Tigani (cont.)
THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS FAITH AND RULING POLITICS
 

                     A CRITIQUE OF THE MUSLIM ULAMA AND LEADERS'
                                  CALL TO AHL AL-SUDAN (13)

What Islam these ulama, thinkers, and leaders of Muslim organizations are really calling for if they shy away in a public Call before the whole world from dealing with the injustices and crimes committed by their own Haraka Islamiya State and Party in Sudan?

Justice is what Sudanese and the whole International Community most value. Justice is what Islam most valued by the Holy Qur'an and by the Hadith. You have cited the beautiful verse of the Holy Qur'an that says:"And fear tumult or oppression, which affecteth not in particular (only) those of you who do wrong: and know that God is strict in punishment" (Al-Anfal:25).

Have you applied this magnificent verse on the Haraka Islamiya State of Hassan Turabi and Omer Bashir?

Have you listened to the Masses of Sudan how they applied this same verse on the Turabi-Bashir inevitable dispute by simply saying "They are now having from God what they deserve for all of the crimes they already gave!"

You cited the beautiful Qur'anic verse: "If a man kills a Believer intentionally, his recompense is Hell to abide therein (for ever): and the wrath and the curse of God are upon him, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for him"of  (Al-Nisa:93) - the verse that the Lord called Women, whom unfortunately your Call comfortably ignored.

What about the extra-judicial killings, tortures, and brutal practices the Haraka Islamiya Security led by Dr. Ali Nafi', Dahawi, Shamseldeen, Bakri, and others enjoyed on Sudanese innocent thinkers, leaders, trades unionists, women, men, and students?

Wouldn't these cases qualify for the Lordly rules of the verse your Call cited and urged the State and Party of Haraka Islamiya to abide by?

Is justice only due to believers who in your thinking are members of the Haraka Islamiya's Muslim Brotherhood?

What have you done with the Faith and values of Islam that called for justice and peace and the respect of human dignity for humanity as a whole? Why is it that ulama, thinkers, and leaders of Al-Haraka Al-Islamiya never mentioned a word about Justice other than the titles of the political parties signatories of the Call?

As a Sudanese Muslim, I have been so disappointed at the lacking of your Call to the premises of justice that Sudanese Africans so dearly and strongly valued, demanded, and struggled for all the time. I have been terrified and deeply wounded as an ordinary Muslim by the wrongful silence you adopted not to condemn the Haraka Islamiya led by za'im Dr. Hassan
Turabi and president Omer Bashir for all of the ill practices and crimes they publicly or secretly committed while you have opted, instead, to cry out sympathy and screamed for support of the faction of Hassan Turabi in the ensuing irreconcilable dispute that erupted between the two competing factions of Sudan rulers.

The groups you are urging Ahl Al-Sudan to salvage from their own irreconcilable self-torment are evil factions that only struggled for power and wealth, nothing else. You should have called for their prosecution as corrupted leaders and criminals of war. You didn't, unfortunately.

As ulama, you need to revise the application of Islamic knowledge in contemporary life for the version applied by your Haraka failed, disfigured, attacked, and assaulted in only one decade much of the good values and
experiences Sudanese have accumulated in centuries.

As leaders, you need to review your party missions as officially announced in your own homelands: the mission of justice, reform, advancement, etc., as the names and slogans of your parties indicated for nothing of these values showed up under the tyrannous rule of your State and Party. Those of you thinkers, I am certainly sure, have definitely betrayed fair thinking.

Despite this deep disappointment at your biased, unfair, and offensive attitude and performance as Muslims toward the People and Land of The Sudan, I have to address myself in the upcoming section to the important notions and meanings of Revolution, Democracy, Pluralism, and the others that your Call included and utilized.

The Call did handle some of the most pressing challenges in contemporary life regarding what principles people should take to guide their political life and help national society and all humanity coexist in peace.

The mention of "Pluralism, Democracy, and Masses" is one step forward that, regardless of the need to explain how these modern principles of political and social life can be made to be "congruent with the values of Islam such as Shoura," is an area that lingers behind far from theoretical clarity, let alone your Islamic Project for action by a military coup that for all reasons was the antithesis of Democracy, Pluralism, and masses' Will or mandatory judgment.
 
 

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