Working collectively !!!

We must understand Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah and their views about the collective work and duties when they work together (al amal al jama'ee), bearing in mind that the Muslims are living in a very difficult situation, maybe the darkest era in Muslim history. This is because they are falling from strength and leadership to oppression, and the ummah has been living on the margin, no longer fulfilling her responsibility nor playing her role as Allah (swt) has destined and obliged, which is to be leading the ummah

'Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves; and We appointed the Qibla to which thou wast used, only to test those who followed the Messenger from those who would turn on their heels (From the Faith). Indeed it was (A change) momentous, except to those guided by Allah. And never would Allah Make your faith of no effect. For Allah is to all people Most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful.' [2:143]

So the original rule that applies to all other nations is simply that of the Messenger Muhammad (saw) i.e. to command good and forbid evil and establish the deen of Allah (swt), and to rise for the deen and call for it. The ummah must raise the banner of the Messenger Muhammad (saw), and the responsibility of the Muslims is great and they are the safeguard of the most dignified values ever known in the history of humanity. This is why the da'ees to the truth are the ones to establish Allah (swt)'s deen and we can see that the weakness of the ummah and the aqeedah is mixed with many defections and false ways and curriculum. Secularism itself has a very strong foundation and there are hardly any activities in the Muslim ummah where the separation is not manifested. There is hardly an event or sign amongst the Muslims where you cannot see secularism, as it has become the apparent picture for the Muslims. It is natural to find secularism in the Muslim countries, which they believe to be the 'civilised' world and is widespread in the Muslim countries. From this evil ideology emanates democracy, Marxism, and fire, devil, grave and shrine worshipping, and innovation has begun to be widespread.

The biggest innovation is the irja which is to separate the iman from the action and even the aqeedah of those who believe that everything has been destined, that we are doing nothing, is also innovation. This was never known in the first Muslim generation, yet we see how people are far away from Islam especially in the politically. The Islamic state was ruled by a khaleefah, who used to address even a cloud passing by the domain of Islam by saying, to it that if you want to rain, do so wherever, for definitely the goodness from you will come back to my land and be my booty'.
 

Those lands have now become small states, each one carrying different banners with certain apostate rulers who are fulfilling Satanic western ideologies. They forbid what Allah (swt) permits and permit what He (swt) forbids. They fill the prisons with the muwahhideen and mujahideen - those who want to call for the implementation of the Qur'an and Sunnah have all been put in prison. Many fitan and wars are being fought for the sake of dunya or tribalistic interests and the economy; the poorest people on the earth are the Muslim people, yet the Muslim countries are the richest in the world. Allah (swt) has granted the lands and the natural resources whether it be the gold, the oil, the salt., the uranium; it is all very important in terms of the economy, besides the geographical aspect, controlling the water. But the Muslims are in different countries, looking for peanuts here and there to live for a small bite of food. The leaders are seeking some benefit in the west and the east, allowing the Muslim countries and its resources to be exploited by the rulers and their Masters in the West. The Muslim countries are in very big debt - the economy has completely collapsed; poverty is widespread because the kuffar who exploit our resources via the rulers and the apostate rulers themselves have worked day and night to spread the corrupted characteristics and morals. The pornographic culture of the west and their habits has been absorbed by the ummah. The kuffar want to spread all the traditions of the kuffar and want to integrate with the western culture and fashion, let alone to integrate with the system. The puppet rulers want to drink that western culture, and the minds of the people have drunk enough from the kuffar, out of their own national curriculum which passes secularism , freedom, democracy and interfaith. Hardly any Muslim house does not have any tool of fasad such as Satellite Television to spread corruption, and the schools are teaching false philosophies - this is the miserable reality. Yet the ummah is faced with this, and the sincere Muslims, those with great zeal and concern about the ummah are the ones who rise to change the reality in order to return back to the dignity of the ummah. But can we fulfill this obligation of returning the authority back to Islam by some individuals who are moving in different directions? Is that possible? The answer no, it is not, because the collective work is something that is known by necessity, even by fitra because it has been destined and the enemy is aware about that because of the collective work. You can find that the manhajs and aqeedah's are based on that principle i.e. to prevent the Muslims from working together. They spread ideas of individualism so that people are no longer under the amaraship of one man, scholar or da'ee, ending that the kuffar will succeed to confuse the Muslims on the legitimacy to have groups to work collectively and will begin to condemn it. The organised collective work is part of the fitra of the human being - he wants to live with other people and carry out transactions with them. If we study the history of mankind, from the moment that Allah (swt) created man, we find that Allah (swt) described the people as a Mala - a people who are working collectively with certain leadership.

