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year the 11th September used to come and go ordinarily but
now when a person talks of the 11th September, his mind stops
for a while recalling an unforgettable event. On that day,
a building about which the architects had claimed that no
cyclone or flood and no earthquake or air attack could destroy
it, fell to ground. The claims proved to be hollow and the
security arrangements of the superpower turned into a wall
of sand. The writers who go in details would describe the
height and area of the World Trade Center, the number of doors,
windows and lifts and the number of people employed there.
They would also try to count the number of dining rooms, cafeterias,
snake bars, ACs, fans, tube lights, toilets and bathrooms
and how much wine, how much tea, how much coffee and how much
soft drinks were taken there daily, how much mails came there
and how many phone calls were received daily. To embellish
their articles, some of the journalists would narrate the
story of a maiden who worked in WTC and was held dear by her
colleagues. Then, they would regretfully write, “How
precious things got buried under the debris of WTC.”
These details have been appearing in the newspapers for the
last one year and will continue to be described perhaps until
another incident of this sort takes place. However, a Muslim
having a deep insight into the world affairs does not take
the event as confined to the destruction of a few buildings.
His thoughts reach far advanced points since he knows that
the debris of WTC in New York had fallen upon the Islamic
Emirate in Afghanistan. Just as the fans of materialism cannot
forget the buildings made of steel and stone, the upholders
of spiritualism cannot forget the enviable Emirate that was
formed on the principle of Shari`ah as a result of sacrifices
by more than one and a half million people. The lackeys of
America are aggrieved for the destruction of buildings which
had been constructed with billions of dollars which housed
hundreds of offices and were visited by the largest number
of tourists in the world. On the other hand, the Islam-loving
people are struck with the pain that the fort of peace and
integrity exists no more where the Quran and Hadth were supreme
law and Islamic teachings were prevailing in every institution
– be it judiciary or finance; education or police. The
rulers of the fort had devoted their lives to Allah. They
ate simple food, wore simple dresses and lead a very simple
life.
The buildings in America and the Emirate in Afghanistan were
founded on two opposite principles. The former were a symbol
of arrogance and the later was an embodiment of simplicity
and humility. In fact, the structures based on humility never
decay and they do exist even after getting destroyed. But
the buildings which are based on arrogance are the sign of
nation’s downfall and their existence is a shame. America
and its allies are highly arrogant. They consider themselves
to be a superior creature and look down scornfully upon the
rest of humans, especially the Muslims.
They are devoid of emaan and guidance due to their arrogance.
They want to establish their hegemony over the whole world
and are ambitious to build the palace of their grandeur over
the wreckage of humanity. Being power-hungry, slaves of their
desires, drinkers, gamblers, they are the ones who rebel against
nature.
While laying the foundation of the towers, the haughty architects
had a vision that the building would be an icon of America’s
superiority and its dominance over the whole world, and with
its strength, beauty and spaciousness would tell the world
that no country or nation could compete or fight America.
On the other hand, the humble people were busy founding a
building in the form of Islamic Emirate that would be a live
symbol of Allah’s greatness, and its stability and eminence
would tell the world that Allah is Omnipotent and every living
being is bound to obey His orders and worship Him. Life and
death, honour and disgrace, success and failure all these
things are destined by Allah. All human beings are equal and
a white is not superior to a black, the rich to the poor and
an American to a Pakistani. No one has the right to force
the fellow humans into becoming his slaves and nobody can
bind someone to comply with a self-made law.
Today, when we have seen the sun of 11th September 2002 rise
and fall, the buildings and the emirate are destroyed. The
names of people who destroyed the former are anonymous. Who
were they? What were their real objectives? Who ere did they
get the funds? How did they succeed to hijack the planes despite
security arrangements? Nobody has a definite answer to all
these questions. The debris of WTC has been removed and the
upholders of materialism are planning to construct another
building at the site, while a struggle is going on in the
deserts, mountains and streets of Afghanistan for the formation
of a spiritual centre or an emirate that would be a symbol
of Islam’s eminence and revival of Islamic caliphate.
Surely, the opponents of the emirate are straining every nerve
to prevent the formation of this emirate. They are equipped
with military power, financial resources and apparent grandeur,
but still there is no reason that the believers should feel
disheartened. History tells us that from the birth of Hazrat
Adam (‘alaihis salaam) to the present era, there has
been an unabated fight between the believers and unbelievers,
between the truth and the falsehood and between religiosity
and paganism. The Divine philosophy behind this fight is that
the believers’ spirit of jihad may not fade. Otherwise
they would misapply their passions in useless activities like
enjoying music, finding pleasure in pornography or running
lustfully after wealth while forgetting Allah and Rasoolullah
(sallallahu `alaihe wasallam). The result would be nothing
but disgrace and downfall. Despite the Muslims’ disunity
and internal differences, the big world powers feel horrified
by even a tiny struggle for Islam’s renaissance.
If the upholders of material civilization, on the basis of
their financial resources, are confident of reconstructing
the buildings symbolizing their satanic ideologies then why
should the upholders of spiritual civilization have any doubts
about establishment of Islamic caliphate reflecting the Quranic
ideologies? The renaissance of Islamic caliphate is the need
of the Muslims all over the world and this is possible only
when the Muslims make a sincere struggle for the sake of Allah
and leave aside their personal interests and worldly desires.
Then, they would succeed in establishing a glorious emirate
and hundreds of trade centers would appear like toy-like houses.
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