The English dictionary has defined crisis as a crucial or decisive point or solution; a turning point such as an unstable situation, or abrupt change in politics, social, economic or military affairs, or disease condition at which the patient is expected to recover or die, and so on. A crisis moment is usually a traumatic or stressful change in someone's affairs.
Allah, the Creator of the entire universe and its components, has a divine purpose for His creatures which He had delivered to them from time to time through appointed Messengers to guide and set a limit for them. A human invetor would subsequently borrow ideas from Allah in establishing the purpose for his invention. Man can only manufacture items from the materials Allah has provided as man absolutely possesses nothing. In the course of his existence, man had had the need to borrow ideas or try to copy from or immitate the simplest examples of uncountable creatures of Allah around him through intuition, meditation, inspiration and sometimes through empirical research. This is all because man has no original ideas of his own except what Allah has revealed to him. So man uses his endowed knowledge to put some things together to achieve some invention. All these are achievable by Allah's leave.
"He (Allah) knows what is before them what is behind them. They cannot gain access to anything out of His knowledge except what He pleases..." (Al-Baqarah, Qur'an Chapter 2 v 225).
In a bid to profer answers to the questions of the divine purpose of "what", "why" and "how" of man's mission on earth, it must be borne in mind that all the above divine questions and their actual implementation is based squarely on strong divine faith in Allah and His Messenger, driven by knowledge and well guided action.
This write up is focused on how mankind has treated this trilogy divine questions which ultimately determine the global affairs.
The "what" refers to all affairs of life, the "why" refers to the aim, purpose and intention of any actions taken in pursuit of life and the "how" refers to the process by which the purpose or goal of life affairs/activities are pursued and attained.
Allah revealed to mankind through His Messengers (a s) that His commandment pertaining to man's conduct of his affairs is sacrosanct and should constitute the "what" of man's focus while the examples set by His last Messenger (s a w) should constitute the "how" to attain the purpose of his creation.
"O Prophet (s a w), We have put you on the Sharii'ah (Right Way) of our commandment (Islaam), so follow it, and do not yield to the desires of ignorant people; for they can avail you nothing against Allah". (Al-Jaathiyah, Qur'an Chapter 45 v 18).
From the divine revelation, it is understood and affirmed that conducts of all affairs in accordance with the Sharii'ah (the divine or legal system of Islaam) constitute what is ordained for mankind to abide by. The divinely assigned servants of Allah that conveyed the divine message of life (what) to mankind were Allah's Messengers symbolically represented by Prophet Muhammad (s a w) who is the seal of Prophethood. Allah has however informed that instead of abiding by the divine decree, mankind differed and sought alternatives to the divine ordinance.
"We gave the Book to the Children of Israel and bestowed on them rulership and Prophethood. We provide them with good things of life, exalted them above the nations of their time, and gave them clear instructions relating to the matters of religion (through revealing to them the Tawrah). Then they did not differ among themselves, until after the knowledge had come to them, out of iniquity among themselves. Surely, your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning the matters in which they have set up differences". (Al-Jaathiyah, Qur'an Chapter 45 v 16-17).
In reality, the descendants and allies of the Children of Israel upon whom divine privilege had been bestowed, have not only disobeyed the divine directives and invented their alternative ways of life, they have continued to dictate the pace of the global affairs in rebellion even when they haved clearly strayed from the divinely ordained path. With their invented human laws and ideolgy, they have constituted themselves into strong opposition to divine commandment while also oppressing the righteous Muslims who are in actual sense, the bonafide ambassadors of Allah on earth.
Unfortunately, it is man's preference of the humanly invented ways of life to the divine commandment that has thrown the whole world into the present upheavals.
The self appointed "leaders" or "world police" have entrenched themselves and enthroned a barbaric civilisation to mislead the entire mankind. This civilisation which does not recognise religious guidance has been beautifully but deceptively packaged to mislead their citizens by providing civic rights, decent social setting, efficient welfare programme and social infrastructures, all towards ensuring material comfort of the present life but completely bereft of spiritual touch to link mankind to his Creator.
The absence of religious and moral compass in the contemporary world has largely paved the way for the promotion and large scale practice of all forms of immorality ranging from debauchery, nudity, incest, homosexuality (sodomy and lesbianism), gay marriage; tyranny and oppression of the weak by the strong; arrogance; murder, robbery, cyber frauds and many more.
The arrow heads of the global infidel, the so-called supper powers, have bequeathed to their colonies, the so-called third world countries, the evil way of life. Those colonies just like their masters, now engage in heinous crimes ranging from corruption, mischiefs and illegalities, bribery, advance fee fraud, kidnapping, hostage taking, outright stealing of state funds. The misdeeds of the colonized and brain-washed allies of the corrupt white masters are legion. All their ways of life have become perverted. Suffice to mention a few of their perverted ways of life here.
