It was proved
that ideas and doctrines cannot be eradicated no matter their sources are or
others’ opinion of them… even if those others were the majority and even if this
opinion is based on God’s teachings… the evidence over such thing is present
since humanity knew something called thought… in context, it is called
doctrines…for this reason, those who think that it is possible to eradicate the
ideas of so-called political Islamization or erase the possibilities of
belonging to such thought, are wrong.
Based on this,
the question, which I mentioned at the end of my article two weeks ago, arises:
how can we face the danger of muslim brotherhood and their likes?
In that article, I
said that the government alone cannot tackle the mission of facing such danger
and that the whole society shall take part in such mission… in my opinion, the
intended objective is to rehabilitate those who believe in that thought and
those doctrines in order for them to realize that there shall be no compulsion
in acceptance of the religion… and that they are not guardians over the rest of
people in religion or life… also, no party is authorized by God to represent
him and exclude others from God’s mercy.
Accordingly, rehabilitation
in such regard is different to rehabilitation of addicts and criminals when
they are placed in reforming institutions where they may be kept for a while to
become normal humans once again not addicted to drugs or inclined to crime…
actually rehabilitation in our case we talk about is done through a
comprehensive national project that aims at draining the sources of such
twisted thought… also draining sources of financial funding focusing at
employing such thought in violence and destruction… after this, we shall open
the space before those who positively responded to such rehabilitation to have
dialogue and co-exist in order to find normal life of work, creativity and
leadership.
In the same time
and in parallel with such course of rehabilitation, we shall strengthen our
social, cultural and thought immune system of the coming generations in schools
and universities… we shall also integrate media and clubs in such course hoping
to reach the phase when proper understanding of the role of religious beliefs
in people’s life is perceived… also normal relation or reconciliation between
the vertical axis representing man’s relation to God and the horizontal axis
representing man’s relation to society and nature shall deepen… at the
intersection of those two axes, man shall know how to worship God by being kind
to his creatures and by fulfilling his role towards the society and nature in a
way that goes with what God says in his books… since God has dignified the
human soul itself away from any discrimination based on color, tongue or
religion…
In such regard, I
admit that I stopped long before that verse 17 of the chapter of Al-Hajj
stating: “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.”… despite I finish
reading the holy Quran during the month of Ramadan, I stopped long before this
verse as if I am reading it for the first time… as I have not perceived the
great magnificent essence of tolerance and coexistence inherent in this verse…
not only towards followers of other divine religions, but also towards Magians,
polytheists and Sabeans whom it is disputed whether their religion was divine
or not… divine here means Abrahamic religions.
One wonders: why
haven’t we studied such verse and its likes in our schools during the primary,
preparatory and secondary levels… and even in the university?… such verse that
advocates tolerance and coexistence with others and among others and states
that God alone shall judge between all those people on the day of resurrection…
in the same context, I also remember the text of the Sermon on the Mount said
by Jesus… in this sermon, a complete picture of tolerance, coexistence and
elite morals is depicted.
Draining resources
of misunderstanding of divine religions is not done by burning, ripping apart
or not publishing the references that establish the basis for such thought… but
rather by discussing and refuting the fallacies contained in them or the
interpretations that belong to other people who lived in other places and times
different to our society and time right now… after this we shall publish and
spread the references that set the base for the elite human conceptions…the same
thing can be applied in institutions other than those of education… like clubs,
public courtyards, public seminars in libraries and civil community
organizations… let the general call be “let us be tolerant and coexist”…
The one
monitoring closely what we are talking about may think of other issue… that is
the possibility that all those efforts made long decades ago; meaning since the
late twenties of the twentieth century to date to establish groups like muslim
brotherhood, aimed at destroying Islam itself as a religion from inside and
preventing it by all means to play an active role in any renaissance project in
the societies with the majority of which believes in it.
And so, facing
such groups, parties and bodies of that political Islamization is done by
thought, culture, science and vigilant organized social effort… also with the
necessity of having a united society and the necessity of not excluding any
Egyptian citizen no matter his belief is… such facing is for the protection of
Islam itself and a guarantee of the credibility of its human validity
everywhere and every time… since Islam includes all the elite humane teachings
that no one disagree with.
It happened that muslim
brotherhood came to power after January revolution regardless of the terrifying
details disclosing day after day regarding the foreign role played in this… in
the same time, it seems that destiny played a role in saving Islam by
uncovering what lies in the phenomenon of political Islamization of
misunderstanding of the proper role of religions in societies’ life.
We also witnessed
their deviant behaviors that swept their reign away and in the same time
awakened and alerted the public conscience to the deep abyss our country was
falling into… such experiment also reminded us that getting rid of political
Islamization was the beginning to set off once again on the right way… it was
also a starting point to stand against the plan of creative chaos aimed at
reforming the cohesive old-in-history societies for the sake of benefiting the
Hebrew state in the first place.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on December 19, 2013.
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