But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, "O Adam! shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?"
Surah 20. Ta-ha, vs: 120
We may also call this the ‘Law of Neglect’. This law is implicit in the thermodynamic principle of entropy: the tendency towards disorder or better said, towards the energy of chaos (unformed created potential). Here we have our call to work in order to maintain what we have acquired by God’s leave, whether it is material or spiritual in nature.
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Without diligent maintenance a marriage will sink just as easily as a poorly tended aircraft falls from the sky. This law is also the inverse of the ‘Law of Husbandry’.
Husbandry is an Adamic responsibility especially incumbent upon leaders (Imams). Neglect at any level of human activity fails to conserve economy or effectively utilize resources and causes waste, something Allah hates.17 When leaders are not vigilant their divine liability increases because waste increases as do the crimes of their citizenry who otherwise would have little opportunity or impetus to cross bounds that should have been set and enforced.
Criminal activity in itself is waste and illicit activities such as immorality or betrayal of the public trust are direct results of lax husbandry (al’hisbah) which exposes the unredeemed nature of a nation’s government and people. Righteous husbandry is police work and governance of the highest order. In Islam it is the enjoining of good and the forbidding of evil. It’s cloak is that of the shepherd and calls for watchful eyes and the dispassionate administration of swift justice:
[Hisbah] is a broad principle of public law that entitles everyone to take a vigilant attitude towards corruption and abuse … The head of state and government officials are under an obligation … to discharge their trusts faithfully and justly:
No servant of God to whom God has made custodian over others dies without this predicament: God will forbid the countenance of paradise to him if he has died while betraying those who were in his custody.xiii
This also applies to men who lie to wives and children as their Imam. A majority of Muslim men are loathe to be good shepherds or actually choose to remain untrained for the position and hence ignorant of their duties. As a direct result, and as I will demonstrate, they have also become intolerant chauvinists who fail to recognize and support
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". . . But waste not by excess: for Allah loveth not the wasters." Surah 6. Cattle, Livestock vs: 141 (a recurrent statement)
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righteous leadership so that betrayal of the public trust is now the Muslim norm.
Allah SWT intended for Islam to alter this predisposition for recurring social disorder by perfectly designing the Islam of Prophet Mohammad (pbh) to do so. If not for the neglect of her Imams, we would not have witnessed the decay of Muslim civilization as an inevitable consequence. They have done and are doing injustice to themselves and to their constituencies and arrogantly refuse to repent of the negligence.
In light of this fact, there is small need for conferences on Good Governance unless it is to bring leaders to their knees by means of the truth. This is an authentic Alim’s duty. Where are they?
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Consequences
Any correct focus of ultimate concern for Muslims is not hard science, which is inherently Islamic, but rather the implementation of the Medina Principles in support of all scientific pursuit. This existential need may be described as a pre-existant requirement for the development of beneficially moral, intellectual, social and institutional dynamics that consequently and naturally support a worldview in which science flourishes for the cause of man’s authentic success. To the contrary, and as adequately demonstrated by the present melee of “Common Word” ismology conferees and mayhem in the several 'Arcs of Crisis', without a re-orientation towards such a sobering synthesis, the ongoing decline of Muslim culture describes a devolution towards primitive comfort zones that marshal pragmatic social conformity towards destructive applications of scientific knowledge.xiv Such moral, social, spiritual and physical decay is divinely preordained and has many historical precedents. This is because it is constitutionally incorporated in the fabric of mankind's nature and cannot be avoided. No matter what we attempt in our many flights from truth, every such exodus arrives at the same terminus of futility.
The absence of these applied principles in the life of any Muslim reveals a profound lack of understanding even in the presence of ritual effort. If the negation of these principles applies to those who conduct and determine the course of governance along with scientific pursuit, then education and the exploitation of the knowledge gained can only fall short of beneficial utilization for the absolute good of the polity. This is the legacy of all reductionism as the antithesis of a tawhidic faith-based epistemology whose foundation or “footing” is Revelation and the conscientious application of the three pillars of Spiritual Law. Hence, and for example, those endorsing pre-occupations such as
Religio Perennis, as I will demonstrate in Part Two of this thesis,
actually subsume Revelation rather than elevate it.
Therefore the divine sunnah's inverse set of predetermined dynamics only bring harm as presently reaped globally. This is because the course of man’s cognizant faculties and subsequent behavior and
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choices are innately pre-determined by inverse consequences that autonomously attend any neglect of imperatives described by Mohammad (pbh) in Medina. This is the consequent default state of human reason when heedless of revelation and common sense. The manifestation of this unavoidable estate is articulated by well defined principles I have called the ‘Inverse Principles of Divine Law’. Such carelessness successfully pilots societies towards substituting imperious sanctimony with its abasement of human dignity for genuine piety, inevitably leading to the following outcomes.