Nov 21, 2012
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Dari Dr Azam Tamimi kepada saya
Artikel ini dihantar oleh Dr Azzam Tamimi kepada saya semasa September 24,2005 untuk respons kepada persoalan saya semasa itu mengenai gaza.Semoga manfaat
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Dr. Azzam Tamimi
Institute of Islamic Political Thought (IIPT)
Unit Three
Grove House
320 Kensal Road
London W10 5BZ
UK
Tel/Fax: 020 89691422
Mob: 07768298219
www.ii-pt.com
Institute of Islamic Political Thought (IIPT)
Unit Three
Grove House
320 Kensal Road
London W10 5BZ
UK
Tel/Fax: 020 89691422
Mob: 07768298219
www.ii-pt.com
The withdrawal of Jewish settlers in
prelude to ending Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip proves right the vision
of those who kept asserting with unwavering optimism that the Zionist project
in Palestine
was heading toward an end.
Since the Ramadan (October) 1973 war
the Zionist entity in the heart of the Middle East
has only been shrinking. Sinai was given up first, though not without a heavy
price the Egyptians had to pay in terms of opening up the country to the
Israelis and compromising both Egyptian economy and security to Israel 's
benefit.
Twenty years later, in 1999,
Hezbollah's resistance in the South of Lebanon forced the Israelis to withdraw
unconditionally after years of insisting that they had been in Lebanon to
remain. Most Palestinians now believe that the liberation of Gaza
will, at some point, be followed by the West Bank .
At the current rate of Zionist decline that eventuality may not be so far away.
Despite unprecedented military
supremacy and almost unconditional support from the United
States of America and some of its allies in Western Europe , Israel seems weaker than at any
time since its creation in 1948. No matter what justifications the Sharon establishment may provide for the withdrawal from Gaza to assure the
Israeli public it was none other than the steadfastness and resistance the
Palestinians have put up in defiance of Israeli brutality that forced the
change of policy. Had the Israelis been comfortable in Gaza and had their Jewish settlers therein
been cheep to maintain they would never have contemplated an end to their
occupation.
The West Bank Palestinians, who have
since 1967 seen their lands confiscated so as for Jewish immigrant-settlers to
be housed in intensely militarized apartheid-style colonies or carved and
fragmented by Israeli bulldozers in order to allow for the construction of
highways exclusively enjoyed by those settlers, will undoubtedly learn lessons
from the Gaza experience. The parallels will become more apparent as many of
the evacuated settlers are 'dumped' in the West Bank
with the consequence of augmenting the hardships already endured by the
Palestinians. For it was not solely a sense of patriotism or urge for martyrdom
that provoked the Gazans to fight occupation and force an end to it. The people
of Gaza acted
not differently from the manner in which any human community oppressed and
persecuted by a foreign occupier would have acted; not at all differently from
the way the French resisted Nazi occupation or the Vietnamese repelled American
invasion.
Foreign occupation is parasitic in
nature and therefore wittingly or otherwise provokes the immune system of its
victims into resistance. Wherever and whenever foreign occupation succeeded in
the past in establishing deep roots it was only by virtue of the complete
destruction of the victim community's immune system; by utterly annihilating
the victims. Had the natives of America
and the aborigines of Australia
not been almost completely exterminated the white man of Europe
would never have been able to establish himself on their relics. In those two
cases, and soon after the start of colonization, the immigrant-settlers
arriving from Europe outnumbered the original
inhabitants and became the dominant race and culture.
In the case of Palestine the Israelis have been rather
unlucky, some may contend even foolish. The Zionist founders of Israel did try
to do something of course; they threw close to a million Palestinians out of
their homes in 1948 and massacred several hundreds of civilians in a few
villages in order to instil horror in the hearts and minds of the entire
population. Close to sixty years after the 'nakbah' (catastrophe), the
Palestinians living within 'mandatory Palestine '
are close to outnumbering the Israelis. Unlike the case of earlier and much
luckier white European settlers of the Americas
and Australia ,
the Zionists could only persuade a very limited number of Jews to join them in
their adventure. Had it not been for the catastrophe of the holocaust and, more
than four decades later, the decision by the Soviet Union to release its Jews
and the United States
to deny them entry very few of the Jews would have been attracted to Zionism.
Today, no less than two thirds of the world's Jewish population live happily
far away from Palestine ,
which has proven to be a land of sweat and blood rather than the promised land
of milk and honey.
The decision to end the occupation
of Gaza will
inevitably have raised questions in the minds of many Israelis about the very
legitimacy of their state. For how could a land that was said to have been
God's exclusive offer to a 'chosen nation' of His be so easily given up for
purely mundane reasons. While the withdrawal confirms the secular non-religious
nature of the State of Israel, whose leaders used, or abused, religion at
various stages and turns of the history of their movement in order to justify
the colonization and usurpation of another people's homeland, it does at the
same time belie the myths that have so far underpinned the Zionist project. It
does at the same time cast light on the dilemma the Israelis created for
themselves by rearing a generation of religious Zionists who, as far as Israeli
secular society is concerned, have become the enemy within. During the years of
feverish expansion and colonization these myth-obsessed Torah-abusing fanatics
were of great use to the irreligious Zionist administrations of both the left
and the right. Increasingly, they are becoming litterally a pain in Is (….).
Genuinely religious, anti-Zionist
orthodox Jews would undoubtedly feel vindicated; in contrast to the Christian
Zionists, they have always maintained that Jews should never have contemplated
a return to the 'promised land' prior to the coming of the Messiah toward the
end of time. Like the Palestinians they will be celebrating the dismantlement
of a state they have from day one judged as blasphemous.
