Here is the pit
of salafists, into which they push us to fall into, turning into a deep abyss
while our nation is still striving to get out of the muslim brotherhood’s hole
we fell into…
However, that
hole was about the identity of our country and the essence of this identity
which I tackled in a previous article… but as to the abyss of salafists, it is
about those people insisting not only on disrupting the moral, cultural and
civilization roots established in Egypt two thousand years before the divine
religions spread as detected by the genuine scholar James Henry Breasted in his
book “The Dawn of Conscience”… but also on disrupting the good relations
between the divine religions… I here mean God’s mercy ascribed to his deity in
his holy book.
It is no longer
about debating over religion or excerpting holy Quranic texts or sayings of
prophet Muhammed which I believe those salafists may have not read while they
are dedicating themselves to spread roughness, rudeness, cruelty and extremism
maybe more than the Israelites themselves did… It is about a country in which
we live and a world working hard to demand more rights for the animals, plants,
seas, rivers, mountains, insects and air… while those salafists cease not to
enflame fires of hatred and division among sons of the same country and sons of
humanity… If we connected their concept of identity to their conceptions of
common life in this country, we would have a vicious circle closing firmly
around all of us allowing no one to escape outside…
The first level
of common life and highest in degree is the family life where fatherhood,
motherhood, filiation, family ties, affection and all that is mentioned in
dictionaries of love of meanings and concepts.
I watched the
video more than once… I watched it again to pay more attention and to try to
comprehend… I stayed astonished reiterating “there is no power nor might save
in Allah”… and to this moment in the evening of Monday September 23rd,
2013 as I am writing this article, I still cannot believe what I saw and heard
in that video… I noticed the face expressions and hand gestures of that
pediatrician who claims and others believe he belongs to Salafism… which is
simply for those who properly understand and apply God’s law is what was
understood and applied by Sahaba or companions of prophet Muhammed,
followers, followers of followers and all who followed them faithfully until
Judgment day.
The speaker was
Yasser Burhami… it looked like a discussion session with people asking Burhami
in religious matters because he kept repeating and affirming the meaning he
wants using all words and examples he had. The question – as the answer seemed
to tell – was about Muslim men marrying women of the people of the book;
meaning Christians and Jews… and since it is almost impossible to find Jewish
girls at the age of marriage in our society right now, discussion was accordingly
over Christian women.
That was not the
first time I listen to someone claiming to be Faqih in religion matters
and who can issue Fatwas although it requires precise strict conditions
that are simply rare to find at those claiming to be able to do such thing… as I
have already watched and listened to Sheikh al-Mahallawi talking about the
legality according to religion of Muslims congratulating Christians on their
feasts… I wrote two articles over this in Almasry alyoum newspaper after I did
my best and read a lot about what is mentioned in Quran and in prophet Muhammed’s
Sunna regarding such issue… I found what I do not think Burhami and before him
al-Mahallawi and all their likes have ever known… I believe their role model
and mentor in such opinions is Ahmed Ibn Tayimmiya al-Harrani and all his likes
of hardliners.
Burhami said that
Muslim men can marry women of the people of book and went on explaining that
this Muslim husband shall declare his hatred to his wife – in our case, the Christian
– because of her religion… and that he would have committed a sin if he fell in
love with her or greeted her and said hello… and that if he has to, then he
shall address his greetings to his Muslim kids… meaning that in case he has no kids,
then he shall not say hi to her.
Burhami, the
salafist pediatrician, added that marital cohabitation does not necessitate
love or affection… and gave examples of cases when having sex and satisfying
lust are done by force without love… he asked denying: since when all sexual
intercourse inside our marital lives was based on love?
In general, his
talking was about inciting the Muslim husband to hate his non-Muslim wife and the
necessity to let her feel that otherwise he would be considered absolutely
sinful… and he kept citing texts supporting what he says!
I have no idea
how can a human… second, Muslim… third, physician… forth, Dawaa preacher…
ignore the essence of relationships between humans in general no matter what their
gender, color, tongue or religious beliefs are… this essence is the soul that
God created its partner out of it… not to mention that we worship one God and
believe in one spiritual father; that is prophet Ibrahim, peace by upon him.
What is the
opinion of Burhami and his likes of the Quranic verses… verse 62 of the chapter
of Al-Baqara, verse 113 of the chapter of Al-i-Imran, verse 82 of the chapter
of Al-Ma’ida and verse 8 of the chapter of Al-Mumtahina?… what is their opinion
of God’s words in the chapter of Al-Hajj, verse 17: “Indeed, those who have believed and those who were
Jews and the Sabeans and the Christians and the Magians and those who
associated with Allah - Allah will judge between them on the Day of
Resurrection. Indeed Allah is, over all things, Witness.“?
If that was the
stance of believers towards others including the Magians and those who associated
with Allah; that only God will judge between them on the day of resurrection…
you can imagine the case if it was a man with his wife who believes in God and whom
Islam allowed him to marry and entrust on his honor, kids, money, his mother,
father and home… not to mention that she and her folks are partners to him in
this country that existed long time ago before the divine religions came and
will stay in our hearts until judgment day.
How, for God sake,
can we trust those who keep openly inciting and provoking the husband to hate
his wife and to let his kids feel such thing on our country and the coming
generations?... in such tiring, exhausting and actually disgusting context, I wonder:
how filiation and motherhood would be among the children; boys and girls, who
were brought up in such family where father does not say hi to the mother and
does not show any affection or mercy towards her since all these are signs of
love?... actually all what those children see are a door slammed and banged and
sex practiced without any feelings.
I here ask
Burhami and his likes if he ever saw, if he once lived in the countryside or saw
any of the TV channels interested in animals’ life and behaviors, an insect,
bird, reptile or mammal having sex without flirting, wooing, affection, tenderness
and altruism… has he ever looked for once at the chickens when the male calls
his female partners to pick up food before he does?
Haven’t Burhami
and his likes ever heard of prophet Muhammed’s orders in practicing marital
cohabitation and his warning that man shall not have sex with his wife without showing
love and affection in advance?
Hasn’t he read
the verses that speak of the high-moral essence of relationship between spouses
without hinting at their religious beliefs?
Damn this life
empty of love or affection… what a miserable family that which enjoys no
feelings or affection.
People of Egypt… beware...
the pit turned to an abyss.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on September 26, 2013.
To see the original article, go to:
#alahram #ahmed_elgammal #Egypt #salafists #yasser_burhami
No comments:
Post a Comment