. And that is what’s wrong with Religion it has been
turned into worship instead of a Collective Social Movement to
establish Societies based on Freedom Justice & Equality (GOD’s Laws).
What is needed now is the Unification of Mankind, not one against the
other. We are all one. White not superior to Black, East against West,
we must do away with Divisions and realize we all have a Common Enemy
that has pitted us against one another and that is The Elite in Power.
These select few individuals that control Policy throughout the world
Controls Corporations & Nations. These Devils in High Places think
they are put their by GOD’s Will, this is our common enemy, but we do
not realize there is a War being Waged on US.

There is a deeper purpose and Religion the way it is taught now has
failed in its purpose. Spirituality can serve as a Common Expression
of Care & Responsibility for Mankind. We originate from a Common
Source the Supreme Creator not some freakin’ Apes. When you think the
strongest survive and you come from a damn Ape you don’t give a Damn!
But if you know you came from a Creator and you want to exude some of
the Creators Attributes to your life you strive to become Forgiving,
Merciful, Helping, Caring and Patient. But, hell if you think you’re
from a damn Ape you create the Savings & Loan Scandal, you become a
Nazi and exterminate Jews, you bomb Iraq & Afghanistan. You are in
effect a Beast in human form.

Unfortunately, the way in which we teach Religion is so simplistic and
borderline stupid; that to any thinking child it’s rubbish. You just
don’t believe it. But then as you grow you want to believe in
something and you try to believe yet it continually fails you. It
fails you because it is a LIE. Not the truth of The Supreme Creator or
the Prophets but the way in which it is told. The earth was not
created in six days. In Noah’s time the flood was local not the entire
world. Moses did not split the Red Sea. A lot of these stories are
allegories; there is a deeper meaning behind them. Jesus did not take
five fish and feed thousands of people however Jesus taught them and
they left the meeting mentally well fed – well taught; spiritually
fed. The problem lies in the fact we do not have the originals of Old
nor New Testament. The only original copy is The Holy Quran and the
Quran says these stories were allegorical in nature. There is no
Heaven up-above nor a Hell down-below; they are states of mind. GOD is
everywhere. We have Free-Will, we are responsible for our actions, and
we suffer the logical consequences of our acts. Our purpose is to
serve one another to care and be responsible for one another.

We are taught that Jesus loves us dies for our sins and we pray to him
and he answers our prayers. We should pray to GOD and GOD Alone and
not His Servants! We suffer the logical consequences of our actions.
What we are faced with now is war on us by the super rich; the
corporations, the Banksters, the Elite in Power. The circumstances in
which we find ourselves in is not by our own hands but what has been
designed to happen to us. The faulty education, the shoddy healthcare,
the police brutality, the flood of drugs into our community, our
bought and paid for political leaders who instead of looking out for
the welfare of the masses are instead looking to get their pockets
lined, their noses filled with magic candy, and various sexual favors.
This is a sham, it is a crooked game and the Power Elite are the The
Harlem Globetrotters and we the masses of people are the Washington
Generals. Game Set Match.

We have the technology to live a blissful life; free energy, cancer
free and AIDS free.
Dr Royal Raymond Rife has a machine that cured cancer and about 9
other diseases in the 1930’s, AIDS is a man made disease developed in
Fort Dietrich, MD, and scientist such as Dr Bearden have discovered
Free Energy. But why don’t we know about this? The Banksters, The
Elite in Power want to control us. They want population control, they
want to limit us, we could be living like the Jetsons but these
Bastards want us to live like the Flinstones.

There is a list of issues that these Elites are in control of
Propaganda on Television, Unjust Taxation without Representation.

There is Free-Will. We are Masters of our Fate, but we have allowed
our power to be Usurped by these Degenerate, Perfidious, Deceptive,
Beasts in Human Form. We must turn off the TV and turn-on our lives.
Turn off; Days of our Lives, and turn on LIFE. Turn off Football, and
Baseball! Read the Quran, study Nate Turner, John Brown! We do not
know what true Freedom is like! We do not understand true Liberty! We
have been living in a Oligarchy a System based on Totalitarianism not
Freedom. But we have to pay a price for Freedom! Some of us may lose
our life striving to Establish Freedom; God Damn IT! If you are afraid
to give your life these ruthless Godless Bastards will take your life
Regardless! This Varmint is trying to kill us now with Swine Flu, DO
NOT TAKE THE SWINE FLU SHOT! We are dying ANYWAY! Hell, let’s Give our
Life to Gain Our Life! And if you scared then GOD Damn IT leave us
alone! Go Back to your home and die safely with your family! GOD has
always blessed the Righteous! The Quran is filled with stories of
small but united Armies defeating Larger Ones. But we must grow some
Stones and be MEN! If you are doing good work and fighting for Freedom
Justice and Equality you do not die! Life is Eternal with GOD. There
is no Death. There is only Higher Forms of Life! GOD did not let Jesus
die do you think Allah would forgot those who fight in His Cause?

There is a billion of us and only maybe 1000 or so of them! We must
take back their wealth and share it equally with Humanity. How can
Queen Elizabeth make $360 million dollars a day just on interest on
her money and we accept that? We must take all her money and all her
possessions and share it equally with Mankind.

We have the infrastructure in place for Society and Government; we
just need to add Humanity and Care to the mixture.

The Supreme Creator who creates but is not created; the spark of life;
Omnipresent & Omniscient has given us the Law of Karma. What we give
out we get back. If I work hard then good things happen. The result is
built-in based on our actions. When I treat people with care and
kindness I get back care and kindness. GOD helps those who help
themselves. If I am living a good life treating people the proper way
and working very hard then good things happen. It does not happen by
pure luck! I will not be successful if I go to church all day then all
night I drink fornicate and smoke drugs. At that point I have
nullified the good work as a matter of fact going to church is not a
good work; going to a mosque is not in of itself good work. Good Work
is being in service to others giving in some form or fashion; it could
be giving your advice, a kind word, charity, giving food or clothes,
working to establish a Just Economic Order and abolishing Capitalism
‘The Scourge of the 21st Century’. Yet if I nullify my good works by
going against my Self by drinking to the point of drunkenness, smoking
weed or crack and or stealing someone’s pension or starting an unjust
war then I have damned my Self and will pay the price for my intents.
Not to be a Debbie Downer but we suffer from intentional wrong acts.
The good news and there is plenty of good news; we do not have to die
in order to feel that heavenly state of bliss. Not that life will
always be Butterflies and Rainbows with Deer running in the background
next to a crystal lake full of singing Fish. But if we live the right
way life can be very beautiful and full of Happiness. And trials that
happen to us taken with the proper life style can always serve us a
growth lesson to strengthen our Self. We grow our Spiritual Self by
doing good actions; Give and Grow our Self.

But if we are living in a Rigged System where 1% of the Elite in Power
control 95% of all the wealth. Know matter how spiritual I get, my
spirituality is not going to change inequality. I can meditate for a
zillion years and not change the system. The System must be changed in
order for US to be Free. So the question we must ask ourselves is do I
want to live free or live the life of the blissful slave? Then if we
decide not buy into the Power Elites system what do we do? First we
can start by pulling out of their banks, join credit unions, second we
can stop buying products during Christmas and Thanksgivng. We can
focus on the family and becoming a better more responsible person.
Give and Grow; helping those out who are less fortunate than we. We
can start by taking back our Government. By contacting our local
officials and letting them know what we think, by uniting and
organizing.

Here’s 15 things we can do now by Michael Moore.

FIVE THINGS WE DEMAND THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS DO IMMEDIATELY:
1. Declare a moratorium on all home evictions. Not one more family
should be thrown out of their home. The banks must adjust their
monthly mortgage payments to be in line with what people's homes are
now truly worth -- and what they can afford. Also, it must be stated
by law: If you lose your job, you cannot be tossed out of your home.
2. Congress must join the civilized world and expand Medicare For All
Americans. A single, nonprofit source must run a universal health care
system that covers everyone. Medical bills are now the #1 cause of
bankruptcies and evictions in this country. Medicare For All will end
this misery. The bill to make this happen is H.R. 3200 -- but this
bill is worthless without the amendment from Rep. Anthony Weiner that
will bring us closer to the real bill that should be passed: H.R. 676.
You must call AND write your members of Congress and demand that they
support this amendment, no compromises allowed.
3. Demand publicly-funded elections and a prohibition on elected
officials leaving office and becoming lobbyists. Yes, those very
members of Congress who solicit and receive millions of dollars from
wealthy interests must vote to remove ALL money from our electoral and
legislative process. Tell your members of Congress they must support
campaign finance bill H.R.1826.
4. Each of the 50 states must create a state-owned public bank like
they have in North Dakota. Then congress MUST reinstate all the strict
pre-Reagan regulations on all commercial banks, investment firms,
insurance companies -- and all the other industries that have been
savaged by deregulation: Airlines, the food industry, pharmaceutical
companies -- you name it. If a company's primary motive to exist is to
make a profit, then it needs a set of stringent rules to live by --
and the first rule is "Do no harm." The second rule: The question must
always be asked -- "Is this for the common good?" (Click here for some
info about the state-owned Bank of North Dakota.)
5. Save this fragile planet and declare that all the energy resources
above and beneath the ground are owned collectively by all of us. Just
like they do it in Sarah Palin's socialist Alaska. We only have a few
decades of oil left. The public must be the owners and landlords of
the natural resources and energy that exists within our borders or we
will descend further into corporate anarchy. And when it comes to
burning fossil fuels to transport ourselves, we must cease using the
internal combustion engine and instruct our auto/transportation
companies to rehire our skilled workforce and build mass transit
(clean buses, light rail, subways, bullet trains, etc.) and new cars
that don't contribute to climate change. (For more on this, here's a
proposal I wrote in December.) Demand that General Motors' de facto
chairman, Barack Obama, issue a JFK man-on-the-moon-style challenge to
turn our country into a nation of trains and buses and subways. For
Pete's sake, people, we were the ones who invented (or perfected)
these damn things in the first place!!
FIVE THINGS WE CAN DO TO MAKE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT LISTEN TO
US:
1. Each of us must get into the daily habit of taking 5 minutes to
make four brief calls: One to the President (202-456-1414), one to
your Congressperson (202-224-3121) and one to each of your two
Senators (202-224-3121). To find out who represents you, click here.
Take just one minute on each of these calls to let them know how you
expect them to vote on a particular issue. Let them know you will have
no hesitation voting for a primary opponent -- or even a candidate
from another party -- if they don't do our bidding. Trust me, they
will listen. If you have another five minutes,click here to send them
each an email. And if you really want to drop an anvil on them, send
them a snail mail letter!
2. Take over your local Democratic Party. Remember how much fun you
had with all those friends and neighbors working together to get
Barack Obama elected? YOU DID THE IMPOSSIBLE. It's time to re-up! Get
everyone back together and go to the monthly meeting of your town or
county Democratic Party -- and become the majority that runs it! There
will not be many in attendance and they will either be happy or in
shock that you and the Obama Revolution have entered the room looking
like you mean business. President Obama's agenda will never happen
without mass grass roots action -- and he won't feel encouraged to do
the right thing if no one has his back, whether it's to stand with
him, or push him in the right direction. When you all become the local
Democratic Party, send me a photo of the group and I'll post it on my
website.
3. Recruit someone to run for office who can win in your local
elections next year -- or, better yet, consider running for office
yourself! You don't have to settle for the incumbent who always
expects to win. You can be our next representative! Don't believe it
can happen? Check out these examples of regular citizens who got
elected: State Senator Deb Simpson, California State Assemblyman
Isadore Hall, Tempe, Arizona City Councilman Corey Woods, Wisconsin
State Assemblyman Chris Danou, and Washington State Representative
Larry Seaquist. The list goes on and on -- and you should be on it!
4. Show up. Picket the local branch of a big bank that took the
bailout money. Hold vigils and marches. Consider civil disobedience.
Those town hall meetings are open to you, too (and there's more of us
than there are of them!). Make some noise, have some fun, get on the
local news. Place "Capitalism Did This" signs on empty foreclosed
homes, closed down businesses, crumbling schools and infrastructure.
(You can download them from my website.)
5. Start your own media. You. Just you (or you and a couple friends).
The mainstream media is owned by corporate America and, with few
exceptions, it will never tell the whole truth -- so you have to do
it! Start a blog! Start a website of real local news (here's an
example: The Michigan Messenger). Tweet your friends and use Facebook
to let them know what they need to do politically. The daily papers
are dying. If you don't fill that void, who will?
FIVE THINGS WE SHOULD DO TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR LOVED ONES UNTIL
WE GET THROUGH THIS MESS:
1. Take your money out of your bank if it took bailout money and place
it in a locally-owned bank or, preferably, a credit union.
2. Get rid of all your credit cards but one -- the kind where you have
to pay up at the end of the month or you lose your card.
3. Do not invest in the stock market. If you have any extra cash, put
it away in a savings account or, if you can, pay down on your mortgage
so you can own your home as soon as possible. You can also buy very
safe government savings bonds or T-bills. Or just buy your mother some
flowers.
4. Unionize your workplace so that you and your coworkers have a say
in how your business is run. Here's how to do it (more info here).
Nothing is more American than democracy, and democracy shouldn't be
checked at the door when you enter your workplace. Another way to
Americanize your workplace is to turn your business into a worker-
owned cooperative. You are not a wage slave. You are a free person,
and you giving up eight hours of your life every day to someone else
is to be properly compensated and respected.
5. Take care of yourself and your family. Sorry to go all Oprah on
you, but she's right: Find a place of peace in your life and make the
choice to be around people who are not full of negativity and
cynicism. Look for those who nurture and love. Turn off the TV and the
Blackberry and go for a 30-minute walk every day. Eat fruits and
vegetables and cut down on anything that has sugar, high fructose corn
syrup, white flour or too much sodium (salt) in it (and, as Michael
Pollan says, "Eat (real) food, not too much, mostly plants"). Get
seven hours of sleep each night and take the time to read a book a
month. I know this sounds like I've turned into your grandma, but,
dammit, take a good hard look at Granny -- she's fit, she's rested and
she knows the names of both of her U.S. Senators without having to
Google them. We might do well to listen to her. If we don't put our
own "oxygen mask" on first (as they say on the airplane), we will be
of no use to the rest of the nation in enacting any of this action
plan!




