World needs spring of Islam

 World needs spring of Islam: Jamaat-e-Islami chief

Hyderabad: The world needs another "spring of Islam" to bring it out of the 
darkness and remove the ills plaguing it in all spheres of life, said Jamaat-e-
Islami Hind president Moulana Jalaluddin Umri.

Inaugurating a three-day 'Spring of Islam' conference here Friday, he contended
 that  Islam alone can offer solutions to the problems that humanity is facing as it is the natural  way of life.

Referring to corruption scandals, moral degradation, injustice, inequality and exploitation, Umri said it was only on the basis of Islamic ideology that an ideal society can be created.

Arguing how the holy Koran brought a spring 1,450 years ago when the world was in "total darkness", he said there was need for today's world to revert to its real creator.

"Why this spring should not come? People say the wheel of time has moved or things which worked then do not necessarily work today. Allah's deen (way of life) is forever. 
Just as you can't change the way sun and moon revolve, you can't change His deen. Not even a small dot has changed since Koran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed," said the Jamaat chief.
 
"People say we should have freedom. Koran says we respect freedom. Islam is the true way. You are free to accept it or not. There is no compulsion. Can there be a greater ideology of freedom than this? Allah said if you accept and follow, you will succeed in this world and the hereafter. In fact, your test lies in whether you follow it or not," he told a huge gathering of men and women at Nizam College Grounds.

            Referring to the Delhi gang-rape, he said the issue was dominating the country 
            today but hundreds of such incidents have happened earlier.

           "We have removed ethics and morality from our curriculum. Laws should 
            be made but we  should first make people obey the laws. Islam exhorts
            its follower to live a pious life,   instills fear of Allah in him and leaves no 
            scope for such incidents by strictly  prohibiting fornication, either by force or 
            by consent," he said.

           Referring to changes in some countries, he said the Jamaat backs efforts
           that will be good for those countries, the Muslim community and the world 
           at large. "We don't support  them because we have any relations with them,"
           he clarified.