Introduction

The Prophet (saw) said: "Do not seek light from the fire of the polytheists." [Ahmad]

Did you see the crowds of Istanbul welcome Obama? Have you seen the Islamic organisations of the United States of America praising him? Have you seen the young Muslims hoping in him and his administration?

Some people are too defeated to look themselves straight in the mirror; they can only see themselves in the eyes of others. They can only revive their spirits in the words of those who oppose them; they can only find meaning and relevance through the praise of the wolves who seek to destroy them. That is the tragedy of who we have become today: a reactive and dwarfed people who only muster the audacity to speak, hope, act or think when we are compelled or asked to. And even when we do, we cannot escape the intellectual constraints and examples of those who have disbelieved in God and fought us.

We tend to forget that even those we tend to imitate and glorify are amongst the most deluded and criminal of all.

Barack Obama

“As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.” – Barack Obama

President Obama's delusion isn't in his sense of eloquence or intelligence, for he is one of the few unique men America has produced in a long time. His delusion is in believing he and his people possess and grasp history's great men and God's truth; that an aura of true privelige rests in his nation's founding documents and earliest dreams. For as long as this man cries in the name of his nation's founders and calls upon a God he associates partners with, he is a poor and destitute man bound to failure like the many before him. There is no fruit to be found in the land in which he so passionately ploughs; men far greater than him have searched and met the fate Obama will soon meet.

Fragile Dreams

The Americans construct fragile dreams upon the words of long gone men, known for their extravagance, regality and genocide. They established a dead constitution and hollow laws that have only served to enslave the Americans in a constant commitment to their whims and desires; man marries man, woman kills what lives in her womb, bodies are sold in the name of enterprise, the big and rich usurp the small and poor and humans live realities even the animals are ashamed of.

They find hollow prescriptions in their legislature; we find revelation from God and inspiration in our Messengers. While his nation's founders launched their quest from the lounges of pompous wealth, our Prophet launched his from a dusty and dry mountain and conquered the world from there; their nation fights in the name of themselves, our nation strives in the name of God and truth.

The Conscience of Mankind

While they are deluded into believing they have the conscience and justice of mankind in their hands, they do not. The very wealth they have today is thieved from the soils and oils of Asia and Africa; the marble and fine wood of their Supreme Court and Congress was carried on the backs of the oppressed sons of Africa; their constitution, nation and state were established on the genocide of the native and indigenous American Indians. Has the world forgotten the American Indian population, which once numbered over five million, and has dwindled to just 500,000 today? Of what freedom and morality does this man speak?

Our Prophet (saw) took off his shirt and muddied his own blessed hands in the construction of the mosque of Madinah; he died with his home in poverty and his stomach screaming from the pangs of hunger – only so those poorer than him might sleep satisfied. He treated his slaves with such compassion and love that they were almost ascribed to him as sons. He, the messenger of God, was stoned with the pebbles of the mad and stupid, but asked Allah (swt) to guide and forgive them – that is the founding father of our state and nation, a father of mankind's true conscience.

The Bible

The Bible that is held aloft and sworn on in their American inaugurations is the word of corruption and contradiction, inked by those who waged war on God and altered his words for petty material gains. The Americans fiddle with a fallen book to maintain a token of religion in their godless system of autolatry, where whims and desires rule over the human mind and conscience, as well as the law of God.

Our Qur'an is a pure, relevant and untainted book. No-one has dared claim its alteration or contradiction without being defeated and grouped with the mad. Our nation is that of God's word, while the disbelievers busy themselves with the remnants of Paul, Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. For that reason, he who follows the Qur'an acts in the spirit of truth, and he who follows the Bible acts in the spirit of corruption and defeat.

Equality

The equality between black and white was established amongst us hundreds of years of ago. A young Abyssinian's first call to prayer before our Prophet (saw), on a platform higher than that of all those around him, out-does and out-weighs any other honour. Our Lord (swt), from above His throne, told us that we were equal and the best of us are those most immersed in piety and righteousness.