Our Enemy is The Elites in Power! They want to Kill You – Us – Me –
We!!!!!

THE ESTABLISHMENT'S WALL STREET ROOTS

At least one Establishment spokesman has come forth to
confirm most of the charges made by anti-Establishment
right-wingers and left-wingers. The late Georgetown
University historian, Professor Carroll Quigley, described
the structure of this powerful establishment clique as
follows:
"At the center were a group of less than a dozen
investment banks, which were, at the height of their powers,
still unincorporated private partnerships. These included
J.P. Morgan; the Rockefeller family; Kuhn, Loeb & Company;
Dillon, Reed & Company; Brown Brothers and Harriman; and
others. Each of these was linked in organizational or
personal relationships with various banks, insurance
companies, railroads, utilities, and industrial firms. The
result was to form a number of webs of economic power of
which the more important centered in New York, while other
provincial groups allied with these were to be found in
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, and Boston.
It is interesting to note some of the general
characteristics, enumerated by Professor Quigley, of this
moneyed aristocracy:
"This group which, in the United States, was completely
dominated by J.P. Morgan and Company from the 1880's to the
1930's [after which the Rockefellers assumed the leadership
role] was cosmopolitan, Anglophile, internationalist, Ivy
League, eastern seaboard, high Episcopalian, and
European-culture conscious."12
In addition to being international rather than
nationalistic, these bankers were, notes Quigley, "close to
governments, and were particularly concerned with questions
of government debts, including foreign government
debts . . .
" (emphasis added) Being lenders to governments gave them a
vested interest in government debt and debt instruments,
especially bonds. They were "almost equally devoted to
secrecy and the secret use of financial influence in
politicasl life."13
The key, relevant phrase is "close to governments . . .
" The Establishment gained its privileged status and
maintains itself ultimately through political power rather
than market competition.
Quigley goes on to observe, "The significant influence
of 'Wall Street' (meaning Morgan) both in the Ivy League and
in Washington, in the period of sixty or more years
following
1880, explains the constant interchange between the Ivy
League and the Federal government. . . . "14
What Quigley seems to have described was, and continues
to be, a sort of Wall Street-Academic-Governmental Complex.
Add to that powerful combine the influence of this group in
the major news media, think tanks, well-endowed foundations,
and certain elements of big industry, and you have quite an
Establishment, indeed! That's what has happened as the
result of the marriage/partnership of Big Business and Big
Government.
The key organization in this oligarchy of pull is the
Council on Foreign Relations and it constitutes what former
FBI man Dan Smoot has dubbed "the invisible government" of








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the United States. Its members virtually dominate the
fields
of high finance, the major universities, foundations,
national news media, and (certainly) U.S. foreign policy.15
As John Franklin Campbell put it in New York magazine
back in September 20, 1971:
"Practically every lawyer, banker, professor, general,
journalist and bureaucrat who has had any influence on the
foreign policy of the last six Presidents -- from Franklin
Roosevelt to Richard Nixon -- has spent some time in the
Harold Pratt House [the CFR headquarters], a four-story
mansion on the corner of Park Avenue and 68th Street,
donated
26 years ago by Mr. Pratt's widow (an heir to the Standard
Oil fortune), to the Council on Foreign Relations,
Inc. . . .

"If you can walk -- or be carried -- into the Pratt
House, it usually means that you are a partner in an
investment bank or law firm -- with occasional
'trouble-shooting' assignments in government. You believe
in
foreign aid, NATO, and a bipartisan foreign policy. You've
been pretty much running things in this country for the last
25 years, and you know it."
Today, this foreign-policy establishment serves the
internationalist interests of certain major international
banks and their multinational corporate allies -- primarily
the Rockefeller family ambit. The CFR has provided the key
men, particularly in the field of foreign policy, for the
Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon,
Ford,
Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations.16
In 1973 David Rockefeller founded a new sister
organization to the CFR called the Trilateral Commission to
propose and coordinate common foreign policy objectives for
America, Western Europe, and Japan. When, in 1977, it was
found that the entire top leadership of the new Carter
Administration had belonged to this small, low-profile
organization of only eighty U.S. members, Dr. Murray
Rothbard
was among those anti-Establishment critics who questioned
the
possible conflicts of interest involved: "Do we say that
David Rockefeller's prodigious efforts on behalf of certain
statist public policies are merely a reflection of unfocused
altruism? Or is there pursuit of economic interest involved?
Was Jimmy Carter named a member of the Trilateral Commission
as soon as it was founded because Rockefeller and the others
wanted to hear the wisdom of an obscure Georgia governor? Or
was he plucked out of obscurity and made President by their
support? Was J. Paul Austin, head of Coca Cola, an early
supporter of Jimmy Carter merely out of concern for the
common good? Were all the Trilateralists and Rockefeller
Foundation and Coca-Cola people chosen by Carter simply
because he felt that they were the ablest possible people
for
the job? If so, it's a coincidence that boggles the mind.








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Or are there are more sinister political-economic interests
involved? I submit that the naifs who stubbornly refuse to
examine the interplay of political and economic interests in
government are tossing away an essential tool for analyzing
the world in which we live."17
The aim of the CFR-Trilat planners is to control
domestic regulatory agencies and conduct American foreign
policy on behalf of the Special Interest Group of special
interest groups -- the corporate-socialist elite in banking
and industry. It is the government contracts and the
academic grants and the administrative appointments -- no
matter which party is in power -- that are important to
those
who play the game.
This breed of "political capitalists" seeks
politically-secured and governmentally-rigged markets,
taxpayer-underwritten trade deals, and an environment in
which competition is eliminated or controlled. Far from
desiring a policy of laissez faire, these corporate statists
-- such as David Rockefeller, Armand Hammer, Dwayne O.
Andreas, Felix Rohatyn, William C. Norris, et al -- promote
interventionism and socialism.




To put it bluntly in order for humanity to live the mind-set of USA
Capitalism must die. But will we summon up our courage or die as
withering cowards?

As F. William Engdahl illustrates in his book Full Spectrum Dominance.
The U.S.A. wants a permanent war economy. Since November of 1989 the
Pentagon has been pursuing a military strategy for domination of the
entire planet. It was called by the Pentagon ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’
it’s agenda was to control everything everywhere including the high
seas, land, air, space and even outer-space and cyberspace.

‘We have about 50% of the worlds wealth but 6.3% of its population..
In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and
resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern
of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of
disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do
so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming;
and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our
immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we
can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction – George
F. Kennan, U.S. State Department Policy Memorandum – February 1948.

The architects of the post-war US-Dominated global order explicitly
chose not to call it an ‘empire’. Instead the U.S. would project its
imperial power under the guise of colonial ‘liberation’ support for
‘democracy’ and ‘free markets’. This is one of the most effective and
diabolical propaganda coups of modern times. Eurasia has been
effectively placed beyond the reach of U.S. economic policies and that
is why as The U.S. is trying desperately to secure total economic and
military control of Russia.

The U.S. no longer has to use the Military Option for Regime Change.
Now through the use of Slick Madison Avenue marketing techniques and
careful study of genuine protest movements the U.S. Government had in
effect, perfected techniques for ‘democratically getting rid of any
opponent, while convincing the world via CNN that they were brought
down by spontaneous outbursts for freedom.

Basically if American Interests are threatened by any Nation that
favor land reform, stronger unions, and redistribution of wealth; also
any Nations who nationalized local resources limited U.S. owned
industry or sought to regulate business to protect workers or
consumers. On behalf of American Businesses the CIA would mobilize the
internal opposition.

First the CIA will identify right-wing groups within the country
usually tied to the military and then offer them a deal. ‘We’ll put
you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us’.
Typically, to grease the process huge payoffs and bribes were
involved.

The CIA would then work with them to overthrow the existing government
usually a democracy. It used a vast array of tricks and tactics;
propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, bought elections, extortion,
blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local
media, transportation strikes, infiltration and disruption of opposing
political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation,
economic sabotage, death squads and assassination.

These efforts would typically culminate in a military coup, installing
a ‘Pro-American’ right wing dictator. The CIA would then train the
dictator’s security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies
of big business, often using torture and murder.

To understand the horror that this government has vomited on the
entire planet is mind-blowing. Remember, all it takes to blow up a
gigantic balloon is a little microscopic pin.

