BY SHAYKH ABDULAQDIR AL-SUFI
THE ENEMY
Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Sa‘id heard Sa‘id al-Musayyab say: Keeping gold and silver out of circulation is part of working corruption in the land. (Al-Muwatta 31.16.37)
In locating the enemy, we must immediately be aware that it is not a nation with a politique and an army and a flag — although they can send armies into the field. It is not a nation — it is in fact ‘international’ yet it will invoke the legitimacy of national laws and rights to defend its non-nation based power. Floating a haram paper (promissory) money they themselves are ensconced in a power situation of gold reserve, gold market ‘price’ manipulation, the diamond market and other fall-back systems of ‘real wealth’ in the deliberately orchestrated phases of inflation and bankruptcy.
Yahya related to me from Malik from Musa ibn Abi Tamin from Abu’l Hubab Sa‘id ibn Yasar from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said: a dinar for a dinar, a dirham for a dirham, no excess between the two. (Sunan ibn Majah, 2261)
That the real human transactional business ethos of Madinah Islam remains on record is a miracle of the miracles of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. The contrast between its social justice and the gross gigantism of billion-dollar debts and the macabre trillions of dollar debt the United States people owe to private banking underlines both the deep humanism and sanity of Islam and the demented nature of the usurious society. It is clear however that there is no road of reformism possible for their society — the slow erosion of realism from the days of Thomas Jefferson and the banking crises whose culmination was the cataclysmic upheaval of two European wars, each based on the irrational malfunction of the monetary system which had no basis in real wealth, gold and silver.
Malik related to me that Zayd ibn Aslam said: Usury in the Jahiliyyah was that a man would give a loan to a man for a set term. When the term was due, he would say, ‘Will you pay it off or increase me?’ If the man paid, he took it. If not, he increased him in his debt and lengthened the term for him. Malik said: ‘The disapproved way of doing things about which there is no dispute among us, is that a man should give a loan to a man for a term, and then the demander reduces it, and the one from whom it is demanded pay it in advance. To us that is like someone who delays repaying his debt after it is due to his creditor and his creditor increases his debt.’ Malik said: ‘This is nothing else but usury. No doubt about it. (Al-Muwatta 31.39.84)
The Jews and their Christian cohort knew that they had one final act before the complete subversion of Islam to kufr. They had dismantled the legal systems which were the social purpose of Islam. They had made contradictory arguments both accepting the madhabs and rejecting them as causing conflict among the Muslims — while nowhere on the political horizon could be seen a unified school — it was a theoretical fantasy which they knew well would never be and would in any event be nothing other than a fifth madhab. They had supplanted the great tafsir literature with modernist journalism which nowhere laid bare the necessary ahkam which led to legal judgment and political action. They had allowed a rhetoric of jihad while destroying it as a realistic program since, as we will see, inshallah, they had denied its foundational rules. The final act was to bring the whole Muslim nation into the realm of Riba and haram banking while cynically convincing the common people that it was ‘Islamic’ banking — when the word itself means usury and is not an Arabic word. Within ten short years we were to see the leaders of the modernist movement established in wealth at the head of the so-called Islamic Banking’ nexus.
There is no need to pretend to theoretical discussion on the issue as modernist literature, which now abounds, has done demonstrating by ‘economic theory’ that their system is not usurious. The inescapable fact is that banking by its nature is one global system. if you plug into it with one small ‘clean’ investment called non-interest banking it still must interface throughout the whole larger system until it becomes immediately and automatically enmeshed in the usurious process. One single credit facility to a country can involve up to over one hundred banks in the process and entangle capital flow in a multitude of usurious investments. Yet the passive involvement of ‘Islamic banking’ in the usurious system is not where the matter ends. Already there is clear evidence that its ventures are geared to the abolition of Islamic education and knowledge.
Funding from ‘Islamic’ banks has gone to support kafir universities and even the building of churches. So-called ‘Islamic banking’ far from being a solution to the danger of usury is the deliberate deception of the people by the usurious enemy who have subverted the munafiqun to their purpose of illegal gain.
Malik related to me that he heard that ‘Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud used to say: if someone makes a loan, they should not stipulate better than it. Even if it is a handful of grass, it is usury. (Al-Muwatta 31.44.95)
Another deliberate over-simplification of the kafir ‘banking’ system is that banking operates in some kind of economic vacuum. While it has its own rules and systems, it is utterly interactive with other networked institutions of the mushrik anthropology” Banking is wed to the Stock Exchange system which is both its ally and its enemy. Clustered around that system are the whole body of commodity markets and futures markets, even penny markets for the poor investors. The Arab nation has already experienced the magical power of market manipulation of the spot markets and stock exchanges. At one moment they held a political power by their control of the price of oil. It took only just over a year for the enemy to re-align the value of the same commodity until it was devalued to the point that these same oil nations have been taken to the edge of bankruptcy.
