Vision:

An Invitation to rectification

Rectify us by right

Do not fight us by falsity

By Zoheir Salem*

It is an old wisdom that says: a rational enemy is better than an ignorant friend. People involved in the contemporary Islamic experience, in its cultural, political, economic and social fields believe that their experience is human.  So according to that it is not impeccable, and in their movement and procession they are always keen to turn behind and fore sighting to realize the position of a possible mistake to look for a better way to get out of it. And to avoid the disorder that it has caused and is causing in their experience.

There is no doubt that reasonable person is owed thanks to an opposite or an antagonist who watches his thoughts and procession, and  then observes  the real fault and disorder, because this opposite or antagonist presents, unintentionally, to the reasonable directly or indirectly.

The experience of Islamic action with the sanctity and importance it represents, needs a process of continuous rectification, a real rectification that is based on justice, this is a fact that is not doubtable.

Rectifying this movement with its pros and cons and proposing the best solution to make a success in its project, in addition to its being an Islamic and religious need, became a civilized and humane need in the context of the war that others impose on the culture of this nation, and the war imposed by some people masked by this movement on all people.

Thirdly, it is a nationalistic requirement because the Islamic project today is the first project that finds its popular holder extending from ocean to ocean and its human and civilization load represented in the methodology of Islam that is opened to human all time and place.

Rectifying the experience is firstly the duty of the Islamic movement, because the nation that had pinned its hopes on a reasonable leadership to keep it away from the frustrations of the previous century leaderships has the right to achieve its hopes.

The people of this movement should realize that (good intention) alone is not enough, and that the sincerity of emotion does not make an achievement, and that achievement has its conditions, tools, and methods.

The Muslim nation fiasco in the Islamic project in its various dimensions will be more severe and deeper rifts than any other tragedy, misfortune or setback before. This imposes on the leaders, base, and supporters of the Islamic movement to remain always under the process of revision; since it did not hurt Omar to say in more than a situation (if I would have retrieved the time that I have passed ...)

the men of the Islamic movement, should remove the prior mistrust from themselves, and to weigh with the scale of right, religion, and enlightened discernment whatever said about them and to them. And to put away their fear for the movement as its rock is firmer and stiffer than a horn.

Intellectual, cultural and political elites should deal with positivity of advice with the Islamic project, and to point with the finger of honest to indicate the position of defect, and to warn of a fear loophole. The project with its dimensions and specialty is no longer a project of a certain party or organization or group. It is rather a project that is to be the holder of the project of nation's modernization, if it is to be understood as it is and according to its principles approaches.

Let’s deal rightly with (what Islam promises) according to (Raja Garowe). Let's join hands to aim the experiment on this basis.

It is a call for constructive criticism and positive aiming hoping that our nation would fine an outlet to the yard of real existence that shades all of us by some of what we love and want.

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*Director of The Arab Orient Center

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zuhair@asharqalarabi.org.uk

02/01/2010