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ishkabab
02-10-2006, 02:21 AM
taken from:http://www.darsequran.com/homeenglish.php


What is my crime?

Respected President, Sir! I am a student of a Deeni Madrasah. Crest fallen and dejected, I would like to present my case to you in the hope that you will favour it with your attention.

We originally belong to Hyderabad, Deccan. My father migrated to America thirty years ago. I was born in California where we own a super store and live a very comfortable life. We enjoy all the material luxuries a man can think of but as far as spiritual benefits are concerned you yourself know quite well what the American society is. No respect for the elders, no family system. Words like shame, honour, and virginity have become meaningless. Young men spend their free time in casinos, internet cafes and discos. The whole week is one long wait for the weekend to arrive. Parents have no right to rein in the morals of their children. A teenager who doesn't have a date to enjoy the weekend with is considered an odd type of a person. When I stepped into my teens, the sensual world of America opened its arms in welcome. Had I taken a single step towards it, it would have enclosed me in its warm embrace and I would have been lost in depravity forever. But that did not happen. My Allah, in all His Mercy guided my footsteps to the path of Deen. I was studying in High School when my parents suddenly decided that I must learn about my religion at all costs. They sent me to Pakistan to acquire religious education and I took admission in a madrasah here. The Madrasah administration knew that I was used to material comforts and they tried to provide me as many as they could----- the best board and lodgings they had ----- yet they were still nothing as compared to those I enjoyed in America. In addition all my free time seemed to have completely vanished. From the moment I rose at dawn till the time I fell asleep at night every minute was accounted for. A relentless schedule gave me no free time. The whole day was spent in sitting on floor mats, learning and teaching, doing every work at the appointed time……I wasn't used to this regimen, yet I grew used to it, to liking it. If someone from America comes to visit me now, he is amazed at my appearance….. my loose dress, cap-covered head, spirit of serving my teachers, sitting on the floor-dastarkhwan for meals, getting up on time, going to sleep on time. In view of my life in America they find it hard to believe that I could have become used to such discipline in such a short time. And it is not only my visitors from America who are amazed but the journalists, thinkers, industrialists and officers of the bureaucracy who come to visit the Jamia are dumbfounded too. When they meet foreign students like me they try to impress us with their English but after a minute or two are left searching for words. They very sympathetically ask us about our problems; confident that once we begin we will never be able to bring to an end our tale of woe and hardships, they expect us to say that it is only dire necessity that has made us stay otherwise we would fly back to our sham paradise as fast as we could. But when they hear nothing but praise from us for our jailers and jail they are left wondering. How can we make them understand that our 'asatizah', our teachers, love us even more than our own mothers? That the peace we have found here doesn't exist in any opera house, club or bar? The poor people simply cannot believe that young men can sacrifice their youthful dreams, longings, desires and freedom just to acquire religious knowledge in such strict conditions. They can understand a person staying away from his country, friends and relatives for years on end for the sake of a handful of dollars, euros or riyals, working for the Christians or Jews, tending to their pet dogs or cleaning their washrooms but what they can't understand is how can young men leave the comforts of America, Britain or other Western countries and come to live in such countries for the sake of acquiring the priceless gems of religious knowledge. Well, they are not really to blame for how can they know the taste and intoxication of a wine they have never drunk? They are only used to the dirty wine that has become a part of their lives.

Mr. President! I am more peace-loving than ever before. Living in the religious and peaceful atmosphere of the Jamia, I've learnt how to live in peace with others. I've been taught that I can never be a perfect Muslim until all my neighbours, peaceful citizens, and each and every human being is safe from the mischief of my hands and tongue. Let alone a human being, I cannot even harm an animal or insect. I've been taught here the manners of 'da'wah' and 'tableegh'. The foremost condition of 'da'wah' is love of humanity. Da'wah' or 'invitation to Deen' cannot be given in an atmosphere of hatred. An inviter or propagator can differ with the views of his opponent but be cannot hate him. If he begins hating him, the door of invitation closes shut. I am trying with all my might to learn how to control my emotions so that through Islam's message of peace, I can invite the whole world to embrace this religion.

Mr. President, Sir! Whenever I recall that America has been directly or indirectly involved in all the 99 wars fought in the recent past or are being fought to-day, I feel ashamed of being an American. Are you not aware of the fact that 8,000,000 Red Indians to whom America originally belonged were labeled as 'wild' and slaughtered mercilessly? Don't you remember that the American sanctions on Iraq caused the agonizing death of more than 500,000 Iraqis? There were innocent babies and women among the dead too.

In the Vietnam War 7,000,000 people were killed. In the two World Wars the figures rose to 600 million dead. Admitted that other countries were involved in these wars but America was an integral part too. Thousands of Palestinians have been killed by the Jews and America is to blame for these killings as Israel enjoys its full support.

If I get an opportunity to acquire the highest Islamic knowledge I shall, in the light of Quran and Sunnah, invite my countrymen to peace and Islam. I shall become a representative, an ambassador of Pakistan, a country I owe so much to. I shall try to help it in any way I can. Some people think that we are acquiring religious education with the aim of finding small jobs in a madrasah or mosque but our teachers have taught us to aim for nothing but to serve Deen selflessly and to work only and only for the pleasure of Allah.

Mr. President, you have suddenly ordered all foreign students to leave Pakistan. You cannot even imagine the mental anguish your orders have caused us. We are asking ourselves again and again what is our crime? What is our fault? Let alone being involved in terrorism, we don't even fully understand what it is. People are saying that the London bombings are the cause of our eviction as one of the bombers is said to have come to Pakistan for two or three months and spent a dew days in a madrasah here. The funny thing is that the country and the educational institutions where the terrorist spent the major part of his life is absolved of all blame while the madrasah where he spent only a few days becomes the target of vicious retaliation and the students studying in like madrasahs are ordered to leave the country. An even funnier thing is that people who want to learn any of the art forms, like dancing (which is haraam) etc. are welcomed with open arms while those who seek knowledge of Quran and Sunnah are forced to leave.

You must have heard that the Indian Government has thrown its doors wide open for the thousands of madrasah students like me. I can go there too but isn't it a shameful thing that the doors if the Fort of Islam are slammed shut upon the students of Islamic learning but a non-Muslim country willingly offers them protection?

Respected Sir, today there is a high wall of power between you and me today but on the Day of Qiyamah we shall be standing in one row. I shall certainly ask you there why you ordered my expulsion from my Alma Mater, my natural country ( Pakistan ) thus depriving me of my right to religious knowledge. What was my crime? I shall not be the only one to ask you this question but there will be thousands of others like me deprived of a chance to serve this world and Deen. I hope you will have an answer prepared.
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Ibn Abi Ahmed
02-10-2006, 02:51 AM
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