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All-Russian Social Political Movement
EURASIA
«ISLAMIC THREAT OR THREAT TO
ISLAM?»
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Moscow, June 28,
2001
Theses of the address of
Sheikh-ul-Islam TALGHAT TAJUDDIN
Supreme Mufti, Representative of
the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims for Russia
and the East-European countries of CIS
1. Extremist heresies in the
history of IslamThe
Islamic tradition has a centuries-old history. This
history had different stages.
The world of Islam is
multifaceted and dynamically evolving. Sometimes not
without contradictions.
We know that since the very beginning
there were oppositions between Shiites and Karidjites.
There were many doctrinal disputations. The Shiites
themselves were split. The same historically occurred to
the followers of other confessions.
Gradually in the Islamic tradition four
madhhabs (doctrinal schools) were established. Each of
them represents the traditional Islam.
The historically traditional Islam was
opened to cultural and spiritual customs. It honoured
the Abrahamic ones – Judaism and Christianity. It
accepted the traditions of other peoples,
honouring their belief in the Only Creator.
Canonical expression of Islam
became the tariqat, the brotherhoods, the sects,
the mystical orders.
But
sometimes at the rim of this world there were heretical
movements and sects. They lay outside the borders of
traditional madhhabs, advancing religious and
political theses withdrawing from a traditional Islam on
impermissible critical spacing intervals.
Such were the Fatimide
khalifate, the Mahadist rebellion and other
manifestations. Sometimes heresy did arise in the
Islamic world, as a rule in the form of violent,
terrorist practices. It meant the rejection of the
traditional madhhabs, the exit from the borders
of orthodox Islam. It was innovation, display of
arrogance, which pushed the fanatics’ leaders to deny
the Islamic rules, setting aside their fidelity to the
original Islam, as a matter of fact introducing
innovations in the true religion.
In practice this was accompanied by
fanaticism, religious intolerance, coercion, cruelty.
Fanaticism, intolerance and coercion in belief are
already in themselves distinctive signs of a break with
a Islam, with our tradition of the Prophet Mohammed
(a.s.s.) – see how the Sacred Koran insists «There is no
coercion in belief», and the forerunner of the Prophet,
about their adult children who accepted Christianity
before their parents accepted a Islam, he invokes the
people to lean not on ignorance and fanaticism, but on a
weighted and reasonable judgement of the world created
by the Most High God by the Creator and realised
according to His omen. «Will you really be equal, you
who know and those who do not know?» «May you
understand!» (Koran)
[…..]
2. Contemporary extremism with
the islamic face Also in the contemporary world there is
such contribution of heresies to Islam, which contradict
our belief both in the letter and in spirit, both in
theory and in practice.
It is difficult to distinguish at first
sight this fabrication from Islam. It satanically enters
the ranks of Islam, it makes use of its symbols. But in
spirit it has nothing in common with the true divine
Islam.
Such radical
doctrines are concretely the doctrine of the “Muslim
Brother” Hasan al-Banni, Wahhabism, Salafyism, the
Pakistani Tabliq sect, originating the Talibani
movement, and other similar phenomena.
These phenomena are doctrinal
heresies, they introduce into traditional Islam no
lesser innovations than the so-called “islamic
modernists” do. They affirm that all present forms of
Islam are false, and only their doctrine, insisting on
the literal execution of the orders of their leaders, is
true in the last resort.
Spirit of reasonable choice, personal
dignity of man, spontaneity of belief, respect for the
peoples of the “Scriptures” and all the others – all
this is simply absent from these movements, which might
be called as totalitarian sects of pseudo-islamic
kind.
They also
change the social meaning of the Islamic world-view.
This is not simple “politicised Islam”, it would be
wrong to consider it so – it is “politicised heresy”.
Islam does not insist that all Muslims compulsory follow
definite rules of moral, ethics, conduct, being guided
in private and public life by the religious establishing
of traditional Islam. Extremist Fanatics change this
quite traditional setting into compulsory godliness,
into a completely different pattern: they require
literal observance to their own rules, invented by them,
and call violence on everyone who does not obey
them,.
Every
Islamic term is exposed by them to a
distortion.
In
Islam there is the concept of “jihad”, of “holy war”.
First of all it means “al-jihad-ul-kabir”, the Great
War, which each Muslim believer must wage inside himself
against defects, ignorance and evil. The “Small holy
war” (“al-jihad-ul-sagir”) is led against those who
brings violence and anger into the world, who deny
belief and truth, who introduce lie, cruelty and
intolerance, who aim at oppressing the peoples, at
depriving them of their freedom. An example of real
jihad was for the Muslims the Great Patriotic War, the
war against the Nazi occupiers. And the first to set the
banner of “Victory” above the Reichstag were the
Muslim-Russians from Bashkortostan, and this despite of
the 14,5 thousand mosques destroyed during the Stalin
years. So in the course of the centuries the devout
Muslims shared joys and sorrows of the Great Russia
Homeland with their Orthodox
brothers-countrymen.
Jihad is always war against evil and
violence.
