Bismillah
Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Challenging
the Kuffar, Changing the Focus
"The believers are they who,
hearing Allah's name, feel awe and dread, and whose Eeman is
increased when they hear His Ayat recited: for these are they
relying only on their Rabb." 8:2 Interpretation of
Meaning
Introduction:
Since the Jumaadi Al-Thaani attacks - the Washington and New York
expeditions - the kuffar have launched an unprecedented propaganda
offensive against our Deen and against we who are Muslim and who strive
to follow the correct and perfect guidance we have been given by Allah
Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala.
This article will focus on understanding, and countering, some aspects
of this kaffir propaganda campaign against us and our Deen.
For far too long the Muslim Ummah - and especially Muslims residing in
the lands of the kuffar - have allowed the kuffar to set the agenda: to
dictate the terms and conditions of arguments and debates. They want us
to be divided and apologetic - as, for example, was illustrated in the
recent Media campaign, in Britain, about Shariah, following some
remarks made by some Nazarene, and is illustrated every time there is
some trial, in a kaffir "Court of Law", of one of our brothers or
sisters accused of being a "terrorist" or a "terrorist sympathizer"
or of "inciting terrorism" or something of the sort.
We need InshaAllah to understand and act upon the truths that:
1) The kuffar, with the help of their apostate allies and lackeys, are
intent on changing our Deen - on "modernizing it" - and thus demand
that we Muslims accommodate ourselves to, and imitate, the ways and the
life of the kuffar themselves.
2) The kuffar will use deadly force to not only get their own way and
maintain their political, military and economic domination of our
lands, but also to prevent the establishment of a land or lands where
we can live, as Muslims, ruled only by Shariah, and where the kuffar
have no power and no influence over us.
To counter the machinations of the kuffar, we need to do two things,
InshaAllah:
1) We need to shift the focus away from what has become the most
important part of the propagandistic agenda the kuffar - which is of
trying to divide us by insisting: (a) that we reject what they, the
kuffar,
call the "extremists" and the "terrorists" among us; and (b) that we
embrace the "moderate" Islam that they insist is "true Islam" and which
they affirm is compatible with their Taghut of democracy and their
Taghut of the nation-State; and (c) that
- directly contrary Quran and Sunnah - we spy on our brothers and
sisters, and inform on them and report them to the kaffir authorities
if we suspect they are involved in or plotting what the kuffar define
as "terrorist acts" or if they may be doing what the kuffar say is
"preaching hatred and extremism".
That is, we need to shift the focus toward their own, kaffir, way of
life -
toward their
hypocrisy, and highlight and explain the utter failure of the decadent
societies of the West. We need to expose the deaths and the suffering
and the exploitation and the damage that the kuffar of the West have
inflicted on people and upon the world. We need to expose the real
terrorism
of the new Amerikan empire which, in the past sixty years for example,
has established over three hundred military bases around the world, has
attempted
to overthrow over forty foreign governments; which has intervened
militarily in the internal affairs of other countries hundreds upon
hundreds of times; which has supported oppressive dictators and corrupt
governments; which has used chemical weapons against people, and
dropped millions upon millions of tons of bombs upon people, and which
thus has directly caused the deaths of millions upon millions of people.
Also, we need to emphasize how the kaffir Taghut of the "nation-State"
has been directly and indirectly responsible for the greatest slaughter
and the greatest suffering the world has ever known. For instance,
loyalty and obedience to this Taghut has, in the last hundred years
alone, caused the deaths of some two hundred million people, from the
so-called First and Second European-based "World Wars" to the
post-colonial struggles in Algeria, Vietnam, South Africa, Lebanon,
South America and elsewhere.
By imposing their Taghut of the nation-State upon us and upon other
peoples - by creating artificial nation-States from Iraq to Kenya to
Jordan to Tanzania to Lebanon to the Zionist occupation entity in
Filistine - the kuffar of the West have created and left an evil legacy
of hatred, strife and division, just as their arrogant and racist
desire to create new nations for themselves around the world led to
campaigns of extermination, brutal oppression and discrimination, as,
for example, in the case of the native North Americans, the native
Indians of
South America, the Australian Aborigines, the German campaign to
exterminate the Herero of Namibia, and the Amerikan atrocities
during the so-called Philippine-American War.
