Islaam is based on the Shairah not Democracy! Inciting us to use a democratic system to help us is not the answer. Turning towards the Quran and Sunnah is the only way to rectify our situation. Islaam is growing at a tremendous rate. In the future,inshaAllaah, Muslims will make up a majority in the U.S. and even in other continents, the same thing will happen, inshaAllaah. The solution is making sure the Islamic Leaders are following the Quran and Sunnah . That is the key to our success.

In the Quran it states: Surah al-Maidah Verse 3, “This day, those who disbelieved have given up all hope of your religion, so fear them not, but fear Me. This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion”.

Perfect means everything we need to be successful in this life. We need to look to the Prophet Muhammad, who was revealed the Quran, who was the Last and Final Prophet and Messenger.

I actually read the speech first and then monitored video commentary. I place emphasis on reading of his words, for even though the video and audio clips will survive, scholars will (and are) pore over the words. And visual cues effect mental processing, a fact you may have noticed during your self-imposed moratorium against American videonews. For even in opting to see and hear the opinions through another cultural lens, unless the language is English, when hearing the native language, one is actually reading subtitles.

Secondly, Surah 55 Verse 9, immediately following the discussion of mizan as a measure, refers to balance, another meaning of the word , according to Maulana Muhammad Ali in The Religion of Islam. A balance is an instrument for weighing the scare by which deeds and principles are weighed and destinies are determined. The evocation of the image of a balance, calls into the play the role of the fulcrum or the support on which a lever rests in moving or lifting something , a counter-weight if you will.. To move the fulcrum, to the right or the left, is to effect a balance.

In order to attain closeness with Him (the One True and Living God), we must all be balanced – applying focused energy that is evenly distributed. To return to the analogies of the mizan, Believers are striving to lift the world out of its current state of mistrust, violence, greed and injustice. We are weighted down by misunderstanding and intolerance. Our success depends on a measure of movement, a re-placement of the fulcrum. For those of on the political left, we have to move a little more to the political right. And for those on the right, movement to the left is required. I believe President Obama is a sign of the movement of the fulcrum.