THE ISLAMIC DINAR. Introduction.

I would like to introduce you to some general ideas and
guidelines to the very important issue concerning all the
Muslims today, which is the abandonment of Riba.

Allah, subhana wa ta'ala, says in Qur'an: "wa hallal allahul
bai'a wa harramul riba"; which means: "Allah has permitted
trade and forbidden usury (Riba)". Also Allah says in the
Qur'an: "ia yuha alladhina 'amanu uttaqu Allaha wa dharu ma
baqiya mina riba, ina kubtum muminin. Fain lam taf'alum,
fadhadhu biharbin mina Allahi wa Rasulih", which means, "O
you who believe! Fear Allah and give up what remains of your
demand for usury, if you are indeed believers. If you do not,
take notice of war from Allah and His Messenger".

The issue of the dinar relates to the prohibition of Riba, the
chronic economic paralysis of Muslim countries, to the
destruction of the Khalifate, the unity of the Ummah under one
currency and what is most important the restoration of the
fundamental pillar of zakat. This is to say, the issues that matter
to the people who want to see a Dar al-Islam and the Khalifate
restored again, and among this people the sufies, who care
nothing except Allah, are in the first line.

The magnitude and the importance of this issue comes before
other, often over-stretched, minor matters. If a tiger is about to
devour you, you do not entertain yourself with a mosquito.

The enemies of the Islamic Dinar are the enemies of the
Sunnah of Rasul, salallahu alaihy wa salaam. They have to
denounce the practice of the Sahaba and the practice of the
Ummah for all the centuries since the beginning until the fall of
the Khalifate. They have tried in the past to convince all of us
that the Banks were halal (like Muhammad Abdou and his
followers did). Then they came with the Islamic Bank, which is
like Islamic whisky. But as the fallacy of Islamic Banking, was
openly revealed (by the Sufies) and as their practices have
became known as fraudulent and usurious (in Islamic Law)
despite their deceitful use of Islamic terminology (such as
qirad, shirkat, kira, etc.), they have tried to content everybody
with the cynical idea of "being practical in a sinful world".
They have justified the use of paper money, even in Muslim
countries, with false doctrines and meditated silence. While the
Muslims all over the world are still today being cheated and
robbed by a monetary system totally unjust, deceitful and
contrary to Islamic practices, based banking paper-money, a
methodical cover of puritanical and esoteric doctrines borrowed
from decaying Christianity and a noisy silence over the
important issues was spread with scientific precision,
sometimes using false 'alims and false sufies, to keep the
Muslims busy by a self-inflicted sense of guilt (a doctrine of
'your iman is not good enough') and trivial matters of no
importance, or its opposite reaction, a fanatical radicalism
deprived of real aims.

Apart from the very ignorant who still believe that Islamic
Banking is Islamic or believe that paper money is modern and
wonderful to people, is there any justification to remain
passive, silent in a kind of dispassionate helplessness, on this
well known subject? The answer must be an emphatic NO. We
cannot let the helplessness of few lifeless people contaminate
our spirit. We should not accept those who say: "I believe in it,
but it cannot be done or it cannot be done today. We are waiting
[for a signal]". They are ignorant about the nature of the deen.
Leave these people alone. Keep the company of the Sufies that
are going ahead. This are people whose carelessness about the
world let them see through. And where other are suspended in
sea of impossibilities and doubts, the Sufies will show you the
easy way to victory. As sufies, we undertake the obligations of
all the Muslims in our hearts and deal with them as if they were
ours. We cannot be bother with our ego. That is why we
simply forget it.

Sufies believe, out of their taqwa, that we are responsible for
everything without excuse. Yet, they know that they are
incapable for such task, out of their own dependence of Him.
But they know and act accordingly, that Allah is capable. And
by His Power, out of their hope in Him, they can achieve their
obligations and show others how to do it.

We will fulfil our duties by the authority of Allah, subhana wa
ta'ala. We do not fear the state, or the banking system, or
anything else. We, only fear Allah. Our path is a path of
showing easiness towards Allah; of showing the Muslims that
by Allah, and by our obedience to Him, that is what we call by
"giving up", we become in charge of our affairs. I recall the
title of the book of the great wali of Allah and Shaykh of our
tariqa Shaykh Ahmad Ibn Ataillah, may Allah be pleased with
him, "The Book of illumination on the Giving Up of the
Management of Affairs". The title is enough. It also reminds
me of what Allah says in the Qur'an in Surat al-Layla:

"fa amma man a'ata wa attaqa wa saddaqa bil husna,
fasanuiassiruhu lil iusra
wa amma man bakhila wa astaghna wa kadhdhaba bil husna,
fasanuiassiruhu lil 'usra".

which means,

"if you give sadaqa and fear Allah and you believe in the
Goodness [of Allah], we will facilitate your way to easiness.
But if you are mean and [you think] you are self-sufficient [from
Allah] and you do not believe in the Goodness [of Allah], we
will facilitate your way to difficulty.