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Truly, in such a narrative [of
history] there is meaning - for those who use reason." 12: 111
Interpretation of
Meaning
2) We need to not only understand the error of the kaffir way of
thinking, but also reject their attempt to have us "understand" our
Deen according to their fallible way of thinking. Thus can we revive
the authentic Islam of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jammah - the Deen of Jihad fee
Sabilillah and Al wala wal Bara - and thus can we do our duty to Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and so make the Word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
supreme. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"He has sent His Messenger with the
correct guidance and the [perfect]
Deen, and will make it triumphant [over all other Ways] despite all
that the Mushrikoon will do." 61:69 Interpretation of
Meaning
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala also says in the miraculous Quran:
"You
who are sincere in belief: It is awe of Allah which
causes you to speak the truth." 33:70 Interpretation of
Meaning
In context, this Ayah means that if we are in awe of Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala - if we sincerely know and feel how superior is the power of
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, if we sincerely believe in the Judgement
which awaits us - then we will be motivated to speak the truth, to act
honourably, and will not fear or be in awe of or be misguided by those
lesser things, including the power of the kuffar, anything the kuffar
may devise or have devised, or whatever some leader or some ruler or
some kaffir-law may demand that we do, or do not do.
The Kaffir Propaganda Strategy:
The kaffir propaganda strategy can be seen in all its sophistication -
and in all its
crudeness and emotion - in the so-called "documentary" film made, a few
years ago, by two Zionists, called "Obsession
- Radical Islam's War
Against the West."
This film brings together all the themes which underlie the current
kaffir campaign to subvert, to change, our Deen; to divide us; to have
us apologetic, and to
have us accept the ways and the values of the West, of the kuffar.
Thus, the kuffar say such things as:
"A new menace is threatening, with all
the means at its disposal, to bow
Western Civilization under the yoke of its values. That enemy is
Radical Islam. A peaceful religion is being hijacked
by a dangerous foe, who seeks to destroy the shared values we stand
for."
Notice here the themes, the kaffir concepts, of "radical Islam", of the
Islam that the kuffar want being a "peaceful religion" and of
this religion having "shared values" with the West, which is portrayed
as a "civilization".
Thus, we can see and understand that some of the central themes of the
kaffir campaign to divide us and have us imitate their Millah are:
1) Defining Islam so that it is just a "religion" (as the kuffar
understand religion) with the Muslims of such a religion being capable
of existing peacefully in a modern and democratic nation-State, with
such a democratic nation-State being seen as the ideal;
2) Insisting that the "majority of Muslims are peaceful, law-abiding,
citizens" of a particular nation-State, and that the problems which the
kuffar have are with an "extremist minority" who do not "represent
Islam" and who preach "hatred and intolerance".
3) That it is duty of the Muslim "citizens" of every nation-State to
tackle "extremism" and "hate".
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"The Jews and Nazarenes will never be satisfied (with you) until you
change your Millah (into theirs)." 2:120 Interpretation of
Meaning
Let us consider another example of the kaffir campaign: the so-called
Amman Message issued by Abdullah bin Al-Hussein of Jordan which
sought "to declare what Islam is and what it is not" and "thus assure
balanced Islamic solutions for essential issues like
human rights; women's rights; freedom of religion; good
citizenship of Muslims in non-Muslim countries, and just and democratic
government. It also exposes the illegitimate opinions of radical
fundamentalists and terrorists from the point of view of true Islam."
Note here, and in the propaganda surrounding the message and
endorsing it, the kaffir-speak, and the reliance upon kaffir ideas and
concepts such as human rights; women's rights; "freedom of religion";
democratic
government; radical
fundamentalists; "terrorists". Note in the propaganda surrounding this
message and endorsing it the desire to manufacture a "moderate Islam"
and the desire to live "in peace" with and among the kuffar, despite
the kaffir invasion and occupation of our lands, despite their
continued
interference in our affairs, and despite their killing, torture,
imprisonment and humiliation of hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of
our brothers and sisters.
As it was authentically narrated by Abu Hurairah, Allah's Messenger
(salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam)
said:
"Before the Final Hour there will be
the many years of deception where the truthful ones will be not be
believed although the liars will. The honourable will be accused of
dishonour while the dishonourable will be regarded as having honour,
for - in these times - the Ruwaibidah will
speak."
It was asked: "Who is this Ruwaibidah?" And he (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa
sallam) replied: "The one
who is Tafih [(1)] will
speak
for
and on behalf of the people." Ahmad (2, 291), al-Haakim (4, 465–466, and 512);
Ibn Maajah.
We might justly ask what exactly Abdullah bin Al-Hussein of Jordan and
those scholars who signed this message have done to reclaim Filistine
from the Zionists occupiers; what they have done, in a practical way,
to end the oppression and humiliation of our brothers in occupied
Filistine, in The Land of the Two Rivers, in Afghanistan, in Chechnyia.
We might justly ask where are their statements, their declarations,
about the treatment of their brothers and sisters by the Amerikans?
Where are their petitions to free Muslims captives held in Bagram, in
Abu Ghraib, in Guantanamo Bay? But with people like Hamid Karzai - a
puppet appointed by the Amerikan occupiers of Afghanistan - endorsing
this message,
we already know the answers to these questions.