Civil servants do go to work very late and leave before closing hour; most of those who work in the public sector and as well have private establishments, steal equipment and divert patronage from the public sector to their private businesses; traffic agents divert revenue meant for government to their private pockets; governments operate and encourage usury system which has been prohibited in divine laws.
Furthermore, citizens steal public funds and transfer with the conivance of bank officials to foreign accounts; contractors take contract from government without executing the job; some citizens who are not as privileged as those who embezzle or covet public weath to their personal properties, damage or steal government properties and infrastructures such as oil pipes, railway lines, electrical installations; church members pay huge tithes to church while their leaders use the money to build empires, acquire aircrafts and other luxuries at the expense of the poor followers; a good number of Imams (Muslim leaders) and scholars distort the true teachings of Islaam and preach the desires of the devilish and secular authorities from whom they receive fabulous pay.
Furthermore, in a bid to maximize profits, building contractors use sub standard materials to build structures that will eventually collapse; traders sell fake products, operate black markets and indulge in short measuring; some lecturers demand for sex for grade or illegally extort money from students and grant them unmerited favours; the law enforcement officers freely engage in bribe taking and set criminals free; judges sell justice to the highest bidders; legislators only enact laws to protect their selfish interests. There are many more but the above is sufficient proof of how depraved humanity has become.
Instead of aiming at the goal of goodly and peaceful living in this world and divine pleasure in the hereafter, mankind has continued to indulge in acts of disobedience and rebellion against his Creator. Consequently, when Allah's wrath would descend, it comes decisively. Apart from self-inflicted tribulation arising from man's choice of self-invented alternative to the divinely ordained path in the pursuit of his life, Allah, sometimes do punish the infidels for their iniquities by exposing them to fear, hunger, insecurity, instability, ill health, socio - economic and political crises.
"Mischief is being promoted in the land and the sea as a result of which Allah makes people taste a part of their evil so that they may turn back (from evil)". (Ar-Ruum, Qur'an Chapter 30 v 41).
It may be interesting to recall here that one of the obvious repercussions of the inordinate misdeeds of man is the present coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the whole world without sparing any civilization. The arrogant powers, the infidels, the self- appointed world police, the hypocrites, the religious pretenders, even the popular America's military outpost in the heartland of Muslim settlement that has continued to seize their lands - all are not spared by the present pandemic. The most arrogant and delusional power of our time happened to be leading in the league table of fatalities among its cohorts on a daily basis. Where is their power? That is the unique thing about Allah's punishment.
From the Qur'an and the Hadiith (sayings of the Prophet of Islaam), it is understood that a pandemic or plague of this sort can either be a punishment for the people's misdeeds, or a trial for them.
When the question of who delivers mankind from any calamities is asked, Allah provides the right answer through His Messenger (s a w) as follows:
"Say: It is Allah (who) delivers you from these and all other calamities; yet you commit Shirk (worship false deities)"! (Al-An'aam, Qur'an Chapter 6 v 64).
Given the experience of the present pandemic, it is evident that the solutions so far proffered have emanated from the statement of Allah in the Qur'an and the Hadiith of Allah's Messenger (s a w). This is a confirmation of the fact that there can be no alternative to Allah's ordained path.
Instead of the Muslims leading humanity to the path of salvation, Islaam, through the establishment of the Islamic government in accordance with the example set by Allah's Messenger (s a w), the contemporary Muslims have rather become subdued and subservient to the desires of their devilish secular authorities/masters. Having failed in their divine duty as Muslims they now seek to justify the secular options offered by their master human authorities. Though the solutions to the global problems lie with Islaam, Muslims unfortunately lack the moral strength and the will power to apply them as situations demand. Sometimes however, some of the solutions proffered by the secular authorities might present a semblance of similarity with Islaam's prescription, this doesn't make their own the preferred choice.
It is a shame to note that the inability or failure of the Muslims to boldly play their rightful role in the scheme of things has created a vacuum in attempts to solve global problems or crises. This is why the secular approach to world problems always lead to more problems due to lack of guided and enlightened inputs from Muslims.
Conclusion
We have a clear choice to make. Allah has completed His favour upon us. There is nothing Allah has not done to make sure we lead a righteous life. The choice is definitely ours to make. We either follow the warnings and the guidelines contained in the Qur'an and be saved or we follow our selfish desires and forfeit the blessings and pleasures of the hereafter.
O Muslims! Unless we sincerely repent and jettison the hypocritical man made laws, we can never succeed in our struggle to entrench and enthrone the divine rule on earth and the infidels will continue to control our affairs. O Muslims! Beware that Allah will appropiately deal with both the sinners and the innocent who fail to be proactive in their role as the true vicegerent of Allah on earth.
"Fear the Fitnah (affliction) which will affect not only the wrongdoers among you (but may affect good people as well); and know that Allah is strict in retribution". (Al-Anfaal, Qur'an Chapter 8 v 25).