The Corporate Oligopolist System in which 60% of international trade
is between offices of the same firms or interlocked partners is the
opposite of free-market.

Oligopoly is free-market competition. Leveraged money demand with no
commodity produced is the ‘moral desert of market success’.
Catastrophically failed economic experiments are ‘needed economic
reforms’. Bombings of poor civilizations and their life
infrastructures are ‘humanitarian interventions’. This is a crafty
devil indeed. Double-Speak is the order of the day. A new reality in
which the opposites are the same. We have two enemies the conglomerate
media and their base the financial market. Why is it that the lions
share of tax cuts flow to the rich? ‘The Rule of Law’ ‘Freedom’ and
‘Anti-Terrorism’. Is what is sold as False Slogans to the unsuspecting
masses. Disconnection from accountability to the public is the order
of rule.

C. Wright Mills the great sociologist pointed out the issues of today;

"As each of these domains becomes enlarged and centralized, the
consequences of its activities become greater, and its traffic with
the others increases. The decisions of a handful of corporations bear
upon military and political as well as upon economic developments
around the world. The decisions of the military establishment rest
upon and grievously affect political life as well as the very level of
economic activity. The decisions made within the political domain
determine economic activities and military programs. There is no
longer, on the one hand, an economy, and, on the other hand, a
political order containing a military establishment unimportant to
politics and to money-making. There is a political economy linked, in
a thousand ways, with military institutions and decisions. On each
side of the world-split running through central Europe and around the
Asiatic rimlands, there is an ever-increasing interlocking of
economic, military, and political structures. If there is government
intervention in the corporate economy, so is there corporate
intervention in the governmental process. In the structural sense,
this triangle of power is the source of the interlocking directorate
that is most important for the historical structure of the
present" (The Power Elite, 1956, pp. 7-8).

"By the powerful we mean, of course, those who are able to realize
their will, even if others resist it. No one, accordingly, can be
truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major
institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that
the truly powerful are, in the first instance, powerful. Higher
politicians and key officials of government command such institutional
power; so do admirals and generals, and so do the major owners and
executives of the larger corporations" (The Power Elite, 1956, p. 9).
"The modern corporation is the prime source of wealth, but, in latter-
day capitalism, the political apparatus also opens and closes many
avenues to wealth. The amount as well as the source of income, the
power over consumer's goods as well as over productive capital, are
determined by positions within the political economy" (The Power
Elite, 1956, p. 10).

"The power of decisions is now seated in military, political, and
economic institutions. Other institutions are increasingly shaped and
used by these big three. By them the push and pull of fabulous
technology is now guided, even as it paces and shapes their own
development. As each of the big three has assumed its modern shape,
its effects upon the other two have become greater and the traffic
among the three has increased. The U.S. power system is no longer
composed of a self-contained economy and a self-contained political
order, loosely incorporating local militia unimportant to politics and
to money-making. This system is now a political economy intricately
linked with a military order central to politics and crucial to money-
making. The triangle of power formed by these three orders is now a
structural fact, and it is the key to any understanding of the higher
circles in America today. For as each of these domains has coincided
with the other, as decisions in each have become broader, the leading
men of each--the high military, the corporation executives, the
political directorate--have tended to come together, to form the power
elite of America" (The Causes of World War III, 1958, p. 29).
"Business and government have become more closely and explicitly
connected; neither can now be seen clearly as a distinct world. Under
American conditions the growth of executive government does not mean
merely the 'enlargement of government' as some kind of autonomous
bureaucracy; it means the ascendancy of the corporation men into
political eminence" (The Causes of World War III, 1958, p. 30).

As John McMurtry points out ‘Regulating principles of value and
thought’

1. The forces of corporate global restructuring are without meaning or
value in their direction. They are external forces, they are submitted
to, not because they are good or promote life’s well-being, but
because they are all-powerful.
2. The forces of corporate global restructuring are lawless. They
don’t stop at national boundaries all other legal boundaries must fall
before the advance of higher powers.
3. The forces of corporate global restructuring are unaccountable.
There is no electorate or public standard or higher authority they
answer to because ‘they wait for no one and no nation’ and ‘drive the
future’. They are above democratic or other forms of social
responsibility.
4. The forces of corporate global restructuring are absolutist. They
respect no tradition – ethical, legal, or cultural. There is no
exception!

Basically these Elite in Power don’t give a damn! They leave us no
other choice but to chop their heads off and destroy their
Totalitarian Social System. There may come a day where we gather these
devils up and start chopping their heads off one by one Young or Old.
We’ll spare the young ones under 18. They leave us NO CHOICE! GOD says
Oppression is worse than murder and we are BEING OPPRESSED!!! Sharpen
your axes.

However we cannot go around arbitrarily killing people! This is not
the answer, what is the answer is we start to work on Self! What I
mean by Self is that self that is the consciousness that says I am Me.
This Self is eternal and is spiritual in nature; you can kill the body
yet the Spirit is Eternal. And we grow our Spiritual Muscles by doing
good works. We are Masters of our Fate. We determine our destiny via
our actions. Shit happens we understand this, but what I am
responsible for is on me; no one else, there’s no such thing as the
devil made me do it ‘No, I wanted to do it, I could not resist the
urge and damn it I did it, and boy did it feel good’ Now if it was
against your Self you would suffer the ramifications of your act or
acts.

GOD does not need our worship. Our purpose of serving GOD is not
worship but in Servicing Humanity by Building a Society where there is
Freedom Justice Equality Free Education Free Healthcare taking care of
the poor the elderly and the orphan. This is our purpose but Religion
has corrupted this purpose and changed it to worship. We have been
tricked by The MAN! The people in Power the small yet powerful group
that controls policy controls corporations controls banks &
governments have helped in this Propaganda of Religion. Instead of
applying the principles and laws of GOD into a Just Society we have
taken it into the form of Religion and done away with the Principles
of Good Works. Is it fair and right to murder the citizens of Iraq
Afghanistan & Pakistan. NO, this is against Life! The US has done this
for Oil for Greed. This is strictly Evil and Wrong; the people who are
responsible for this will burn in a state of Regret.

The issue of the day deals with The Power Elite those Rich Racist in
Power. Most white people think they are white and are not. They are
middle class and some poor like the masses of humanity. White is an
attitude like Dick Gregory says not a COLOR; and if you don’t have
trillions in the Bank then you cant afford the attitude.

The social issues we must face; abolish Capitalism; Capitalism is not
fighting for the liberation of workers lives but fights for the
freedom of shareholders value.

The revolution is now the rich against the poorer, those Elites in
Power seizing control of the worlds finances; and if you do not
surrender your Nations Wealth voluntarily they will bomb your country
to death. Financial war is waged against the welfare state (programs
such as healthcare & education). From the late 1970’s onward
‘Necessary Structural Adjustment Programmes’ led by the International
Monetary Fund and the World Bank stripped social sectors throughout
the world leaving countries paying up to five times more on debt-
servicing foreign banks than on public health and education. After the
Reagan Administration Wall Street-Driven Programmes of social
stripping by debt reduction erupted as inevitable sacrifices
everywhere else.

The new freedom with no alternative quadrupled stockholders value but
the majority of workers became poorer and less secure. By the time the
new prosperity of the world leading US economy peaked, the richest 10
percent had more than doubled their wealth in the last five years. By
the year 2000 the top 1 percent had more wealth than the bottom 95
percent of US Citizens.

This concept of Karma also applies to Nations. The Nation that leads
the world in Human Rights strive and grow whereas the Nation that
lacks Human Rights and taxes it’s citizens unjustly and refuses to
provide for the poor will be destroyed.

I believe that most people that call themselves Christians are very
giving and caring people who are practical. Yet we have accepted these
lies from Religion that we have a hard time doing away with the fairy
tales.

All Prophets were one in purpose – same message same theme –

Angels are the forces of Nature; Fearlessness, determination, inner
calm and courage are the angels GOD sends down upon those who strive
in His cause

Likewise Satan is our Selfish Desires; Greed Envy Jealousy
Covetousness Ego Lust

Our duty is to uproot destroy and abolish those who Oppress others and
violate Human Rights. Our prime duty is to maintain a Benevolent
Society Equitable and to do away with Usury. Unjust Interest and
Taxation. We must avoid the interest-based economy. A Benevolent
Society will help us all grow like an embryo in a mothers womb. GOD
loves the benefactors of Humanity.

It is not easy. No Pain No Gain. Adversity is a great barometer of the
personality. Fear Hunger Loss of Wealth Loss of Life are adversities
that let us test our mettle. GOD’s Law will try us with such
tribulations however, when a calamity befalls us do not waver and
remain proactively steadfast and by doing so we will become a better
stronger person and we will be blessed.

Good Deeds are those which better the world and develop human
capabilities.

Belief in GOD and Fear Do NOT Occupy the same space.

The biggest crime is to misappropriate ones self. That is to act
against what you know to be right. We have a sense a feeling if
something we are about to do is right or wrong. A Ethics Test. Is it
right to take a hundred dollars from a friends table if it’s right in
front of us and know one will see?

Our Human Intellect can only take us so far; we need divine revelation
from Quran. Our intellect is like a lightning bolt in the evening sky
showing flashes of light. Divine Revelation is the Sun. That nourishes
and if implemented can lead us to Heaven on Earth. There is no Heaven
in the sky nor Hell down Below.


Society of Believers – Basic Precepts

Belief in the Creator of The Universe

Belief in Quran and Only Quran

Whether you call yourself a Christian a Jew a Muslim; as long as you
have a Belief in GOD and GOD alone we say we are Believers.

We do not believe in Rituals, Traditions, Hadith. GOD is everywhere is
Omnipresent so why do I have to face East to pray? GOD is everywhere
so there is no Heaven in the sky or Hell down below. Based on our
actions we suffer the logical consequences of our ACTIONS.

We do not follow conjecture; the Bible is a Hadith it is a collection
of sayings that they attribute to various Prophets of GOD yet do not
have the original. The people spoke Aramaic, and various African
Dialects the oldest translations are in Greek, thus can not be relied
on for GOD’s Message.

The Quran has not been altered and is still in its original language.
However
we do not follow any Shariah or Hadith or Rituals that have been
introduced to Islam. Islam was never meant to be a Religion but a way
of Life. A system of Life; based on Providing for the poor, the
homeless, establishing Healthcare and Education for all citizens. The
Religious Class of Islam have perverted the true meaning of Islam into
a Religion.

Our purpose is to establish a system of Human Rights and a Just
Economic Global Order. We intend to abolish Capitalism, All Federal
Reserves, Private Banks, and Illegal Corporations.

