Safeguarding the Next Generation of the Ummah

The amount of effort required for the safeguarding of the next generation of the Ummah is quite a lot of work. And it requires a lot of coordination among many systems.

The current realities of personal identity and sexual orientation are among the greatest calamities of our time.

The young Muslims of today, who will be leading the next generation of the Ummah, need protection from the devastating capacity of the “conflicting currents of modernism” seeking to dominate their psyches.

Developing a Conscious Educational System for Muslims

Without a strong alternative to these currents, the Ummah risks losing its children. The world will be filled with people who are only Muslims by name, not by choice or with a sense of mission.

We must do all it takes to develop and institute a conscious educational system for Muslims. And that system, its syllabus, and methodologies, as well as its implementors, should always draw their strengths from the principles and aims of Islam.

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Entrepreneurship as a Way to Protect Islam

This requires a lot of time, money, and resources. Looking at the imposed or self-imposed constraints on governments of Muslim-majority countries all over the world today, I don't think the next generation of the Islamic Ummah is their concern for now.

For responsible Muslims who can't sleep because of this realization, all hope is not lost. Entrepreneurship is the way.

Muslims need to learn how to generate wealth. The wealth they will use to support their cause; the wealth they will use to protect themselves from being bribed by liberal governments that stealthily want to use vocal, charismatic, and influential Muslims to destroy Islam from within.

Muslims don’t have a government charged with the daily administration of the Ummah’s affairs. This makes the task of reviving and protecting the Islamic civilization very difficult. That is why every Muslim has to start operating as a government in and of itself. They need to develop money-making skills so that they can start businesses and use the profits from the businesses to develop the resources the Ummah needs.

Muslim Professionals Contributing to Islamic Civilization

Each Muslim should focus on an area of human development and produce resources and tools, as well as a distribution system, to help them spread it widely among Muslims.

For example, Muslims who are skilled in curriculum development can dedicate their whole lives and time to developing a variety of Islamic curricula at all levels. Each curriculum should be able to empower Muslims not only to gain information but to develop skills that will help them translate the information they have gained into products and services that demonstrate, at both material and spiritual levels, the value of Islam in the lives of humans.

The education of Muslims today should go way beyond rote memorization of facts. That education should enable them to turn facts into tools and instruments of Dunya transformation. A transformation inspired by their sound and uncompromising aqeedah, which guides them to God-consciousness.

Any Muslim who goes through this education should be able to produce products and services that lead to God-consciousness. Every Muslim tailor, fashion designer, or stylist should be able to create a line of clothing of libasu taqwa (the garment of God-consciousness in the literal sense), which can also stylistically compete with every fashion without playing down the concept of haya (modesty and chastity).

How are they going to do it? That’s for them to get the answers. The same thing goes for every other Muslim in all professions.

Muslims in other professions should also use this curriculum to develop relevant textbooks of high quality in terms of content, look, and feel. Islam is unlike other religions. It does not seek to lead humans backward. It is full of insights that point us toward both material and spiritual growth.

Developing High-Quality Resources in Other Professions

Our unbalanced attitude towards knowledge and the divine responsibilities assigned to us gave the liberals an edge over us. The dunya is where the Muslim operates so that he can gain everlasting rewards in the hereafter.

Islam is not just a personal religion. It is a civilization that requires material involvement in order to protect the spiritual sanctity of God’s creatures.

Enemies of religions and especially of Islam understand that confining Islam to rituals as a personal relationship between man and God is the easiest way to water down the civilizational effects of Islam.

So they will do everything to spread this kind of understanding using Muslim spokespersons, people we respect in the religion. In fact, they have infiltrated the Muslim community through its traditional institutions to gain control over the Ummah.

That is why du’at who are interested in the protection and revival of Islamic civilization need not depend on an employer, government, or fundraising to embark on their revivalist endeavors. Embrace entrepreneurship through various professions to support your dawah and develop a new education system for the ummah in your field.

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Promoting Morality and Protecting Baseline Values

To be clear, the purpose of this new education system shouldn't be for professional achievement or material success. Those could definitely be “inessential benefits.” The purpose of such a system and the struggle to create it should be to produce humans with a sense of mission, not just to obtain decent employment with a decent income.

And Muslims in the private sector have a huge responsibility to play in this regard.

But most importantly, you too have some roles to play. You need to learn how to create civilization and wealth.

Dawah helps you build civilization, and entrepreneurship helps you build the wealth you need to support the dawah.

Hence, the construction or reconstruction of the foundation of the Ummah’s civilizational success requires people who love dawah and have a penchant for entrepreneurship. I call them dawahpreneurs. These are the people who are ready to utilize their piety to sanitize their community.

To demonstrate what a society run by God-conscious people looks like, they engage in business and all types of professions, including politics.

Personal Roles for the Ummah's Sake

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This is an urgent thing because some people are promoting evil and want to eradicate baseline morality. They preach the idea of tolerance and inclusion to deceive and distract good people.

But when it comes to tolerating and accepting others’ ways of doing things that differ from theirs, they become intolerant.

They do that by name-calling and labeling others as fundamentalists so that they will not, in turn, be called intolerant.

They are working towards destroying morality by attacking gender roles, which destroy the foundation of the family, and lure women into prioritizing home-leaving careers over motherhood and traditional family roles.

There is always a hidden agenda behind everything the liberals throw at you. In the beginning, the world thought feminism was about women's right to vote.

They snuck in women working outside the home. So, when you argue against feminism, they accuse you of denying women their right to vote.

Whatever little effort you can spend to promote and protect the religion of Allah, know that Allah will pay it back in multiples. Decide on what roles you want to play for the Ummah. And pour your life into it. Allah will reward you in ways you never imagined.

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