New Literature for a New Era

Everybody wants to change the Muslims. Let me say how it could, and should, be done: One Idea at a Time.

That is how.

That is how you change the Muslim world. And that is how you change the entire world in fact: One simple and small new idea at a time.

That is how.

When people say they want to change the Muslims – and the world – I say: Me Too!

I must own up to being an addict to the idea of changing the world – and making it better: for all of God’s creation. [...]

That most unique, powerful and all-encompassing expression Alhamdulillah means something like this:

“All and every praise, all commendation and glory, belongs to God and to no one else.

And I duly, and most gratefully, acknowledge all his boons, bounties, favors and blessings that he has chosen to bestow upon me.

And I have no reason or cause whatsoever to be angry or unhappy or displeased with him.

That means, so far as I am concerned, such as I am, and in whatever state or condition or place or situation I am, it is all just the way it should be.

It is all just right — just the way he is pleased to make it.

What is more, and I shall want it no other way.

If that is his way with me, then that is how it is, shall be and I want it to be.” [...]

Your job, and or your business, is your connection, not just with yourself and your family and loved ones, but with your God. So, how can you go wrong by putting it in the first place? [...]

“I am often skeptical about Meetings and Committees.

For obvious reasons.

They are often wasteful of time and resources.

At times, they are little more than a refuge for the indolent and the indifferent — and the generally unproductive.

In some quarters, they end up being devices for distracting people and deferring action.

While I have all these reservations about Meetings and Committees, I want to leave no doubt that Meetings and Committees are important.

And often they are indispensable tools of democracy — and Islam, which in many ways comes down to being the same thing. 

Meetings and Committees are generally the instruments through which a free people exercises Power and Participation in a Democratic Society.

In the language of Islam, it is called Shoora.

In Islam, Shoora means grass-roots democratic participation and involvement on the part of a Free People — at all levels.

Without such broad-based participation, chanting the name of Islam is mere lipservice.

At worse, it is a way to hoodwink people and distract them from knowing, demanding and working to realize their basic human rights.

So, Committees and Meetings are an instrument of Shoora — of Islam that is.

To be effective, Committees must be freely elected and fairly nominated.

And they must be efficiently run.

Members and Leadership of Committees must make the best and most efficient use of the time and resources available to them.

And they must be constantly aware of their accountability before God — and before Society.

That is Islam.” (Dr. Pasha)

Sherlock Holmes would have had no difficulty in saying: “Elementary, my dear Abdullah!”

And it is: I mean “elementary” indeed.

I am referring to the fact that every Muslim man, woman and child must love the land of their birth and domicile.

That means the place they are born as well as the place where they live.

And they must love every piece of God Almighty’s earth, which he, explicitly and with great pomp and publicity, created for them.

The Qur’an makes it repeatedly clear that God created the earth and everything in and on it for them: for the entire human family.

So being good stewards and custodians of this earth and all things in it is a basic human requirement. [...]

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“I have, I am sure said this before, and I want to say it again: My friends “Good Muslims” hide in Islam from the harsh Muslim reality that surrounds them.

In other words, they hide in Islam from Islam.

Sometimes, they simply dive into the nearest Masjid and busy themselves in what they say is ‘Ibaadah.

Little do they realize that the biggest ‘Ibaadat in life is taking a good and searching look at the world of Allah as it envelops them from every side and then trying to do everything in their power to fix the mess in which that world finds itself.

That is Islam.

And there is no bigger Fard than that.

As for Farz Namaz, how long does it take an average “Good Muslim” to do their Farz Namaz?

The question is, what do “Good Muslims” do once the Farz Namaz is over and done with.” (Dr. Pasha)

Woman: Root of All Evil?

Time was, in the Sixth Century AD, when women everywhere were male property and plaything.

Kings and commoners alike despised and abused women in every way they could.

Religion and religious leaders often treated women worse. They denied women were even people or they had a soul.

They went about saying it was woman who got man kicked out of Paradise, where God Almighty had put both man and woman when he first created them.

They called woman Gateway to Hell.

They called woman the Instrument of the Devil.

Religion and religious leaders more or less blamed woman for all of man’s troubles on earth.

And there were those in this world who did something about it.

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“Some people will continue to harbor hate and spew venom and prejudice against Islam and Muslims, no matter who tells them what to the contrary.

Often, such people abhor and fear truth in general — and about Islam and Muslims in particular.

Not that, in many cases, they don’t know the facts.

It is just that they cannot handle the truth.” (Dr. Pasha)

“Muslims are slaughtering sheep as sacrifice to God to celebrate Eidul Adha in commemoration of Abraham’s (God Bless Him) willingness to sacrifice his own begotten firstborn son to God.

Muslims, Christians and Jews all believe that story from the Bible and the Qur’an, even though Muslims say it was Ismaaeel, while others say, no, it was actually Isaac.

But do you know what I am thinking as I see all these sheep being led to the slaughterhouse?

As I see all these sheep huddle together and as I see Muslims pulling and dragging them by their horns and legs to kill them?

I am thinking of all those Muslim men, women and children that Muslims and their foreign puppeteers slaughtered over the years in the pursuit of wealth and power and land and possessions.

And in the pursuit of their petty little fiefdoms.