What is presented to the people as a kind of self-operating Minotaur that cannot be predicted — the Crash of ’29, and so on — in reality is orchestrated with a Mozartian finesse and mathematical precision. It is quite amazing how the munafiqun who wished to enmesh the Muslim nation in banking were able to avoid the fact that this meant total immersion in the stock exchange and commodities exchange system with its futures market and other practices so clearly and unmistakably forbidden in the Book of Allah and in the Sunnah of the Messenger, may Allah grant him blessings and peace.
We have no choice but to characterise the whole monetary system as usurious. That is to say the interactive networked system of banks and mega-banks (IMF, World Bank etc.), stock exchanges and all forms of trading conducted under their protocols, are nothing other than the true face of usurious power control which openly governs the world through its own organisations and personnel, in turn dispersed over the banking system as such, and interlocked with the vassal systems of so-called democratic governments and their agencies on the one hand. and the puppet dictators who rule the debtor client nations.
All this can be identified rationally and openly without recourse to conspiracy theory or arcane identification of secret masonic societies and so on although even these bizarre elements serve the so-called rationality of the main system as has been repeatedly demonstrated in recent history as in the scandals surrounding the catholic church and the mafia and the masonic control system that ran the Italian government (and in a new form still does).
The weave of modern society crosses and double crosses from the economic and business world to the political, and the political world simply provides the theatrical arena for the masses to personalise the issues as a series of party and individual crises and interactions veiling the true nature of the issues which never cease to involve money and its activities in banking, borrowing, and the taking over of real power by its method, that is gold, silver, ownership of production and land. Bankruptcy, for a bank is a means of access to the private wealth of ordinary people and indeed even the wealthy of the pre-banking regime.
“International” banking — is a system without any national allegiance, or institutionalised central authority. Parasitic, as usury is, it lives off and uses the existing national and international agencies of politics and economics, as well as its own multi-faced public identity as high-street bank, national bank, state bank, conglomerate, mega-bank and world power institution. And all this in turn is utterly enmeshed with the multi-national corporation and the supranational methods of corporation activity which removes these mega-structures from so-called national political and economic control. Indeed, nationalism has been an aesthetic and nothing more since the Bretton Woods Agreement.
Nor should there be any illusion that this is a ‘capitalist’ philosophy. In the East we are merely dealing with state-banking and a different design pattern to the same acquiescence to the banking masters. The vodka-cola syndrome has long since revealed the indistinguishable nature of the modern monetary control system. That the Chase Manhattan has a branch in Moscow, address 1 Karl Marx Square, does not mean they are communist agents but rather reveals that the east/west dialectic is merely a method of vitalising trade wars and capital competition.
Sophisticated arguments in the language of ‘economic theory’ are scripted by Jewish economists in their intellectual strongholds, those same universities which have taken command of ‘Islamic studies’ so that within the short span of ten years they have made the Muslim governments demand academic credentials as a proof of Islamic knowledge when it is not merely a proof of ignorance but a badge of being the enemy’s agent. The Islamic ‘duktur’ another non-Arabic signifier — is himself the apologist of an Islam without power to fight.
The banking system is, in detail and in general, a usury edifice with a usurious central principle and with usury its necessary condition. On the matter, the Qur’an is uncompromising.
Allah, glory be to Him, says:
Those who devour usury will not stand except as stands one whom Shaytan by his touch has driven to madness. That is because they say: trade is like usury. But Allah has permitted trade and forbidden usury. Those who after receiving direction from their Lord desist shall be pardoned for the past: their case is for Allah. But those who repeat are Companions of the Fire: they will remain there. Allah will deprive usury of all blessing, but will give increase for deeds of sadaqa: for He loves not creatures ungrateful and bad. Those who believe and do deeds of goodness and establish prayer and pay the zakat will have their reward with their Lord: there shall be no fear on them, nor shall they sorrow. Oh you who believe, fear Allah, and give up what remains of your demand for usury, if you are indeed believers. If you do it not, take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger: But if you turn back, you shall have your capital sums: deal not unjustly and you shall not be dealt with unjustly. (Quran: 2.275/279)
This is a clear declaration of war by Allah and His Messenger. That is, by Divine Decree and the laws of Islam, where usury is practiced is Dar al-Harb and a zone for Jihad under Divine and prophetic authorisation. Small wonder the dukturs have declared that the concept of Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam are no longer valid in this age. On the contrary — we find that it is the terrain of international banking that is the arena of usury, and so, is Dar al-Harb, until the victory, the inevitable and promised victory of the forces of Islam.
Significantly, in the light of this great Ayat we observe how the Muslims, especially in the Arab heartland of the umma were led astray by the modernist and revisionist Ulama. Absorbing the language and methodology of kufr in preference to the Islamic language and method they found themselves thinking and acting not like Muslims but rather like either reactionary rightists with political ambitions in the arena of assembly politics or radicals with fantasies of revolution. Of course, revolution is a rabbinical invention whose model is the anti-religious French revolution, which was put in place by the encyclopaedists, the precursors of the new Jewish elites of Harvard and MIT. Islam can no more absorb the foreign concepts of revolution and socialism than it can the equally alien ideas of interest-based loans and zero-worth money disconnected from bi-metal wealth in the hand.
