RESTORATION OF FAITH

Following is an excerpt from an infamous online dossier by an M.A.Malek, titled Restoration of Faith.Next to the Qur'an I would say it is the most important written document on Islam.
For those among us who have chosen to abandon God/faith OR embrace it in magnanimous ignorance OR have quietly resigned to ones own selfishness and in turn have reduced one's sphere of thought to his/her immediate psychosocial niche, I guarantee you this document will change your life, or at the very least lay the groundwork for ones own journey to self-enlightenment.
Who knows maybe even, Nirvana :- )..
Certainly for me it has been a revelation, so to speak, confirming my worst fears with regards to the Prophet Muhammad's legacy(Hadith) and the bland disregard we have in fact given to God's final message(as I believe it to be)-The Qur'an, and by we I mean it's devout followers, not the dissolute.

Not at all lengthy, I would sincerely urge all to read it complete and assimilate at one's own speed it's thesis, and decide on one's own course in this life and for his/her progeny. For me personally there is no gain/loss what you make of anything, except maybe the persistence of internal chaos and distress at the realization that there is something very wrong with this world of ours and those Homo Sapien Sapiens that dominate all other life; and to add insult to injury, the general ignorance and obliviousness of the masses.

I would like to direct your attention especially to the following chapters,(in noway de-emphasizing the urgency of the other chapters):
*Topics apparently controversial
*The Implications of Hadith for Islam
*Economic system of the Qur'an

cheers,
Mamdhu

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The present day's global economic control
This is an excerpt from the chapter ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN THE QURAN

"Every ideology has its basic underlying philosophy: Capitalism emphasises the individual 'free will', Communism equates the value of man with his productive capacity, and Modern Philosophy stresses the relativity of everything. The underlying philosophical notion of Islam is balance. When God created the world, everything was in its right place. Through the subsequent interaction of numerous entities and forces in the world, this order is continuously being disturbed. The balance will be lost, unless and until this imbalance is redressed, and humanity returned onto the right, straight and even path. This principle can be applied to all spheres of human experience. The over-rating of material advancement has stifled spiritual advancement; as a consequence, uncontrolled pollution has disturbed ecological equilibrium; greed has produced a world of contrasts through an unfair distribution of resources; the world's leading societies' careless comfort has brought war to the doorsteps of countless nations. In all these examples the visible imbalance can be equated with the injustice of some towards others. To restore the balance inevitably means fighting injustice. Islam, therefore, can never be a mere private religion practised in homes and monasteries. If it is not political, it is not Islam.

Present-day global economic control is a marvellous example of how the mind can be made to believe things that are not real. It started with the early goldsmiths who took people's valuables for safe keeping in their vaults. They soon started to realise that none of the depositors ever asked for all the money/or monies back, but withdrew small portions of it at a time, and they could safely lend the remainder of people's money against interest, as long as they kept enough to meet day-to-day demands. More than that, they could often get away with lending more than they had, as the recipient of a promissory note would not normally exchange it back into coin, but be happy with a title deed to coinage he thought was kept safely in the goldsmith's vaults. Thus, the goldsmiths became the first bankers and gradually, by way of deception, defrauded more and more people out of their hard-earned property. With the wide-spread use of paper money, cheques, plastic cards and electronic money transfers, this business has taken on gigantic proportions, and bankers now control all significant enterprises including governments. As, historically, the money-lending profession was forbidden to Christians, and still is, or should be, forbidden to Muslims, Jewish families were the first to establish themselves in this business and to date control it almost exclusively. Little surprise, therefore, that Zionism almost always gets its way with governments who find themselves in ever-increasing debt.

Western nations who pride themselves on their 'democracy' and 'freedom', yet whose attitudes and behaviour towards other nations often lack both of these virtues in the extreme. The reason for this is that the people who govern these countries can only stay in power by promising a constantly rising standard of living, which in most cases is achieved by robbing the Third World. Most of these rich nations behave like money sharks. They corrupt the people who rule the Third World countries by giving huge loans for imports which in most cases the country does not need but accepts under political coercion. Thus, huge debts are built up under pressure. The political leaders can do very little to resist, since they correctly surmise that they would be liquidated and then replaced by people who would again be subservient to the rich nations. Very often these Third World leaders are pressurised to hand out contracts to the foreign countries by accepting huge bribes as well as by taking an undisclosed share of the profits. This has made it impossible for any genuine Third World leader, who wants to improve the well being of his countrymen, to succeed.

If such leaders somehow survive, then they are branded as communist or undemocratic in the press and every possible pressure is applied to get rid of them. I would be failing in my duty not to mention this great exploitation and the tragic consequences that are bound to follow. The money lending, and the huge interest that is collected, are crippling these countries. A point has been reached where the cumulative interest payments outweigh the original loan and the debt has become so big that it would be impossible to pay back the original debts, so that the interest payments will go on forever. The loans are designed so that the money sharks can go on making money out of the miseries of the Third World. The Church seems to have nothing to say about this global problem. Below I quote from an article published in The Guardian of 9th Jan '87 by F. Clairmonte and J. Cavanagh on the unprecedented debt crisis facing the Third World. It is almost ten years since the article was published. The condition of Third World countries since then has gone from bad to worse, and the only reason for this, is the exploitation through the medium of interest payments, which the Qur'an forbids in no uncertain terms."
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