Seminar “Religion in a globalized world”.

DILEMMA AND CONTRIBUTION. A VIEW FROM ISLAM

Khalid Nieto Moreno. Seville Mosque Foundation

1. RELIGION, WHAT RELIGION?

2. WESTERN MUSLIMS.

3. THE GLOBAL RUPTURE.

Religion what religion.

When we talk about “believers” and “non-believers”, what do we believe in believing or not believing? When we speak of “secular culture” as opposed to “religious faith”, which “culture” and which “faith” do we qualify? When we speak of culture, civilization, religion, common or public opinion, politics, war, peace, homeland, justice, liberalism, globalization, terrorism… What are we talking about? What do we discuss? Why do we fight, bomb and kill? Because of religion? What religion are we talking about and on what grounds, if we don’t even know what religion is?

If we really want to do something in the way of peace in this leaden age in which we live, one of the precautions we must take is to ensure that a critical mass of influential people become aware of the degree of confusion that exists in the public debate on the major issues that are addressed in the mass media, people who have never made the slightest reflection on the meaning of the words they dispute over.

One of the greatest grossnesses of the world debate is the contrast between the human importance of religious activity and the disregard with which the religious fact is despised.

But isn’t this the activity of all fanatics when it comes to considering any religion outside their own? Could it be that these so-called secularists are in reality believers of a religion hidden behind the mask of politics?

SIDI KARIM VIUDES MARTINEZ. 2003.

2. Western Muslims.

I will not go into answering these questions, nor into eliminating clichés or refuting events that distract attention from what is really important in the lives of Muslim converts to Islam in the West.

You would be surprised if I told you that the substance is to discover Islam. We have set out to do so in all orders of the sciences of Din: Jurisprudence(Fiq), belief(Aquida) and the sciences of the heart(Tassawf), as well as history, to understand with experiential clarity what the Message represents and what it changes in our life.

We have been in Spain for more than 40 years in this process that seeks the truth of things in depth. In the attitude of not allowing anything to be enthroned within us with dominion over us except the BEING.

This was the attitude of the Hanif- of Sayyidina Ibrahim, Aleihi salam,- when he confronted the whole society of his time by destroying the idols that his own father carved with his hands.

With this attitude, which is a mark in man, an innate tendency, and which the Qur’an calls “fitra”, our life is spent tearing down idols that do not deserve our submission.

Many of us Spanish Muslims have found that Islam is the method par excellence that makes the heart and the intellect not stop until they merge with the Truth. We could say until we burn in it. (Al Haqq al yaqim). And on this mount, we have realized a double path, the one of the internal realities, and another in intimate correspondence with the reality that circumscribes us.

Three fundamental themes emerge regarding us:

A. Understanding our death.

B. The cleansing of the ego as an element that tyrannizes our transformative core.

C. The eradication of the concept of guilt as a mechanism of social slavery and historical and personal dependence.

Allow me to say two words about what I have just said.

a. Once we have accepted our temporal limitation in the meanings and forms of this world, our perishable quality, the great unknown opens up: the belief in a future life, as a continuity of what has been treasured in this one. I want to express that this is the limit that divides humanity into two great blocks and that is defined in the first verses of Surat al Baqara: “and of the Hereafter they are certain” (Qur’an 2,4.) and those who deny this possibility. And this is more conclusive in the civilizing way than the belief in a Supreme Being.