So do not let the kuffar make you destroy the most important of duties for the Muslims, which is to work collectively in order to fulfill the obligation of establishing Allah (swt)'s deen. If we want to bring back the khilafah on the earth, we must think about our collective work and make it more organized. Alone he cannot bring the authority to Islam, thus he must work together, to make Allah's (swt) deen prevail, and the group of people must rise. Some duties are collective and cannot be done individually e.g. if a group of people want to build a house, they need some engineers, workers, administrators; each one has his own role under one supervisor - if there is any dispute they will refer to him. If the person doesn't want to work collectively nor be part of the policy, there will arise disputes and they will stop building the house, not even completing a small portion of it. In the same way, to build the Islamic society is the biggest project and has many duties and roles for everyone. Unless you work collectively, you will be a failure.

To work collectively is an attribute of the civilised people and an important character of civilised society, and nothing is civilised except the Islamic culture. So all of those studies and researches people carry about organisation, establishing schools, all you can find, is that it has become part of human nature. So the Muslim should take the role and fulfill all the commands of Allah (swt) and put themselves forward for the word of Allah (swt) to be implemented. It is not for the believer, male or female to have any choice in any matter decreed, and they are not believers unless they refer to Allah (swt) in any dispute and this is known by necessity. Thus, it is permissible for us to establish ourselves in a group or form and the evidences are there all the time, and it must match with the global struggle between haq and batil. To understand that framework, you must understand that it is like eating or marrying - by nature, we have to eat or marry, but Allah (swt) has defined the boundaries for us - what is allowed and what isn’t.

Allah (swt) ordered us to work collectively together in anything good, and not to cooperate in anything that is evil. The collective duty cannot all be done individually, like jumah salah, therefore we are needy for that collective work. Every individual must be part of a collective body, and that cannot happen unless there is one amir. Every khaleefah is amir, but not every amir is khaleefah. So people will do their own things by themselves and think that they can do their collective duty in this way. The Sahabah established Allah's (swt) deen and changed the system from the moment they began to convey the dawah. They had a collective body and organised themselves together to confront the jahiliyyah and whenever the dawah took place, Messenger Muhammad (saw) used to join the body. Whenever any Sahabah requested any direction as to what to do, the Messenger Muhammad (saw) would define role his to him, rejecting any form of tribalistic leadership or custom. Allah (swt) told us that there are collective duties.

'The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication,- flog each of them with a hundred stripes: Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day: and let a party of the Believers witness their punishment.' [: 24:2]

Here, Allah (swt) is speaking collectively, that the fornicator, whether male or female will get one hundred lashes, and he wants a leader from among us who will execute that particular rule. This ayah has clear evidence about the collective duty, and the command came with a collective form requesting the ummah to work together. That principle of hearing and obeying is needy to fulfill many other duties,

'Do you know not that to Allah (alone) belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He pleases, and He forgives whom He pleases: and Allah has power over all things' [5:40]

'And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere; but if they cease, verily Allah doth see all that they do'. [8:39]

'Truly Allah loves those who fight in His Cause in battle array, as if they were a solid cemented structure' [61:4]

Allah (swt) praises those who work collectively and he loves who work for His sake. The necessity of establishing the imara in the jihad or khilafah is because we must always have a leader is the shield and that person will be listened to and obeyed and people will fight under his leadership
There will always be people working collectively, and the cooperation in the good deed is rewardable. It is not only allowed to cooperate in the bir and the taqwa, but it could also be recommended. This cooperation is the main foundation of the collective work, and if a group of Muslims want to teach people to read the Qur'an and memorise it, they will work together to fulfill that, which is one of the sufficient fards. The collective work will always take over that particular action or duty and if the duty was fard, so will be the collective duty; if it was something recommended, then you will work collectively in it with reward. The kuffar have succeeded to put in our minds, the idea that to work collectively is wrong and advise them to work individually.

