Bro, you're preaching to the choir and I'm on the same page as you [
LINK], but at some point, life needs to move on. Okay, he's better than those charlatans, great we've established that ... so what's next? We can't keep singing the the same tune month after month, year after year. It's not about having a Muslim ruler, othewise Hajjaj ibn Yusuf would have been the model of governance for us today. You walk the streets here, you visit different governorates, and things look perfectly normal. You can still buy up to date electronics, PS3 & XBox360 games [anyone know if the 720 came out yet?], designer clothes, McD's 'round the corner ... heck, I can even grab a Twix bar from the local convenient store if I want, but the average Joe (and even the non-average Joe) is suffering, and oppression is still rampant in different forms.
I was chewing the fat with this cool storekeep I know. Dude's got two wives [I was like, "may Allah {AWJ} give you strength Uncle ... LOL!], two apartments, like four or so mouths to feed, and wears a back brace. He used to work in the States when he was younger, and moved back to Egypt after he saved enough green to open up his own store. After the revolution, he can't break even to cover the costs of the commodities he sells. He was forced to let go of all his hired help and mans the store alone right now, which means there's no one to watch over the store while he's gone, which means he doesn't pray in jama'aa except during Fajr.
Young pizza shop owner just got married. He had to take out loans in order to cover the costs of the walima, mahr, etc. Some of you might say, "why'd he get married if he doesn't have the cash?" Talk to a 30+ year old bachelor and you'll probably get your answer. Dude's drowning in debt now, business is slow, and he's tapping old contacts to try and set up shop in England or something last I heard.
There are thousands more like them, but you'd never guess just by looking around you. Young men working cushy jobs with sweet salaries want to leave because they can't stand the decay of morals the recession is producing; Suhaib Webb made slight reference to this in his advice to those wishing to apply to Al-Azhar. I know one brother who wants to leave because he feels he can serve Islaam better in the West than he can in Egypt by virtue of the stability in life one experiences in the West.
The release of Muslims from the prisons here was a cause célèbre (and it still is), and it was a blessing from Allah {AWJ}, but there are still brothers languishing in prison here. It's to such a degree that many of the high profile brothers who got released are now campaigning for the release of their friends & family. To add to this, there are Muslims who are being arrested anew (for various reasons), and I think four or six (I don't remember the exact number) of the newly arrested were just sentenced to death. It's really confusing, 'cause you have SJ guys getting released, but others getting arrested. Why?
Anyways, this 50/50, or 70/30, or whatever, Shariah/Secular gumbo isn't working out by any measure of progress. Anyone who's preaching about patience & du'aa [which is solid & sound advice not to be discarded] should have spent the last 10 days of Ramadhaan with us in Egypt when our electricity and water were cut for days without end. We can talk about hikmah [wisdom], gradual implementation, and freedom ... about how democracy is the solution and those Shariah guys have no veritable long term plan/goal ... talk about whatever you want until the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that people are suffering and being forced to either move to non-Muslim lands (potentially putting their faith at risk), or make concessions in order to meet their basic needs (like the store owner I mentioned above).
The irony of the whole matter is that if Morsi just said ten simple words, "THE LAW OF THE LAND IS THE SHARIAH OF ALLAH", most [not all] people would shutup and put a sock in their fat mouths. We'd put up with everything: the economy, the inflation, the instability, the loss of services, and whatever may come, because we'd know that it's ultimately worth the price to be paid. But, since he was democratically elected, he doesn't have the authority to do that. He tried to give himself the power of a Caliph (supreme authority), and we're all seeing how that turned out.
- Ibn Zawaar
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