It is not an accident that the result of one hundred years of redefining Islam meant that its only means to militant action should be couched in the masonic model of a secret society of Assassins, and this not for the first time in Islam’s history. One of the major tragedies resulting from this strategy, quite apart from the slaughter of Muslim youth without ever a victory, in open defiance of the clear laws of Jihad known to those ulama who still had access to the primal material, was that Muslims adopted a naive western political view which was strictly based on personality politics.
The idea that a society controlled by an all-embracing web of networked banking and supranational control systems could yield to the assassination of a President here and a Prime Minister there was a proof of ignorance of the enemy and an abandonment of the Book of guidance and the model of the Sunna.
In the scenario of modern Kufr the role of politicians — who exert no more than a personal style — is precisely to act as centre stage actors drawing the attention of the masses from the theft of wealth and resources going happening on the sidelines. The assassination of one American president and the disgracing of another made scarcely a ripple on the market nor an indentation on the value of the dollar.
Once politics has been identified as a snare to trap would-be activists against the kafir system it follows that the mythic vocabulary of national entities be recognised. National sovereignty like political power is a pseudo authority to control the masses. Flags are for sports arenas and local parades. Their reality is purely propagandist and rhetorical. Once the banking entity has injected its blood into the body politic, it no longer is a discrete entity but rather an amorphous mass without legal boundaries. Governments merely initiate massive loans and must be removed if they hinder debt repayment or rescheduling. On the whole there are benign ‘democracies’ for the arena of the dominant banking forces and puppet dictatorships for the poor countries who must continue to hand over their raw materials and commodity wealth in exchange for debt enslavement. Sometimes a ‘revolutionary movement’ is necessary to reduce the population to controllable levels by genocide and to try out new weaponry designed by the banking entities.
It is vital that the Muslim mujahideen do not mistake the enemy and think this is a war against a nation or a leader. Although the struggle may present leaders and nations to distract and ensnare the Islamic forces, it is a Jihad — under orders from Allah and His Messenger, may Allah bless him and give him peace. It is a Jihad against the usurious banking entity. Thus it is a Struggle that can be waged not just on one terrain, or under one Amir, but it is a Jihad that will be characterised by fighting wherever the enemy’s forces exist.
It is not merely a personnel but a method, a deen, with its Temples, the banks, with its holy places the Stock Exchanges of the world; and its false scriptures — the data-banks of figures, these magical millions and billions that hold the world’s poor to ransom for the sake of a small elite of kafir power brokers, their core Jewish, their allies the lawless Christians. It is with these that war must be waged.
In order that the activist should be clear on this at first difficult issue the matter should be summarised. Remember, the control systems of press and media are geared to make you enter the false dialectic of left and right, rulers and radicals, liberation of workers, women, deviants and so on. However tempting it is to attack a ‘king’ for his obvious and undeniable shirk in claiming kingship, it is a serious distraction which could cost you your life. It is the red cloak of the matador — not the matador.
To think ‘politically’ is irrelevant to recognition of the power mechanisms of modern society. To think ‘economically’ is to accept the politico/economic divide. Using the currently indoctrinated viewpoint of media is similar to playing checkers while the opponent plays chess. Thus, you hold only pawns while the enemy can deploy its forces hierarchically on the board with a variety of sophisticated moves which you cannot understand, not having apprehended the rules of his game.
The age of the sovereign nation is finished. It is the age of structuralist interweave of supranational and varied corporate elements, above national law, elusive of the mythical ‘international law’ — interfacing with governments, regimes, leaderships, multinationals, conglomerates, and the banks themselves. Its hermeneutic control system coded into the language of market values and movements. Currency value, commodity value, futures options, stock exchange method, all these play in the game of the world banking system. It controls corporation productivity and dictates what should be produced. Its most rewarding product is high technology armaments as this ever-changing market of lethal weaponry provides the highest and quickest return. Thus, it is a system dedicated — without any moral examination — to the need for a war scenario, always, somewhere, and the threat of nuclear war its strongest piece on the board to control both market and political short-term activity.
The banking entity is a pharaonic tower reaching to the heavens in its ambitious unified structure. It is a pyramid whose vast effectiveness is nevertheless based on the ordinary person’s contribution to the local bank with his checking account. Any idea that you are being ‘halal’ by simply rejecting interest payments must be discarded as utterly mistaken. In fact, you are strengthening the enemy by giving them the money which will nevertheless accrue. The withdrawal of the poor Turkish immigrants back interest from the Berlin banks would bring about these banks collapse almost immediately. Yet they have been duped by a leadership which is none other than the modernist ‘Islamic movement’ whose role is to negotiate Islam into the banking system, something which can only be done by deliberately distorting the clear evidence of Book and Sunna. There is no clean position visavis the banking system — if you use paper money you are part of the monolithic system and are its powerful support. Only by effecting damage and causing the superstructure to collapse can the Muslim have a clean relationship with the shayatin of the monetary system and its usurious method. That is, only by taking up the Jihad declared in the Quran, as we have noted.