al-Islam wal-Harakat al-Haddama al-Muasira
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al-Islam wal-Harakat al-Haddama al-Muasira (Islam and Contemporary Destructive Movements) is a treatise by Abd al-Qadir Shaybat al-Hamd analyzing and critiquing modern ideological movements—primarily Freemasonry, Communism, Socialism, and Zionism—from an Islamic perspective.
Authorship and Publication
The treatise was composed by Abd al-Qadir Shaybat al-Hamd during his tenure as a lecturer at the College of Sharia at the Islamic University of Madinah, and it appeared among his printed works. It was published as a featured article in issue 27 of the Journal of the Islamic University of Madinah (Majallat al-Jami'ah al-Islamiyyah bil-Madinah al-Munawwarah). In some modern digital catalogs and databases, the text has also been cataloged under the name of Abd al-Muhsin al-Abbad, who wrote another contribution in the same journal issue.
Scope and Content
Freemasonry and Related Ideologies
The text contends that modern destructive movements share a unified origin and overarching objective despite their varied appearances. It identifies Freemasonry as a clandestine organization established in Britain in 1717, arguing that its foundational slogans—freedom, fraternity, and equality—were framed to undermine religious conviction, dismantle traditional moral constraints, and provoke socioeconomic enmity. The treatise attributes several major geopolitical developments to Masonic intrigue, including the French Revolution, the 1908 Istanbul massacre, the Balkan Wars of 1912, the deposition of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and the eventual dismantling of the Ottoman Caliphate. It further asserts that Masonic networks promoted or exploited other movements to weaken religious identity, including Darwinism, Arab nationalism, Qadianism, and Baha'ism.
Communism, Socialism, and Property Rights
The work reviews the biography of Karl Marx and analyzes the five structural pillars of Marxist ideology: the proletariat's initial seizure of power, the nationalization of production and wealth, the elimination of capital, the abolition of social classes, and the dissolution of the state. It argues that Soviet implementation under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin resulted in totalitarian rule rather than emancipation for workers and peasants.
The author distinguishes between Communism and Socialism—noting that Socialism permits limited private property whereas orthodox Communism rejects all individual ownership—while arguing that both contradict Islam fundamentally. The treatise explicitly refutes attempts by modern figures to derive socialist doctrines from Islamic texts, such as the verse كَيْ لا يَكُونَ دُولَةً بَيْنَ الْأَغْنِيَاءِ ("so that it will not be a circuit between the rich among you", Surah al-Hashr: 7) or the prophetic tradition الناس شركاء في ثلاثة: في الماء والنار والكلأ ("People are partners in three things: water, fire, and pasture"). It argues that the verse specifically concerns the division of communal war gains (fay'), and that Islam guarantees private ownership, pointing to the substantial lawful wealth amassed by early Companions such as al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam and Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf.
Zionism and Historical Parallels
The text outlines the history of Zionism from 17th-century initiatives under Menasseh ben Israel to Theodor Herzl and the 1897 Basel Conference, detailing its efforts to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. It critiques proposals by Arab socialist politicians, such as Lebanese leader Kamal Jumblatt's 1950s lectures advocating an Arab-Jewish federation in Palestine.
To contextualize these movements historically, the author draws parallels with the medieval Qarmatians, citing the historian Ibn Kathir regarding their 317 AH attack on Mecca led by Abu Tahir al-Jannabi, the massacre of pilgrims in the Grand Mosque, and the removal of the Black Stone, alongside the antinomian doctrines spread in Yemen under Ali ibn al-Fadl.
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