176 Allah’s Book was based on truth and free from
contradictions. Misguided people, however, fabricated a Shari’at and
proclaiming that this, too, was Divine, mixed it with the Book of
Allah so that contradictions appeared in what was taken to be Allah’s
Revelation. Such people invariably drift far away from the right path
and head towards destruction.
177 The fabricated Shari’at was nothing but a collection of
rituals, the observance of which was held to be the purpose of Deen.
This is not at all the case. According to the Divine Law, the
essential purpose of Deen is not fulfilled by a mechanical performance
of rituals e.g. turning eastwards or westwards during Sal’at, but
requires:-
1. Ei’man’ (belief) in Allah; in the Law of Mukaf’at; in the
life Hereafter; in Malaika; in Anbia and in the Books revealed through
the Anbia (2/4); and
2. Following from 1 above) the establishment of a system in which
resources are made available to help those who
a) are left without protection or support in society;
b) lose their means of livelihood or are incapacitated to work;
and
c) cannot earn enough to meet their needs. This system will also
provide assistance to those outsiders who, while passing through its
territory, become indigent, and arrange for the liberation of slaves
from bondage.
In brief then, you should establish a system wherein
members of the society adhere to the Divine Laws voluntarily and means
of development are provided to all who need them. You should honour
your promises and commitments. If hostile forces confront you, then
face them with steadfastness and fortitude, and do not let fear and
despair weaken you.
Those who follow this path unswervingly vindicate their
claim to be true believers and they can rightfully claim to be
upholders of Divine Laws (rather than those who claim to inherit
heaven by observing certain rites which they claim is Deen).

We must get this message to our people and when we come together as
brothers and sisters and realize we have this common enemy and work
to establish GOD’s Kingdom on Earth – we will win. As a matter of fact
we have already WON.

Practical Steps to work towards our Society of Believers:

1. SOVEREIGNTY.
The difference between an Islamic State and a secular state is that in
an Islamic State, affairs are conducted within limits laid down by the
Quran. Nobody has the right to transgress these limits; in other
words, the right to rule belongs to Allah alone. It is said in Surah
Yusuf (12:40)

"Remember! The command is for none but Allah"

(18:26) "Nor does He share His Command with any one whosoever". If the
right to rule is bestowed upon any person or a group of persons,
whatever be their name, that shall amount to ascribing partners with
Allah. No one, how highly placed he may be, even as high as a
Messenger of Allah, has the right to make people subservient to
himself. Surah Aal-e-Imran says: (3:78) 

"It is not for any human
being unto whom Allah has given the Book and wisdom and the Divine
Message, that he should afterwards have said unto mankind, 'Obey me
instead of Allah'. He should rather say, 'You should be amongst those
who are subservient to Allah by following His Book which you study and
teach others'. "

Be it clear, that it is the Messenger of Allah who
first receives the Book, then he delivers it to others. That is how
the Book of Allah reaches the common man. The Quran was initially
revealed to the 'Nabi'e. Later it became inherited by Muslim Ummah. It
is said in Surah Faatir (35:32)

"Then We have given the Book for inheritance to such of our servants
as We have chosen (It means the Muslim Ummah)". The duty of the Ummah
is to establish an Order according to this Book; thus an Islamic State
is an agency that enforces the divine command. On the contrary, the
system of government in which the right of law-making is exercised by
human beings, is a secular regime, whatever its shape may be. That is
the line of demarcation between infidelity and Islam, Kufar and Islam.
Allah ordains: (5:44)

"Those who do not establish a rule according to what Allah has
revealed, are non-believers."


2. THE CODE OF LAWS IN AN ISLAMIC STATE.

i) The code of an Islamic
Constitution is the Book of Allah (the Quran). As stated above, those
who do not establish a rule according to the Book of Allah are
infidels (5:44); subservience to any other rule is not right. Surah
A'raaf says: (7:3)

"(O Jamaa'atul Mu'mineen) Follow only that which has been revealed to
you by your Rabb and do not follow any friends and protectors other
than Him. (The subservience to Divine Laws and not of any human being
is the real freedom), but very few keep this reality in mind."

ii)
This Book, the Quran, is clear and explicit (5:15)

"Light from Allah has come to you in the form of a perspicuous Book".
It means that the Book is clear and revealing. It is very easy to
follow (54:32)

"In reality We have made this Quran very easy for taking guidance". It
does not contain any disputative matter. Allah says: (4:82)

"Do they not reflect upon the Quran Were it from anyone other than
Allah, they would surely have found therein plenty of contradictions".
To be free of any discrepancy is in itself a proof of its having been
revealed by Allah. Not only that it does not contain any controversial
matter, it has the capacity to stand as a judge, in order to decide on
controversial matters. The very aim of revealing Books from Allah was
to decide all disagreements amongst human beings. (2:213)

"And to them (the Rasools) He sent the Book in truth, to judge between
people in matters wherein they differed."

iii) As a code of guidance
this book is complete as well as immutable: (6:116)

"The Laws of thy Rabb do find their fulfilment in truth and justice.
None can change His Laws, for He is the One Who hears and knows every-
thing".

iv) In it there are certain laws (the details of) which have
been determined and for others guidance has been provided only in
principle. The determined laws shall be enforced as such. As far as
those laws are concerned where only the principles are given, an
Islamic State shall frame details thereof staying within the
parameters of these principles according to the needs of their time.
These principles shall remain immutable but the rules framed under
their guidance shall be liable to change in accordance with the
exigencies of advancing times. This is the expedience, on the basis of
which Allah did not determine the by-laws Himself. If it had so
happened, these laws could not remain consistent with the exigencies
of time, and that could render the working of the way of life
prescribed by Him, impracticable. The Book that was intended to remain
a code of guidance for all times and for all men, had to be thus, i.e.
the principles should be immutable and detailed applicatory by-laws
changeable with the change of time. Only this blend of permanence and
change could keep the system permanently practicable through all
times. This reality has been clarified by saying:(5:101-102)

"O you who believe! (what is necessary for the guidance of mankind has
been given through revelation and is prescribed in the Quran). Do not
probe into that which has not been revealed (because if We fix up
their details, they shall become immutable. And when they shall not be
able to cope with the needs of time, you shall be put into difficulty
because you shall not be able to accomplish them). The same shall
happen if We disclose such matters during the descent of revelation.
Thus you should particularly keep it in mind; We forgive all that has
happened before. You ought to be careful in future. If you had
forgotten or had fallen into error, there is a scope in the Laws of
Allah for forgiveness of failings in small matters. You are given the
warning because before this a nation (Israelites) had started asking
such questions (2:108). As a result they had put so many limitation
and restrictions upon themselves that it became difficult for them to
accomplish them and having been fed up with these details, they
forsook the real 'Deen' itself. "

It is apparent that the
commandments and laws determined in the Quran shall be put into
practice gradually according to the conditions of the society, and
thus the society shall be brought to the required standard step by
step. But it shall not be allowed that you pick up some injunctions of
the Quran according to your own liking and take these up along with
other un-Quranic injunctions and name the mixture of these two as
Islamic Code of Laws", this is also infidelity Kufar. The Jews also
used to behave in that way, on account of which they were warned as
follows: (2:85)

"Do you then believe in a part of the book and reject the rest But
what shall be the recompense for those among you who behave like this,
except disgrace in this life, and on the Day of Judgment they shall be
consigned to the most grievous chastisement".
3. THE ENTIRE UMMAH SHALL TAKE PART IN THE GOVERNMENT.

 The duty of
an Islamic Rule is: "To enforce what is lawful according to the Divine
Law and prohibit what is unlawful."

It is said in Surah Hajj: (22:41)

"They are those who if we establish them in the land, establish the
way of life consistent with the Divine Laws and provide nourishment to
individuals, enjoin the right and forbid the wrong."

It means that it
shall be the duty of the Islamic Rule to enforce by-laws of what the
Quran considers right and forbid what it considers wrong. According to
the Quran it is the duty of the entire Ummah. Allah says: (3:109)


"You are the Ummah raised for the good of all mankind. Your
responsibility is to enjoin the right and forbid the wrong". This very
Ummah is the inheritor of the Book of Allah (35:32)". It means that
the law and order of the State (known as the government) is not
limited to a part in it. The machinery that shall put it into shape
has been left by the Quran to the discretion of the Ummah. It may take
any form but its aim shall be that the entire Ummah shall take part in
the working of the state's affairs _ i.e., all Muslims living within
the boundaries of the State. Non-Muslims cannot take part in it
because, it is the duty of the government comprising Muslims only to
enforce the Divine Injunctions. How then, can those people who do not
believe in these injunctions take part in its affairs!


4. SYSTEM BASED ON CONSULTATION.

 The system in which the entire
Ummah takes part, is termed by the Quran 'a system by
consultation' (42:38);

It has been ordained by Allah, that "in it, all affairs shall be
settled by consultation." This system shall differ from the western
system of democracy in which the nation or the representatives of a
nation possess the comprehensive powers of law-making; in other words
sovereignty belongs to the nation as a whole but in an Islamic
Government the sovereignty belongs to (the Book of) Allah. Leaving
aside the representatives of the people, even the entire nation has no
right either to make laws against it, or bring about a change in it.
The opponents of this system used to ask the Rasool: "If you could
make a change in the Quran according to our liking we are ready to
compromise with you". In answer to their demand Allah addresses the
Rasool thus: (10:15)

"Say: It is not for me, to change it of my own accord. I follow not
but what is revealed unto me. If I were to disobey my Rabb, even
slightly, I am afraid of the punishment I shall receive according to
the Law of Requital". It is apparent that when even the Rasool could
not make any change in it at his own, how can anybody else be allowed
to do so Now, as far as the system of majority and minority in a
democratic system is concerned, it is apparent that since every matter
shall have to be decided in accordance with the Quranic Injunctions,
so the question of casting the votes does not arise. The concept that
the decisions made by the majority are based on truth is false. The
Rasool is addressed as follows: (6:117)

"If you were to follow the majority of the people in the land, they
would lead you astray from the path of Allah. They follow nothing but
conjecture; they do nothing but indulge in their own surmises". The
criterion to judge between right and wrong is not based on majority or
minority, but on the Book of Allah. The representatives of the Ummah
have got to conduct the State affairs, within the limits laid down in
it. The truth cannot remain subject to the whims and wishes of the
people. (23:71)

"If the truth had been in accord with their desire, truly the heavens
and the earth and all beings therein would have been in confusion".
Thus the people ought to obey the Truth, and Truth is the other name
for the Holy Quran.
5. STANDARD FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF RANKS.

 The ranks shall be assigned
in the society according to the personal virtues and the character and
conduct of individuals: (46:19)

"And to all ought to be (assigned) degrees according to their deeds."
And the state administration shall be entrusted to those who are fit
for it. (4:58)

"Allah commands you to render back your trusts to those who are
capable of achieving the object;" and the person with the best of
conduct and character shall be the head of the state (49:13).

It has been ordained by Allah "Most honoured of you in the sight of
Allah is (he who is) the most observant of the Divine Laws amongst
you," and is the best in their performance. As the state affairs shall
be conducted by consultation, he shall remain in office as long as he
enjoys the corroboration of the Ummah.
6. THE STATE ADMINISTRATION.

 In order to conduct the affairs of the
state, there shall be an administrative centre and under this centre
there shall be legally authorised officers. Because a system like this
was first organised by the Rasoole, thus the term 'Allah and Rasool'
has been used for it in the Quran, which means Divine organisation put
in to practice by the Rasoole. Thus the obedience to 'Allah and the
Rasool' meant the obedience to the Centre of this Divine System. Under
command of this Centre were the officers Ulil Amr authorised to take
decision according to the Law. An appeal against the cases decided by
these authorised officers was permissible, but the decisions made by
the Centre used to be final. It is said in Surah An-Nisa; (4:59)

"O you who believe! Obey the system established by the Rasool in
accordance with the Laws of Allah; and obey the local authorities
appointed by this Order. In cases of disputes with the local
authorities an appeal can be made to the Central Authority. This will
constitute evidence that you really believe in Allah and His Law of
Requital (life Hereafter). This is the best and the most suitable
practice _ to obtain, ultimately, a balanced society". The same system
continued after the death of the Rasool and the successive caliphs
became the Central Authority and the obedience to a caliph became
synonymous with obedience to 'Allah and the Rasool'. As and when that
system is re-established, the obedience to its Central Authority shall
constitute obedience to 'Allah and His Rasool'. The entire
responsibility of the state affairs shall lie in the Centre, which
shall be subservient to the Quran and answerable to the Ummah.
7. THE DECISIVE WORD.