So to defending the Muslim lands and establishing the deen, none of this can be fulfilled by yourself, rather you must work collectively in order to do so. Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah are the people of truth, and are the Saved Sect and are obliged to fulfill the Islamic rules in all situations

'They are those who deny the Signs of their Lord and the fact of their having to meet Him (in the Hereafter): vain will be their works, nor shall We, on the Day of Judgment, give them any weight' [18:105]

Working collectively is permissible, therefore must always be based with full awareness, on Shariah rules in accordance with the Sahabah, Tabi 'in and Tabi' Tabi'in who are the Salaf of the ummah

Say thou: "This is my way: I do invite unto Allah,- on evidence clear as the seeing with one's eyes,- I and whoever follows me. Glory to Allah. and never will I join gods with Allah." [12:108]

So there will always be people with you, working collectively and anyone who understands the deen of Islam knows that he cannot work to save society individually. If people start to condemn the ideas of having amirs and collective bodies because their western cultures disallow it, it will result in disaster. But to work together is known by necessity and is the Sunnah and manhaj of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah. Allah (swt) told us that there is going to be a form of working together with the Muslims, and the believers are an alliance with each other and the kuffar are together. So when people begin to work individually, people no longer want to establish Allah's deen or even fight for the sake of Allah (swt) and when any sincere Muslim wants to call for Islam, he will be arrested. But if he is supported in the ummah by his brothers, he will not be singled out, and they will not try to terrorise him to fulfill their policies. When the Muslims struggle against the taghout and the kuffar and the kufr, and the tawagheet are answering the leaders by some so-called Muslims, we hear many brothers who have been in prison, interrogated; they are asked, why dont you follow a particular Sheikh or manhaj or madhab? They will ask why you dont follow Qaradawi etc? Even the kuffar want you to work collectively with the corrupted people. On any matter that is collective by nature we should cooperate on it and understand the Qur'an and Sunnah otherwise we will have the wrong understanding.

The problem is that people will say to work in a group is bidah, quoting Surah al-An'am which states that those who divide their deen and become sects ....', yet that is the evidence that it is allowed to be part of a collective group.
The khilafah is a collective body and will be under one imam, the khaleefah but those people who Allah (swt) says divide the ummah and place them into groups are the corrupted amongst the ummah who try to embed ideas of democracy into the hearts and minds of the people. They have come far away from their deen and have become different sects and school of thought.

The Messenger Muhammad (saw) said, 'The best century is mine, and those who come after and then after that'. Hudhayfah (ra) said that they used to ask Messenger Muhammad (saw) about the goodness and the bad things. He said, 'I was worried; we used to be in ignorancy, it was something bad and Allah (swt) brought good to us. Is there anything bad that will come? The Messenger Muhammad (saw) said, 'Yes'. Then he said, 'Will any good come from it?', and the Messenger Muhammad (saw) replied that there would, and that there will be a smoke where people will live not according to his guidance and it will be known that some reject others and then he was asked what bad will be there after the good. He replied there will be callers on the gates of hellfire, whoever responds to them will be thrown into the Fire. Hudhayfah said, 'Are they from our people?' He (saw) said, 'They speak the way we do'

So stick to the Imam and the Muslim ummah, and save yourself from all these sects. The hadith shows us how Hudhayfah stuck with the people of haq and worked collectively with them, and that is a duty upon the Muslims and is manifested in the advice of the Messenger Muhammad (saw) to Hudhayfah (ra), and the Companions are the best to know what he (saw) meant. The Messenger Muhammad (saw) told the people from Khyber that the best people were from His century....; here it is commented that he is speaking about the general Muslim ummah. When the Messenger Muhammad (saw) passed away the burning issue was to appoint the imam and Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah are believed to be following the footsteps of the Salaf us Salih. So the ideas to work collectively is not an innovation as some Talafis claim as there is nothing to forbid collective work as the Sahabah used to do it. Establishing Allah's (swt) deen is not something that can be done by the individual, nor can the jihad, without being part of a collective body. Working collectively is obedience to Allah (swt) and if there are any three in an open area, they must appoint an amir. If people work collectively, they will have strength. Ibn Taimiyyah (rha) said regarding the hadith about the amir, that the Messenger Muhammad (saw) obliged us to have a leader, and the collective body must always be there, so long as you dont become partisan. That is the real understanding of the Salaf, and those who say that we are innovators, they are the ones innovating, because Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah have always worked collectively. Those who order you not to have groups, they will ask you always to give allegiance to the rulers and tawagheet, and they are deviated and closest to the bidah. So we must understand that working collectively is our duty and we must have an ameer. You can call him an organiser, or a travel leader or a guide, depending on which sphere of life you are talking about - in Islam we call him ameer

'O believer! Obey Allah (swt), His Messenger and those in authority among you'.
This must be a Muslim - because the kafir cannot have authority over a Muslim - and listening and obeying is a duty on all Muslims unless the ruler commits a sin. The nature of the rule is that we must do so.

So this is the method to worship Allah (swt) and to raise his deen by the dawah of the word or the sword.