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It is worth noting the view of Hassan al-Banna’ to awaken the mind of the Muslim Ummah that says,Allah has sent you a leader who prescribed an order, made the detail of laws, gave the book which made lawful and unlawful, gave guidance in attaining goodnes

It is worth noting the view of Hassan al-Banna’ to awaken the mind of the Muslim Ummah that says,Allah has sent you a leader who prescribed an order, made the detail of laws, gave the book which made lawful and unlawful, gave guidance in attaining goodness and happiness, guided you to the straight path. Have you followed your leader, implemented its laws, appreciated its order, making holistic of its book, and made what is lawful and abandoned what is unlawful? Be plain in your response in which you will see the truth in front of you. All orders, which govern your social affairs, have no relation with Islam. All laws in national level up to the international relation, system of court, system of defense and military, economic system in the individual and state level, culture and education, system of family life, even personal behavior and general spirit which are followed by rulers and people at large, are far away from teaching of Islam. In view of these, we call you in which the Qur\'an is in our hand and the Sunnah is in our left, the practice of previous pious predecessors is our model, we call them into Islam and its teaching, its laws, and guidance. If it is seen as a part of system of policy, then, it is our policy and whenever you want to call that it is political activities you may say it whatever you want."

Conclusion: Global Challenges
At present, the Muslim world faces the great challenges which focus on dissemination of ideas, transnational borderless trade in economy, industry, agriculture, technology, military warfare, and many other things in global scale. It is presumed that opening borders will yield global economy that will replace country economies; a \'global\' government will replace territorial states; a homogeneous \'global\' culture will replace diverse local cultures; and allegiances to a \'global\' community will replace national loyalties. The current trend of globalization is mainly related with Western domination in international economy. Many people of different fields are using the word to signify that something profound is happening that the world is changing, that new world economic, political and cultural order is emerging. (Dougless Keller: 2002).
Despite worrisome on disastrous effect, globalization it may bring benefits based on the response of people toward it. We do not negate the existence of various effects in the community. The rapid change of technological progress resulted from human civilization it also brings about good result with utmost care. Many scholars believe that today\'s world is organized by increasing globalization, which is strengthening the dominance of a world capitalist economic system eroding local traditions through a global culture. The operation of transnational corporations with the sole aim of multiplying profits caused the widening economic gap between the rich and poor countries. Globalization promotes consumerism mentality leading people to earn worldly gain regardless of ethical and moral values.
Moreover, it set aside indigenous cultures of third world to follow the pattern of the West. In the aspect of education for instance, the curriculum is mainly focused on technical and managerial skills undermining the traditional subjects. It gears to acquire specific skills and techniques ignoring moral aspects. In fact, the issue of globalization is no more than transforming American and Western culture which detrimental to the spirituality. IT which characterizes the current trend of globalization promotes moral crisis of the youths through pornographic advertisement. In addition, it is being misused by certain group to deceive electronic cash transaction that may cause heavy loses. Moreover, globalization has caused increasing crime and people get confused on the conflicting news from different sources. The booming of information technology is also being benefited to spread the news for political agenda of the big power victimizing the third world (Chandra Muzaffar, 2002).

It is quite interesting to note the view of scholars who regard globalization as new imperialism that displaces the focus of domination of developing countries by the overdeveloped ones, or of national and local economies by transnational corporation. It is also considered to serve as cover to neutralize the horrors of colonialism and even could be a part of a discourse of neo-imperialism to continue exploitation of much the world by a few superpowers and giant transnational corporations. The opposition against globalization is centered mainly on destruction of local traditions, subordination of poorer regions by richer ones, environmental pollution, as well as homogenization of culture and everyday life. This includes multiculturalists who stress the threat to national sovereignty, local traditions, environmentalists who fear the destructive ecological effects and conservatives or religious leaders who see globalization as a threat to national and local cultures and the sanctity of tradition (Kellner, 1989).

The person like Roland Axtmann hints that the worst thing is that the globalization could give the effect of emerging the new forms of imperialist domination under the disguise of universality and globality. The globalization serves as new form of Westernization or even Americanization of the world. In view of this, we should not be surprised to see resistance from religious believers to reject homogenization and Westernization associated with some forms of globalization.
As far as the globalization is concerned, the absence of imam al-mahdi who will emerge in a certain time to save the ummah from local and global challenges, Muslim leaders should take priority to inherit the values of peace and justice which becomes the main character given to the Prophet (pbuh). They should be in position to demonstrate the divine values in running the government. Due to the complexity of challenges which threaten the ummah, then, Muslim leaders both from Sunni and Shiite are expected to galvanize cooperation and mutual understanding to overcome internal and external challenges. They should make continuous endeavor to demonstrate the service to the nation as a whole by giving exemplary deeds that they are not aimed at victimizing others for trivial gain. Their presence in the highest governmental should be attempted to make peace and justice in the community. Apart from that, they should make sure that they are not subservient to unbeliever forces as it is reflected in the character of Imam al-Mahdi at the time of his arrival to this world.

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