And, get this, yes, get this indeed: These so-called Muslims did a good bit of all that at the bidding of their foreign colonial masters and mentors.

That is how foreign colonial masters conquered, controlled and plundered much of Muslim lands and wealth: often using traitors and turncoats with Muslim names and Muslim garb to help them and to facilitate their work.

Not much has changed since the British conquered and colonized India by setting one so-called Muslim ruler and kingdom against another.

Today, individuals, organizations, countries and kingdoms with Muslim names and credentials do the same with equal glee.

Bulk of the Muslim masses lived in near-total ignorance then. They live in near-total ignorance now.

They were clueless then. They are clueless now.

They OD’ed on religion then as a substitute for real-life choices and action.

They OD on religion now as a substitute for real-life choices and action.

May God have mercy on those poor Muslims whom Muslim corruption, greed and naiveté slaughter like sheep to please their foreign colonial masters!

You may not have heard how the petty little Muslim kingdom of the Nizam of Hyderabad helped the British defeat another little Muslim Kingdom of the more nationalistic Tippu Sultan of Mysore.

That was the battle – the battle for Mysore at Srirangapatnam, India – that changed India’s destiny; sealed the fate of the Muslims in the subcontinent; and shaped the course of world history for the next two centuries.

Muslims get the credit for that one.

It was toward the end of the 18^th Century, so there is no way you could have seen it.

But you saw with your own eyes, did you not, how Saddam of Iraq invaded Iran soon after a nationalist revolution broke out there and waged an eight-year-long war against that country, killing and maiming millions.

This was 1981-88. So, there is no way you could not have seen it.

You also saw what fate befell Saddam, right? And it happened right in front of your eyes: on television.

He was dragged like a rat from a hole and hanged like a thief from the gallows.

All that on TV!

So, on this Great Eid of Sacrifice, as Muslims slaughter their sheep, I think about how Muslim masses are led to the slaughterhouse by their leaders with Muslim names but with souls perhaps so dark that the Devil himself would envy.

If you don’t believe me, watch Iran and watch it very carefully. For, that is where the action is over the next 10 years.

That is where you will see Muslims use their foreign friends to attack, invade and destroy yet another independent Muslim country and slaughter hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of innocent Muslim men, women and children.” (Dr. Pasha)

“This Baqr Eid, Qurban Bayram, Eidul Adha, call it what you will, I have a wish.

And I have a prayer.

I will not say it is from my heart.

For, my heart is broken to a million bits at what is happening in the world — senseless violence; marauding injustice; rampaging lies.

So, I don’t really have a heart to speak of.

Instead, there is a huge hole where my heart used to be.

And a lump of unspeakable anguish watching man’s treachery to God.

And watching and living man’s inhumanity to fellow-man.

But a wish — and a prayer — I do have.

And it is a very simple one.

It is that, beginning with this Eidul Adha, 1432, the Muslim World will be free of violence — and lies.

That, Muslims will commit no violence and perpetrate no baseless lies against others.

And that, others will commit no violence and perpetrate no lies against Muslims.

And that no country in the world will use false and baseless propaganda to attack and invade another country and plunder its wealth and kill its people.

That is my simple wish for this whole new year starting with this new Baqr Eid 1432.

Eidul Adha 2011.

That is my prayer.

That is my wish.” (Dr. Pasha)

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To the Muslim World,

A 1432 Eid Greeting from Dr. Pasha

This Eid: A New Dawn of Freedom!

“May this Eidul Adha — 2011/1432 — usher in to the Muslim World a new dawn of freedom.

Starting from today’s Eid, may every Muslim government be a democratically elected one and may every Muslim people everywhere be a truly free and genuinely empowered people.

For, that is Islam.

And it is the quintessential spirit of what the world has recently taken to calling the Islamic Shari’ah.” (Dr. Pasha)

“God Almighty made Islam easy.

Easy to know, easy to learn, easy to understand and easy to practice.

He says so in the Qur’an — over and over.

But Muslims make Islam difficult.

And they go to extraordinary lengths to do so.

And then Muslims wonder why they are the way they are and why the world is the way it is.

My advice to Muslims? Try Islam the nice, easy and practical way.

And see what happens.

To you and to the world.

Give yourself — and give the world — five years of easy Islam. 

And then call me if the world does not change by then.” (Dr. Pasha)

“Everyone will tell you why it is impossible for you to do this or that or something else.

I want you to know that life itself is just another name for doing all that seems impossible to do.

Such as walking on earth, most of the time upside down really, and not falling off into deep space.

Such as breathing raw air and turning it into life-giving oxygen.

Such as munching some berries and changing them into blood in your veins and flesh on your bones.

More of it later.

For now, just ponder over these few things and know that life is doing the impossible.

Islam is just another name for doing life the way it ought to be done.” (Dr. Pasha)

“Consider Islam just another project, a personal project.

• Just like going to school.
• Finishing college.
• Getting a job.
• Building a business.
• Finding a mate.
• Acquiring a home.
• Getting your kids married off, as they say.
• Watching your favorite TV show or football or cricket or basketball game.

And then compare the way you do Islam with the way you do any of these other things. You will get all the answers you need.

You will then know why the world is the way it is and why you are the way you are.

You will then also know how one is a close correlate and associate of the other.” (Dr. Pasha)