DESTRUCTIVE POLITICS — Political Interpretation of Islam

DESTRUCTIVE POLITICS Political Interpretation of Islam Once, a well-known Muslim ideologue from the West, while addressing a Muslim conference, declared: Rebellion against a tyrant is obedience to God! T HIS phrase portrays the mindset formed by a political interpretation of Islam. The modern generation of Muslims are generally influenced by this political interpretation. Today, the agitations and protests across the world in various countries in the name of ‘Islamic Revolution’ are a product of this political interpretation. This sort of so-called ‘revolutionary politics’ can by no means whatsoever, be considered as Islamic politics. In stronger terms, this politics is actually Satanic politics in the name of Islam. The foundingfather of this politics was Satan himself. Today, the flag-bearers of this sort of politics are undoubtedly following in the footsteps of Satan, not of Islam. To focus on one’s work without confronting the authorities is the method of the angels. And confronting the authorities and agitating, fired by the ‘politics of opposition’, is the method of Satan. The Quran relates that when God created Adam, there were two other creatures present — the angels and the jinn. God ordered the angels and the jinn to bow down before Adam. The angels obeyed this commandment of God, but Satan, who was the head of the jinn, refused to obey this order. And so he became a rebel against God. This was the first incident of revolt against authority in human history. This political revolt or the ‘politics of opposition’ is undoubtedly the practice of Satan. To focus on one’s work without confronting the authorities is the method of the angels. And confronting the authorities and agitating, fired by the ‘politics of opposition’, is the method of Satan. Strangely, this negative politics of Satan has prevailed throughout almost the whole of human history, among both believers and others.