@ 5:14 PM Anonymous said…

Is this website serious, whats the purpose of this blog. Do you want some one to share your meaningless life experiences with, or is it that you want to make some friends, and get a few hits.

Is there a message that you bloggers(blaggers), have, if so what is it.

When you talk about your job interviews, chill out sessions, and cheap aneqdotes WHAT Are you saying. Do you think the people who read your life occurances are so deppressed of their own excitingless lives that they have to read your so interesting and exilerating stories.

The title of this website (islamic politik) is not justified by your continuous rambling of your life events, that are frankly quite boring and as i said meanigless.

I CAME TO THIS WEBSITE thinking i would learn somthing from politically active muslims as the title suggests.

Thanks for the comment. Yes, I would say that indeed this is a serious blog. Not “life and death” serious, but I’m sure no blog is quite as important as that.

You mentioned “Meaningless life experiences”. Hmm… For some people, I suppose that – for example – praying is meaningless. I can fully understand that. I wouldn’t do it unless the Creator of the Universe made it an obligation, but then that is precisely what makes it meaningful to me. Of course this is an entirely subjective topic: I find fashionable clothing meaningless, whereas others make it a focus of their life.

Since I find fashion relatively meaningless I don’t go to a fashion show. There are countless other places I can spend my time. The same certainly applies to you since there are about 19 million other results on Google for “Islam” and “politics”, each of which addresses different aspects of the topic.

I am unlikely to find a subject that will be meaningful for everyone, but I don’t expect to.

You raise two particularly interesting points: “whats [sic] the purpose of this blog” and that we “talk about your job interviews, chill out sessions, and cheap aneqdotes [sic]“.

Some clarification is in order. If you check through the various posts here, you will find that that they are all about Islamic politics. In some, this fact is obvious:

• “This decision should only come as a surprise to those who thought that there was still justice for Muslims in Britain.”
• Wipe Israel off the Map…hmmh, but How?

For some posts, the political aspect is more subtle, but most of our growing readership has shown itself capable of appreciating these subtleties.

Just for fun, however, I’ll briefly go through a few of them.

Take the example of Return of the Mach(iavelli). This could be viewed as s story about a bus stop and a sandwich, but it doesn’t take much to see that the topic of discussion is ideology. The Islamic ‘aqeeda forbids adopting Machiavellian philosophy. Practicing Muslims form a segment of society that gives primary allegiance to the will of God, and this is a highly politically relevant standpoint.

How about: Closer than Veins? That post is about Islamic political music. In fact the author goes as far as to point out the obviously political topic of the album:

It wouldn’t do Outlandish any justice if I just headlined the topics as marriage, motherhood, state of the Ummah, occupation, spirituality, integration, injustice, speaking the truth ““ it’s just so much deeper than that.

We can see the same in Pop Quiz! It states some of the many ways that Muslims are tested. Surely you can see that the hijab is a politically charged topic? How about relationships between men and women in Islam? It gives both as examples. This post is enjoining the readership to become active as Muslims, and reminds them of how little time they have left before the Creator asks about how they wasted their life in sin.

It really is just about how much you choose to read from the blog. Just advice can certainly be seen as being about rain, but any Muslim who has ever strived for the sake of establishing Allah’s deen in this dunia will have faced adversity. I can personally attest (as seen in the comments for that post) that reminders like this one are crucial in maintaining momentum. What do you think the author was referring to when he mentioned “patience and perseverance”? Do these not sound like the words of a man with a goal? Could this goal, by any chance, be political?

There is little profit in continuing this process of explanation, but I suggest that spending a moment contemplating the meaning of our “cheap anecdotes” might bring you much reward, and inshaAllah you will find that you have learnt something from politically active Muslims.

“Verily, you will not guide everyone whom you love, but Allah guides whom He wills and He knows best those who will be guided”

(Qur’an 28:56)