COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC THOUGHT (6) The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought reflects the variety of trends, voices, and opinions in the contemporary Muslim intellectual scene. THE FUTURISTIC THOUGHT OF ABUYA SYEIKH IMAM ASHAARI MUHAMMAD AT TAMIMI OF MALAYSIA The Messianism of Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimi Muhammad - 4 Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimi earnestly espouses the theory of the reverse flow of Islamic resurgence: that the ultimate revival of the Ummah will be generated from the periphery towards the Islamic heartlands of the Middle East. In Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimis geographical map, the ikhwan from Southeast Asia will bring Islam to asoibs followers of al-Mahdi, but lower in rank to the ikhwan, in Khurasan an area interpreted as a long stretch of land encompassing most of Afghanistan and Uzbekistan, parts of Iran and Pakistan, and extending until the region of Yunnan in China. While the numbers of ikhwan reach a maximum of 500, asoibs may approach thousands in quantity. Not restricted to Khurasan, asoibs may also be found in the East. Hence Southeast Asia and Khurasan function as the pulse and backbone respectively of the Islamic resurgence. The meeting between the youth of Bani Tamim and al-Harith Harrath al-Mahdis guide in his mission of returning Islam to Mecca, is regarded as portending an imminent coming of al-Mahdi. The widely publicized trips made by Darul Arqam to Uzbekistan and Yunnan in 19923 were part of exploratory expeditions into Khurasan in search of al-Harith Harrath and asoibs. In conjunction with the launching of its Khurasan Operation, Darul Arqam inaugurated its International Center in Islamabad, Pakistan in January 1992. The scenario above has been detailed out: >From this base, Darul Arqam concocts plans and strategies to explore Khurasan >further, especially Uzbekistan, since a lot of hadiths on the period near the >end of time are related to Uzbekistan. For instance, the hadiths on the >fortunate land of ma waraa un nahar, asoibs, al-Harith Harrath, and the >unfurling of the Black Banner, which signify the near coming of Imam Mahdi. Ma >waraa un nahar the land behind the river, according to the ulama is situated >between Samarqand and Bukhara. More accurately, ma waraa un nahar is situated >in Termez, a small town at the side of the Amu Darya river [in Uzbekistan].... >It is here that asoibs are being prepared. According to signs of hadith, >asoibs in Uzbekistan will combine forces with Islamic strivers from the East >especially, and also with Islamic activists from other parts of the world. >Then they will move together to Syam [Greater Syria]. From there, they will >proceed to Haramayn: the Forbidden Lands of Mecca and Medina. Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At-Tamimi is convinced that if the revival of Islam at the end of time can be portrayed as a human body, the East is the pulse (life) while Khurasan is the backbone. In other words, the East acts as the initiator and leader of the resurgence, and Khurasan becomes its supporter and prime auxiliary. The EastKhurasan combination, or specifically, the joining of forces between asoibs from the East under al-Mansur (the man of Bani Tamim) and the chosen asoib (leader of asoibs) from Khurasan, viz. Al-Harith Harrath.... [is] the closest sign of the advent of the supreme leader, Imam Mahdi. With the fall of Russia and the weakening of America, Islam is gradually on the rise. Each step of decline of the infidel system is accompanied by a step of rise of Islam.... happening especially in Malaysia. This is exuberating news to be relished by the East, Khurasan and the entire world. Now it is the Easts turn to lead the promised revival. This is what Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimi and Darul Arqam have been trying to prove. Needless to say, Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimi does openly aspire to become the youth of Bani Tamim, the precursor of al-Mahdi, and does encourage his followers, and Malay-Muslims in general, to accomplish the dignified status of the ikhwan, and failing that, asoibs. In fact, he has taken action in what he understands would trigger events unleashing Gods eschatological schedule which he calls Allahs schedule for Muslim Ummah: the title of a bilingual tract published in 1993 in conjunction with Darul Arqams Silver Jubilee celebrations. The millenarian activity of establishing the youth of Bani Tamim as Malaysias political leader and al-Mahdi as the leader of the Ummah has been checked temporarily by the confinement of Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimi and state repression of his followers. As the head of the fifteenth Islamic century draws to a close, very little time is left for Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimi to realize his eschatological schedule. By Abuya Syeikh Imam Ashaari Muhammad At Tamimis own count, the head of a century, during which a mujaddid is promised, comprises a period of 25 years. _________________________________________________________________ Help Splitzo Sally Before Its Too Late! http://www.thegirlwhosplitinto5.com/
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