Muslims of the World Betrayed Mursi

Late Muhammad Mursi

Islamic  media outfits have been inundated with news about the personality and passing of the martyr, Muhammad Mursi. 

It leaves one to wonder how important a figure the man was. Muhammad Mursi became the first democratically elected president of Egypt on 30th June 2012 after secularist dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted by popular protest on 11th February 2011. 

The First Betrayal
It wasn’t an easy 12 months for Mursi’s Islam inclined government as all anti-Islam forces domestic and foreign, Arab and non-Arab came for him. 

He was overthrown in a coup by then defense minister, al Sisi, as Egyptian Muslims sat down at home watching TV. It was almost as if they felt they were doing Mursi a favour by voting for him and the Islamic party.

That was the first betrayal, leaving Mursi to face the insults and defamations of the rebels alone. 

The Muslims of Turkey learnt from this. When atheists and secularists attempted a coup on 15th July 2016, Turks poured onto the streets to defend their leaders and government. 

It wasn’t until the coup was announced that the Muslims of Egypt knew they had to come out to defend their government; it was too late.

All kinds of ludicrous and spurious allegations were leveled against Mursi just to keep him chained. All these, under the watch of the so-called OIC (Organization of Islamic Co-orperation). 

Only the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey stood solidly behind Mursi’s government; Iran spoke only little largely due to their falling out with Mursi over Bashar al Asad’s government in Syria.

The Second Betrayal
After the first two years of Mursi’s detention, the Muslim world went silent. Pro-Mursi rallies across the globe stopped, pro-Mursi warriors on social media went dormant, Masajid across the Muslim world that were constantly speaking against the atrocities in Egypt moved on to ‘other issues’, and even the Muslims who used to wake up for tahajjud just to pray for Mursi and the Muslims of Egypt went  back to their normal sleeping routines. 

Not even anniversaries of the overthrow were held.

Personally, I don’t remember making du’a for Mursi even once in the last Ramadan.

It is possible the Sisi regime saw this deafening silence as a green light to eliminate the head of the Egyptian Islamic revolution, Muhammad Mursi.

One has to have ambivalent feelings towards the events that have followed after the death of Muhammad Mursi was announced on 17th June 2019. 

All of a sudden, social media went on fire . The warriors were resurrected; showing their love and scorn for Mursi and Sisi respectively but, to what net gain?

Global pressure compels even the worst tyrant to acquiesce and listen. It turned out that the Muslim’s 1.8 billion population was of no use to Mursi.

We failed Muhammad Mursi, we can only pray for Allah’s forgiveness for indeed cowardice and laziness are very despicable qualities.

We should not forget that there are several members of the government of Muhammad Mursi who are still in chains under the Sisi regime, if we failed Mursi we should not fail the others too.

Prominent members of the Islamic government still in prison are:

• Mohammed Badie (Supreme guide of The Muslim Brotherhood)
• Mohamed Beltagy (Secretary of the Freedom And Justice Party)
• Mohammed Khairat Saad el-Shater (Deputy Supreme guide of The Muslim Brotherhood)
• Mohamed Saad Tawfik El-Katani (Speaker of the People’s Assembly)
• Essam Mohamed Hussein el-Erian (Vice chairman of Freedom and Justice Party)

To mention just a few.

May Allah grant ease to his loyal servants, Ameen.

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What Muslims Should Learn From Khashoggi

Late Jamal Khashoggi

World media has become inundated with name Jamal Khashoggi; an American resident Journalist from Saudi Arabia who was murdered by his own country. People have asked, what could it be about this man that made Saudi Arabia take the step of assassinating him?

Jamal Khashoggi was born to Ahmad Khashoggi and Esaaf Daftar in Madina in Saudi Arabia on 13th October 1958. 

Khashoggi received his elementary and secondary education in Saudi Arabia and obtained a BBA degree from Indiana State University in America in 1982. His religious views are mainstream Islamic views devoid of sectarian bias.

Khashoggi’s career as a journalist started in 1983 working as the regional Manager of Tihama Bookstores, his popularity in media surged in September 2017 when he became a columnist for the Washington post.

The upgrading of the status of Mohammed bin Salman to crown prince saw a dramatic change in Saudi policies from covert to overt. Relationships, deals and policies that were maintained and implemented in secrecy are now being exhibited for the world’s cameras. 

The massacres in Yemen intensified, arrests of Islamic clerics started, an Islamic scholar, Sheikh Suleiman Dweesh, was tortured to death in a Saudi prison to mention a few.

Jamal Khashoggi took to his duties as a Journalist which include speaking on behalf of those who cannot. In an article published on 11th September 2018 titled 'Saudi Arabia’s crown prince must restore dignity to his country — by ending Yemen’s cruel war', Khashoggi criticized the Saudi-led war on the people of Yemen. 

In another article titled 'Saudi Arabia wasn’t always this repressive. Now it’s unbearable' published on 18th September 2017, Khashoggi showed disdain for the state of freedom of expression in his country, Saudi Arabia.

On October 2^nd 2018, Jamal Khashoggi went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain papers for his upcoming wedding; he never came out. On October 25th 2018 the Saudis finally admitted that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate.

What they have refused to admit publicly is that he was assassinated on the orders of the King himself, Salman bin Saud, with his son MBS in position to take the fall.

Jamal Khashoggi was ardently abiding by the command of Allah: "O you who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allah, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be (against) rich or poor: for Allah can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts), lest you swerve, and if you distort justice or decline to do justice, verily Allah is well-acquainted with all that you do." Suratul Nisa (4:135)

Khashoggi showed that being from a people, race, or nation should never be a reason to justify atrocities committed by them. Muhammad (SAW) said, "Whoever supports his people in oppression is like a dead camel that falls into a well and is pulled out by its tail".

Khashoggi didn’t even choose the option of silence, he stood his ground which had and still has solid scriptural backing even with knowledge that his life was in danger. 

Jamal Khashoggi was a soldier with a pen, a martyr. May Allah grant him the highest place in Jannah.

Tariq ibn Shihab reported: A man asked Muhammad (SAW) “What is the best jihad?” 

The Prophet said, “A word of truth in front of a tyrannical ruler.”

Muslims Defying Ulama: Giving Zakatul Fitr to Street Beggars

Muslim Street Beggars

Zakatul fitr is a compulsory charity that matured Muslims give to the poor either in the last three days of Ramadan or in the few hours preceding Salatul Eid. 

In recent years, scholars in Nigeria have been voicing their