 According to the Quran, obedience belongs to
the Divine Laws and an Islamic Government is an agency to put these
laws into action. Thus any decision by the government which goes
against the Quran, its obedience shall not remain mandatory: (18:28)

It Is the command of Allah Himself: "Do not obey any such person whose
heart has become neglectful to Our laws, one who follows his own
desires and whose case has gone beyond all bounds". Such could not
have happened during the time of the Rasoole, but there is a
possibility of such an occasion arising after him. Thus it ought to be
so arranged that if any one in the society thinks that such and such a
decision made by the government goes against the Quran, he may be able
to get a decision from another authority. Such an authority could only
be the Judiciary. Thus the decision made by the Supreme Court ought to
be considered as final in such cases and none shall be allowed to
disobey the decision. If such an occasion does arise, the decision by
the Judiciary shall have to be accepted as the decision by "Allah and
His Rasool" (Centre of the System) about which the Divine Command is:
(33:36)

"It behoves not a believer, man or woman, that when a matter has been
decided by Allah and His Rasool (the final authority of the Divine
System) to exercise a choice in the matter. Anyone who disobeys Allah
and His Rasool, has forsaken the straight path and is clearly on the
wrong path."

Often it is said that in such a situation the Sovereign
Authority shall rest with the Judiciary instead of the government or
the constituent assembly. But as has been explained earlier, the final
authority actually rests with the Book of Allah and none else. In
disputed matters the judiciary shall only explain what is the decision
of the Quran.
8. PARTY SYSTEM.

 According to the Quran the entire Ummah, as
compared to the non-Muslims, is one party. Within the Ummah itself the
presence of parties, may it be religious parties or political parties,
is 'shirk' (assigning partners unto Allah). The Divine Command is:
(30:31-32)

"O believers, remember! Be not of those who follow laws other than
His and thus set up peers with Allah i.e. be not of those who create
cleavage in their social order and divide themselves into various
sects, where each sect becomes obsessed with its own view of it and
the 'Deen' disappears.:

At another place it is said: (6:160)

"Those who create differences in 'Deen' (the way of life prescribed by
Allah) and divide themselves into sects (O Messenger of Allah) you
have nothing to do with them. Leave their affair for the Law of Allah
to decide, which would tell them how they acted."

In Surah Aal-e-
Imraan it is said: (3:104)

"Be not like those who are divided amongst themselves and fall into
disputations after receiving clear signs from Allah. For them is a
dreadful penalty."

From these and several other similar verses of the
Quran, this reality becomes apparent that when the Ummah gets divided
into parties and sects, neither the Deen (way of life prescribed by
Allah) survives, nor an Islamic State can come into existence under
such circumstances. Deen is another name for the Islamic State which
has one code of guidance (Book of Allah), one Ummah as its upholder,
and one central authority of the state. In this state, the entire
Ummah, in the form of a compact body, revolves around the pivot of the
Quran. Look how clearly the Quran explains this reality when it says:
(3:102)

"And hold fast, all together, the rope which Allah stretches out for
you and be not divided among yourselves; and remember with gratitude
Allah's favour on you; you were enemies and He joined your hearts in
love, so that by His grace you became brethren and you were on the
brink of the pit of fire, and His Divine System saved you from it.
Thus Allah makes His messages clear to you that you may be guided."
The greatest crime of Pharaoh, as Allah says in the Quran, was that he
had divided his people into parties. (28:4)

"He broke up his people into sections".
9. RELIGIOUS HIERARCHY.

 In an Islamic society the concept of
religious hierarchy is unthinkable. In it the decisions regarding
state affairs are called the 'Sharia' laws and their enforcement shall
be the function of the government officials. That is what is named as
to enjoin what is lawful and forbid what is 'unlawful' (as laid down
in the Book of Allah). These injunctions shall comprise the entire
aspects of human life. The differentiation between religion and
politics and between Deen and worldly affairs is an entirely un-
Islamic concept; the consideration of public laws and personal laws as
separate from one another is a creation of secular regimes. The
Quranic Laws and Values shall encompass aspects of human life _
whether personal or public. These laws and values shall be taught in
the government educational institutions; and the literature based on
them shall be publicised amongst the people. Thus in an Islamic State
there shall be no separate existence of religious institutions, nor a
separate group of 'religious Ulama'. In Islam there is NO dichotomy of
'Deen' and 'secular' affairs. Every single aspect of life is governed
by Deen.
10. THE INGREDIENTS OF AN ISLAMIC STATE.

 The Book of Allah, the
scales of justice and the power of enforcement are the ingredients, or
the three basics, of an Islamic state. If any one of these basics is
missing, it no more remains an Islamic State. The basic object of
Deen, is described in Surah Al-Hadeed as follows: (57:25)

"In order to obtain this objective, Allah arranged His Messengers to
be sent to different people with clear signs (proofs); and every
Rasool also brought with him a code of laws. They established 'social
orders' on the basis of this code so that the deeds of each person
could produce the exact results and thus induce people to remain
steadfast on justice and equity. In order to provide stability to that
social order, Almighty Allah, along with the code of laws, also sent
sword (iron) in which there is great strength. And because this
strength is utilised for the maintenance of a system of justice, as
well as for the protection of the oppressed, it becomes useful for
mankind instead of being 

harmful. This also brings to light as to
who are those faithful people who assist and aid this Divine System
which was established by the Messengers of Allah. Before the
successful results had appeared before them in a visible form, they
made all sorts of sacrifices on the basis of this strong belief that a
social order embodying supremacy and strength will most definitely be
achieved by their tireless efforts."

In Surah Al-Noor the aims and
objects of an Islamic state (Caliphate) have been introduced as:
(24:55)

"Allah has promised to those among you who profess Eemaan
(conviction) and put in productive efforts that He will, of a surety,
grant them inheritance (of power) in the land, this is Our Immutable
Law according to which We had established the earlier nations as well
(28:6); that He will establish in authority their Deen _ the one which
He has chosen for them, so that their rule shall turn this earth into
paradise (39:74); and that He will change their (state) of fear in
which they (lived) to one of security and peace, so as to enable them
to obey only His Laws with satisfaction and that they are not forced
to associate any other laws with His Laws and thus ascribe partners
unto Him. (But listen attentively that such a system shall last only
as long as these people remain steadfast in obedience to Our Laws).
Those who, after such a rule is established, practically keep
themselves away from it and put into practice their self-made laws
instead of the Divine Laws, shall leave the highway that was leading
them to the correct destination and they shall be led astray to other
paths and thus shall be deprived of the benefits of a paradisiacal
social order. Such benefits were the result of firm belief and deeds
consistent with the Divine Laws. When belief and the deed consistent
with the Divine Laws remain no more, the benefits shall automatically
disappear. "

The duty of an Islamic State does not end with the
enforcement of laws, but also it brings about a psychological change
in the individuals of the state, so as to create in them an intense
desire to lead a life consistent with the Divine Laws. This objective
can be achieved by the right type of the system of education as well
as by the exemplary character of the leaders in the state. As long as
such a change is not brought about amongst the individuals, there
shall be no change in the society. The Holy Quran says: (13:11)

"Verily never will Allah change the condition of a people, until they
bring about a change within their themselves."

This is an eternal
verity stated by the Quran.
11. THE POSITION OF NON MUSLIMS IN AN ISLAMIC STATE.

 Since all human
beings are equally worthy of respect, the human rights, ipso facto,
shall be equally available to all non-Muslims in an Islamic State.
They shall have complete religious freedom. (2:256)

"There is no compulsion in the matters of Deen (the way of life based
on the Quran)", shall be the basis of the constitution of the lslamic
state. Its universal manifesto shall be: (18:29)

"Pronounce that the truth from the 'Rabb' of you all, has come; then
whosoever wills, let him believe (accept) it; and whosoever will not,
let him reject it". However, since the very purpose of the existence
of this state is the establishment of the Divine System and the
enforcement of the Quranic status, it is apparent that those who do
not believe in its ideology i.e. the non-Muslims, cannot be admitted
to participate in the affairs of the state. Thus the Quran has
explicitly advised not to take non-Muslims as your confidants (do not
confide in them).


(3:117) "The division of humans shall be based on faith (Eemaan),
instead of creed, dialect (language) and nationality. Those who
believe in the permanent values given by the Revelation and make the
establishment of the Divine System the goal of their life, are the
members of one group; on the other hand those who reject its value
system, form another group. As the communality of ideas and objectives
is the basic condition for unity and concord, it is apparent that a
true relationship can never come into being with those who oppose this
ideology.

 Thus it is said in Surah (3:117) above "O you who believe!
Take not into intimacy as your confidants those outside your ranks.
They will not fail to leave anything untried to bring about your
downfall. They desire it from the depths of their hearts that you
should fall victim to such ineffable afflictions that break your
strength. A reflection of their malice and hatred has already appeared
from their utterances but what their hearts conceal is far worse. We
have explained to you these things in a manifest manner, so that
applying your intellect and judgement, you should guard yourselves
(against their intrigues), if you have wisdom." (3:118)

"Lo! Do not take them as your friends; even if you do it, they will
never befriend you, although you believe in all the Books (yours and
theirs). (Such a stance of yours is exhibited with the sincerity of
your hearts, but their plight is such that:) When they meet you they
say, 'We believe (in your ideology)' but when they leave you, they
bite the very tips of their fingers in their rage against you. Say:
"Perish in your rage: Allah knows well (What you do openly and) what
is hidden in your hearts".

 The psychological strife within yourself
and your double dealing shall become the very source of your
destruction. 

To explain it further it is said: (3:119)

"(The malice in their hearts is such that) If good befalls you, it
grieves them and if an evil afflicts you, they rejoice at it and if
you are patient and keep your duty, their struggle will not injure you
in any way. Surely Allah encompasses what they do. "

What really
matters is the ideology (Deen). Even the relatives are not exempt.
Thus it is said: (9:23)

"O you who believe! Comprehend this truth that according to Divine
Code the differentiation between friends and foes shall not be based
on heredity and family relationship but instead on the common concept
of life. Thus even if your fathers and your brothers like infidelity
better than belief, you do not take them as your friends. Look! If
after this warning anybody befriends them, he shall do wrong only to
himself. This shall be tantamount to rebellion against the Divine
Laws. "

This matter is of such a great importance that it is said:
(9:24)


"Say: If your fathers and your sons and your brethren and your wives
and your kinsfolk and the wealth you have acquired, and trade whose
dullness you fear, and dwellings you love, are dearer to you than
Allah and His Messenger and striving in His Way, then wait till Allah
brings His Command to pass. And Allah guides not the transgressing
people."