The
sectarians-fanatics completely overturn this concept,
proclaiming the so-called “jihad” against everyone who
disagrees with them, so against the whole world. This
has no more relation at all to Islam. Islam allows to
use violence only as a means of last resort, and only
against those who clearly showed their evil intents, and
this means aggressors, rapists, killers. In all the
remaining cases, the shariah calls for indulgence and
exhortation.
This
is not at all the case of the extremists. Violence here
becomes the fundamental law, violence against their own,
against the others, against practically
everybody.
Without
noticing it, the so-called “islamists” invoke on their
own head the true jihad. Challenging all the peoples of
the Earth, and first of all traditional Islam, professed
by the overwhelming majority of the Islamic world, these
forces put themselves in opposition to Islam. And
reacting against them is a religious, moral, social and
political duty of each Muslim.
Alas, in some Islamic countries –
particularly in Saudi Arabia – there is a tolerant
attitude (to say the least) towards the representatives
of this tendency. Thus there is a precedent of
indulgence and even connivance to these regimes which –
in the unstable, crisis-bound regions of the Islamic
world – results in criminal consequences: surging
terrorism and violence, large scale war and even
genocide. The departing from the traditions of true
Islam in theoretical questions necessarily results in
such destructive consequences.
It is necessary to affirm unequivocally:
the deviation from traditional Islam, from the bases of
our belief, the aspiration to reinterpretate in one’s
own way the provisions of the Koran and the Sunna, to
distort the sense of the shariah laws to the benefit of
an aggressive extremist minority – this is even more
dangerous than the process of modernisation of Islam.
Aiming at defending Islam from the entry of non-islamic
factors, islamists themselves quit Islam, break away
with tradition, follow the fire of arrogance which has
always been the main instrument of
Ibliz-devil.
The
Talibans have blown up the ancient Buddha statues. In
this way not only they profaned a relic of many Buddhist
nations of the world, not only they deprived mankind of
unique monuments of ancient culture; they also put
themselves above their own ancestors and the million
Muslims which lived in the territory of Afghanistan for
centuries and whose spiritual exploits and achievement
are by no means comparable with such aggressive
half-learned maniacally ambitious rabble, forming the
core of Talibani. But the also broke the
prohibition of Allah, so that their adoration will
offend the Most High God Allah and sin will fall on
those who – on a sacred land, where the envoy of Allah
and his forerunners stepped – became the reason of this
blasphemy. And are they not – under the slogan of
“protecting” Islam – sending tons and tons of narcotics
to Russia, the CIS, and even farther, pretending, in
this way, to be corrupting the enemy? But you see, for
Islam all people since the beginning of the Koran envoy
are “Ummatut-da’va” – the community of the invoking,
even those did not believe.
That is why the wahhabite and salaafyite
extremist fanatics blast tombs of Islamic saints and
mazars – both in Afghanistan and in Dagestan, in
Chechnya and in Tadjikistan. The sacredness of the
ancestors for them is nothing, just a living rebuke.
These fanatics not only attack and destroy the religious
attributes of other faiths, but also the same Islamic
relics. So how it is possible to talk about an Islamic
threat? When the world is filled with heroin not only
from Afghanistan, but from Southern America and
Southeast Asia! So, who is the director?
The threat really exists, but it
stems not from Islam but from completely different
sources, and this threat is terrible above all for the
Muslims, just because it is manifested to the whole
world under the name of Islam.
I shall account the reasons
why:
- The
fanatics-extremist of wahhabite kind use their charisma
to recruit young people whose soul is not yet strong,
aiming to exploit their warm belief, tempting them with
aggressive propaganda, simplifications of primitive
concepts, material subsidies from the clergy and the
so-called centres. So we, the Muslims, lose best part of
our people, the younger, who perish in the net of
Iblis;
- These
forces, acting ostensibly under our slogans and banners,
actually discredit a Islam as such, cause the
non-Muslims to refer to the Muslims with diffidence and
fright, throw a shadow on all Muslims, handicap out
active cooperation with other peoples;
- They distort the essence of
our belief, give away our true tradition, high divinity
and spiritual rituals in exchange for quickly blinding
substitutes, primitive prescriptions, blind following
behind the leaders.
To the other faiths this is easier, they
see this threat from the outside. Such threat can be
insulated, exiled, suppressed, eventually, by forceful
methods. To us, Muslims, this terrible illness comes
also from the inside. Therefore we must be the vanguard
of the fight with extremist pseudo-islamic tendencies
and become a barrier against the odious plans of
the international narco-business and other
benevolent sponsors of the “holy war”. Killing the
infection to the roots, not waiting while the wahhabites
will declare this or that zone as a territory under
their own control, untying terror and violence and
spreading blood.
These tendencies are necessary for
counteracting also at the theoretical level, in its
embryo stage, not permitting in our mosques and
bookshelves the extremist propaganda – not only open,
but also veiled.
Even the idea of the so-called “pure
Islam”, “Salafiysm”, the idea of wahhabism and other
similar currents already hide the attempt to
deeply corrupt Islam. Denying traditional Islam,
appealing for its radical reform, salafiys and
wahhabites break the thin balance of Islamic tradition
between spiritual and secular, formal and inner. And
terrorist activity is just the straight
consequence.