The path of tasawwuf is a path of easiness. This is opposite of
the people whose path and teaching are full of doubts, hidden
meanings, waiting for the Mahdi and unknown mysteries. Our
path is certainty and increase of certainty.

We firmly believe "la hawla wa la quwatta illah billah". There
is no two powers, but only The One. Kufr and the kaffirs have
no power. Their illusion of power depends on us, the Muslims,
in as much as we are not fulfilling our duties. The power of
Muslims is borrowed from Allah, by His Will, as we obey and
submit to Him. Kaffirs are to us, just like flies are to people.
They are there to keep us clean. But if we are dirty they become
a bother to us. So the issue is really in our hands without
excuse.

You should nevertheless, be aware that there are non-Muslim
and some Muslims that when they hear that the [other] Muslims
are introducing the Islamic dinar as their medium of exchange,
they will twist in themselves in real agony, as they rightly fear
that their petty worries and trivial fantasies are being blown
apart by the real imperatives and force of a Resurgent Islam.
But don't worry, it will be very easy to identify them, because
their agony will show in their passivity and lack of interest for
what is happening. This is because, as Shaykh Darqawi, may
Allah be pleased with him, told us, they are dead.

The present Prime Minister of Turkey, may Allah bless all the
Turkish people and through their resurgence give us a Khalifa,
His Excellency Dr. Necmettin Erbakan has brought the matter
of the Islamic Dinar to the frontline of the Islamic discourse to a
point of no-return. He has pledged the will and commitment of
the Muslims of Turkey to the establishment of the Islamic Dinar
as the currency of an Economic Union of Muslim Countries.
He astonished many people, who had looked with contempt
and dismissive condescending what the sufies have been saying
and struggling for for a long time. Many, who had pledged
themselves to the folly of Islamic Banking and the nonsense of
what they call Islamic Economics, have, with their paralysed
silence, shown us that they do not know how to react to it.
They are now out of touch with the dynamic and powerful
Raising of Islam which they seem to be unable to see or taste.
They now only see themselves in front of the abyss of wasted
good will in prosaic phobias and irrelevant matters, they created
for their gullible followers. Although some will prefer not to
look IF they can get away with it.

I am proud to say that the dinar that Dr. Erbakan hold in his
hand when he first publicly pronounced his intentions in the
Blue Mosque of Istanbul, surrounded by the takbirs of our
excited and committed Turkish brothers, was a dinar struck
under the authority of the Amir of the Spanish Community, he
himself a long-time devoted Sufi of the Shadili-Darqawi-
Murabitun tariqah, in the city of Granada, may Allah reward
him by His Generosity for doing that.

I, like all the people present, will remember forever the
moment when His Excellency Dr. Necmettin Erbakan and my
Master, Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi al-Murabit, together by the
hand, proclaim from the podium, to the cheerful people of
Istanbul and the shocked Turkish media, in the Opening
Ceremony of the I International Conference of Islamic Thinking
in Istanbul on May of last year, that the dinar was the currency
of the Muslims.

By the Mercy of Allah, all the sufies stand together in this
point of the introduction of the Dinar. I recall the words of the
wali of Allah and the Light of Fatih in Istanbul, Shaykh
Mahmud Effendi, who, surrounded by his murids and others,
as my Master Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi showed him the
dinar and the dirham that our community in Germany was
putting in circulation, said: "This is the money of the Muslims.
It is very important. We should do it very quickly".

Let all the sufies, of all the tariqahs, united by the love on the
Rasul, salallahu alaihi wa salaam, let us be ahead and take upon
ourselves to be the beginners of the introduction of the dinar
and the dirham, only for the pleasing of Allah, subhana wa
ta'ala, by the fulfilment His Command, and so that everybody
else can follow.

The following simple introduction presented in parts will be
followed by deeper analysis and guidelines for the
abandonment of Riba and the establishment of complete and
self-transformative Islamic Trading. There will be also practical
guidelines of how you can obtain the coins and how you can
start using them.