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If you do not want this constitution, what is the alternative?

١٠ ديسمبر ٢٠١٣
If you do not want this constitution, what is the alternative?

God knows that I write these words after my chest tightened and sadness befell me from what is happening. And by God, criticism itself is not our goal, but the unity of the Muslims is dearer to us than the earth and all that is on it. Therefore, and so that the speech comes from within the ranks, and not as a matter of us and them, and in the hope that our brothers will reflect on this advice instead of preparing for defense or attack, I will speak in the form of: We all have done wrong and erred, and we must work in such a way. What pains us is that this question (If you do not want this constitution, what is the alternative?) comes from respected figures, from among us who are affiliated with the Islamic work, figures of knowledge we relied on to lead the stage well, but they contributed to wasting the fruit of the revolution and manufacturing defeat, then they presented it to the people as an achievement, covering its flaws, and said: Here is this achievement, you have no choice but to accept it or face the inevitable fate, and there is no alternative. Have our memories failed us so that we forget that at the time when the common people were revolting and rising up in defense of the girl who was assaulted in Tahrir Square, some of our sheikhs were calling for calm and restraint?! At the time when Sheikh Hazim was calling to continue the revolution to liberate the country from the dominance of the deep state devils, and this was the best of his call and the most preparatory for the establishment of Islam in truth, then we deviated from him in stations after that. We ask Allah to employ him in what He loves and raise his status thereby. At this time, our sheikhs, the Salafi sheikhs, who dreamed of an easy victory without sacrifices, considered that his method would ignite the country and waste blood. Then the devil struck his tail in the country again, and our sheikhs came out to us saying: (What is the alternative to this constitution? You have no alternative but to retreat to the desert)! Have we forgotten that many of the sheikhs and parties contributed to the manufacture of defeat due to their lack of knowledge of the cunning and treachery of their enemy, their lack of insight into the laws of Allah the Almighty in change, and their disobedience to Allah the Almighty who says: ((So do not fear them, but fear Me if you are believers))? And yet, they feared and made the people who were revolting fear the remnants of the old regime in every position (We are not alone in this country, the secularists and liberals will revolt, ...). These sheikhs and parties placed in their minds a pre-prepared lesson: We do not want blood, we do not want "fitna," we want a "peaceful" solution, while "Salafism" and "the Quran is our constitution" requires that peacefulness has its time and sacrifice and shedding blood has its time. So when our enemies from the army and the remnants knew of their weakness, the awe of the sheikhs and parties was removed from their hearts, and they dared and their voices rose and they... no wonder! For the sheikhs and parties will not revolt under any circumstances, and they will not lead a struggle to overthrow this deep state. And the army took the most daring Muslims and directed the strikes at them in Tahrir, Abbasia, Muhammad Mahmoud, Sinai, and others. While the parties abandoned the victims of the Muslims because they were busy with the parliamentary elections, then the presidential elections that would empower the people of Islam and establish a state of Sharia, strong on the side! Then after that, they themselves say to us: (What is the alternative?) America and the Zionist entity, for those who followed their statements, were terrified at the beginning of the revolution, fearing that Egypt would escape control and the knot would unravel on them. But our people removed the worry from the enemies of the faith and calmed their fears with their collapsing behavior, and they disappointed the Muslims and their enemies alike! Then after that, they themselves ask us: (If you do not like it, what is the alternative?) Have those who took the decision (No to blood, no to fitna) forgotten that their decision pushed them to an unjustified and unexplained change in their previous positions? Suddenly, the application of Sharia through parliament was no longer pure kufr by consensus of the Muslims! And the sovereignty of the people was no longer shirk! And the one who obliges them with their old speech supported by evidence became a troublemaker, difficult for the ranks, demanding an alternative? Have the questioners, the makers of defeat, forgotten that the "struggle" in writing the constitution was entrusted to those who visited the head of the biggest remnants at the time in his house and prepared to cooperate with the Mubarak army to purify Sinai of intellectual extremism? Then after a struggle lasting several months, they came out to us with the result that the constitution of Mubarak and Sadat was not as bad as we imagined for decades, but it could be Islamized and its shirk removed with some restrictions in the controls?! Then after that, they said: Here it is, accept it or there is no alternative! The bottom line is that those who are now asking (What is the alternative) and believe that they have resolved the dispute with this question are themselves the makers of defeat and participants in it, at least by not assuming the role entrusted to them during the revolution and after it. It is strange that this question comes from them. And we have cried out in many stations because we knew that we would reach this stage where a chewed defeat is presented to us with no alternative in the eyes of its owners! We cried out in (Position on the events of Abbasia), (The last call! Withdraw from the elections), (Advice to Dr. Morsi), (The Islamic project and the loss of the compass)... that this path leads only to the abyss. Now, expose them before it is too late... what do you want for it, an alternative to a defeat that we predicted and warned against and gave the alternative to it at every station. We do not say this out of mere blame or wasting time in knowing who is right or wrong, but to know the place of the defect and treat it. It is not possible that the defect is in the decrees of Allah so that the "Islamists" supported by their people at the beginning of the revolution reach this stage of disappointment, so that the consequence of this great revolution, which could have changed the balance of power and restored the glory of the nation... its consequence is the dragging of Mubarak's constitution, but this time without the people's innocence in it, to Islamize their religion, but it is necessary to involve the people in its approval on its shirk "in support of the religion" and protection from the Dracula of the remnants and a handful of secularists! As it is not possible that the treatment is more deterioration in the slope of concessions! - The alternative, gentlemen our dear sheikhs, the alternative, oh heroes of parliamentary constitutional party struggle!... The alternative is to strive to rid the state of its deep devil no matter how our enemies transgress against us, for nothing worse will come of it than the fitna of confining the people to the choice of approving the Mubarak-Sadat constitution and submitting to the army and those who move it who do not spare a believer except for his covenant. - If you refuse, then insist before the army on the full implementation of Sharia without any reduction and mobilize your people for that. - If the army refuses and imposes a committee of its own to write the constitution, then withdraw from the farce and return to your people who trusted you at the beginning, and restore your awe and mobilize the people to stop the madness of the remnants if they want to write a worse constitution, so that the enemies of Sharia are forced to approve the constitution that returns legislation to humans, and you and your people surrender your religion from participating in it. - If you refuse, then impose on yourselves what you accepted during the deposed: withdraw from political life and call the people to what you are skilled in and does not require sacrifices, for this is more beneficial for you and them than what you have entered into. - And all these choices – on the basis of the lesser of two evils – are less harmful than what you are on now. For there is no worse choice than that you participate in writing this chewed constitution and push your people to approve it... - If you refuse all these alternatives, then please... do not ask us (What is the alternative?)!