Re: Iran crisis

Salaam Hamid

So what is the difference between you and Robert Houghton?

Are you now even more ignoramus than that drahcir?

Did anyone from Iran ask you for commentary about their spiritual
ailments?

Can you read the Iranian media/books in Farsi? Did you live amongst
the Iranians? Do you even care about the Iranians?

Shouldn't the old men of Muslims stay at home, silent, keeping the
Dhikr so that our youth not to lose their way? Or should these old
Muslim men be like the shameless vulgar microphone worshipers of US
media who yearn for any opportunity to talk nonsense and falsehood?

Dara




On Jun 21, 2:55=A0am, "Altway" <alt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Question:-

There appears to be a Political crisis in Iran. What do Muslims think abo=
ut
what is happening there?

Answer:-

The fact is that most Iranians as in other so called Muslim countries are
not really Muslim except, perhaps in name. This is particularly the case
with the educated classes and the young students who have been exposed to
Western influence via the Internet. The Educational system is wholly
westernised and people are not receiving any Islamic education. The resul=
t
is that there is not much in depth knowledge and understanding of Islam.
But the government claims to be Muslim. It seems, however, that those who
have been educated in Islamic studies, a minority, tend to be old fashion=
ed
and outdated - they have not kept up with modern developments in science,
technology, economic and cultural conditions and have not adapted Islam t=
o
changing world conditions. They have not reinterpreted Islam in the light=
of
these developments, but follow the scholars and commentators of centuries
ago. But they still have influence among the majority of the less educate=
d
people.
There is, therefore, an inevitable clash between the religious and the
secular section of the population.

It is evident that the kind of Political process Iran has is a mixture of
religious authoritarianism and Democracy taken from the West where
electioneering is a confrontational event because only one of the Politic=
al
parties gets all the power if it gets a majority of the vote though this
might be a small fraction of the whole population. The majority of the
population is then ignored. The political party that wins is the one that
can get the most financial support from the rich in order to mount
propaganda campaigns and can gain most publicity from the media which for=
ms
public opinion. It is not real Democracy (government of the people) thoug=
h
intense Western propaganda by those in whose interest it is claims to be =
so.
And the population in Western countries having been conditioned to this
state of affairs accepts it as not just inevitable but also good, to be
imposed on foreign people.
In Iran people have not been conditioned to accept this, and the conflict=
s
between the different points of view then inevitably erupts into
demonstrations and probably violence.
But there would have been no trouble at all if Iran had established a
Political system on Islamic principles where "mutual consultation" govern=
ed
all affairs. The type of Political system that should have been establish=
ed
would have been something on the lines that was proposed in the articles
"Islamic Solutions". =A0But we see that the publication of this was sabot=
aged.

We see the same kind of failures lead to troubles in Pakistan and will le=
ad
to similar or worse troubles in Iraq and other Muslim countries.
We are living in a World that is undergoing a transitional period and the
process of adjustment to a balanced future is inevitably traumatic for
people trapped in habits that dull their intelligence. As predicted the
world must undergo a period of increasing troubles and suffering before r=
eal
reformation and spiritual awakening begins.

Hamid S. Aziz

.

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