For those among the wealthy elite in the Muslim lands, or those living in the Western lands, there is a clear danger that we have grown comfortable in our gilded cages. We benefit from Western alliances, send our children to Western schools, invest our wealth in Western markets, and build our image through Western media. We have learned to play the game, and we fear what will happen if we stop playing.
But this game is rigged. We will never win it. The battered woman will never be loved and respected by her abuser. She must leave. And so must we. Not with rage or recklessness, but with clarity, wisdom, and determination.
The time has come for the Ummah to extricate itself from this abusive relationship.
To break with the ideological shackles of the West. From the IMF and its economic strangleholds. To withdraw from international bodies that serve imperial interests. To stop relying on tyrant puppet regimes and build instead leadership rooted on the Method of the Prophet Muhammad salla Allahu ʿalayhi wa sallam.
To revive that model will require sacrifice. The road to dignity is not paved with comfort. The woman who walks out of her abuser’s house may face fear, loneliness, and hardship-but she walks toward life. Toward healing. Toward truth. And the Ummah must do the same. We must be willing to give up the false security of Western approval, the illusion of stability offered by corrupt regimes, the comfort of silence.
So who are we? Pawns in someone else’s game? Or heirs to a civilizational legacy that transformed the world for over a thousand years and can do so again. We must extend ourselves, and believe, and truly trust, that the strength we seek is already within us- rooted in the sunnah, in Allah’s way, etched in our history, and alive in the blood of those who are martyred while the world shrinks away.
We are not weak. We are not powerless. We are just afraid. But courage is not the absence of fear-it is the decision to act in the face of fear. And when the Ummah finally remembers who she is, the chains will fall, the locks will open. The abuser will tremble. And the world will witness the return of a people who were never truly defeated-only deceived.
And once we believe again, nothing will stop us.
