With the election dust in South Africa settled and Muslim politicians and campaigners consigned to oblivion with it, the Islamic Movement has to deal with an urgent issue: the rebuilding of trust.
During the election campaign, Muslims were frantically hosting ANC politicians at town hall meetings and Masajid using the cause of Palestine to attract and to impress the ANC with numbers and presumably promising them the moon. In the ANC’s own view, and relying on the court cases at the ICC and the ICJ, it anticipated securing the Muslim vote overwhelmingly.
The Muslim electorate did not buy their opportunistic narrative despite the ANC being fully backed by some Muslims within it.
That ended in disappointment for them.
The problem created though is entrenchment of the perception that Muslims are dis-honest, not people of their word and not even truly supportive of the Palestinian cause! This is what happens when people play politics with each other and with Allah’s Deen!
It happens when there is no taqwa i.e., the accelerated consciousness of Allah’s power and authority that eclipses all other powers. Muslims have to work extra hard to repair this image focusing more on the people than on politicians.
This is the opposite of Al Sadiq/the truthful and Al Amin/the trustworthy. By age 25, Allah’s (yet to be commissioned) Prophet was renowned for these qualities and had attracted the widespread admiration of everyone.
Something deep down in our psychology needs to be fixed up. It is even rooted in our role models, unfortunately. One of these role models said “the salah behind Ali is preferable but the food at King Mu‘awiyah’s table spread is better”. We have not yet sorted out this issue properly so it keeps coming back to haunt us.
Complicating this further is that Yahud are poisoning relations between Muslims and Christians, and especially Muslims and the oppressed peoples. The ANC enticed the Muslims into this narrative through the ineffective international legal system.
Led by careerist Muslim politicians inside and the clergy-class Muslims have fallen hook, line and sinker into this zionist trap. This is how the zionists operate. They play all sides and they divide and decimate.
In the meantime, they are making a financial killing. One just has to observe how they have divided the country.
In December 1991, there were 19 political parties that formed the Patriotic Front to negotiate at CODESA. Thirty years later, there are over 650 registered political parties and 52 competing on the national ballot?!
With a rocky future ahead, Muslims who listen to Allah should be in the best position to ensure that innocent people are not manipulated into becoming tools for violence because of these zionist-inspired internal political party rivalries.
South Africa has the second most powerful zionist lobby in the world after AIPAC in the US.
They have strengthened their grip on the economy since 1994 controlling more of it. Preceding 1910, through to 1948, 1994 and all the way to the present, they have maneuvered undetected. Their interests and influence are virtually undetected. They have remained intact throughout successive regimes and farcical elections.
Finally, the concurrent priority, along with eradicating zionism, should be to fight the debt that is odious. The legal doctrine of odious debt makes an analogous argument that sovereign debt incurred without the consent of the people and not benefiting them is odious and should not be transferable to a successor government, especially if creditors are aware of these facts in advance.
The debt under which future generations are enslaved is nearing 4.4 trillion rands. In the next few years almost 21.3% of taxation revenue is expected to be paid towards debt service costs.
In the meantime, most of this debt incurred has not benefitted the majority of ordinary South Africans.
Should the Muslims invest their time, energy and resources in eradicating zionism and enslavement through debt, they would through this journey build enough credibility and alliances to stir the people of South Africa to agitate for a new form of government that would be re-aligned to the Divine power culture.