Publications Further Reading
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Publications: Further ReadingA collection of relevant books published by various Islamic authors
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Geopolitics has traditionally been the study of the relationship and links between political power and geographic space. The doctrine of Geopolitics gained attention largely through the work of Sir Halford Mackinder in England and his formulation of the Heartland Theory in 1904, which in reference to the British Empire at the time explored the significance of sea power in world conflict.
The world is once again in the midst of a global crisis which began with the financial crisis, that engulfed the world. The ‘Credit crunch’ as it has come to be known brought panic and turmoil in the summer of 2007 to the world’s financial markets causing the US housing market bubble to burst. The crisis threatens a worldwide economic recession, potentially bringing to a halt more than a decade of increasing prosperity and employment for Western economies and potentially wiping a staggering $1 trillion off of the value of the world economy.
The book is a translation of the excellent Arabic book ‘Da`wah ilal Islam’ (Dawah to Islam) by Sheikh Ahmad Mahmoud, originally published in Lebanon. In discussing the dawah to Islam, this book focuses more upon the prophetic method of dawah, rather than its obligations and mandubaat (recommended actions). This is because the need today to have knowledge of this methodology has become most pressing and important, superseding all other considerations. Dawah to Islam details with exacting precision the method of dawah necessary for the re-establishment of the Islamic State, because this aspect of dawah represents the backbone of the dawah to Islam today. At a time when the world has been deprived of the guiding presence of the Islamic State, every call that does not make the establishment of the Islamic State its pivot and centre of attention will forever remain incomplete.
Muslim youth growing up in the West face a variety of problems, issues and dilemma’s. Many deal with them by simply ‘going with the flow’ or by ‘following the crowd’.
How many hundred thousand children have died in Iraq under a cruel international regime of sanctions? Yet at the time of writing the doors of Iraq's neighbours are now open to a similar number of US troops in readiness for yet another killing spree, this time in the name of a "war on terror".
Unfortunately, after the destruction of the Khilafah, Islam became absent from the realm of life and became something from which the Muslims were detached. The minds of the Muslims were such that they could not imagine any system of government except the rotten and tyrannical regimes imposed on the Muslim countries. The Muslims in the West became subdued by the situation, due to their detachment from the Muslims in the Islamic lands, and began to look with hope and desperation to the capitalist way of life and its rotten fruits.
Today, the societies of the world find themselves at a crossroads. Humanity can either continue to tread down the road of failure, marching to the tune of Capitalism and Secularism, or it can search for a new path, a new ideology to direct its thinking and its efforts. Surely, the World is in need of a new and correct ideology, and it is with this vision that it must evaluate Islam.
Life for the Islamic Ummah today is difficult and complex, no matter where they reside. The Islamic world today is riddled with economic, political and security problems. It was such economic and political turmoil, drowning the Muslim world in the twentieth century that drove so many of the elder generation to the West in search of a better life. On their arrival they found many benefits but there were also new problems that they had to come to terms with.
There have been immense scientific developments by scientists. These have been in the fields of biology, foetal sciences, science of cells, medical biology, genetic engineering, and last but not least animal cloning, as a preface for human cloning. These developments have exceeded all expectations and have been acknowledged with amazement.
Mankind progresses through thought. The most important factor affecting our actions in life is the thoughts we believe in and carry. Without thought man drifts aimlessly from situation to situation, waiting for things to happen, rather than initiating action and progressing.
We are living in an era of deep darkness. The resources of the world are on the whole consumed by those that possess the least and produce the least. The world's political system is such that it seems that nothing can break the status quo of Western hegemony. The cycle of wars and treaties, and treaties and wars, throughout the twentieth century has ensured that international bodies work only to maintain the dominance of the Western powers.
The fierce struggle between the Islamic thoughts and the Kufr thoughts, and between the Muslims and the Kuffar, has been intense ever since the dawn of Islam. When the Messenger of Allah (saw) was sent, the struggle was only an intellectual one, and was not associated with any material struggle. This status quo continued until the Islamic State was established in Madinah, whereupon the army and the authority were established and since then, the Messenger of Allah (saw) combined the material struggle with the intellectual struggle.