MILLATI ISLAMI
(12 STEP
ISLAMIC BASED SELF HELP PROGRAM.)
Millati Islami attempts to
address a problem in the Islamic Community that has not been thoroughly
addressed. That is to recognize that devastating addictions can and do
occur among the members of our family as well as among the American community
at large.
MILLATI ISLAMI
FORMAT FOR MEETINGS:
1. Group should be seated in a circle.
2. Secretary will call the meeting to order.
3. Recite Al-Fatiha in
Arabic and English.
4. Welcome everyone.
5. Introduction of newcomers.
6. Orientation to the facilities.
A. Location of restrooms,
refreshments. And literature.
B. If you are holding drugs or
paraphernalia, leave, clean up, then come back. We are
interested in you. We do not want your drugs.
C. No smoking, prolonged
conversations or use of profanity during the meeting.
7. Reading of the literature.
A. Surah
Five, Ayats 90 & 91 (of the Qur’an).
B. Who is Addicted?
C. What is Millati
Islami?
D. Why?
E. How it works/The Steps of
Recovery.
F. The Traditions of Millati Islami.
8. Begin
meeting by introducing the speaker for (Speakers Meeting).
Or…Begin reading the literature for a Step or Literature Meeting,
followed by
Discussion of the literature, or... Begin Round Robin. (Round Robins
may be open discussion or Topic Meetings).
9. Close Meeting by:
A. Collecting donations (we
are self supporting).
B. Reading “Hope Through Millati Islami”.
C. Recite Surah
103, ASR (103 of the Qur’an), in Arabic and English.
SURAH 5:90-91
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
O you who Believe!
Intoxicants
and gambling.
Dedication to stones,
And divination by arrows,
Are evils,
Of Satan’s handiwork:
Avoid such evils,
That you may prosper.
Satan’s plan is (but)
To excite hostility and
hatred
Between you with
intoxicants
And gambling and hinder you
From the remembrance
Of Allah, and from prayer:
Will you not then abstain?
WHO IS ADDICTED?
Most of us do not have to
think twice about this question. We know!
Our whole life and
thinking have been centered in drugs in one form or another -- the
getting, using and finding ways and means to get more.
We have used to live
and lived to use.
Very simply, an addicted
person is a man or woman whose life has been controlled by drugs.
We are people that have
lived in the grip of a continuing and progressive illness whose ends are
always the same; a decrease in faith, which
leads us to jails, institutions, dereliction or death.
WHAT IS MILLATI ISLAMI ?
Millati Islami is a fellowship of men
and women, joined together on “The Path of Peace”. We share our
experiences strengths and hopes while recovering from our active addiction to
mind and mood altering substances.
We look to Allah, (God) to
guide us on Millati Islami
(The Path of Peace). As recovering addicts we strive to become
rightly guided Muslims, submitting our will to the will and service of
Allah. We begin the submitting process through the practice of Al-Islam
(peaceful submission to the will of Allah) in our daily lives.
Islam tells us clearly that
the status of man in this world is that of an “Abd”
(slave or servant). We must learn to be slaves and servants only to
Allah and not slaves to mind or mood altering chemicals. We must
also learn not to be slaves to people, places, things and emotions.
Allah tells us that man is
“Khalifa” (agents or
inheritors of the earth). This means that Allah has entrusted us as human
beings with custodianship of his creation. Our own bodies, minds and souls
truly belong to Allah. They are only entrusted to us for a
time. We are charged with their care while we have them in our
possession.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
It is He Who hath made you His agents, inheritors of the earth: He
hath raised you in ranks, some above others: that He may try you in the gifts
He hath given you: for thy Lord is quick in punishment: yet He is indeed Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful.
Qur'an (6:165)
Our goal is to emerge successfully from this test called
life as prescribed by Allah. To win His pleasure and reward is our
ultimate human objective. May we accomplish sobriety success and
peace of mind on Millati Islami.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Lo! Those who
say: Our Lord is Allah, and afterward are
upright, the angels descend upon them, saying: Fear not nor grieve, but hear
good tidings of the Paradise which you are promised.
Qur’an (41:30)
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
And I created Jinn and
human kind only that they might worship Me.
Qur'an
(51:56)
WHY?
Bismillahir Rahmanir
Rahim
Whoever recommends and helps a good cause becomes a partner
therein:
And whoever recommends and helps and evil cause,
shares in its burden: And Allah Hath power over all things.