Allah has presented the lifestyle, character and deeds of
two exalted persons _ Muhammad and Ibraheemu as the best models. What
were those characteristics of Ibraheem'su disposition which made him
worthy of being made the model The Quran says: (60:4)

"In order to understand the ranking of the family relationships
against the 'Deen' of Allah, you find the best example (that will
remove the perplexities of your hearts and provide them solace) in the
conduct of Ibraheem and his associates, when they announced to their
people with whom they shared blood-relations: we are clear of you and
those whom you serve leaving aside Allah: We reject your erroneous
creed and consider it void, and there shall exist between us and you
detestation and hostility for ever, unless you also believe in Allah
and Him alone. (In that case you shall be our brothers in Deen)
(3:117); (85:22)."

There are several verses in the Quran in which it
is said that you cannot confide in non-Muslims. Thus it is clear that
not only that they cannot take part in state affairs, they cannot even
be appointed in key posts. But, however, this does not mean that they
shall be deprived of Human Rights; not at all, they shall get all the
justice. The Quran goes so far in this matter that you cannot find an
example of it in any other system. Thus it is said: (5:8)

"Let not the enmity of others towards you make you depart from
justice. Always act justly, that shall bring you closer to that
standard of life where Allah intends to take you. Thus always stay on
the highway to justice. "

Not only justice, but extension of the best
treatment to non-Muslims has been ordained. It has been explicitly
explained in Surah (60) 'Mumtahanah': whereas Allah forbids you to
have relations of affinity with the enemies of Deen. He does not
forbid you to deal with them justly (60:8-9). It goes even so far as
to say that an Islamic State shall protect the places of worship of
the non-Muslims. Thus it is said: (22:40)

"Had Allah not enabled people to defend themselves against one
another, then surely monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques in
(all of) which the name of Allah is remembered abundantly would have
been destroyed. "

In addition to providing protection to these
places, it is also ordained: (6:109)

"You revile not those whom they call upon besides Allah, lest they out
of spite revile Allah in their ignorance". This is likely to create
disorder and chaos, therefore you do not treat their revered persons
with insults. Such shall be the position of non-Muslims in an Islamic
State.

 Being the citizens of an Islamic State, Islamic laws shall be
applied to them. In their personal affairs, they shall be allowed to
take their own decisions, subject to the laws of the Islamic State.
12. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.

 The Holy Quran aims at removing all
differences of mankind and created a universal brotherhood. Thus it is
said: (2:213)

"Mankind was one unified community" and (10:19)

"Then they differed". In these verses it has been explained that to
begin with mankind was a single brotherhood; afterwards they created
differences amongst themselves. (2:213)

"So Allah sent Messengers with glad tidings and warnings and with
them He sent the "Codes of Law", to judge between people in matters
wherein they differed so as to turn them again into one community."
In a particular territory the establishment of an Islamic State serves
as a laboratory to achieve the above objective. In this connection
this state shall co-operate with other nations of the world in matters
beneficial for humanity, but shall not co-operate in matters which
bring devastation to humanity: (5:2)

"Co-operate with one another in matters which broaden scopes of
betterment and well-being to humanity and produce consistency with the
Divine Laws, and do not co-operate in matters that become obstructive
in the progress of the society or a means of transgressing the Divine
Limits. "

In this connection a universal law has been proclaimed:
(13:17)

"That which is for the good of mankind at large endures on the earth."
This very principle shall be the basis of the foreign policy of this
state. To eradicate sedition from the face of the earth and to
maintain peace in it shall be one of the aims of this state: (2:60)

"And do not cause the disintegration of your society through
spreading disorder". This is a peremptory injunction which promotes
respect for humanity and becomes justificatory for its existence;
because its basic principle is (17:70)

"We have created all human beings worthy of respect". Because this
State is meant to achieve these high ideals, it is thus mandatory that
it should have the capability of safeguarding its sovereignty. Thus
the security of its boundaries is of utmost importance. And it has
been emphatically ordained: (8:60)

"Keep your boundaries well-guarded by reinforced cantonments,
equipped with all the steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts
of) the enemies of Allah and your enemies, and others besides them
whom you may not know, but whom Allah does know". It may even
sometimes be necessary to wage war against them to preserve your
borders. (since 'War in Islam" is a separate subject, its details are
not discussed at this juncture).
13. TREATIES.

(A) In the maintenance of peace and the protection of
human rights, treaties shall be set up with other nations. The respect
for the adherence to

 treaties is essential (5:1)

"The fulfilling of obligations". has been emphasised.
(B) If a breach of trust is feared from any nation, the treaty should
be returned: (8:58)

"If you fear breach of trust from any group, throw back (their
covenant) to them (so as to be) on equal footing, for Allah loveth not
the treacherous. "

If you fear being betrayed on the part of any
nation, do not break the covenant without first informing them; inform
them first so that both the parties come to the same level. If the
premature cancellation of the covenant causes them a loss, it ought to
be compensated, so as to come to equality of terms, for the Divine Law
disapproves the breach of commitment. If you do not agree to the
renewal of treaty, that should also be communicated to the other party
beforehand, so that those likely to be affected adversely can make the
necessary alternative arrangements. The same procedure was adopted in
dealing with the opponents after the conquest of Makkah; its details
are given in the first four verses of Surah Taubah (9:1-4) But if the
other party breaks the covenant without reason, war is allowed against
them. [see details in (9:12-13)].
(C) If the enemy joins hands with a group which enjoys a treaty (of
peace) with you, the war against them shall be discontinued. The same
applies to those who remain neutral. (4:90).
(D) Against those with whom you have a treaty of mutual alliance, even
the Muslims will not be extended help (8:72).

Detailed injunctions in
these matters also relate to wars; therefore only the pointers have
been described at this juncture.
14. REBELLION.

 In an Islamic State, the spreading of sedition,
(creating dispersion, diminution of peace and to bring about
lawlessness) or mutiny against it, are the most serious crimes for
which the punishment is very severe. Thus it is said: (5:33)

"The result of their tumultuous attitude is that when a system of
justice has been established in the country in which there is peace
all round, instead of living a peaceful life, they continue their
subversive activities. This is tantamount to rebellion against the
system based on justice and statute. In such a case the punishment of
those who rebel against the central authority of the state and strive
to create disorder within its boundaries, is their execution or
cruxification, or the cutting of hands and feet from opposite sides,
or banishment from this land (or deprivation from general privileges)
i.e. any of those relevant to their crime. This punishment shall be
their disgrace in this life and a heavy punishment is theirs in the
Hereafter as well. That is because one result of this crime is related
to the society which it is necessary to check and the other has its
effect on the person of the offender (4:111) which results in the
disintegration of his personality which shall be the cause of his
destruction in the life Hereafter."

But if these people repent before
being taken in (retract from their rebellious course), they shall not
be punished. The verse following the one above, explains: (5:34)

"Except for those who retract from their activities before their being
subdued by you: keep in mind that in that case the Divine Law may
spare them from the punishment and they may not be deprived of the
common privileges."

The Holy Quran has described at other places,
those who wage a war against the Islamic System. [See (9:63);
(58:5-20)].

(a) Leaving aside actual rebellion against this System by
such people, even to have relations of affinity with them is a crime:
(58:22)

"As it is a fact that truth and falsehood are opposite to each other,
so how can it then be possible that people who believe in Allah and in
the life Hereafter, befriend those who resist the Divine System even
though they were their fathers or their sons, or their brothers or
their kindred. [(3:117); (60:4)]."

(b) To betray the trust of an
Islamic Government is also a crime: (8:27)



"Oh you who believe! It is essential for you neither to betray the
Divine System (Allah and His Rasool), nor misappropriate knowingly in
discharging the duties assigned to you. You know what shall be its
result. "

To advocate the cause of those who betray the trust is also
a crime: (4:107); (4:105)

"So be not amongst those who advocate for the perfidious".

 It is
also a crime to conspire and to hold secret meetings in order to
discuss unlawful affairs: (58:9)

"O you who believe! When you hold secret counsel, do it not for
iniquity, hostility and disobedience to the Divine System. Always hold
counsels for righteousness and self-restraint. "

It is incumbent on
an Islamic State to make them a part of their constitution in an
appropriate form.

The Economic System:

1. The basic duty of an Islamic State, as ordained in the Holy Quran
is provision of 'ZAKAAT'. Thus it is said:

(22:41) "Those Mu'mineen are the people who if We grant them rule in
the land, establish the way of life consistent with the Divine Laws
and provide 'Zakaat'", means to provide 'Zakaat'. Thus the providing
of Zakaat is the duty of an Islamic State. 'Zakaat' means the
providing of the means of nourishment. As such it becomes incumbent
upon the Islamic State to provide means of nourishment to the
individuals, which includes both nourishment of the body as well as of
the human potentialities. Thus it becomes the duty of an Islamic State
to make such arrangements that the fulfillment of the basic
necessities of life of each individual shall keep going, and also that
their potentialities may develop. This is called
'Rabubiyyat' (providing of sustenance). The 'Rabubiyyat' of the entire
universe is an attribute of Allah. The words

(1:1) make the beginning of the Quranic text. But the practical
application of this attribute of Allah, in the human world, takes its
practical manifestation through the agency of an Islamic State. Thus
all the responsibilities, in this respect, which Allah has taken upon
Himself, are fulfilled by the Islamic State.

2. Based on this
principle, it becomes the responsibility of an Islamic State that no
living object (human beings; may also include animals, [Lughat-ul-
Quran Root: Ray-Bay-Bay] in its domain, remains devoid of nourishment.

(11:6) is Allah's commandment, which means that there is no moving
creature* on earth, but its sustenance is the responsibility of Allah.

 In this respect the State becomes responsible to its individuals and
their progeny for the fulfillment of their daily necessities of life;
and tells them:

(17:31) "We are responsible for your sustenance and that of your
offsprings."
3. The Islamic social order takes shape by means of a contract between
the State and the individuals living in its domain. In this contract,
the life and property of the believers are placed at the disposal of
the state and in lieu of it, becomes the responsibility of the state
to provide a life of peace and plenty (life of Jannat) to the
individuals:

(9:111) "The Mu'mineen (those who profess Eemaan-belief in Allah) and
the Divine Order enter into a treaty; the Mu'mineen place their
persons and their wealth at the disposal of the Divine Order (sell
them) and the Divine Order guarantees a life of peace and plenty (life
of Paradise) for them in return. "

In this life of Paradise are
included all the basic necessities of life, food, clothing, shelter
etc. The Quran has introduced to us the paradisiacal life as follows:

(20:118-119) "There is therein (enough provision) for you not to go
hungry, nor to go naked, nor to suffer from thirst from the sun's
heat". (Everything mentioned above is available without any undue
labour).
4. In this society every individual retains for himself the proceeds
of his labour according to his needs and gives over the rest of it for
fulfilling the needs of others:

(2:219) "(O Rasool!) They ask you as to how much (of their earnings)
should they keep open for fulfilling the needs of the others; tell
them whatever is over and above their (genuine) needs (16:71)". This
system shall be established through the agency of the State; because
the Rasool has been ordained:

(7:199) "Get the surplus from them". (This is the natural result of
the above said treaty covenant _ therefore the question of taking by
force does not arise). Those who earn less than their needs, or those
who are not capable of putting in labour, do not take it by way of
charity but they claim it as a matter of their right, from the
collected surplus:

(51:19) "In their wealth and possessions is the recognised right of
the needy and the disabled.


