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INTRODUCTION

The Prophet, peace and blessings of God be on him, has said: “God will raise, at the head of each century, such people for this ummah as will renew (ujaddidu) its religion for it.”1 This means that the history of Islam will not be smooth sailing; the forces of ignorance (jāhiliyyah) will continue to be at war with Islam. As a result, some far-reaching changes will occur over a century which will disfigure Islam and seriously endanger the faith and life of the ummah. When this happens God will raise from the community someone or some meii who will fight the jiihiliyyah, right the wrong which it has caused, restore Islam to its own shape, and give the community a new lease on life.

The changes and distortions which the IJadith implies will not be something petty and superficial, happening only in a decade or two and affecting only a part of the ummah or some people in one geographical area, such that they could be rectified by small . reformative efforts. They will be profound and far-reaching, colossal and widespread, and will require a Herculean effort to rectify them.

Ibn Taymiyyah Expounds on Islam

They will affect the very basis of Islam, erode or compromise the validity of the revelation, subject it to reason or intuition. They may even do the opposite: negate or undermine reason or intuition and destroy the balance which Islam maintains between them. They will affect the faith of Islam. They will change the concept of God and His relation to the world, they will distort the idea of His tawhid and its meaning for human life, and compromise it in various ways, overt and covert, and smear it with shirk. T

hey will change the view of prophethood and prophetic mission, the view of the life hereafter and its relation to the life in this world. They will also affect the Islamic system of values, replace the ultimate good of the Qur’an and the Sunnah with some other good, alter the order of priorities, make the lower higher and the higher lower, or just drop or ignore certain values and replace them with others which are alien to Islam.

They will change the manner and the method which the Qur’an and the Sunnah prescribe to affirm, strengthen and cultivate Islamic values and accomplish Islamic perfection, and replace partly or mostly the prophetic suluk with a suluk which draws upon foreign sources and is geared to different ends.

Ibn Taymiyyah Expounds on Islam

They will affect Islamic society, weaken the bond of unity which binds it together, make it forget the mission which God has set before it, and replace it with another not approved by Him, shift power and authority from hands which are supposed to wield it to hands which are not supposed to wield it, alter the principles which are stipulated to integrate the Islamic society, and institute in their place those that are opposed to the faith and the values of Islam.

The mujaddid whom God raises to revive Islam is gifted with great talents. He perceives minutely all the changes which occur in the life of the ummah. He gauges the extent to which they have sapped its strength. He brings those changes to the knowledge of the people. He makes them aware of all the forms they appear in. And finally, he points out the factors which have caused them.

He attacks those factors, assails the doctrines which are involved, exposes the methods by which they work, traces the process through which they have developed, demolishes the excuses which people have advanced, and destroys the justifications they have offered. He rejects all the compromises which have been made with respect to God’s unity, and puts in the language of the time the pure undiluted concept of tawhid…

Meaning of Jihād – Ibn Taymiyyah Expounds on Islam

Jihad means to exert oneself to secure the faith and righteousness which God loves, and to fight the unfaith, immorality and sin which God hates. He has said, “Say: If it be that your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses or your kindred, the wealth that you have gained, the commerce in which you fear decline, or the dwellings in which you delight are dearer to you than God or His Messenger, or striving (jihad) in His cause, then wait until God brings about His decision, and God guides not the rebellious” (9:24).

This is the warning that God has issued to those who hold their families and their wealth dearer than Him and His Messenger and striving in His cause. There is a Hadfth in the Sahih collections that the Prophet said, “By the One Who has my life in His hands, not one of you will truly believe unless I am dearer to him than his sons, and his parents and the whole of mankind.” ((Al-Bukhari, Sahih, iman: 7; Muslim, Sahih, iman: 71, 72; At-Tirmidhi, Sunan, qiyamah: 59; An-Nasa’i, Sunan, Iman: 19, 33: Ibn Majah, Sunan, muqaddamah: 9, jana’iz: 1; Ad-Darimi, Sunan)) We have also in the Sahih collections that ‘Umar ibn Al-Khattab said to the Prophet, “Messenger of God you are certainly dearer to me than anything in the world except my own self.” The Prophet said, “No, ‘Umar, you cannot be a Believer unless I am dearer to you than everything else, Then ‘Umar said, “By God, you are now dearer to me than my own self,” whereupon the Prophet said, “Yes, ‘Umar, now.”

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