With the increasing number of educated
people and decrease of illiterate ones who cannot read or write… and with the
huge surge in mass media and technological means of communications… meaning
tens of radio stations, satellite channels, unlimited internet, Facebook,
twitter and all their likes… tens of newspapers and monthly and weekly
magazines… I inquire about the importance and necessity of having or establishing
those so-called religious Dawaa organizations… whether muslim or christian.
I here ask because we have seen a lot
from such so-called Dawaa organizations… and it was proved that most –
if not all – of them do nothing in the field they claim they work for.
As muslim brotherhood refused to
legalize the status of their group for many years… and when they came to power
in Egypt, they had to change this because they were in power and violating the
law in the same time… and so they went to the ministry of social solidarity and
got everything done in 24 hours while others have been waiting for months… they
declared their group a Dawaa and not a political one… despite this and their
allegation to legalize their status, they have not ceased for a moment to
practice politics inside the country and abroad… as we all see in the weekly
speeches of Murshid that are still continuing until this moment.
Muslim brotherhood represented the
most blatant model of going astray from what they call Dawaa to other
affairs that extend to blackmailing the poor to get their votes, working in
retail and wholesale businesses, banks, carrying arms, executing assassinations
through an armed military branch inside the group… and not ending by the open
political work and taking control of the rule…
In addition to what is more dangerous…
I here mean the foreign extensions of their group called the international
organization of muslim brotherhood… having active and dormant members in other
countries… also, summoning the foreign armed elements when necessary like what
is happening now in Sinai… and then we see some of them feeling no shame to say
that they are a Dawaa group that invites for the way of God with wisdom
and good instruction… we also see others who say that we should keep the group
just to work in Dawaa… as if saying we should keep the fire provided
that it does not burn!
Working in such so-called Dawaa
groups have turned into a profession that earns massive revenues for those in charge
of such groups… for example, Hajj visas and its costs that became unbelievable
when we see advertisements talking about ordinary Hajj, another special, a
third touristic, a fourth luxurious, a fifth super, a sixth extra-super… etc…
while our country is suffering from debts and low standard of living of most of
its citizens.
Adding to this the clinics and schools
which are called Islamic but they have nothing to do with Islam… starting from
abusing the orphans as we all saw when those so-called Dawaa and charity
organizations sent the orphans by force to be used as human shields for
Muhammed Badee’a, Muhammed el-Beltagi, Essam el-Erian, Safwat Hegazi and others…
and not ending by spreading misunderstanding in interpreting Islam.
Now let us see who are those who call
themselves stars of Dawaa… they all almost look the same… one sees them
wearing this Khaliji Ghutra on their heads with its corners going
on the sides… long beard – almost rectangular for it is too long – and usually
dyed… shaved moustache… expensive eye glasses that augment eye sight and
attract the one who sees them to examine him in the same time… fancy-fabric-made
Gallabyias with costly-buttons sleeves… and a great ability of stressing on
word endings and terrifying the listeners if they thought for a second in
discussing or objecting to what they say…
When did all those people come and
spread in our life with their loud noise replacing the trusted Dawaa men
who studied in Al-Azhar Al-Sharif?... was the reason behind this that millions
of Egyptians, that our country’s bad circumstances pushed them to travel to
Arab oil-rich countries to earn their living, came back with this culture
different to our balanced one that we had for hundreds of centuries?
We have a very dangerous phenomenon that
was proved to be threatening to our country on all economic, social, thought
and cultural levels… also on the strategic and security ones… a single telling
example on this strategic and security threat is that some schools affiliating
to such so-called Dawaa organizations refuse to salute the flag as they
consider it a symbol of atheism… and also refuse to stand for the national
anthem and do not let the students recite it… they also grow fanaticism and disdaining
other Egyptians who believe in other religions than Islam… What if the students
of those schools became one day officers in the army or police or worked in the
important government institutions, and in teaching in particular?… we can
imagine the security and strategic threat they represent.
For God sake… do societies which
believed in Islam centuries ago and Islam became a main part of its cultural
and civilization composition need anyone to invite them to this religion once
again?
Shouldn’t they go to other societies
that believe in non-Abrahamic religions… meaning that those long-bearded people
wearing Ghutra and who allege to want to call people for the way of God
by wisdom and good instruction should go to India, China, Mongolia and all like
nations… like the first Muslims did when they went trading in Indonesia, Malaysia
and other nations… and presented themselves as respectable models of Muslims…
then the people of those nations diverted to Islam without the need for
spending massive money, satellite channels or whatsoever.
Any Muslim who reads Arabic can reach Quran,
Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Bughiyat as-Sahah… and all known books of Fiqh,
Osul el-Fiqh and Tafsir in few minutes through the internet… he
will also find the opportunity to use his mind to know what he wants to know of
rules and opinions… without the need for those claiming to be guardians of
Islam.
I ask those who take Dawaa as a
profession to start looking for another job to represent themselves as decent
working knowledgeable examples who can earn their living out of hard work… and
to do something useful for our country that can help protect it and keep its glory,
dignity and unity.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in Al Ahram
newspaper on August 15, 2013.
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