5. According to the Economic System of the Quran, wealth cannot be
accumulated. A severe warning has been given against accumulating
wealth:

(9:34-35) "O Rasool! These priests and monks, and their followers who
(in the guise of their self-made 'Shariat') consider the system of
capitalism as the will of Allah, and thus hoard heaps of gold and
silver and do not make them available to the usage of humanity,
announce unto them a grievous penalty. During the period of Divine
System, these will be heated in the fire of Jahannam (hell), heat will
be produced out of that wealth and with it their foreheads will be
branded, their flanks and their backs: and this fire shall mount to
their hearts (104:6-7): They shall be told, this is the treasure you
had hoarded for yourself, so now taste (the treasure) you had buried.
Wealthy cannot be allowed to circulate wealth amongst themselves
alone:(59:7)



6. To meet emergent needs, it is necessary for the people that
whatever they have retained for their own requirements, they shall
also donate something out of it. This is known as 'Sadaqaat'. This
will also not be an individual affair; it shall be carried out under
the System of the State. Thus the Rasool was ordained:

(9:103) "Take their donations (out of their earnings) and in
association with other members, make arrangements for their education
which would purify them (by removing all doubts from their minds) and
nourish them. As they grow in their qualities, you should applaud them
because your applause will certainly bring them peace of mind. Allah
is All-Hearing and All-Knowing. "

In some cases the avenues of usage
of such emergency needs have been prescribed by the Quran itself, when
it is said:

(9:60) "About 'Sadaqaat' i.e. wealth which the state spends for public
welfare, it ought to be understood that its distribution shall not
mean personal benefit or satisfaction of the individual emotions, but
it is the right of those:
a) Who depend on others for their nourishment i.e. those who, for some
reason, are not able to earn themselves
b) 

b) Whose business somehow or other comes to a standstill.
c) c) For the remuneration of those who are entrusted with the duty of
collecting 'Sadaqaat' (the source of state revenue).
d) 

d) Whose consolation of hearts' is required. It means that those
people who are prepared to join the Divine System but some impediments
do not allow them to take this course; they should be helped in the
removal of these impediments.
e) e) To get freedom for those fastened to the chains of other's
captivity (subjugation).
f) f) To help those who are under the enemy's debt or penalty, and
cannot manage to pay it off on their own.
g) 

g) Also the wayfarers who are in need of money.
h) 

h) In addition to the above, anything conducive and helpful to
the general welfare of humanity by the Divine System.

 Described
above are the codes laid down by Allah based on knowledge and wisdom.
In this verse the item of 'in the Divine Cause' is very
comprehensive. It includes all other avenues of usage, which the
Islamic State deems necessary.

 Note: Amongst us the above items are
known as items of Zakaat expenditure. This is not correct. The Quran
has clearly described them as item of 'Sadaqaat' and not of 'Zakaat'.
Even the prevalent concept of 'Zakaat' itself is different from the
Quranic concept.

7. Earth (Land) is the basic source of production. Because an Islamic
State has the momentous responsibility of provision of 'Zakaat' to
fulfil, therefore this basic source of production (the land) cannot
remain in the ownership of individuals. Land remains under the charge
of the State, so that the needs of the individuals may get equally
fulfilled. In Surah Haa-Meem Sajdah (41st Chapter of the Quran) it is
said:

(41:10) "He set on the earth mountains standing firm, standing high
above its surface, (which serve as means of water supply) and gave it
the capability to produce different items and with the change of four
seasons standardised** its produce correctly, for feeding its
inhabitants. (39:67) and (56:73-74).

Note: It has been clarified at
several places in the Quran, that the earth has been created to fulfil
the requirements of humanity. As an all-encompassing explanation of
this topic is not intended in this book, therefore it is not
considered quoting all the relevant references, however, see verses
(55:10); (56:63-73).
8. In the Economic System of Islam (except those who are disabled)
only that person has the right to receive who puts in labour:

(53:39) "That a man can have nothing, but what he strives for", is its
basic principle. As described earlier under the heading 'usury', any
profit on the capital is totally unlawful and amounts to declaration
of war against Allah and the Divine System of His Rasool. As a matter
of fact, the question of profit on capital does not arise when nothing
surplus to the needs is left with anybody."
9. As said earlier in item (4) above, in the Islamic Order surplus
wealth is not left with any person. Thus the question of raising
personal property does not arise, which includes land, wealth,
industry, trade, etc. Everything remains in the custody of the State,
so that the needs of every individual get fulfilled and their standard
of living goes on rising, and then eventually this system, surpassing
its boundaries, extends to embrace humanity at large.


10. It shall be the duty of an Islamic State to establish such an
economic system in the light of this basic guidance of the Holy Quran
which can satisfy all the requisites of 'Rabubiyyat', so that
nourishment is neither held back from anybody, nor his dignity is
injured. This system shall gradually come into force. The Quranic
injunctions relating to charity, inheritance, etc. are of transitory
nature for the period in which this system is still taking shape and
is not yet finalised. This also ought to be kept in mind that this
system shall be established by those who consider it a part of their
belief and yearning of their hearts. This is the motive force for its
establishment and stability. In the absence of such a driving force, a
system of this kind can neither get established, nor can it survive.
* It happens doubtful to assume that an Islamic State can take up the
responsibility of providing nourishment to moving creatures, such as
dogs and reptiles in its domain. (Abdul Wadud).
** To interpret the word as (Arba' Ayyaam) change of four seasons is
not comprehensive. Following is the full explanation. The terms (Arba'
Ayyaam) and (Umeen) are specific Quranic terms. They represent the Six
Eras of Evolution in the creation of heavens and the Earth.
(2 ERAS
[Umain in Arabi translation]
"So He completed them as several heavens
in 2 Eras (41:12)"
Thus (Umain) 2 ERAS -- includes the evolutionary
period involved in the Creation of the heavens and the earth.
On earth
the period without life lasted for 3000 million years and science
calls it the Azoic Period.
[4 ERAS (Arba-e-Ayyaam)]
"He made on the
earth mountains standing high above it and bestowed blessings on it
and measured therein all things to give them nourishment in due
proportion in four Eras" (41:10)
In these four Eras, life began on
earth and gradually got evolved and this has lasted for 2000 millions
years:
(a) Precambrian Eras 1500 million years
(b) Paleozoic Era or
Ancient life -- 300 million years
(c) Nezozoic Era or Middle life --
130 millions years
(d) Cainozoic or Modern life -- started 75 million
years ago.

Basic Human Rights

These are the rights which every human being, on account of his
belonging to the human race, is entitled to without any discrimination
of sex, colour, race, religion, abode (land) and nationality. An
Islamic State guarantees these rights to every individual living in
its territory. And if the state fails to provide such a surety, the
individuals can acquire those rights through the court of law. The
prominent rights are as follows:
1. Every human child is equally worthy of respect, thus on account of
one's genesis there can be no discrimination; there is no difference
between one man and the other: (17:70)

"We have honoured the humanity as a whole" has been ordained by Allah.


2. In the Islamic Social Order, criterion of determining status of
its people shall be their personal deeds and merit: (46:19)

"And to all are (assigned) degrees according to their deeds."
3. No human being can be subservient to another. Nobody can have the
right to rule other people (3:78)

"No human has the right, even though Allah may have given him a 'code
of laws' or the power to enforce it or even Nabuwwah that he should
say unto mankind: 'Be subservient to me instead of Allah'.
(Subservience can only be to the Divine Injunctions. Its details have
already been given under the heading 'State Affairs').

It is apparent
that when nobody can be subservient to another, how can he be a slave
to others. The Quran closed the door of slavery for good.
4. None shall seize the labour of another person by force, every
worker shall get the full recompense of his labour; (39:70)

"To every person shall be paid in full (the fruits) of his deeds".
Recompense does not mean wages. The concept of wages is a product of
the capitalist system; the Quran has cut at its very roots.
Compensation means the fulfillment of needs. Anything surplus to ones
needs, shall be willingly handed over to others (with complete
promptness of his heart). Take for example a peasant who puts in
labour for one full year and produces one hundred maunds of wheat;
that wheat certainly belongs to him, none can seize it forcibly; but
on the basis of his Eemaan (conviction) he shall give to others all
that is surplus to his needs. This shall happen in the social order of
the Mu'mineen (the believers). (See details under the heading
'Economics')
5. Everyone shall be treated justly: (16:90)

"Indeed Allah commands justice and benevolence." (Details of what is
meant by justice have been given under the heading 'Justice')

So much
so that justice shall be meted out even to the enemy: (5:8)

"Let not the enmity of others to you, make you deviate from the path
of Justice". Always do justice (with friends as well as foes). This
shall bring you nearer to that mode of life, which Allah desires, for
you.
6. Not only justice, if someone lags behind in spite of his best
efforts, his deficiency has to be made good by others to restore the
disturbed balance in society. That is called 'Ihsaan'. That is why it
is said: (70:24-25)

"Those who are indigents or are incapacitated, have a recognised right
in the wealth of society".
7. The right of sustenance:

 To provide means of sustenance to every
individual is the responsibility of the system raised on Divine
Injunctions: (6:152). Such system shall proclaim:

"We are responsible for your needs as well as the needs of your
offsprings."


8. Security and safety of life.

(Details already described in the
chapter on protection of life). (See 6:152)
9. Protection of Wealth.

 Everything that a person has gained and has
been lawfully acknowledged as his property, shall be protected.
10. Protection of dwellings.

 To expel people from their places of
residence has been declared a crime (2:85).


11. Protection of chastity.
12. Protection of aesthetics.

 It means the right to satisfy one's
taste for the beauties of this life remaining within the limits of the
law. The Holy Quran lays down in a challenging manner: (7:32)

"Say to them, O Rasool: who dares forbidding the adornments and
elegance of life (beautiful gifts of Allah) which He has produced for
His obedient people (the humans) and the agreeable and wholesome
things (which He has provided) for their sustenance" (See also 7:26
and 18:31)

The Holy Quran has presented 'life of Paradise' as the
ideal life. This also includes the beautiful gifts of life. The
details are as under: (76:12-16)

"This life of Paradise is the result of their perseverance and
constancy. Therein they lead a life of tranquility and authority; in
Gardens 'ever succulent'; atmosphere of ardour and emancipation. They
shall be reclining therein on raised thrones (of authority and
discretion). They will find therein neither the sun's (excessive
heat), nor excessive cold of the winter _ an everlasting spring _
thick shady trees stooping over them with fruit-laden branches; no
means of sustenance or comfort shall be beyond their reach _ they
shall get them without soul-exhausting efforts; food will be served to
them in utensils of silver and drinks in beakers (as) of glass i.e.
bright as glass but made of silver. Those utensils would have been
made according to the most proportionate measures. "

Let it be
clearly understood that in an Islamic Order, the above mentioned
things shall be available to all, and not to any one particular rank
or class. In the life of paradise there shall be no separate ranks of
the rich and the poor.


13. Right of the freedom of religion.

 There is the freedom to
adopt or forsake whatever religion one likes (2:256)

"There is no compulsion in following the way of life based on the
Quranic fundamentals". (Details already given, under the heading
'STATE AFFAIRS' __ sub-heading 'Position of non-Muslims in an Islamic
State' and the protection of their places of worship.) In Surah Hajj
(22nd Chapter of the Quran) it is said: (22:40)

"Had Allah not restrained one set of people through another, (and
given a free hand to the transgressors to do what they willed), there
would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues
and mosques in which the name of Allah is remembered much. "

Be it
clear that according to the Holy Quran there is no punishment for
'Murtad' (i.e. one who abandons Islam for any other religion -- an
apostate). When freedom of religion is the basic principle, then why
should there be a punishment for change of religion
14. Right of redress of grievances to the oppressed.