We are a people who allowed slaves become our kings, because they were the best amongst us; the Mamelukes, that shook the thrones of the Crusaders began as mere slaves, and our history remembers them better than any of the masters and pashas of the time. Indeed, we all owe them the presence of Islam in our lands.

So does this man, whose mother and upbringing is white, and whose education is from Harvard, want us to believe in his shallow story of today, while our God (swt) set the precedent and principle thousands of years ago?

The Crisis of Women

Let Obama first settle the dilemma of his wife, who's constantly parodied for her looks and who cannot escape the fashion pundits who slice and dice all she wears and says. For while their wives are judged on the gowns they wear, our women are judged on what resides in their heart, the fluency of their love and the generations they give life to. Our women changed the world and nurtured the greatest of men and legacies without having to compromise the sanctity of what is exclusively theirs. Our women's greatness does not need to be tempered and flavoured with the sight of their bosoms and legs to be appreciated.

Let him first solve the crisis of young teen girls selling themselves in public parks just to be able to purchase bread, before coming to lecture us on hope and freedom. Let him deal with the throngs of women who throw themselves from the Golden Gate because of the pain of an abortion that lingers even after decades. Let him deal with the women, who at fifty and above, still pose nude and dance, like the drugged, to maintain any sort of relevance in their lives.

This man presides over a social and family meltdown almost unprecedented in history. Their values of liberty have given birth to hedonistic attitudes to life based upon the pursuit of carnal desires and immorality, manifested in escalating levels sex crimes and social disasters . Does this debased man want to lecture the Ummah of Islam on liberty and freedom while his own kind dies from what it brought upon itself?

Economic Exploitation

All their skyscrapers and towers cannot cover the shame of their systems of exploitation and greed, which have rightly blown in their faces and will blow again. Their problem is not one of regulation, but one of system altogether. This cycle we are in today is nothing new; it is but a bead in a long chain of meltdowns and collapses that will only become more frequent. The greed of the financiers, the boom and bust nature of their economy and the degrading premise that man is an economic unit in a jungle of numbers will swallow up their lives and put their society on the brink of breakdown.

In Islam, we are a people above delusion and virtual wealth, depending on a real economy which spurs growth after government has satisfied the needs of all those underneath its authority. Economic equity is established, where the poor are taken care of and the entrepreneurs are bound, by what is correct, in their endeavours and attainment of further wealth.

Even without the State of Islam today, our financial and monetary example is the lone one that stands untainted and undefeated all over the world. So do he and his followers want to come and lecture us on prosperity?

'The US is not and never has been at war with Islam'

"And I will bring to the White House an unshakeable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with ensuring Israel's qualitative military advantage... As president, I will implement a Memorandum of Understanding that provides $30 billion in assistance to Israel over the next decade..." – Barack Obama, speech to AIPAC

How could this man, who supports Israel and recognises its legitimacy, not be at war with Islam? Israel is a false and illegitimate nation that stands on a land that is not its own and never will be. It upholds policy of eternal war and engages with the tyrants of the Arabs in thieving the holiest of lands from its rightful owners. Only the deluded would see this man as any sort of ally or saviour.

He announced in Turkey that his nation is not at war with Islam and never has been. If so, what of the American embassies which give life to the tyrannical and oppressive of our capitals? What about the intellectual war against Islamists who seek to reform their societies and return them to the havens they once were? Do this man and his legion of followers believe the eloquence of his words will blind us from what our eyes see and the taste of the blood smeared across our faces? There will be no peace, whatsoever, until all American involvement ceases from our homelands and our people are given the right to be governed by what is in their interests.

Finally, it is a matter of time before true leaders arise, from amongst the ranks of the believers, to flip the tables on which the wars against us are drawn; and, those naive Muslims sitting at those tables, with the enemies of Allah, better move away.

Abdul-Latif Halmi