Poor Upbringing in the Tahrir Party
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The Shaykh : We had been gathered at one of their homes for about a month. When I first arrived there, I found some wisdom in him. For example, he had shaved his beard. The Tahrir Party is very few in number; I mean, if you see a person, it is like Al-Qaeda to me. If you see a person speaking about Islamic matters, you can call him a partisan as long as he is clean-shaven, because there are so few who follow this Sunnah. So, after we got to know him here and he started attending some of our lessons, we admonished him and reminded him. May Allah have mercy on him, his father passed away. Was it his father who passed away, or someone else?
The student : A relative of his.
The Shaykh : A relative of his; we went to offer our condolences. Of course, we spoke, and, as Allah willed, he would say, "The Islamic State." He would tell you that the head coverings, open sinfulness, and lewdness can only be eradicated by what? By the Muslim State. And that is true, but what is the path to establishing the Muslim State? I like this phrase very much, though I do not often mention it: "Establish the State of Islam in your hearts, and it will be established for you on your land." I would tell them, "If we do not establish the small state in our homes, how can we establish the big state?" He would take it with enthusiasm, and so on. I was sitting in the living room, and every now and then my eye would fall on a picture hanging on the wall of a woman in the French style, wearing a wide dress, naked, of course. I said to him, "So-and-so, you want to establish the Muslim State? Then establish this picture. Establish it." He said, "It is not mine; I do not know what to do?" I said, "Turn it around." I told him, "If you turn it around, someone else will turn it around. That is not how the Muslim State is established." So, in terms of upbringing, they do not pay attention to this. This is where they differ completely from the Muslim Brotherhood. They do not even explicitly state their position regarding morals. They criticized Shawqi when he said:
"Nations are their morals, as long as they remain; if their morals depart, they depart."
He said, "This statement is not correct. It is strange, I mean."
The student : A relative of his.
The Shaykh : A relative of his; we went to offer our condolences. Of course, we spoke, and, as Allah willed, he would say, "The Islamic State." He would tell you that the head coverings, open sinfulness, and lewdness can only be eradicated by what? By the Muslim State. And that is true, but what is the path to establishing the Muslim State? I like this phrase very much, though I do not often mention it: "Establish the State of Islam in your hearts, and it will be established for you on your land." I would tell them, "If we do not establish the small state in our homes, how can we establish the big state?" He would take it with enthusiasm, and so on. I was sitting in the living room, and every now and then my eye would fall on a picture hanging on the wall of a woman in the French style, wearing a wide dress, naked, of course. I said to him, "So-and-so, you want to establish the Muslim State? Then establish this picture. Establish it." He said, "It is not mine; I do not know what to do?" I said, "Turn it around." I told him, "If you turn it around, someone else will turn it around. That is not how the Muslim State is established." So, in terms of upbringing, they do not pay attention to this. This is where they differ completely from the Muslim Brotherhood. They do not even explicitly state their position regarding morals. They criticized Shawqi when he said:
"Nations are their morals, as long as they remain; if their morals depart, they depart."
He said, "This statement is not correct. It is strange, I mean."
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