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kufr an islamic critique Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi ad-Darqawi DIWAN PRESS cover photograph by Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi ISBN Ο 906512 18 2 © Copyright 1982 by Diwan Press All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Printed in Great Britain by East Anglian Printers, Norwich. All enquiries: Diwan Press, 81A Upper St. Giles Street Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1AB England. This book is a commentary on the hadith Sharif. "Kufr is one system" Contents Introduction 1 Kafir Society 7 The Control System 31 The Individual 55 INTRODUCTION The collapse of civilised existence and the present polarity of state tyranny and personal psychosis have placed the human condition in jeopardy. Political rhetoric about the threat of nuclear war veils from ordinary people that the danger to the species lies not in any future crisis but in the current social nexus where the purpose of existence has been so bound to irrational and magical goals that almost all linguistic analysis may be considered already too late. It is our contention that the current barbarism, being so complete in its concept and performance, has actually achieved a deep 1 magical and hypnotic power over the human creature who lives within this now almost total systemic patterning. Concepts, however rad ical, do not impinge on the holistic con ditioning, by which the modern human creature is manipulated from birth to death. Since this cultural imprinting is both deep and social, as opposed to personal—we must look urgently at what may break the spell of the current zombified species before it is too late, which, of course, it could well be. Part of the current delusive doctrine of society puts forward the picture of 'primitive societies’ as being dependent on religion, worship and magic. The inverted commas are theirs, not ours, for part of the deception is that they do not view, primitives as primitive but rather empathe tically absorb that original freshness for life into their advanced and ‘civilised* patterning, thus removing the risk of a dialetical swing- back. These religious elements of course have been replaced with rational, developmental, and evolutionary goals whose evidences are the proof of their validity. We will in the course of this short work, if Allah wills it, examine that mythology in its place. In stating our theme, however, we emerge onto the battleground itself. We intend to demonstrate here that the current dominant culture is primitive, magical, irrational, anti-populist, and fetishist. The methods and processes of thought and 2
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