Ighsaan Taliep – IPSA Wasatiyyah Symposium 2017 re Mitigating ISIS in South Africa
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The Mosiah Organizing Congress discusses the importance of Islam in achieving peace and justice, including the Jesusnamicist movement and the ISIS movement. The discussion touches on the history and meaning behind "immediate of peace" and the recent "immediate of peace" incident in the Middle East. The speakers emphasize the need for witness bearers to call for justice and the importance of Normality and justice in the context of war. They end with a recap of the forum and a statement from the CO.
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The Name of
Allah, Most Merciful
mosque. Compassionate, we send
greetings and salawat and blessings upon our most noble
Prophet, Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, his noble
companions and his family and friends,
our dear honored
guests. It is my distinguished honor to be responsible to welcome
you here this morning, and so in doing so,
we give acknowledgement in the absence of the Minister mbalula,
the esteemed lineup of presenters that we have here who will be
honoring us today, including Ambassador Ibrahim rasool from the
world for all Foundation,
our own professor, Ibrahim Arnold and Dr Sheik Siraj Hendriks
welcome is extended to the director of the afro Middle East
Center, our brother, Mr. Naeem Jina
and Imam Rashid Omar, who also played a central role alongside
and with and within the Mosiah Organizing Committee, IPSA board
members who are also in the lineup a senior counsel advocate, Hafiz
Abu Bakr Muhammad,
and the remaining very, very impressive lineup of speakers that
we have who will be addressing us today.
I acknowledge also our chairperson, Mr. Sharif Abbas, of
the board of epsa, who usually makes his career appearances, and
it just appeared right now.
This is by the grace of the Almighty Allah, our seventh annual
vasalty symposium, a term which is located very, very authentically
and centrally
in the Quran as a descriptor of the Ummah, or the Nation of Islam,
as ummat and wasapa
Translated, perhaps attempts at translation as an ummah which is
justly balanced
the faith of Islam challenges its followers
and humanity to stand up as witnesses
for Allah to justice, and they are some permutation of that concept
in the Holy Quran in more than one Place,
Allah Tala says, yayo, Amanu, kunu, Kowa mean Ali, laisha, Ada,
Abu kiss.
In addition, Allah refers to the ideal state of equilibrium among
human beings
through their relations intersect
and again,
occurring in more than one permutation. And instance, in the
Holy Quran,
Allah, Most High says simply walola, Deaf Allah, He nas bardom
be about LA festival art.
Had it not been that He, God Almighty, keeps one group of
people in check by virtue of another group,
the entire Earth would have corrupted.
The entire earth would have collapsed a collapse.
We can see then that from the Quranic perspective, Islam
conceives of this world to be multipolar,
and it is only through multipolarity
that we will be able to attain and in fact implement those values of
Islam,
of peace
and justice
and mercy
and compassion
and dignity and.
For indeed, the adage holds true that power corrupts
and ultimately also that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The ISIS phenomenon
severely challenges the Ummah in terms of its outward paraphernalia
and idiom
purporting to be representative of the aspirations of the Islamic
nation.
This when its gratuitous and deliberate show of violent force
toward anyone will pose its methods and extremist ideology,
it challenges Muslims to introspect and go beyond the
paraphernalia and slogans
to identify the violent aberrations of the core values of
our faith, the values of peace and justice, the values of Mercy and
dignity and honor for all human beings,
however, notwithstanding the deep emotional trauma that continue to
be experienced by the Ummah
as a result of the ravages in the political landscape in the Muslim
world, in the Middle East in particular, bearing in mind that
the majority of Muslims of the world are not from nor in the
Middle East,
the Quranic imperative of just balance compels that we look
Beyond egregiousness that serve only as fodder
for white capitalist mass media
standing out as witness barriers to justice for Allah
to restore equilibrium among nations require our deepening of
the discourse of the power dynamics among nations,
the South African discourses of decoloniality, as the unfinished
Project of decolonization,
as Maldonado Torres holds,
holds some deep irony for the fact that we are also holding this
symposium for the first time off campus And in this citadel,
iconically symbolizing that historic colonization. I
this forum of civil society needs not only raise its voice, but
commit as witness bearers
to justice to call Western leaders for their complicity in the
destruction of nations, of human being, human beings, lives and
Arab civilization predating the advent of Islam by 1000s of years,
the call for leaders To be held accountable for war crimes must be
what emanates from a forum like this on social media. Very
recently, we witnessed how the former Prime Minister of the of
the of Great Britain, Tony Blair, appears to be apologizing
for their complicity
in the invasion of Iraq in 2003
on what now only, not Only demons dubious grounds,
but downright and deliberate falsifications,
war crimes
and the coloniality of power
and the disequilibrium that we face in the world today is what
allows such acts to go unchecked with impunity.
This is our challenge as the Global South,
and today's proceedings must step up to the challenge of advancing
decoloniality of knowledge and being,
if we were to restore equilibrium and balance and thereby force
inclinations of extremisms to the peripheries of irrelevance.
Our Beloved Prophet, peace be upon him
in that a.
Ideal state.
Describes the relations interseed of human beings
at a spiritual level,
and he references their souls as being mutually reinforcing of one
another.
Al Arwa Juno dun muja,
he says either
Tara fat that when they are acquainted with one another,
they become
well disposed, affectionately disposed to one another,
WA Ida, tanakarat, echtelephat,
but when they
operate
in isolation of one another,
in exclusion to add
that is when they fall into dispute,
this state of ideal equilibrium of human nations and human beings
intersect
cannot be evaluated simply on the basis of principles which are
regarded as universal,
but that have been formulated by systems of knowledge
that in its design, dismisses the other,
dismisses the experience and the history of other nations and other
peoples
and posits itself as the only authoritative source of evaluation
and criteria.
We pray that those
values of dignity and justice and peace and compassion to all people
are what will be the driving guiding beacons of light of
deliberations
among our panelists, among yourselves as the attendees and CO
interlocutors to their presentations, and we pray that
God Almighty infuse and inspire wisdom,
inspire compassion, peace and justice in our minds, in our
deliberations. I thank you very, very much. Zach Mullah hero,
assalamu. Alaikum. Warahmatullahi, wabarakatuh.