{"id":184846,"date":"2025-08-18T06:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=184846"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:07:15","slug":"muslim-youths-should-write-and-speak-up-against-all-synthetic-ideologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=184846","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Youths\u00a0should Write\u00a0and Speak up\u00a0against\u00a0all\u00a0Synthetic Ideologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By, Md Maruf Hasan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the very fundamental basis of Islam? It is\u00a0to\u00a0say, \u201cThere is no\u00a0<\/em>Ilah<\/em>, except Allah\u201d. There is a negation of all world ideologies related\u00a0to\u00a0the concept of Allah,\u00a0and there is an affirmation to witness the very existence of Allah (SWT).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is Allah?\u00a0The answer is,\u00a0\u201cThere is nothing like\u00a0Him\u201d (Al Quran, 112:4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is should be disseminated to the whole of humanity\u00a0that 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 21st<\/sup>\u00a0century, I think, the\u00a0Quran has the solution for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Muslim youth perhaps does realize at some point of life that they should engage\u00a0in writing\u00a0or speaking\u00a0for their\u00a0Most Beloved Allah. Yet they hesitate to write or speak up\u00a0for their Creator. Why so? They would say, I am not\u00a0the\u00a0right person for this\u00a0job. There are so many reasons and excuses not to do this, each time they encounter this job. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assoc. Prof. Dr.\u00a0Jaffar Syed Mohamed Ali\u00a0from IIUM’s Kulliyyah of\u00a0Engineering\u00a0said to us once that calling (speaking or writing) others for Allah, not for others,\u00a0rather it is for yourself. How is that?\u00a0The issue is very simple. It is right to say that no human is perfect. When you start writing\u00a0or speaking for Islam, Muslims gradually are able to be\u00a0self-conscious\u00a0and modify themselves to strive for the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This point is important to stress, because many of\u00a0the\u00a0Muslim youths nowadays are facing the problem of moral degradation,\u00a0and they are simply unwilling to engage with this particular field. The reality is\u00a0that\u00a0Muslims are strictly commanded and encouraged in the Quran to\u00a0call people towards\u00a0Allah. This could be fatal\u00a0and dangerous\u00a0for the entire Muslim Ummah\u00a0if they do not do so, as we learned from the Quranic and Prophetic literature.\u00a0We have been systematically forgotten who we are and what are our main job as a Muslim.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us look from a different angle\u00a0now,\u00a0imagine\u00a0you are assigned to\u00a0research\u00a0how to destroy family bonding\u00a0in modern society without forcing them externally. You go and collect data\u00a0of over 1,000\u00a0families,\u00a0and you come to mention some major variables that can strongly contribute to\u00a0destroying\u00a0a family\u00a0internally. Once the research has been completed, the implementation was executed by the authority against their enemies. These\u00a0enemies, as a consequence without\u00a0realizing it,\u00a0start to break up with their family members, but none of them aware\u00a0of\u00a0these consequences. Previously the families of these enemies were very strong, but now they\u00a0lose confidence. \u00a0These families are weak now in\u00a0comparison\u00a0to their\u00a0enemies.\u00a0They are vulnerable to being attacked by their enemies now and they\u00a0cannot\u00a0fight or attack in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now what\u00a0if\u00a0some of these family members realize these variables and they later somehow predict how they might get into\u00a0a\u00a0trap psychologically by external force. This is exactly happening with\u00a0the\u00a0entire 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\u00a0the\u00a0native culture nor by the Quran. This is\u00a0a\u00a0completely foreign culture, that we embrace,\u00a0and\u00a0normalize,\u00a0and break our\u00a0heritage,\u00a0and are\u00a0completely\u00a0unaware. As we are attacked by enemies, we\u00a0check\u00a0our\u00a0strength and\u00a0it appears weak.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to get strength back? We need to investigate and understand the problem\u00a0in the first place. Then, we can slowly try to recover from the problem.\u00a0For example,\u00a0what\u00a0is it\u00a0that\u00a0Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) focused\u00a0on\u00a0at\u00a0the advent of Islam? The message of\u00a0Tawhid<\/em>. 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\u00a0despite their weakness? The answer is yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muslim youths can be empowered by understanding Muslim History and literature first in order to build the very foundation of\u00a0a\u00a0new\u00a0Islamic civilization again. It is not impossible at all.\u00a0We are much\u00a0stronger\u00a0in terms of\u00a0different\u00a0resources\u00a0and\u00a0wealth\u00a0in 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\u00a0the next\u00a0hundreds of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\u00a0call\u00a0(write and speak)\u00a0for Allah (SWT) is necessary for the Muslim community. The moral degradation and spiritual crisis that are\u00a0abstaining\u00a0Muslim and global youths to speak or search for the Truth, the Quran has the remedy for all\u00a0these intellectual and spiritual crises\u00a0that 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.\u00a0The Quran taught us as thus,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndeed, to Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0( al-Quran, 2:156)***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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