1.2 THE MOVEMENT’S MISSION IS TO REVIVE ISLAM
What is the mission of the Islamic Movement?
The Islamic Movement has come into existence to revive Islam and reinstate it at the helm of life once again, after removing the obstacles from its path.
The revival of Islam “is not an expression of mine: it was used by the Prophet (peace be upon him) in the sound hadith narrated by Abu-Hurayra: (Allah shall send down a man who will revive the religion of this Nation at the start of every hundred years) [Abu-Dawud & Al-Hakim].
Most of those who interpreted this hadith tended to take the word “who” to mean a specific individual who will revive the religion. They have actually tried to name such individual from among the prominent theologions and imams whose death fell near the end of a century of the hijra calendar, such as Omar ibn-Abdel-Aziz (died 101 A.H.) and Al Shafe’i (died 204 A.H.) and so on. However, they differed much on the issue of who the reviver of the third hundred years might be.
Meanwhile, some of the hadithcommentators regarded the word “who” in this hadithas suitable to imply the plural just like it would be proper to imply the singular, indicating that the “reviver” could well be a group and not an individual. This is what Iban Al-Athir thought most likely in his book “Al Jam’i Lil Usul – collection of fundamentals”. Al Hafez, Al Dhahabi and others supported this concept, too.
I have more to add to this: the reviver of Islam should not necessarily be a group in the sense of a number of people including so and so and so, but may be a group in the sense of a school, a movement of thought and action that works in union to revive the religion.
This is what I take to be the most likely interpretation in understanding and applying this hadith to the century [A.H.] that has just ended and the century that has just started. We pray to Allah to make our present days in this new century better than our past days, and to grant us still better days in our future.
Source: Islamic Basics by Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
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