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Did the 'Banks' destroy Kashmir ?

                              ALLAH’S WAR ON KASHMIR:

                               September    SEPTEMBER 2014

          Did the “banks” bring this on us?

Over 25 years of militancy and political unrest could not wreak such havoc as the fateful morning of 7th September did. As if life came to a standstill. This day will go down in our history as the day Kashmir witnessed the Lord’s wrath!

The papers, social media, living room conversations have been saturated with details of the catastrophe. From the colossal property damage to the apathetic disaster (mis)management of the State. From the negligence of authorities to the appalling urbanization of flood channels. Sprinkle this with some “yeh hamare gunnah hain” and the few mystical dreams anticipating the flood and fiery khutbahs warning of some more. Oh yes! Don’t forget the politicizing of the flood; NC Vs PDP and BJP Vs Congress. Let’s ask the River Jehlum to vote this time, shall we!

But amidst all this, there is a silent spectator, sitting quietly on the side, shying away from the limelight. Distributing relief, here and there. Pushing it so far as giving some grace period to certain clients, but, behold! Shylock wants his ‘pound of flesh’, come rain or sun!

There are two methods to find out, who had the biggest share in bringing this doom on us:

SPIRITUAL METHOD:

In the last and the most crucial revelation to the Prophet (saw), just after the Final pilgrimage, Allah declares a “WAR” against the Banking system (harb minnAllahi wa Rasoolihi). In the entire Quran you don’t see Allah Most High declaring an open war on any other crime. The Prophet (saw) warned in a hadith when his Ummah will have fifteen traits, one of which was riba, it will be inflicted with natural disasters like earthquakes, red winds and calamities from the sky. Riba is even worse than incest with ones mother and it is one of the signs of the Last Hour. The kashmiri society is drenched in the banking system. From roads to buildings, from cars to even ‘masaajid’. The bank will also give you a loan for hajj. Even Abu jahl wouldn’t accept that. The shrine of Shaykh Mir Sayyid Yaqoub (rh) in Sonwar shares an ATM in its premises. The Torah reports of an incident when Jesus (pbuh) learnt of what the bankers were doing inside the Mosque of Jerusalem, he overturned their tables and drove them out like dogs. In the Caliphate of Umar (ra), there was a minor earthquake in Medina, immediately the Caliph gathered the people and reprimanded them as follows;” O people correct your misdeeds, If there is another earthquake, I will not stay here with you.”. Natural calamities were always taken as a serious wakeup call by the previoprevious generations. But what is interesting is that post-flood Srinagar looks very similar to post American invasion Baghdad. For people of insight, the flood was nothing short of Allah’s war unleashed on us. Water-the elixir of life is also a soldier of Allah. It did such damage that even the Indian army would not compete with it.

SCIENTIFIC METHOD:

We like it or we don’t, we live in the Himalayas. For decades now geologists have expressed worry over the weakening of the Himalayan Wall. A flood is categorized as an ecological turbulence. Either the clouds rain more than they are supposed to or the earth cannot absorb what it used to. Breaching of the banks is the aftermath. Global warming, scientists warn, could melt up the Arctic circle, bringing something similar to Noah’s Deluge. The Green House effect causes a complete disruption of the climate, weakening of glaciers, level rise in rivers, warmer climate and increased precipitation. Deforestation is the major factor for surface water run-off. The land can’t soak up the water, causing run-off and accumulation in low lying urban areas. All of these phenomena stem from Fossil Fueled over industrialization, car emissions and unaccounted urbanization. Even a 4^th class student knows that. But wait! Before you assume I am against ‘technology’. No! This wouldn’t be the case if renewable non polluting energy was used.

Now comes the nice part!

The industrial Revolution, for sure did take a toll on the environment, but the Interest based Banking system conveniently put a dagger in the environment’s chest. When the banks deployed Expansion of Credit (The Ring in Adam Smith’s words)- which is a bank loaning out more money than it possesses, there was a sky rocketing upsurge in car sales and business finances. Compare the traffic pre-J&K Bank 

low interest car finance to the traffic three days before the flood, you’ll get your answer. Now couple this with something known as the Petrodollar. All paper currencies are backed by the USD and the USD is stabilized by oil sales. Did you ever wonder why oil prices are always on a rise? Also the technology in every field is ever evolving; smart phones, tablets, talking shoes, satellite wifi- but the same old 18^th century petrol/diesel engine remains! If people turn towards renewable energy and away from oil, the entire US economy and with it the whole system of Paper currency will tumble down like a house of cards. Oops! Lagarde, it’s not a secret anymore.

Now the curtain opener! All of this jingo- expansion of credit, petrodollar, inflation, money losing its buying power, hence hooking people to bank loans, is only possible with PAPER. What you hold in your hand (newspaper) is also paper but it’s worth Rs3, other papers are worth thousands. Who gave them this magical power? Because paper money has no intrinsic value and paper and ink are available in an unlimited supply, and since 1943 it is not backed by gold (real money), banks like magicians can produce (print) as much money as they like (they call it a budget). The more they loan, the more cars there are, the crazy traffic, mass industrialization, more pollution, global warming, ecological imbalance, calamities like floods, earthquakes, sink holes, acid rains, drought and famines.

Hence we need to call a spade a spade. As responsible individuals, Muslims or morally alive people we need to call the banking system to account. Allah and His Messenger (saw) have cursed it and everyone involved in it. He (saw) referred to it being even worse than Zina! Imagine that’s how grave the sin is. There is not an evil in the world- from wars to pornography, from destitution to oppressive governments- that cannot be attributed to Banking. If we want our children to live in a prosperous and free Kashmir, we need to eradicate this cancer right here, right now. Kashmir witnessed a revolution in the 14^th century when our ancestors flocked towards the Truth (Islam). They dusted off the filth of tradition and a class divided society. Today we are at the same crossroads that early kashmiris found themselves in.

 Are we secular individuals or are we Muslims? If secularism is what we choose for ourselves, then the model of a full bloom liberal society is before us in the form of the United States. Hence, we should be well prepared when our young boys carrying guns in kindergarten mow down their own fellow classmates, because of what Assassin’s Creed has indoctrinated them with. Or when our young girls post nude pictures of themselves just to get a like from a stranger on the internet. A secular capitalist society that gave its reigns to the bankers has no option but to get imprisoned in a banker’s cage. A perfect example was US in 2008, when the American working class was brought on its knees with mass foreclosures. People who yesterday were living in luxury homes were thrown out on the streets just because they couldn’t pay the mortgage of their houses and cars. Cases of people committing minor crimes just to avail the free medical facilities in jail, is a common phenomenon. So that’s the bright shining model of a “modern” “developed” society for you.

Now for those who say, we are Muslims. Then for 14 centuries Muslims followed a consolidated socio-economic model based on equity, free and fair trade and money with intrinsic value. Just because the maulavis in the Masjids do not talk about it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t there. I see a small class of Kashmiri youth emerging, who are modern in their education, at the same time religiously inclined and not naïve and gullible. They do not belong to the “Trinity” namely-Azaadi, Political parties or Pakistan. Their vision resembles that of our forefathers who followed the likes of Shaykh Sayyid Ali Hamdani, Shaykh Hamza Makhdoomi, Shaykh Noorudin and others (RH). After removing the shackles of pagan worship, inequality and caste divisions , all our predecessors wanted was for Islam to prevail. And it did, and so did they. They prospered because they understood prosperity is not in the hands of the bankers. It belongs to Allah and He gives it to whomsoever He wishes!