Applying Islamic Knowledge in Political Analysis

This is Shahid Bolson. Welcome to the Middle Nation. Now, if you want to apply Islamic knowledge in your analysis of global affairs or global events and so on, it seems to me that the first thing that you have to do is cross reference whatever the issue is that you're looking at with what we know from the Quran and Sunnah. That will often mean looking at the information that we have from about the future of this ummah. This can allow us to better weigh the extent to which any particular concern of the day is as genuinely dangerous as it may seem.

For example, we know beyond any question that this ummah will not perish as a result of climate change. The earth is not going to become uninhabitable before yama kayama, and the last day is going to occur as it has been described to us. It will happen suddenly, but it will not proceed until after all of the souls of the believers have already been taken away. Now, of course, this doesn't mean that we should be negligent about caring for the environment, but it does mean that we don't have to spend sleepless nights worrying about an imminent climate catastrophe. Now we also know that the saved sect of the Muslims will remain on the earth, will continue to be successful in religious terms, and will ultimately triumph spreading justice over the earth where there had been injustice.

Now the correct opinion about the identity of the saved sect is that it is the Jamar, the great body of the Muslims, al Asunaw al Jamar, not some fringe ultra rigid group. The saved sect includes sinners and righteous Muslims. It includes people who make mistakes and people even who are lax in their practice as long as they uphold the beliefs of al Asunaw al Jamah. Basically, you can know who belongs to the saved sect because they are those for whom the janazah is offered when they die. Now I'm saying this because it means that many of the divisive issues that are currently plaguing our ummah are actually quite petty and pointless, and they do not merit the alarm that they seem to generate at least online.

In fact, truth be told, most of this alarm is manufactured for the sole purpose of generating views, likes, shares, clicks, subscribers, and so on, and to make money. Feminism is not going to destroy the ummah, neither is red pillism. Liberalism won't either. Muslim women getting university degrees is not going to destroy the ummah, neither is divorce, neither is democracy, neither is Marxism, neither is TikTok. The ummah, quite simply, is not going to be destroyed, period.

Now, when the prophet told us that the nations of the world would invite each other to feast on the ummah because we will have developed a love for the dunya and a hatred for death, what he didn't say was that they would do that because we had all apostasized. Weakness, fear, insecurity, vulnerability, these are not disbelief. Oppression in and of itself is not kuffer, nor is greed, nor is materialism, and nor is stupidity. We can have all of these bad qualities and still be Muslims. We know that we will endure all of the hardships that Rasulullah told us about, but we also know that we will ultimately them.

Now, obviously, we do have to strive against all of the strategies that are employed to undermine and subjugate us, and we have to constantly try to improve ourselves as Muslims in our personal lives. Recognizing that the plots of the Shayateen among jinn and men will ultimately fail should not make us complacent. These struggles are how we prove our iman and how we earn our reward in the akhirah. So, of course, we should use all of our talents, all of our skills, our intellect, the power of our will and determination to frustrate the plots against us so that we can distinguish ourselves, secure our akhirah, and not be an embarrassment to the future generations of this ummah. And that's the point here.

We have to accept that there is no solution, there is only struggle, lifelong, continuous, often tedious and exasperating struggle. Now I don't see things like the great reset as being a prelude to the Dajjal or any global conflict that might be taking place or a trend as a signal of the coming of the last day. We are just dealing with the same thing that every generation before us had to deal with. From Tabuk to the Crusades, from colonialism to this current manifestation of corporate imperialism. Everyone before us had to confront, had to navigate, had to endure the injustice, oppression, and exploitation of the powerful.

It's just our turn. No need to be overly dramatic about it. This is just the dunya. And none of what we are facing is a zero sum game. The ummah will go on, Islam will go on, and there's nothing that will ever prevent that.

There's no question about whether or not this is so. The only question is whether or not you and I will do our duty during the lives that we have.