Qur'an (4:85)
We have sought to integrate
the treatment requirements of both Al-Islam and the Twelve Step approach to
recovery into a simultaneous program. Our personal thanks and appreciation goes
to the Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous Programs from which we have
borrowed. Just as Narcotics Anonymous was founded out of its need to be
non-specific with regard to substance, so Millati Islami was born out of our need to be religiously specific
with regard to spiritual principles.
Millati Islami (The Path of Peace), insha Allah, offers a fresh perspective of age old ideals
for treating our fallen human condition. We pray further that it will
serve as a model for more successfully understanding and addressing the special
problems encountered as recovering Muslims and substance abusers in a
predominantly non-Muslim society.
(How It Works) THE STEPS
OF RECOVERY
1. We admitted that we were neglectful of
our higher selves and that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe
that Allah could and would restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision
to submit our will to the will of Allah.
4. We made a
searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to
Allah and to ourselves the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Asking Allah for
right guidance, we became willing and open for change, ready to have Allah
remove our defects of character.
7. We humbly ask
Allah to remove our shortcomings.
8. We made a list of
persons we have harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. We made direct
amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them
or others.
10.We
continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted
it.
11. We sought through Salaat* and Iqraa* to improve our
understanding of Taqwa* and Ihsan*.
12.Having
increased our level of Iman (faith) and Taqwa, as a result of working these steps, we carried this
message to humanity and began practicing these principles in all our affairs.
Salaat-Prayer
Iqraa-Reading and studying
Taqwa-God consciousness, to have proper love and respect for
Allah
Ihsan - Even though we cannot see Allah ,
He does see us.
THE TRADITIONS OF MILLATI
ISLAMI
1. Shahadah- We bare witness there is no God but Allah and
Muhammad is the last Messenger of Allah.
2. Personal recovery
depends on “Millati Islami”
unity. Believers are friends and protectors, one of another.
3. For our individual
and Jamaat (group) purpose there is but one ultimate
authority which is Allah, (God), the source from which all originates.
4. Requirements for
participation are a desire to stop using and willingness to learn a better way
of life.
5. Each Jamaat should be autonomous except in their adherence to
these traditions.
6. Our primary Jamaat (group) purpose is carrying Al-Islam as the message
of recovery to the addict who still suffers. (Dawah)
7. Problems of money,
property and prestige must never divert us from our primary
purpose.
8. Every Millati Islami Jamaat should be self-supporting, but may accept Sadaqa (voluntary charity) without attached obligations of
promises to donating parties.
9. We create service
boards or committees directly responsible to those we serve.
10.The
Millati Islami name ought
never be drawn into public controversy, or unrelated issues.
11.Our
public relation policy is based upon attraction before
promotion. The criteria for both are decided by Jamaat
(group), Taqwa, and Ihsan.
12.Iman
(faith) is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, reminding us to
place principles before personalities.
HOPE THROUGH MILLATI
ISLAMI
The people of Millati
Islami (the path of peace) are recovering persons
learning to live without drugs. If we can do it, so can you.
Through applying the steps
of the Millati Islami program,
we learn to live useful lives. We have a condition from which we do recover.
Each day we are given another chance to live. We as Muslims, are
not burdened with recovery on a day to day basis. We instead, recover from Salaat (prayer) to Salaat.
None of us are too
discredited or has sunk too low to be welcomed cordially -- when we mean
business. Social distinctions, petty rivalries and jealousies are
meaningless. Being wrecked and then restored in the same vessel, is
a mercy from Allah, and miraculous.
Through the fellowship of Millati Islami we are united
under One God (Allah) with hearts and minds attuned to the welfare of
others. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) has taught us to, “want for our brother what we
want for ourselves”. There is the therapeutic value of one addicted
person helping another.
Allah (SWA) instructs us in
the Qur’an that “Believers are friends and protectors, one of another”. To
duplicate what others have accomplished in recovery is only a matter of
willingness, patience and work. We must realize
that our greatest reliance is always upon Allah. He shows us how to
develop the relations, fellowship and “Peace” that we crave. He
reveals more to us as we grow.
Bismillahir
Rahmanir Rahim
Whoever works righteousness
Man or Woman, and has Faith,
Verily, to him will We give
A new life, a life that is good and
pure,
And We
will bestow on such their reward
According to the best of their
actions
Qur’an: 16:
97
Close with: Surah
tul Asr
or (Time Through The Ages)
Bismillahir
Rahmanir Rahim
By (the Token of) Time (through the
Ages),
Verily Man is in loss,
Except such
as have faith, do righteous deeds,
And join together in mutual teaching
Of Truth, and of
Patience and Constancy.
Qur’an 103
