AK party – a decade in charge

 Recently, a celebration of the Justice and Development (AK) party on completing their 10^th year in charge was held grandly at Ankara, Turkey. This event turned all the media attention towards Ankara as it gathered more than 40,000 supporters on that day.

The Egypt President Muhammed Moorsi, the Turkey Prime Minister Tyyib Erdugan, the Hamas political leader Khalid Mish’al, and some other great personalities were invited as chief guests.

In his speech, the Egypt President Moorsi addressed the Turkey Prime Minister Erdugan and said “Turkey is the perfect example for Arab countries on solving political and social issues.”  And, he added that “Egypt agrees with Turkey on actions against crisis in Syria.” Aarif Kaskin, a political researcher said that Moorsi’s visit to Turkey clarifies that Egypt will join hands with Turkey on making changes in the Middle East in the future.

When Khalid Mish’al started his sermon, with large support from the audience, he said, “Turkey has shown the bright face of Islam.” And, he added “Erdogan is not only a leader for Turkey now, but also a leader for the entire Muslim Ummah (Society) as well.”

When the hero of the function, Tyyib Erdogan, started his speech by thanking the guests by names, it was really a boom from the crowd. In his speech the Prime Minister warned the West against promoting “Islamophobia” and also reminded the world about their concept towards Israel.

Addressing thousands of party members, Erdogan said the era of military coups in the nation of 75 million people was over. And he promised that “the military power over civil governance will be reduced soon,” in the speech lasting almost two and half hours and meant to chart the AK Party’s agenda for the next decade.

He vowed to frame a more diverse constitution in the following decade and turn a new page in the relations with Turkey’s 15 million Kurds, to make the regime strong enough with the support of all communities.

Erdugan continued by saying that, “Turkey’s Islamist-rooted ruling party had become an example to the Muslim world after a decade in charge.” “We called ourselves conservative democrats. We focused our change on basic rights and freedom,” Erdogan told thousands of cheering party members at the Congress in a sports stadium in the capital Ankara. “This stance has gone beyond our country’s borders and has become an example for all Muslim countries,” he added.

Under Erdogan’s autocratic grip, the AK Party has won three consecutive elections since 2002, ending a history of fragile coalition governments punctuated by military coups and marking Turkey’s longest period of single-party government for more than half a century. It is important to mention that per capita income has nearly tripled in that time and Turkey has re-established itself as a regional power, with its allies seeing its mix of democratic stability and Islamic culture as a potential role model in a volatile region.

 

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When reading books of ancient history about the lives of various people, from scientists to philosophers to architects to almost any kind of profession a profound significant factor that can be noticed is that the Prophets and the Messengers sent by God are an excellent role model for us to follow in carrying out our lives. Amongst the other groups of people except the Prophets one of their main objectives nevertheless was for power, fame, reputation and other things like that. However when studying the lifestyles of the Prophets from a knowledgeable Muslim teacher it can be found that these men were focused only on executing God’s command and striving to do so amongst all difficulties that they would have to undergo in the hands of the enemies.

Unlike people such as Caesar, Gandhi and other “Freedom fighters”, the Prophets were not mainly focused on getting back their land or invading other territories because they only wanted to deliver God’s word to the people by having total confidence that even if they die in the process they shall get Paradise!

The presence of many powerful armies and kingdoms from every corner of the world during the past despite the fact that they have given a great deal of effort to establish their ruler ship amongst the people it still boils down to one major objective, i.e. power! Allah says in the Qur’an in Chapter 27 verse 34, “She said, ‘Indeed kings – when they enter a city, they ruin it and render the honored of its people humbled. And thus do they do ” This verse can be proven clearly today by visiting the local museum where they have stored the swords of several so called great kings and emperors! However the pathetic situation here is that most people including Muslim Children tend to admire these people and consider them as role models for their lives as well. The reason for this is because of the lack of proper Muslim teachers and Islamic education in schools nowadays and the brainwashing syllabuses which are developed by the non Muslim countries for the children.

The Qur’an says in Chapter 33 verse 21, “There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allah often” This illustrates the fact that the Messenger of Allah, implying the Prophet Muhammad,is the best role model to follow for every single person in the world today because of his generosity, kindness, love and compassion, leadership and all other qualities which are essential for a leader are perfect with no shortcomings whatsoever in order to mold a successful human being to society.  The evidence for this could be examined by reading about his Seerah (biography of the Prophet) and even by reading about the reputation he has been given by the Non Muslims themselves, such as the Time magazine that rated the Prophet Muhammad has the Number One position for the Most Influential people of the century!

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