“Isolation” .. The MB`s way to “the Ghetto”

Hassan al-Banna, The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, recounts his story with the “isolation” he began since he was a student.

He and some of his colleagues agreed to warn of days spent in silence and away from people, speaking only by male or female. Koran, and remember how their isolation caused a quarrel with those around them?

Al-Banna said in a chapter titled “Days of Solitude”: “The students used their habit to take advantage of the opportunity to back down. They approach the teacher or the teachers, saying that the student has been injured in his tongue.

“I remember my teacher Sheikh Farahat Salim who respected this situation in us, and the students. The rest of the teachers are advised not to embarrass us with questions during our silence, and they really knew that this was not an escape from an answer or a test. Always advanced in the lessons are good for her to master. “

In the early years of his life, the Banna ritual was not his legal guarantee.

He admits: “We did not know the Shari’ah ruling in this, but we did. This silence is a discipline of the soul and a choice of the will until man controls himself and does not control him. .

The situation did not end only in silence, but evolved – as stated Banna in his memoirs – to the alienation of people and isolation and cut relations, and tried to respond to his ritual Sufi Sufi, he said: “Sufi attenuated must cut off his relations with all but God, and strive in This is how he did it. “

Poetic isolation

In October 1950, Salih Ashmawi, a member of the MB organized by al-Banna in 1940, addressed a gathering of the Muslim Brotherhood on the occasion of the beginning of the Hijri year, speaking of the migration of the Prophet Muhammad – peace be upon him – from Mecca to Medina, He said: “What is like the society in which we live so pre-Islamic society before Islam,” and then drew to the preacher who sent in the Muslim Brotherhood since 1928, in reference to “Banna” and how to bring the community out of ignorance.

“We live in an atmosphere in which a believer cannot breathe, where the haraam is mixed with halal, and he is infamous and immoral, and it is necessary to have another migration,” he said, referring to the poetical isolation that Sayyid Qutb demanded from the MB.

An emigration we leave with this polluted society, and that corruption spread to the purest atmosphere and society Ether. “

He added: “We have migrated from this atmosphere and if we did not move away from the birthplace or beyond its geographical borders, and we abandoned the family and friends, although we see them every morning and evening, and we make them talk about Islam and its glory, and jihad and reward and sacrifice and the certificate and degree, This dark atmosphere to the homeland of the doctrine of light, and left the brothers of the uterus to the brotherhood of the idea and principle, and we worked in the House of Immigration on our souls cleanse and Nazikha.

Qutb also established the principle of isolation in his book “Milestones on the Road” and his ideas which he conveyed to the MB and groups as a whole. He accepted the ignorance of the society as long as it governed the laws of status. He called for resorting to what he called “poetic isolation” Because we feel that we are purified of them spirit, or the best of them heart, or the welcome of them breath, or smarter than the mind, we have not done anything great, we chose for ourselves the easiest way, and the least provision.

Root of isolation

“The polarizers,” according to Sayyid Qutb, the philosopher’s theory of the group, claim that the isolation that he called “sensual” and not “sensual.” However, the MB and other hardliners turned this poetic isolation into a rupture of society, , And engaged in irrational isolation practices based on his ideas.

As a young man, he was a lover of art. He studied music and played the Oud for two years. He then turned to writing poetry and thoughts. The failure was determined by the testimony of some writers who sent them his poetry production, retired art and literature, and controlled by “isolation”, and thus paved to know the MB`s thought, and this led to his joining the group in 1933.

The same thing was pointed out by Mahmoud al-Sabbagh, one of the leaders of the special system, in his book “The reality of private organization.” He pointed out that he was inclined toward isolation, from a high school student to a university. “- the fifth group leader later – the isolation that seemed to leave the university without interfering with his friends, he suggested that he accompany him to” Banna “to convince him of the ideas of the group, and indeed his isolation was a major reason for joining the MB, and took positions in the private organization.

The isolation of the members of the group since the establishment of the group, and even after the 90 years of the group, has been rooted in the formation of the “ghetto MB” within the Egyptian society, and in his messages urging his men to marry the sisters To the community, and to narrow the scope of marriage outside the community; in support of the political project, and to dispel the security concerns that persecute its members.

In May 2015, the Brotherhood leader Subhi Saleh spoke at a conference organized by the group about the virtue of the brothers’ marriage to the brothers, saying: “When we answer the brothers and their wives to the sisters, inform us of the children of brothers in inheritance; We have been able to make a house and from the house to make a society, and from society we put our hand on a part of the government, The presidency of the state is “Islamic, God willing.”

Ammar Ali Hassan, a researcher on Islamic movements, said in a press statement published in 2014: “The group has transformed the ideological organization into a biological entity over time, according to the rule of” brothers must marry brothers “.

Hassan revealed that the term “family of MB” existed initially as a stage of the administrative organization and the political structure of the MB, However, it became the social unit in which are united with their children, In the family extended through the relationship of marriage and ratios.