Tawassul

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Tawassul

By Ebrahim Saifuddin

Introduction
In this day and age when Muslims are being attacked by people of almost all faiths, it is quite sad and disturbing that Muslims are busy attacking each other. Why is it that we, who belong to the Ummah of Muhammad (saw), have fallen so low that we take not a second before declaring each other of being from those who practice shirk or kufr?

Our internal issues should be our internal issues and differences amongst the Ummah should be dealt with in a civilized manner. It is no wonder why we, the Muslim nation, cannot today stand on our feet and hold firm our ground and voice for our rights in the international community.

Mu’awiyya (ra) who despite his differences with Ali (ra) responded to the Christian ruler calling him “You Christian dog” and then vowed to join forces with Ali (ra) and destroy him if he dared tried to even look at Ali (ra) in a bad way. While we claim to follow the way of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) and the earliest generations, we are in practice very far away from it.

Martin Sean Indyk is a former United States ambassador to Israel. He is also the ex-deputy research director for the main Israeli lobby group, The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In one of the Doha debates held by BBC in Oxford, UK on May 1, 2007, he said:

“There are more American Muslims than there are American Jews, but they’re not organized as a monolithic community. You know, there are Pakistani Muslims, there are Arab Muslims, there are Black Muslims, and on the other hand, the Jewish community, you know, if you have two Jews, you have three organizations. They’re probably the most highly organized people in the world.”