If we
want to cope with this threat, we must fight it in the
embryo stage.
3. The role of traditional Islam
in the settlement of the Caucasian crisis
The situation in Chechnya
results from many factors - social, historical,
national, cultural and psychological. The conflict has a
long history and was differently formulated at its
different stages. It must be noticed that actually the
Islamic element appeared on the foreground in Chechnya
rather late, when the conflict was already in
ignited.
Nevertheless, it
was just the interposition of militants of heretical
islamism, the activation of pseudo-islamic extremism of
sects of wahhabite kind, that added the whole situation
its dramatic, bloody character, and created a situation
of virtual civil war in the Caucasus.
Wahhabites and Salafyites
introduced in the complex Chechen situation the element
of fanaticism and extremism, formed an autonomous pole
which from a certain time became a self-supporting and
inextinguishable source of bloody military
conflict.
Precisely
due to the wahhabite influence, Chechnya became a
gravity centre for the most fanatical and heretical
pseudo-islamic groups. And when the situation became
more or less to be stabilised, this wahhabite the pole
was responsible of a new surge of violence, the
aggression against Dagestan.
Wahhabism and Salafyism are completely
alien to traditional Chechen Islam, which, vice-versa,
is distinguished by fidelity to the traditions of the
ancestors, the cult of virds, the universal
diffusion of Sufi brotherhoods, and its taypi
[tribal] organization of society. All this is
incompatible with wahhabism, and against this
traditional Chechen Islam was directed the aggression of
those who took the lead of armed resistance. In this
case the extremists have come to the correct (for
themselves) conclusion: without the destruction of
traditional Islam in Chechnya, it would be impossible to
subordinate this people to their will, to make of them a
pawn in the complex geopolitical game.
We see a symbolical fact: leader of
flatland Chechnya became the representative of Muslim
clergy, mufti Ahmad Kadirov, conscious that the threat
to the Islam in Chechnya stems from this wahhabite
extremism, and that Russia acts in this case not as an
opponent of Islam, but as its ally. And Russia ha
acknowledged this in practice, having made of the Head
of the Chechen Muslims the first person in the Chechen
Republic.
But also
in Mountain Chechnya – where today acts of war against
federal forces continue – the wahhabites’ victory is
only superficial. The majority of the population, and
even of the armed squads, belong to traditional Islam.
Now it is their turn to realise the threat which lays
inside this politicised heresy, this totalitarian sect –
with its multinational mercenaries and international
terrorist groups – against the people of Chechnya. More
and more Muslims realise in what trap they have
got.
Our problem,
of all Russian Muslims, as Central Spiritual Board of
the Muslims (CSMM), and Coordination centre of the
Central Spiritual Board of the Muslims of Northern
Caucasus, and in a broader sense of all the Muslims of
the CIS and foreign Islamic countries, where the
majority professes the traditional Islam, is to help
settling this bloody conflict and establishing peace and
consent. Our brotherly Muslim Chechen people,
traditionally professing our Belief, became the victim
of a totalitarian sect, its blood continues to be
poured.
And how is
it possible to speak about the threat of Islam, when
victims of the extremists under islamic banners become
predominantly the Muslims, in this case the Chechens?
The international mercenaries come and go at their own
will, but what can the people do, who lived for
centuries on the Chechen ground and wants to live there
for centuries on?
We, Muslims, cannot stay indifferent to
this question. Our belief, Islam, demands that we
actively take part in the settlement of the conflict,
especially since there is already a very correct - on my
sight - solution to this conflict – an Eurasian
solution. Its sense is granting the Chechen people a
large degree of cultural, ethnic, spiritual and even
juridical autonomy in the composition of a united
Eurasian State – Russia. Each side will reach the
purpose, but most of all the winner shall be the Islamic
world, the ummah, in which Russia will show the whole
world the true, shiny and humane face of Islam – the
resignation in the hands of the Most High God Creator,
the complete love of God and His creatures; a deep and
original Islam, coming to rescue whenever they distort
his sense, subvert its tradition, turn religion into
heresy and substitute its true contents with a false one
here, in Russia, on the soil of our Homeland, the
granary of our eternal life. «The State has an
irredeemable debt to you», - was declared by President
V.V.Putin recently during his meeting with the Presidium
of the Russian CSBM in the Ufa counciliary mosque
“Lyalya-Tulip”. But we, the Muslim Russia, we are not
from Africa, our Homeland is here. We wish peace and
consent and prosperity on its sacred soil, and pray for
this the Most High Allah. The rest is in the hands of
Allah – to Him we belong.
The threat of pseudo-islam or “islamism”
is a threat first of all to Islam, and our duty is to
courageously – as it is necessary to the true Muslims
–answer this threat.
Together with Russia, together with
Eurasia, together with all the people of good will Islam
is not threat, but the offer of choosing the
truth.
The most effective
remedy against false Islam is the true
Islam.
Allah
akhbar! Glory to the Most High Allah Creator of the
worlds does not have enmity, except for as to the one
who outrages feature legal and sow hatred, wrath and
violence.
Trans.
M.Conserva
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