In beginning this blog, I was wondering how to start things off and I keep coming back to the worse fears many non-Muslims have...The Shari'ah. Every time I hear this fear is growing, I always laugh to myself. It seems the US Corporation has planted yet another lie into the hearts of people to keep everyone scared of everyone else. You know...Divide and Conquer. What actually surprises me is just how many people are falling for this monstrous lie.
So, here are some fundamental things that would have to happen before America could ever live under Shari'ah Rule and you will see how far off the mark this lie is.
#1. In order for any place on earth to be completely governed by Shari'ah (and there isn't one place on earth), the Muslims would have to have a Caliphate (successor). See, only the Calipha can implement Shari'ah Law as the governing rule of law. Muslims haven't had a Caliph since 1924 and America wasn't under the Shari'ah then, so what does that tell you?
#2. Unity would have to be in existence. There are at least 23 recognized sects of Islam and within those 23 sects are sub-sects. Okay, so if Muslims can't even agree on the basic tenets as a whole, how can we agree on a Caliphate? No one would agree on who the Calipha would be, which would be a whole new war within itself. This ummah (community) is too divided with nationalism, racism and classism to ever be united on something as sacred as the Caliphate.
#3. Even if upon the slim chance Muslims could unite, the Calipha would have to be a very upright Muslim. His character impeccable and his Deen (way of life) perfected. There is not one man on earth today to can meet this basic criteria.
#4. The western world is far too corrupt to be an Islamic State under Shari'ah rule. Did you know 3/4 of the population who have to be gone for this America to be put under Shari'ah rule? Do you know how un-Islamic is would be to do away with just one person, let alone 3/4 of the population? America is just too corrupt and far too secular to waste the time and energy needed to implement Shari'ah Law. It would be more befitting to take a dictatorship like Saudia Arabia and make it an Islamic State than to waste time on a whole country chock full of non-Muslims. It just doesn't make sense to skip over all the predominately Muslim countries and decide on the Shari'ah for America. Islam makes it very clear to clean up your own house and leaving others to clean their own houses. Ninety Percent (90%) of Islam is leaving off what doesn't concern you. How can you make an entire population Muslim when Qur'an (2:256) strictly states: "There is no compulsion in religion"(in Arabic: la ikrah fi'd-din).
#5 If Muslims really wanted Shari'ah here, Shari'ah would have been here before the first White Man stepped foot on the continent. Islam was here, in this land, before America existed, Shariah would have already been implement in this land if Muslims so chose for this to be, if it was even based on what the Muslims wanted in the first place.
"Dr Barry Fell, a noted New Zealand archaeologist and linguigst of Harvard University showed detailed existing evidence in his work, "Saga America" that Muslims were not only in the Americas before Columbus arrived, but very active here as well. The language of the Pima people in the South West and the Algonquian language had many words in their vocabulary that were Arabic in origin, and Islamic petroglyphs were found in places such as California.In the Inyo county of the State of California, according to Fell, there is another petroglyph that states, "Yasus bin Maria" which means in Arabic, "Jesus, son of Mary". This is not a Christian phrase; in fact, the phrase is to be found in the verses and ayahs of the Holy Quran. This glyph, as Fell believes, is centuries older than the US. In the Western states of the US he found texts, diagrams and charts engraved on rocks that were used for schooling that dated back to 700-800 C.E. The schooling was in subjects such as mathematics, history, geography, astronomy and sea navigation. The language of instruction was Kufic Arabic, from North Africa.
The German art historian, Alexander Von Wuthenau, also provides evidence that Islamic peoples were in America, in the time between 300 and 900 C.E. This was at least half a millennium before Columbus was born! Carved heads, that were described as "Moorish-looking" were dated between 300 and 900 C.E. and another group of heads dated between 900 and 1500 C.E. An artifact found in the earlier group was photographed, and when later examined was found to resemble an old man in a Fez, like the Egyptians.
