Omar Suleiman and His PR Stunt in South Africa
1.
Omar Suleiman, the controversial American public
figure has brought much unwanted problems to South Africa. This is especially
based on his problematic actions in the US, done under the banner of activism.
2.
Muslims in South Africa are quite used to the PR stunts
of local public figures posing as scholars, also framed in such a way as to
justify the worst of wrongs under the flimsiest of pretexts, hoodwinking the
public and the scholars into tolerating, accepting, and embracing the
transition from traditional Islam to a modern heretical framework labelled as
Islam.
3.
South African Muslims were duped into thinking that
closing the Masajid before the government did so was a wise and appropriate
course of action, not realizing the horrible consequences that came with it to
destroy the fabric of religiosity and spirituality that existed in South Africa
before it happened. In addition, it added an indelible stain on
these figures and their organizations, with added disgrace that will remain
until Allah knows when.
4.
In the same way, American Muslims and now South
African Muslims are being beguiled at the public relations stunts of Omar
Suleiman, who has come to promote his institute of uncertainty and doubt, as
well as ostensibly redeem himself from the horrible image that is staining his
name.
5.
Omar Suleiman finds it extremely difficult to move
away from his link with the LGBTQ activism he was involved in, as well as the
horrible mark it has left on his name. This has not stemmed from the South
African ‘Ulama, but it garnered the attention of Americans and Europeans a long
time ago. ‘Ulama and scholars in America and Europe also refuted the actions of
Omar Suleiman. It is foolish to dump the blame on the South African ‘Ulama who
have been guiding and teaching the local and global community for decades.
6.
Alhamdulillah, the local luminaries, who have been
embraced and accepted globally for decades taught us to verify and do a
screening of any public figure or lecturer before endorsing him. This is in
line with the tradition of Islam. It baffles the mind as to how a person like
Omar Suleiman, who prides himself in his research and fact checking cannot do
the same back home before participating in his activism before he attends mixed
events, interfaith programs, prayers in the US government, and posing with
LGBTQ priestesses.
7.
It seems that a number of foreign public figures and
activists all mumble the same lines, probably scripted from before, when they
get caught out in promoting liberalism, heresy, and innovation. ‘I had to make
a judgement call’, ‘I did not know what the set up was to be like’, ‘I did feel
awkward’, ‘Look at the greater good’ etc. Subhanallah, with the repetition of
the same actions comes the repetition of the same lines. These are no mistakes.
The set up and participants of these events are laid out well in advance and
with a figure like Omar Suleiman, who claims that his work is published after
much research and peer reviews, it stands to reason that he will find out beforehand
what the set up actually is. It is part of our Deen to not put one’s self in a
problematic position and to save one’s self from a compromising circumstance,
as taught by Sayyiduna Umar radiyallahu ‘anhu.
8.
Omar Suleiman praised his Yaqeen Institute and the
work that it does in front of the local ‘Ulama. Yaqeen Institute has on its
website the research papers of problematic and heretic figures like Dr Jonathan
Brown and Tamara Gray. Dr Jonathan Brown has clearly
stated, ‘I fully support the right of people to insult the Prophet in the
United States because that’s the best regime for human happiness.’ This is the kind of teaching that Omar Suleiman and
Yaqeen Institute promotes people to view and possibly adopt. Is Dr Jonathan
Brown, a University Professor, a Muslim?
9.
Omar Suleiman has invited South African ‘Ulama to
write papers for his institute that will be critically reviewed by university
professors like Dr Jonathan Brown and others so that he can channel the energy
and talent of ‘Ulama that have studied in the traditional Madaris into
promoting full blown modernism and liberalism. By adopting this tactic, he has
not come to be inspired by the South African ‘Ulama he outwardly praises, but
he has come with the aim of modernizing the traditional ‘Ulama, and guess what?
The ‘Ulama are requested to do this for free! Astaghfirullah, an open
invitation to the traditional ‘Ulama to write un-Islamic and anti-Islamic
material for free. This is how Omar Suleiman is watering down authentic
traditional Islam, subjecting the research and talent of ‘Ulama to the
nonsensical peer reviews of university professors that have no idea what they
talk about.
10. Dr Jonathan Brown
falsely accused Sayyiduna Mu’awiyah radiyallahu ‘anhu of ‘encouraging his
supporters to forge hadiths detracting from the standing of his opponents, the
Shiah supporters of Ali and his descendants.’ This
report, according to his later retraction, was in line with the Western
Historical Critical Method, and was thus acceptable to be put in his book, Misquoting
Muhammad! If this is the level of scholarship of the reviewers
of the papers on the Yaqeen Institute website, then I seek protection with
Allah for myself, and the entire Ummah from such codswallop and bollocks.
11. An important standard
by which a person is gauged before taking Deen from them is to carefully check
his company. Dr Yasir Qadhi is a well-known public figure and associate of Omar
Suleiman. Dr Yasir Qadhi studied under Tony Blair, yes, that’s correct, the
engineer of the genocide of millions of Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere. Yasir
Qadhi promotes heresy of all sorts. He too addresses mixed audiences in the
Masajid in US, where the Masjid fully resembles a church and synagogue, with
men and women sitting side by side on chairs arranged like church pews!
12. Before going into
more, I think that this much of information is sufficient for any clear-thinking
Muslim and traditional ‘Alim to understand that the heresy promoted and taught
by Omar Suleiman and his local South African hosts is no different from the
heresy of the Rawafid, Christians, and others.
13. The modernists and
liberals are a sect of their own that worship their desires. They have their
own ‘scholars’, who are actually university professors who spend their time
destroying Islam from within, after they benefited tremendously from their
Orientalist teachers. Because they suffer from an inferiority complex and are
failing in their attack to dismantle traditional Islam, they are now inviting
the ‘Ulama to join them, in line with ‘if you can’t beat them, join them.’
14. If an ‘Alim,
on his own accord joins them, that’s his choice. He chooses to abandon the traditional path of his
teachers, undermining their position and status, laughing at his institute, and
then goes home with a straight face knowing full well that he is on the path of
hypocrisy.
15. No human being is
perfect. No traditional scholar is perfect. No traditional Madrasah is perfect.
At the same time, the universities that attack and harm Islam in the name of
Islam are not perfect either. They stand as institutions to attack and wipe out
Islam, whilst the traditional ‘Ulama stand guard and protect the honour of
Islam and the Shari’ah.
16. Part and parcel of the
modernist agenda is to make the common Muslim and the ‘Alim feel inferior about
himself and his ways, and then abandon them to embrace modernity. This is
exactly how the Jews worked to destroy Christianity and how the Christians
worked to destroy Judaism. Now, they both have joined forces to make the
Muslims destroy Islam from within.
O Allah, do not cause our hearts to go astray after
you have guided us to Islam. Ameen
[Mufti] Abdullah Moolla
24 Shawwal 1446 | 23 April 2025
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