Tawheed And Jihad Is The Solution
Rajab 07, 1431 A.H, Sunday, June 20, 2010
Perhaps we would never
believe that Indonesia is a country where the life comes
from the sweats of the country men but is enslaved from
abroad, and what is more unbelievable is that, it is a
country in which the Islamic ummah is the biggest
in the world, but is the third biggest producer of
corruptions.
A country which they say that when you plug the tree into
the ground, it would produce fruits to be eaten by its
people, but everywhere, we could easily see people dying of
starvation, where the metaphor is “like a chicken dying in
its barn”. We can also see shiny cars that cost over
billions of Rupiah, milling about in the middle of the
streets amidst the begging hands of the beggars and the
carts of the street scavengers.
Not long ago, a
class III A officer of DITJEN (Directorate General) of
Taxation was found to have 25 billions in his savings,
compare it with the average income of the Indonesian
citizens who work laboriously but still have insufficient
food to eat. That was only his savings, not including his
other properties which are not possible to be acquired
through “normal” jobs alone.
Not to mention the octopuses behind
Gayus who was
allegedly involving many top officials of this country, have
their conscience been death? That they keep on committing
tyranny by taking the money that the citizens paid to the
State. As if the citizens are dairy cows who are easy to
fool and their properties taken anytime through very
despicable ways.
Of course it is true that in life there is richness and
poverty, and this is already outlined to maintain the
balance of nature, but the poverty in this country is very
unnatural and beyond the sense of humanity. Because, if
managed in the right and honest ways, this country would be
very rich in various potentials that Allah SWT has bestowed.
This has made many people, who still have conscience in them
especially from amongst the Muslims of course, want to fix
this damaged country, a part of them are entering into the
damaged system with a reason of wanting to improve it from
within and another party remain outside to waken the society
regarding the ills of the system adopted by the rulers of
today.
Maybe some of us are confused, what kind of step is
effective in fixing this country, entering into the system
or remaining outside the system, this continues to become a
never-ending and very tiring debates amongst the ummah.
If only we want to learn and read a little of how Rasulullah
conducted da'wah, we would not have been that
confused and easily stuck with the situation that occurred.
There are three points in the struggle to change the system
without having to immitate the kafirs.
First is the planting of the Aqeedah,
perhaps the first time Rasulullah conducted da'wah
he would have accepted the offer of power from the
mushrik people of Makkah, because with power he could
minimize casualties, properties and in fact could even save
his own life from the harassment of the kafir, in
fact after having power he could spread Islam easily, since
all the systems and kafir apparatuses of Makkah
could be controlled by him then, but the offer that seemed
advantageous to the Muslims was rejected outright by him.
Because, Rasulullah truly understood that when we want to
change a system, it is not necessary that we must be in
power first, but by implanting in his followers a strong
aqeedah, as power without being founded upon iman
on the owners of the world powers would only make that power
itself weak.
Because, it is not definite that every one who took shelter
under the rule that he would have just received, would
straight away, without the implanting of aqeedah,
accept a new system that was very different and opposite to
what was already being embraced by the society at that time.
Second is Tarbiyyah, in this case,
tarbiyyah is not something incorrectly understood
by the majority of the Islamic ummah, the
tarbiyyah that only becomes the hangout place of a
jama’ah, spreading the agendas of the winning party,
and the socialization of the candidate leaders in the
secular government. The tarbiyyah that we mean is a
concentrated education, fully and thoroughly implemented
without any other objective except to provide the true
understanding of tawheed, tarbiyyah is an
implementation from the da'wah of tawheed
itself.
So that the ummah understand that the system being
embraced by most mankind today is a system of kufr,
that could make the Islamic ummah further from
their own religion, instead of making the society covered
and distance from the understanding of the true tawheed.
Third is Jihad, jihad will be accomplished
when the understanding of the Islamic ummah on
tawheed is accomplished and they obtain comprehensive
educations about the true tawheed, because from
that tawheed, an understanding would emerge that
the current system is wrong and failing to bring mankind
towards justice and prosperity, thus the Islamic ummah
would consciously seize that power from the hands of the
kafirs in order to implement the Shari'ah of
Allah and become the mercy to all the worlds.
"And fight them on until there is
no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and
faith in Allah altogether and everywhere; but if they cease,
verily Allah doth see all that they do." [QS. Al
Anfal :39].
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