Ivan Van Sertima is widely renowned for his work, "They Came Before Columbus" which showed that there was definitely contact between the ancient and early African people with the Native Americans. This and another of his works, "African Presence in Early America" both prove that there were African Muslim settlements in the Americas, before the expedition of Columbus was even conceived. His research has shown that Arab Muslim trade was active in America and one can only imagine that the marvellous culture that the Native Americans had that shared so much with Islamic teachings was of great attraction to the Muslims that came so far across the sea.
And for the record, Christopher Columbus, the man who so-called discovered America, himself declared that his impression of the Carib people (i.e., Caribbean people) were "Mohemmedans." He knew of the Mandinka presence in the New World (Muslims) and that Muslims from the West coast of Africa had settled down in the Carribean, Central, South and North America. Unlike Columbus, they had not come to enslave the populations or plunder the land; they had come to trade and they married among the Natives. Columbus further admitted that on October 21st, 1492, as he was sailing past Gibara on the coast of Cuba, he saw a mosque, and remnants of other masjids have been found in Cuba, Mexico, Texas and Nevada.
On the second voyage Columbus took to the West Indies, the people of Haiti told him that "black" people had been there before him. They showed him spears of these visitors, and further study of the metals involved in their construction showed that they could have been made only in one place: Guinea.
Another historian, P.V. Ramos, also showed in his essay in "African Presence in Early America" that the dietary regulations of the Carib were similar to Islamic teachings.
But let us say that we are wrong. Perhaps it is all just a coincidence; after all, there are no living survivors of the Native American Muslims, are they?
Wrong. And this last part is what originally drew me into this quest for knowledge: an exposé written by a Native Muslim.
Brother Mahir Abdal-Razzaaq El wrote in his account, recently posted on the Internet, about the Native Americans that were Muslims. He is of the Cherokee tribe; known as Eagle Sun Walker, and a Pipe Carrier Warrior of the Cherokees in New York. He tells of Muslim travellers that came to his land over one thousand years ago, and what is more important, existing evidence of legislation, treaties and resolutions that prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt that Muslims were in the Americas and very active. Although these documents have not been written after 1492, it is still interesting to note that Islam was in fact there. The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1787 have the signatures of Abdel-Khak and Mohammed Bin Abdulla. According to a federal court case from the Continental Congress,
Native Muslims helped put life into the constitution.
These are a matter of record; they cannot be disputed. Go to the National Archives or the Library of Congress and see for yourself; the Treat of 1787 show that the Natives abided by an Islamic system in commerce, maritime shipping and government. The records of the State of Carolina has the Moors Sundry Act of 1790. The Cherokee Chief of 1866 was a man called Ramadhan Bin Wati. Native clothing up until 1832 was full Islamic wear. The name Tallahassee actually means," Allah will deliver you sometime in the future." In North America, there are no less than 565 names of tribes, villages, cities, mountains and other lands sites of Islamic or Arabic roots.
The truth of Islam and the truth of the Native American culture is one and the same; many people hundreds of years ago realised that. The protection of the land and of the animals; the non-wastage of resources and the non-pollution of nature are all Islamic concepts.
I finish this article with a few Native sayings. And then, I want you to tell me that Islam is not nurtured in the hearts of these people.
"Our belief is that the Great Spirit has created all things. Not just mankind but animals, all plants, all rocks, all on earth and amongst the stars with true soul. For us, all life is holy. All of nature is within us and we are part of all nature." Chief White Cloud
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night." Crowfoot
"In the life of the Indian there was only one inevitable duty- the duty of prayer - the daily recognition of the Unseen and the Eternal." Ohiyesa"
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So let's not get things twisted. I would like to add that you should be intelligent people and do your own research and this goes for the Muslims, especially. You can't force your beliefs on people, you can't force your way of life on people. Since everyone's Sovereign Right, given by God, is worship whomever they please or worship nothing at all, this is no one's place to take that right away. I can be tolerant of people who don't know any better, but Muslims, when you slander or belittle other peoples' faiths, you are only showing just how ignorant you are and how much you do not know your own Deen (way of life) and you make it just that much harder for those of us who are trying to peacefully co-exist with non-Muslims. And, I have no sympathy for what ever happens to you.
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