One cannot help but observe the
irony in the attitude of the Israeli troops toward the Jewish settlers whom
they are ordered to remove from Gaza .
Had these abuse-showering acid-pouring hardliners been Palestinian what would
have been the attitude of the embattled troops? In response to forms of protest
much less violent than what the Jewish settlers have been engaged in, the
Palestinians have been killed, detained for indefinite periods, deported from
their homeland and tortured to death. The Israelis simply do not recognize that
the Palestinians have human rights, or perhaps do not see them as humans. The
withdrawal from Gaza illustrates among many
things the apartheid nature of the Zionist regime, which is inevitably heading
toward the same fate as its predecessor in South Africa .
Nov 16, 2012
Nov 15, 2012
Syahidnya seorang Pejuang
Tanggal 14 November 2012, gugurnya seorang pejuang Palestin yang sangat digeruni oleh Israel. As Syahid telah memberi sumbangan yang tidak terhingga kepada sejarah pembebasan bumi al aqsa ini. Beliau telah mewakili umat ini untuk mempertahankan dan berjuang melawan penjajahan Israel. Beliau adalah orang yang menunaikan janjinya kepada Allah.
Sepertimana firman Allah:
“Di antara orang-orang yang beriman itu, ada yang bersikap benar menunaikan apa yang telah dijanjikannya kepada Allah (untuk berjuang membela Islam); maka di antara mereka ada yang telah selesai menjalankan janjinya itu (lalu gugur syahid), dan di antaranya ada yang menunggu giliran; dan mereka pula tidak mengubah (apa yang mereka janjikan itu) sedikit pun.”(Al-Ahzab 33: 23).
Nov 13, 2012
Muwasafat tarbiyah
Kerana engkau tidak sekali-kali akan mendapati sebarang perubahan bagi " Sunnatullah " (undang-undang peraturan Allah), dan engkau tidak sekali-kali akan mendapati sebarang penukaran bagi perjalanan " Sunnatullah " itu. (Faatir 35:43)
Sejarah menyaksikan tamadun-tamadun dunia dibangunkan oleh manusia-manusia yang mempunyai ciri-ciri luar biasa. Lihat saja kebangkitan Jepun yang mampu bangun menj
adi gergasi ekonomi dunia kerana masyarakatnya yang berdisiplin,menjaga masa dan yakin dengan agenda pembangunan meraka.
Islam pernah memimpin dunia dan masyarakatnya dahulu juga mempunyai ciri-ciri yang hampir sama. Kini segala nilai-nilai mulia hampir pupus seolah-olah tidak pernah diajar oleh ar-rasul.
Bagi seorang dai' yang yakin dengan gagasan kebangkitan islam, menjadi tanggungjawab kepada mereka untuk mengembalikan nilai2 ini dalam diri dan masyarakat. Nilai-nilai inilah yang dinamakan muwasafat tarbiyah.
Islam pernah memimpin dunia dan masyarakatnya dahulu juga mempunyai ciri-ciri yang hampir sama. Kini segala nilai-nilai mulia hampir pupus seolah-olah tidak pernah diajar oleh ar-rasul.
Bagi seorang dai' yang yakin dengan gagasan kebangkitan islam, menjadi tanggungjawab kepada mereka untuk mengembalikan nilai2 ini dalam diri dan masyarakat. Nilai-nilai inilah yang dinamakan muwasafat tarbiyah.
Nov 12, 2012
Fenomena Dr Zakir Naik
Alhamdulillah sambutan penduduk Malaysia terhadap ceramah-ceramah Dr Zakir Naik membuka satu dimensi dakwah baru atas keterbukaan majlis-majlis sebegini yang dihadiri oleh Muslim dan non Muslim.
Hasrat yang sama pernah diungkapkan oleh Sheikh Abu Aala Al Maududi dalam 'Shahadatul Haq (Penyaksian atas Kebenaran)',
"Dakwah kami ini ditujukan kepada semua, baik buat mereka yang telah beriman dengan Allah dan rasulNya, juga buat mereka yang masih belum berpeluang untuk beriman. Kami tujukan dakwah ini kepada mereka semua semata-mata kerana Allah dan rasulNya. Kami tujukan risalah yang khusus untuk apa jua keadaan dan situasi mereka"
Atas dasar inilah kita wajib penyebarkannya sebagaimana diajarkan dalam al-quran:
"Dan demikian (pula) Kami telah menjadikan kamu (umat Islam), umat yang adil dan pilihan agar kamu menjadi saksi atas (perbuatan) manusia dan agar Rasul (Muhammad) menjadi saksi atas (perbuatan) kamu"-(Al-Baqarah: 143)
"...supaya tidak ada bagi manusia sesuatu hujah (atau sebarang alasan untuk berdalih pada hari kiamat kelak) terhadap Allah sesudah mengutuskan Rasul-rasul itu. Dan (ingatlah) Allah Maha Kuasa, lagi Maha Bijaksana"-(Al-Nisa’: 165)
Sungguh Dr Zakir Naik sudah melakukan tugasnya sebagai seorang yang memiliki Syahadah. Kita bagaimana?
"Dan siapakah yang lebih zalim daripada orang yang menyembunyikan keterangan (saksi dan bukti) yang telah diberikan Allah kepadanya?" (Al-Baqarah: 140)
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