By Hasan Yahya, Ph.D
If you were asked this question concerning the Muslim World: Who would win the future, the SCO or the NATO? Or the UN (DRC) or the NGO’s. What would be your answer? I think five or more answers are probable to mind:
1. This is a good question! This the first answer.
2. Yes or no answer! Sharp or with comment or justification. A third answer is:
3. I want to sleep. A fourth answer is:
4. Answering by Silence, saying nothing and let others guess for you. And finally,
5. what do you mean? Or in what sphere, political, economic, social?
If the question was about who will win Palestine, Arabs or Jews? Probably answers may be the same. Logic of answering has these or may be more options . One gives you immediately the answers, another gives you more questions rather than answer. A third did not know, or is not interested to answer, and the fourth, no one will know your answer, or may guess according to their perceptions and understanding, and give an answer for you!
Muslims in the Muslim world today, are divided according to these options. Let me give another example of logic, a conversation between two Muslims, one asked:
- “Why do you support the X or Y. Organization?”
- “Well ! the USA is my key.”
- “What do you mean?”
- I mean, if the USA disagree with X, or Y organization, immediately I support X and stand with it or Y, so the decision is for the USA to decide for me and gives me the clue to the right answer.
I don’t know if this is extreme logic, or dogmatism of opinion! But I think it is close to reasoning, more than emotions. In Arabic we used to say, my friends enemy is not my friend, and vice versa. This is an understandable logic. All answers have logic or justification. The logic we say is a description of mental process of logic . Justification however is a description of illogical answer, unless depending on valid tested information. One may be described as ‘empty logic’, gives you no answers or “empty of logic” gives you immediate answer to any question with justification. Logic sometimes is described as false or true logic, for example the statement: “ask your heart and decide your choice accordingly.” It might be false or true logic for many people. Exactly as if we say: ask your mind, and decide your choice accordingly.
Till now we are dealing with philosophy, which is vast enough to describe all answers by millions of peoples around the globe. No matter how noble the aim may be, it is not a judicial logic discourse.
In Mathematics, along with ethics, logic in science is mainly a formal logic represented as an art of reasoning. True mathematical reasoning is so much more evident than it is possible to render any doctrine of logic proper. On the contrary, such difficulties as may arise concerning necessary reasoning have to be solved by the logician by reducing them to questions of mathematics, otherwise we have to live under the clouds of consciousness which indicates form and dimension.
This might bring us to a situation where we may ‘laugh or cry’ at the same time. Which is impossible for human to do in the same time, and no one can perform both unless one of them was absent. But they can be done separately. I guess the human mind was created to reason things. Obviously, too many questions in my mind to address and ponder upon but, I feel exhausted, I feel like to sleep. This may be an illusion. It seems to me that many people around the world carry this word, in many Eastern religions use, to an inference of meaning nothing is real. I believe, by now, an Islamic civilization can agree that all matter changes may be seen, but thoughts do not follow suite, cultural hindrance of these thoughts is in place. And what is needed is only to open wide the doors for the new thoughts, the mathematical thoughts. In terms of these concepts: Form, dimension, space, time and force.
Every form has dimensions. The concepts related to form are: space, time and force. A dimension of form usually measurable by volume or boundaries. The space between two places is also measurable, but there is space between electrons and nucleus also. It is difficult to be measured. Those atoms makes up our bodies and makes the universe where we live in.
In the Muslim world, have a place with boundaries, and time is running, It is in serious need for force to move form to a new shape or dimension. But what’s the nature of this force? Is it internal or external force? Or what type of force is needed, physical or mental? Or how to obtain force to make the space and time dimension respected?
Logically speaking, every force has opposite resistance, and resistance comes in many shapes. Acceptance by assimilation, or rejection by fighting [words, rockets, airstrikes, invasion, wars, etc.,] , or compromising by understanding the new rules of the game and the spirit of age in the new situation.
