Muslim Youths should Write and Speak up against all Synthetic Ideologies

By, Md Maruf Hasan

What is the very fundamental basis of Islam? It is to say, “There is no Ilah, except Allah”. There is a negation of all world ideologies related to the concept of Allah, and there is an affirmation to witness the very existence of Allah (SWT). 

Who is Allah? The answer is, “There is nothing like Him” (Al Quran, 112:4).

Is should be disseminated to the whole of humanity that there is an Ever-Living Lord who can make them accountable on the Day of judgement as Criminals for not reconsidering Allah as their Creator? Regarding the spiritual crisis that is silently affecting young minds around the world in the 21^st century, I think, the Quran has the solution for it. 

The Muslim youth perhaps does realize at some point of life that they should engage in writing or speaking for their Most Beloved Allah. Yet they hesitate to write or speak up for their Creator. Why so? They would say, I am not the right person for this job. There are so many reasons and excuses not to do this, each time they encounter this job.  

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jaffar Syed Mohamed Ali from IIUM’s Kulliyyah of Engineering said to us once that calling (speaking or writing) others for Allah, not for others, rather it is for yourself. How is that? The issue is very simple. It is right to say that no human is perfect. When you start writing or speaking for Islam, Muslims gradually are able to be self-conscious and modify themselves to strive for the best. 

This point is important to stress, because many of the Muslim youths nowadays are facing the problem of moral degradation, and they are simply unwilling to engage with this particular field. The reality is that Muslims are strictly commanded and encouraged in the Quran to call people towards Allah. This could be fatal and dangerous for the entire Muslim Ummah if they do not do so, as we learned from the Quranic and Prophetic literature. We have been systematically forgotten who we are and what are our main job as a Muslim. 

Let us look from a different angle now, imagine you are assigned to research how to destroy family bonding in modern society without forcing them externally. You go and collect data of over 1,000 families, and you come to mention some major variables that can strongly contribute to destroying a family internally. Once the research has been completed, the implementation was executed by the authority against their enemies. These enemies, as a consequence without realizing it, start to break up with their family members, but none of them aware of these consequences. Previously the families of these enemies were very strong, but now they lose confidence.  These families are weak now in comparison to their enemies. They are vulnerable to being attacked by their enemies now and they cannot fight or attack in any way.

Now what if some of these family members realize these variables and they later somehow predict how they might get into a trap psychologically by external force. This is exactly happening with the entire Muslim Ummah (Muslim Youths are more vulnerable). We are taking advantage of technologies and at the same time, we are embracing some foreign cultures that are neither supported in the native culture nor by the Quran. This is a completely foreign culture, that we embrace, and normalize, and break our heritage, and are completely unaware. As we are attacked by enemies, we check our strength and it appears weak. 

How to get strength back? We need to investigate and understand the problem in the first place. Then, we can slowly try to recover from the problem. For example, what is it that Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) focused on at the advent of Islam? The message of Tawhid. Those who accept Islam, did they still drink alcohol (obviously the verse was not revealed)? The answer is yes. Were they still struggling to overcome moral degradation gradually? The answer is yes. Did these people speak out for Allah despite their weakness? The answer is yes.

Muslim youths can be empowered by understanding Muslim History and literature first in order to build the very foundation of a new Islamic civilization again. It is not impossible at all. We are much stronger in terms of different resources and wealth in comparison to the time of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions gave their best efforts to strive for Allah (SWT). We saw the result for the next hundreds of years.

To call (write and speak) for Allah (SWT) is necessary for the Muslim community. The moral degradation and spiritual crisis that are abstaining Muslim and global youths to speak or search for the Truth, the Quran has the remedy for all these intellectual and spiritual crises that humanity is passionately looking for today. Despite all the mistakes and errors in life, Muslim youths must dare to write and voice for their beloved Ever-Living Allah (SWT) exclusively because that is the ultimate destiny and solution for all diseases. The Quran taught us as thus, 

“Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return” ( al-Quran, 2:156)***