Islamic Revival

The following is a transcript I prepared at the request of at the request of one of the Ulema in Africa who was delivering a speech on this subject at a conference for the Ulema. Dear brothers today I want to discuss a vital subject which I believe is a key issue for us all and should be at the heart of our discussion today – the importance of addressing the reality of the Ummah and the issues that affect them. The responsibility of the Ulema The Prophet (saw) said: "إن العلماء ورثة الأنبياء، إن الأنبياء لم يورثوا ديناراً ولا درهماً، إنما ورثوا العلم، فمن أخذ به فقد أخذ بحظ وافر" “The Ulema are the inheritors of the prophets, the prophets did not bequeath dinars or dirhams, but they bequeathed knowledge, so he who takes it will take an abundant chance” We know that they cannot be the inheritors in Prophethood as this ended with the final Messenger Muhammad (saw), rather it means they are inheritors in the sense of responsibility of spreading the Deen, working to

The following is a draft translation of an Arabic politcal analysis article written by Islamic activists in the Arab world. On 13 July 2006 the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline project -which is also called Caspian-Mediterranean line- was officially completed, it will transport the petrol of the Caspian in a detoured line towards the lands under the Soviet influence, the Armenian lands and the Turkish straits. To realize the importance of this oil pipeline, it is important to mention the importance of Caspian oil related to the international oil markets. The basin of the Caspian consists of two banks, the east bank which is Caucasia, and the west bank which is Central Asia, that means the Caspian basin includes five countries: Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Azerbaijan is the only country which contains oil and gas reserve in a prominent way, as for Armenia and Georgia, they have only a little reserve. The importance of Georgia lies in its being a crossing coun

The following is the draft translation from Arabic of a political analysis article written by Islamic activists in the Muslim world: To clarify the image we have to go a little backwards: Towards the end of the seventies, since Carter’s era, when the political solutions for the issues of the region began to take a serious path under the sponsorship of America, which originated the ill-omened agreement of Camp David in 1978, and the plan of America is still being continued after it: (to make the Syrian path proceed the path of the Palestinian solution or at least not to be delayed from it). Regan continued after Carter -in the eighties- on the same track. Then, Bush the father came, and followed the same method, by trying to find a solution for the problem, which they called the Middle East crisis, and to solve it in a compromise which will include Syria, and then Lebanon (because America “granted” Lebanon to Syria since the entering of the Syrian deterring forces in 1975 and until it b