In the thought of Al-Farabi, sage of the tenth century of the common era, “the belief in which we live is what creates the social bond that manifests itself in the form of social organization, language, ethics, aesthetics, uses and customs and rites”. If we had time we could see how these two aspects of belief build DIFFERENT HAPPINESS PROJECTS and lead to societies that develop or not, the concept of common welfare.

b. As for us, we have to say that if passions dominate our existence, without being able to give them a healthy outlet, we will find a being without transformative capacity, immersed in a battle between creative and reactive forces. Incapacitated in himself to impose justice and incapable of governing and judging with equity.

c. One of the aspects that most interest world governance is to keep the individual and social human being dependent on debt, so that the action of domination is exercised through this ancestral mechanism called “guilt”. We can say that the current mechanism of slavery for individuals, families and states, (turned into agents for collecting and paying endless interests), is the debt. The mechanism, apart from the coercive measures that are implemented to guarantee payment, with the approval of governments, is undoubtedly that the human being feels guilty. And this guilt is only released with the extinction of the payment of what is owed, which in the case of the states is already an impossibility. The world plutarchy, whose money has come out of the smoke, only wants the payment of the generated interests, whose burden affects all the citizenship restricting rights and liberties, and privatizing all the services of social nature. And to do so, the pandemic of guilt must be kept active and the social actors drugged by power.

What is the fault of those who are born so that they must give their blood to the monster that charges interest? This is not a new original Sin that has been generated to subjugate the human being from the religion of the Golden Calf, money fiction.

How then to free the human being from this tyrannical chain that has given birth to refugee camps everywhere and devastates large virgin areas of our planet.

What we have discovered in our perseverance is that Islam contains within itself a procedure that liberates the human being in his personal and social life.

Which is not culturally Arab, Pakistani or Nigerian, and that is why we are European Muslims and love our land, our history and our people. In a pedagogical saying our children are educated under the principle of love: Love of the country, Love of the landscape, Love of the countryman.

That it has a pattern of government that establishes justice for the disadvantaged as opposed to the strong and opulent.

It abolishes usury in commercial and contractual transactions and does not believe in paper money or monetarist institutions.

That its justice system must be independent of the executive power, establishing personal jurisdiction and the inviolability of the home, and preventing the spying on privacy.

That recognizes in man and woman the same right to develop their destiny as human beings.

It allows us to educate in the heroic character. Worthy of the highest European tradition: The Greek Paideia, and gives freedom to educate truly according to each one’s choice.

It has developed institutions and mechanisms to correct inequality, the WAQF or Habus, which places property as an individual achievement at the service of the community.

And that in its form of expression and struggle it is outside the terrorist matrixes that corset the Muslim masses at this time.

It follows that we cannot name any country as Muslim, but only recognize territories where millions of people of Islamic faith live.

3. The global rupture.

The myth of the Global Village has fallen, the war in Ukraine shows that the world has split into two blocks, the Western North and the so-called Global South, which is home to 70% of the world’s population. Governments have implemented the single discourse supported by the pandemic, eliminating any critical element and expelling from the networks any opinion diverging from the official story. We are experiencing the same in the narrative created by NATO and the intelligence services on the war in Ukraine.

We have gone from the action of controlling a microbe, competing in the harshest measures against the population, to the fight for the control of microchips that could lead to a worldwide conflict. We cannot guess in which scenarios we are going to live in the future, but we can sense that it will not be a world in peace and balance. And one thing is what we want, welfare, happiness, human and spiritual growth and another what the mandate of the hegemonic powers and the government of the corporations impose. From this perspective, let us briefly answer the topic that has brought us together.

“I have created you different so that you may recognize each other”, under this premise of the Qur’an, believers are prepared for the acceptance of difference, within the Umma itself and the world in which they are inserted.

From a personal point of view, I would say that miscegenation is the future, a fact that will occur naturally in multiracial and multicultural societies, in which the highest cultural pattern will prevail in its artistic, literary, ethical, economic and healthy uses and customs.

And likewise, for the present moment and in order to promote an open future, it must prevail the

RESPECT AND COEXISTENCE of the various singularities and ways of understanding life

residents in the same habitat, be it urban or rural, rather than producing a cultural spawning

interactive planned. Time will tell, but we will be attentive to the diffusion of ways of

false life created by the FAKE NEWS and used from the control of Intelligence.

Artificial.

Good afternoon. Assalamualeikum. Peace to all.

Cadiz, 2 Ramadan 1444, 24 March 2023.