Friday, December 5, 2014

Mahmoud Mohammed Taha's Warning of the Future

"Of course, no one's religion and knowledge and instruction can be [based on] the belittlement of others, let alone the belittlement of the righteous. And a call that is based on belittlement of, and cursing of, and slandering of the very best of the Ummah, does not demand from any one of its followers, any level of good conduct and knowledge. More so, it feeds the degraded negative conduct, which imagines that its perfection is by derogating those whom the people believe to have goodness and perfection in them. 

Therefore, it is possible for a common man preoccupied, in heart and in mind and in dexter, with the world, to become a propagator of the call to Wahhabism - without the call having changed anything from his condition, or attaining for him an improvement in his conduct and knowledge. 

That is its condition. It has not cultivated anyone, because its propagators are preoccupied with fighting with the dead rather than fighting with themselves, and with calls to guide the people, rather than guiding themselves."

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"This call to Wahhabism has gathered around it an assortment of simple-minded and misguided ones, and it fuels in them the spirit of fanaticism and tendency to obsession and buffoonery."

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"As for the current Wahhabi leaders in the Sudan: truly, religion has become, in their hands, the attack on and the cursing of pious ones - all that in ignorance of the knowledge and awareness of those righteous men. And instead of the Wahhabis taking their time and turning towards educating themselves, they claim that they are unifiers and the true supporters of the Sunna." 

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(From the book They're called Wahhabis and not Ansar-al-Sunna!, 1976)

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Mahmoud Taha's analysis of today's political and religious and cultural and military elite of the Republic of Sudan was spot-on. But those who should have heeded his words cursed him, and those who should read his words today curse him.

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The Owl and the Birds

The Owl is a very wise bird; 

and once, long ago, when the first oak sprouted in the forest, she called all the other Birds together and said to them, "You see this tiny tree? If you take my advice, you will destroy it now when it is small: for when it grows big, the mistletoe will appear upon it, from which birdlime will be prepared for your destruction." 

Again, when the first flax was sown, she said to them, "Go and eat up that seed, for it is the seed of the flax, out of which men will one day make nets to catch you." 

Once more, when she saw the first archer, she warned the Birds that he was their deadly enemy, who would wing his arrows with their own feathers and shoot them. 

But they took no notice of what she said: in fact, they thought she was rather mad, and laughed at her. 

When, however, everything turned out as she had foretold, they changed their minds and conceived a great respect for her wisdom

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