*In Spite of Expectations..* *Abdel Moez Hussein Makabrabi* *#Resolving the Sudanese Crises.. Between Changing Souls.. and Renewing National Intentions (From the Perspective of Islamic Strategy)..!?*

It is among the certain impossibilities to deviate from the universal laws (Sunan) by which Allah established the very idea of creation. After diagnosing the disease and the illnesses, and making the explanation unequivocally clear, so that humanity may follow the straight path by avoiding falling into these destructive and degrading pitfalls – which drag down everything, topple mighty civilizations, and defeat transgressing nations that disobeyed Allah’s commands.

One of the greatest human crises is the crisis of conscience and morals. It is the value system that builds nations and their civilizations, not merely material gains. This is a reading in deconstructing the causes of our successive crises in Sudan – so where does the defect lie..!?

No two persons would disagree that the human soul (Nafs) has the central role in the structural building of material renaissance, in accordance with reconciliation, peace, goodness, and the purification and reconciliation of its inner depths.

Hatred, vengeance, cruelty, hypocrisy, rancor and envy are diseases that afflict the human soul, weaken its capacity for evolution and progress, and weaken its ability to confront challenges. Thus, strategy begins with delving into the depths of the soul and treating its crookedness, so that it may become upright upon the comprehensive vision and the collective dream for the renaissance of the state and nations.

Therefore, Islamic strategy is considered the cornerstone for enabling the Muslim Ummah to possess power and its elements to protect its overall security from aggressors, as a bowl being devoured by its eaters, targeted from every direction. And without strategic arrangements, the Ummah remains in imminent dangers.

Strategy begins with the human soul, whose nature is selfishness, greed, acquisition, power, whims, lusts, commanding evil, and extravagance – thus souls were created. But the believer restrains its excesses and overcomes its deteriorating inclination toward divine disobedience and the methodology of revelation and commitment to the commands of Sharia, until it becomes upright on the right path through the inspirations of piety, surpassing the inspirations of immorality, deterring it and disciplining it.

From here emerges the Islamic strategic structure, whose foundation is intellectual and doctrinal construction, commitment to the Muhammadan example, and seeking evidence from the eras of goodness (the best generations) to keep pace with treatments for reality and to foresee the future.

The Ummah possesses a cognitive reservoir that enables it to walk with light and guidance on a strategic path with clear vision, orientation and objectives, where looking toward the Hereafter and the pleasure of Allah and His Messenger is the pivotal goal in all legislations and in life and civilizational construction.

The worlds of truth in Islam are clearly evident, its path white as the sun in the middle of the day – none deviates from it except a perisher or a wretched one.

So the question is: How to transform this purifying methodology into a practical reality by which we overcome all the contemptible and base aspects of souls and the burden of their material purposes, in the circle of alignment with the strategic objectives of the Islamic Ummah, starting from reforming the human soul to lead it with the bridle of truth and the methodological law (Sharia) of Islam?

Thus the exits appear in the project and plan of general creation: the centrality of the human soul, which Allah looks at – its chest, its intentions, and its non-transcendent clay purposes, which are sometimes tainted with filth, in a temporary world in which affliction and trial abound and continue to distinguish the wicked from the good.

And the fortunate one is he who emerges from it pure and sound after long melting and sifting by Allah, purification from sins, transgressions, and destructive things.

We are faced with such a focused strategic call in the central, universal, message-bearing objectives of our Islamic Ummah for creation in general – so are we responsive..!?