These are important questions to answer as intellectuals. But Arab and Muslim governments were and still being like the fish for someone’s dinner for a long time, keeping taking the bait again and again by using outside force or by acceptance, rejection and compromising all together [like for example in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Kashmir, and Afghanistan]. How can that be? Well look at the Muslim world governments today you find the answer. Look at their position in any dispute confront them. And finally look at Muslims position in the world community. There is no indication to follow unity models as NATO or SCO or EU or even the AU. The role played by both, the league of Arab nations as well as the OIC nations is very much less than public expectations. Because lack of unity and understanding the spirit of age. These ambiguous answers for the Muslims created an awkward position for themselves worldwide. Governments as well peoples behave in the same methods: rejection, assimilation, and compromising all together. While the first two are rights for everyone, compromising become injustice under different powers. It became submission with known reason, such as lack of future strategies. In practice we do not save civilians and national identity in the case of the conflict over Palestine. But still compromising is absent, which can be made simply by understanding the rules of the game in modern times. I think it is logical to accept defeat for a while, to change the image of Muslims, Palestinian included, to serve the purpose of peoples survival and may be victory to achieve peace in the long run. For the Arab governments, the fear from Iran is not real and if it is, Iran will not be defeated by buying more arms [Estimated a little more $60 billion] . For Hamas, Israel will not be defeated by few rockets in a short time, and will not lead to victory over Israel in the temporary state of the Palestinians or Arabs or Muslims behind them. But more loss of civilians, and loosing dignity will be the result. Muslims these days need intellectual strategists who use their logic not their emotions when it comes to compromise the safety of people, strategists who understand the game rules and play according to it. In conclusion, Israel is going to demolish itself and disappear by the factor of time in an ocean of Arabs and Muslims. So save your people for the future, to play and win the game. Look at Russia and the US are coming together to cooperate after the Cold War. Forget Palestine for thirty years, give Israel security and show yourself as peace loving people. Time is in the Arab side, and rulers do not continue forever. Hamas as well as the Arab nations have to try new long term goals for development in their countries instead of paying billions of Dollars for weapons, never used to fight Israel. Except in the case of Syria and Egypt in 1973. Love each other as Arabs or as Muslims and promote such love in justice practices to your citizens. Hatred hurts the promoters than enemies if they don’t know how to make peace. Israel is relatively loosing legal grounds around the world especially in Europe and the United States. I urge the Arab and Muslim leaders as well as the Palestinians to support strategic plans to make Palestinians peace loving people rather than enemies of the world. For Hamas, it should work to remove its name from the US illegal list of terrorists first, and close the eye for its goals for a noble cause which is saving the Palestinian people, A truce for twenty or thirty years to give security to Israel and Palestinian people to prove that Israel is not what the Western media thinks a small nation squeezed among hostile Arab and Muslim Ocean. In thirty years demographically, Israel will come to pass, no matter how much they planned to remain as powerful state forever. May be some of the ideas look crazy for some, but serving peace for thirty years ahead is a noble cause provided for Palestinians and Israelis alike. Sometimes courage to accept defeat is victory. And Both Israel and Hamas are defeated. The first in its Zionist failure to make Israel from the river to the sea, and Hamas, Arabs and Muslim nations are sure defeated to protect Palestinians all these years for rotten political selfish reasons. (1627 words) www.dryahyatv.com
Hasan A. Yahya is an American writer, scholar, and professor of philosophy. He’s the honorary member of the Arab & Muslim Writers Union-A&MWU). Has a 2 Ph.d degrees from MSU. He published 40 books (29 Arabic and 11 English), and 230 plus articles on sociology, religion, psychology, politics, poetry, and short stories. Philosophically, his writings concern logic, justice and human rights worldwide. Dr. Yahya is the author of Crescentologism: The Moon Theory, and Islam Finds its Way, on Amazon. He’s an expert on Arab and Islamic cultures, and was invited to several TV shows and international conferences on religion and future strategic planning.