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The Elipse of Islam________________________________________________________Keeping this in mind, Allama Iqbal wrote in another letter: ‘As far as I know,in Fasus Al Hukm there is nothing but atheism and heresy.’ (Ibid. p-44)(4) Deen is the name of a complete system and regulation for the social lifeof human beings. It progresses in its own state. That is why Umar said, ‘NoIslam without social life. Islam cannot be imagined without a group (sociallife).However, Sufism abhors social life. Sufis believe in individual salvationthrough mediation and contemplation in hermits. According to thisideology, there cannot be any difference between Islam and Hindu vedaant,Christian monasticism and (pre-Islamic) Iranian Magians.Opposition to JihadIslam describes life as a constant struggle and the final shape of this struggleis when a group of Momins (Muslims) comes out for war to resist tyrannyand oppression. When they return a victorious, they are called Ghazi andthe people who lose their lives are eligible for perpetual life. There is nobetter deed in Islam than Jihad. But Sufism calls this Jihad a ‘Minor’ Jihadbut calls the abandoning of society and exercising self control as ‘Major’Jihad. Not only that, they see the armed Jihad with contempt. In this respectthey have a popular stanza:[A ghazi, who has not yet been martyred, continues the search for anopportunity of martyrdom. But he is misguided, because the martyr of loveof God is higher in status. On the Day of Judgment, it will be declared thathe was killed by the enemy while the other one is killed by a friend. (It______________________________________________________________What happened to Islam after Umar? [ 103 ]
The Elipse of Islam________________________________________________________means that the martyr of love is fortunate that he was killed at the hands ofhis beloved, God.)]Criticizing this stanza, Allama Iqbal says, ‘From the poetic point of view thisstanza is wonderful and deserves praise but if we evaluate it impartially, wefind that it is very deceptive and a clever method is used to reject IslamicJihad. It is the art of the poet that though a person is being given poison, hethinks he is given the water of immortality. Unfortunately, Muslims havebeen believing this for several centuries. (Letter to Siraj Din Pal inIqbalnama, Vol. 1, p-36)All mystic poetry was produced during the period of political downfall of theMuslims. And it should have been like this because when a nation losespower and energy, as Muslims lost after the Tartar attack, its thinking ischanged. For them their weakness becomes a thing of beauty andabandoning this world (seclusion) becomes a way of seeking pleasure.Nations hide their laziness and defeat in their struggle for survival behindthe curtain of seclusion. In Indian Muslims we see that the climax of poetryreached in the marsias (poetry about the martyrdom of Imam Hussein) ofLuckhnow. (Ibid. p-44)In another letter, he writes: ‘For centuries Indian Muslims are under theinfluence of the Iranian thoughts. They are not aware of the Arabic Islamand its objective and mission. Their literary as well as social ideals areImams.’ (Ibid. p-24)He calls this “Magian Heritage” of Muslims and writes with great grief andsorrow: ‘This Magian heritage has deride up the roots of Islam. It has alsoblocked the development of Islamic spirit and achievement of itsobjectives.’ (Ahmadiat and Islam)Allama Iqbal and Tasawwuf: In 1917, Allama Iqbal wrote an article – Islamand Mysticism – that was published in New Era, a newspaper of Luckhnow,______________________________________________________________What happened to Islam after Umar? [ 104 ]
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