(4:148) "Allah loves not, public exposure of the evil, except by a
person who has been wronged."
15. The right of a person not to bear the burden of another.

(6:164) "Every soul draws the meed of his own acts on none but
himself: NO bearer of burden can bear the burden of another." This is
the basic principle.

In addition to it there are certain rights which
do not come under 'Laws'. These were described under different
headings.

These rights mean that any law which deprives people of
these rights shall be repugnant to the Quran; also that if any society
does not fulfil these rights, it can be sued in the court of law.

Crime and Punishment:

1. In the Holy Quran one finds two kinds of injunctions; (i) Moral,
and (ii) Punitive. Punitive means those laws, the violation of which
becomes a social crime and Moral means those laws which cannot be
categorised as a social crime. For example (17:37)

"do not walk arrogantly on the earth." The Quran ordains that he non-
observance of this injunction is not a social crime. On the other hand
there is injunction in which it is said: (17:32)

"Do not go near adultery or fornication". It is apparent that the non-
observance of this injunction is a social crime.

However, the above
said division is arbitrary only to understand the question under view,
otherwise the basis of every Quranic Injunctions aims at correction
and importance of the morals and 'morals' encompasses all the means of
nurture of human personality.
2. The Punitive injunctions are also of two kinds: 

(i) those in
which the punishment has also been prescribed by the Quran, and

(ii)
those, the punishment of which is left to the Islamic Government to
determine as per exigencies of particular circumstances. For example,
in the case of intoxicants (wine), its prohibition is ordained, but
the punishment has not been prescribed for its non-observance.

 It is
an issue which warrants deep pondering that out of those injunctions
for which the punishment has not been prescribed by the Quran, which
ones can be included in the list of Punitive laws. It is apparent that
no single person can answer this question nor it is the right of any
single person to declare a person liable to punishment on the basis of
the non-observance of a Quranic Injunction; its decision rests with
the Islamic State. This also must be kept in mind that such decisions
made by the Islamic State shall be liable to change as and when
needed, based on the exigencies of the changing circumstances.

 This
is not applicable to injunctions alone; even those issues described by
the Quran as principles or in the matter of limitation [Hudood] laid
down, by the Quran; it is only the Islamic State that can declare
unlawful their violation in various forms. I have not used the word
'limitations' in the sense of punishment, rather, I mean by it the
sphere of freedom to act, the trespassing of which is disallowed. The
limits and the principles are the two facets of one reality.
3. 
 It is the duty of an 'Islamic Order' to create such an atmosphere
within the society, in which an individual considers each of his basic
rights and each of his means of living perfectly safe in such a manner
that he may not have the least anxiety or fear about it. Creation of
such an atmosphere is the necessary result of the Quranic Social
Order. The Quran says that in this order the state of the individuals
shall be such that: (2:38)

"On them there shall be no external fear nor shall they have any
internal grief."

 Such an atmosphere comes into existence by
educating the people and freeing them from the worries of meeting the
basic necessities of life, according to the Permanent Values of the
Quran.

 But in spite of all this, there can exist such people in
society as are psychologically unsound and their insanity can take
away the sense of comfort and satisfaction from the society. Such a
sick person has to be treated and unless he does not recover
completely from this condition, it is necessary to protect the society
from the dangers created by his insanity. A majority of them can be
treated by improvement in their psychological correction, but in some
cases fear of punishment has to be resorted to as a final measure.
There are many psychological patients who can be treated by putting in
them the sense of fear. This type of treatment is called 'punishment'.
Its objective on the one hand, is the correction of the criminal, and
on the other, the rectification of those in whose subconscious mind
the germs of crime are festering. The concept of punishment for
revenge is un-Quranic.

 The above described is one objective of
punishment. The other objective is the compensation for the loss
suffered by the person inflicted on by the criminal. For example, a
person has committed theft in somebody's house, and the court has
punished him with ten years imprisonment; this shall not compensate
the loss suffered by the victim. Justice demands that the loss be
returned to the owner. If recovery could not take place, let the
Social System itself compensate the loss in kind or by paying its
cost. According to the Quranic concept of "Crime and Punishment", the
plaintiff is not in fact the complainant against the criminal, he is
rather a complainant against the government or Social System. It is
the Social Order that had contracted to protect his property and if
somebody has laid his hands on his property, it shall mean
nonfulfillment of the contract on the part of the Social System; and
as such the offender is the Social System and not that particular
person who had committed theft. It is up to the Social System to
decide whether it compensates the loss by itself or gets it done by
the offender; it is not the concern of the plaintiff. It is the duty
of the Social System to stand by the victim or his heirs and to become
the protector of the plaintiff and his heirs: (17:33) If the Social
Order does not compensate the loss of the offender, how can it become
his protector and how can it claim to be his helper It is true that
every loss cannot be compensated by the payment of money, yet the
Social Order has got to provide compensation in any possible way,
(except when the loss is the result of one's own negligence or
carelessness). In addition to providing compensation, it shall be the
duty of the Social System to make arrangements that such things do not
happen again.
4. It has been stated above that the object of penal punishments is
the treatment of the psychologically sick people. But the foremost
condition for the success of the psychological treatment is that the
patient develops a realisation that he has done a wrong. The Quran
explains that if he does develop a feeling of reproach, you can expect
that he shall mend his ways. In such an event the Quran forgives him
instead of inflicting punishment, and the authorities shall keep a
watch that he corrects himself and shall help him in his self-
rectification. This is the reason that the Quran has made provision
for forgiveness (and thus correction) before the punishment. It
proposes punishment only when no possibility of correction is left in
the criminal except through punishment.
5. The Holy Quran proposes corporal punishments. It does not send the
thief to prison, in which case the offender himself goes on getting
his food and clothings but his wife and children die of hunger i.e.
members of his household suffer instead of him. As a matter of fact,
the fear, which can cause the habitual offenders to mend their ways,
or which can keep the potential offenders away from committing crime,
can only be aroused by corporal punishments.
6. Now look at the principle which, according to the Quran, are basic
in this respect:
a) QISAAS _ It does not mean to inflict punishment on the offender,
rather it means to pursue the criminal in such a way that he does not
remain unpunished. It means that in the Quranic System, no crime shall
remain untracked. The Quran calls a flawless and firm system of
investigation, a means of providing security and safety of the social
living.(2:179)
b) JUSTICE _ It means that while deciding a case, the status of the
criminal should not affect the demand of justice in any way; (2:178)

"Free for the free and slave for the slave" shall remain its
principle.
c) The punishment for a crime should be proportionate to the nature of
the crime, not more. (42:40) and that too, in case where there is no
chance of the offender's correction.
d) Until a crime has been established, the accused should be taken as
innocent and the society ought to have a favourable opinion about him.
An incident in Surah 'An-Noor' (24th Chapter of the Quran) sums it up
as follows "Some people in Madina brought an allegation against a
chaste woman which the people spread it further. On this, the Quran
instructed that after hearing this scandal your first reaction ought
to have been that (24:12-16) it is a fabrication, an open and grievous
calumny".

It provides a permanent guidance, not to have an adverse
opinion about the accused.
e) If a crime has been committed prior to promulgation of a law
declaring it as such, it should not be considered a crime. It other
words the application of a law cannot be made retrospectively; this
shall be applicable only after its enforcement. Regarding many such
injunctions the Quran has said: (4:22)

"Except what has foregone". i.e., what happened before the enforcement
of law, shall not be accountable.


f) An act not committed willfully shall not be considered
cognisable. It is said in Surah 'Ahzaab' (33rd Chapter of the Quran):
(33:5)

"There is no blame on you if you make a mistake therein: (what counts)
is the intention of your hearts."

But carelessness (inattention) is
also a crime in itself and punishable, that is why the Quran has also
prescribed punishment in case of murder by mistake; although it is not
as severe as for premeditated murder; rather it is by way of
atonement.
g) Some small mistakes on the part of people who always avoid big
crimes are pardonable. In Surah An-Najm, (53rd Chapter of the Quran)
it is said:

(53:32) for those who avoid major sins and shameful deeds, falling
into small errors, is pardonable.
h) While prescribing punishment, the offender's intellectual level,
education and upbringing, and social environments must be kept in
mind. It is on this account that the Quran had ordained punishment for
fornication with women (of that period) half that of the free
believing women (4:25), because in view of the circumstances under
which they were brought up, high morals could not be expected from
them. On the contrary the wives of the Rasool were told that if any
one of them commits a crime, their punishment should be twice that of
an ordinary believing woman. (33:30)

i) The kind of Social Order that
the, Quran establishes, and the way in which its individuals are
brought up, it expects of them to come forward voluntarily and accept
their slips if ever they occur, and to tell the truth, even if it goes
against themselves (4:135). In this verse, the Holy Quran has
presented such a lofty principle regarding evidence, in the presence
of which there remains no difficulty in the administration of justice.
(See chapter on 'Testimony').
7. The Holy Quran aims at correction of the criminal: therefore it
adopts all possible means to stir up in his mind the sense of contempt
for crime; and in this connection presents an extraordinary (and
strange) principle. It says: (4:111)

"And if anyone commits an excess or an oppression, he does so against
his own self". That is, if anyone commits crime or excess against
anybody, he thinks in his own mind that he has harmed somebody else,
but in reality he commits the crime against his own person and thus
harms his own self. Here it is said that it is the criminal's own
personality that is affected and that it cannot be made good by an
external punishment. It also means that if the criminal, somehow or
the other, escapes punishment, even then he cannot escape the harm
which he has inflicted on his own personality; because Allah's Law of
Requital is such that: (40:19)

"He knows the dishonesty of the eyes and that which the bosoms hide."
Such are the teachings which make a criminal feel guilty and by so
doing provide him means for self-rectification.

 Yet another question
arises here and it is, that after a criminal gets punishment by a
court of law, does he escape accountability in the life Hereafter For
this we ought to comprehend what is meant by accountability in the
Hereafter The effect of every human action (even an idea) is engraved
on his 'Self'; and his life Hereafter takes shape on the basis of
these accumulated effects. One effect of crime falls on the society
and the other on his own 'self'. Punishment by the court of law can
annul the crime against the society, but it cannot obliterate the
effect of the crime on his own personality. He himself shall have to
make it good. For it, the first step is the feeling of guilt which
results into Tauba _ or his determination to keep away from the crime.
The second step is that of correction; which means to perform such
constructive deeds which can compensate the loss which resulted from
the crime he had committed: (11:114)

"Those deeds that are good, remove the effects of those that are
evil."

 The is the basic principle of the Quranic Law of Requital. As
a matter of fact, one who firmly believes in Allah's Law of Requital
seldom commits a crime.

Salaam

[Edip Yuksel]

Dear Ansari:

Thank you for sharing with us the political action advisory by Michael
Moore and your lengthy article on the Society of Believers.

I would like receiving this lengthy post in MS Word via my email so
that I can reformat (if it is needed) and print it for easy read.

Peace,
Edip