The establishment of Islamic Shari'ah is not like
the teachings of the Sufis, doing dhikr thousands of times and then imagine all happens by itself. The establishment of Islamic Shari'ah needs sacrifices, drops of blood and sweat. The Islamic Shari'ah is also established not by those who still indulge in
bid'ah (heresy) and the corruptness of the aqeedah. It was hatched out of the crystallization of tawheed in one's soul, and then that person fights and sacrifices with his soul to prove his words.
“The words, they could die,” Sayyid Qutb wrote, “The
words will also be frozen, although written with beautiful or
enthusiastic lyrics. The words will be like that when they do not come
from the hearts of those who believe in what they say. And someone is
unlikely to have a strong belief in what he says, unless he construes in
himself what he says, and then becomes a real visualization of what he
said.” Sayyid Qutb continued in his monumental literary work, the Fii Zilaalil Qur’aan.
This is the sunatullah
of the struggle from the various kinds ideologies and beliefs. Let
alone in struggling for Islam which has been made as the common enemy of
the entire mankind, from those claiming to be Muslim, to the kafir and zindiq. This is the path of the Apostles which is travelled again by the proponents of tawheed,
i.e. the path when major corruption comes, so Allah wants to perfect
His Deen by testing those of His slaves, that they are absolutely
confident with what are embedded in their hearts.
In a narration, Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin al-‘Aas said:
"When we were with him (saws) and he said ‘toobaa lil-Ghurabaa' (glad tidings for the Strangers)', we asked: 'who are they?' He (saws) replied: ‘They are the righteous people and are very few in number compared to the majority.’" [Can be found in Saheeh Muslim, Ibn Maajah, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, al-Bukhaari and
at-Tirmidhi]