For the truth is that the kuffar desire to manufacture a modernized
"Islam" which is no
threat to the West, and they seek to do this by dividing Muslim against
Muslim, by having Muslim fight Muslim for the benefit of the kuffar,
as is now happening in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Algeria,
in
Filistine, in Egypt and elsewhere.
Thus, according to the kuffar, the "moderate Muslims" have to take a
stand against "extremist
Muslims" who (according to the kuffar) adhere to a radical, an
extremist, ideology - and if
necessary these moderate Muslims can and should ally themselves with
the kuffar, and betray their "extremist" brothers and sisters to the
Police, to the Intelligence Services, to the Armed Forces, of the
kuffar (and
to the lackeys and allies of the kuffar). In addition, these moderate
Muslims most certainly will not directly fight the armed forces of the
kuffar even if the kuffar invade and occupy Muslim lands - rather, they
should make common cause with the kuffar (for after all, they have
"shared values" and shared goals) and instead establish a nation-State
which the kuffar are comfortable with and which is "democratic" and
which accepts the laws and the morality of the West, and which,
incidentally, allows the kuffar to maintain direct or indirect control
of its resources, its economy and its Armed Forces.
What we see at work here is a kaffir desire for us to replace Tawheed
- the perfect, complete Deen given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala -
with the ways, the Tawagheet, of the kuffar: with the ideas, the
concepts, the abstractions which the kuffar have manufactured and
devised.
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"When
they [the deniers] seek compromise, they only desire
you to compromise." 68: 9 Interpretation of Meaning
Kaffir Ideas and
Ideology:
Ideology has been defined as a coherent, or rational, system of ideas - that is, it is a human
manufactured system about or regarding certain human manufactured abstractions
or concepts, which abstractions (or concepts) exist or are perceived
or assumed to exist in "the human mind" and which are thus projected
onto "things" and beings (including human beings). These "things" and
beings are
then regarded as having been "understood".
Thus, when the kuffar write or talk about Islam being an "ideology" -
or a particular "type" of ideology - or when they speak and write
about "radical" or "extremist" Muslims adhering to or propagating an
"extremist", radical or "fundamentalist" ideology, they are not only
making many assumptions, but also viewing our Deen, and Muslims,
according to their own limited, manufactured - and fallible - human and
Western perspective.
They further assume that this perspective of theirs - the assumptions
they make - are correct, and universal: a means (or the means) to "the
truth" and to genuine understanding and knowledge.
However, the kuffar have made two fundamental errors, here.
(1) The first error of the kuffar is that we who are Muslims accept
that our Deen,
the Way of Al-Islam, has been given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala:
that is, Deen Al-Islam, and Kallamu Allah, are not fallible,
human-manufactured constructs, and thus are different from all the
human manufactured constructs, ideas, beliefs, concepts, ways, which
the kuffar have constructed over thousands of years.
Thus, when the kuffar and their lackeys write and talk about such
things as "Islam as an
ideology", and about such things as "Islamic politics", they are implicitly or explicitly,
knowingly or out of ignorance, denying the very basis of Islam -
denying the very truths we Muslims accept: the truths that Islam is the
perfect complete Deen, given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala; that
the miraculous Quran is the literal Word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala ;
and that in the Prophet, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) we
have the perfect example to follow. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"The words of your Rabb are complete,
perfect - manifesting truth,
justice, and nothing shall ever abrogate them." 6:115 Interpretation of
Meaning
“This day I have perfected your Deen for
you and completed
My
Favour upon you and have chosen for you as your Deen, Al-Islam.”
5:3 Interpretation of Meaning
In essence, the difference is that we
accept that it is only correct to
believe in, to talk and write about, "perfection" in the context of
Quran and Sunnah:
in terms of what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has said is perfect, whereas
the kuffar talk about "perfection" in terms of an "idea" or in terms of
some ideal which they themselves have manufactured or which they
themselves believe, or assume, exists.
Thus, we accept that only Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is the giver of ilm
al-yaqin:
"They had no knowledge of such
things: only assumptions, and assumptions are no guide to
Truth." 53:28 Interpretation of Meaning
Thus, talking and writing about Muslims and Deen Al-Islam according to
the ideas, the terms, the concepts, of the kuffar is a rejection, a
denial, of our Deen because we are using fallible things, manufactured
and devised
by the kuffar in their ignorance and arrogance, to judge and interpret
ourselves, other Muslims, and to judge, interpret and to try and
"understand" our Deen. In effect, we are using the Tawagheet of the
kuffar in place of the guidance of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala: for each
and every idea, abstraction, and concept of the kuffar is a Taghut.
That is, it is used a means of judgement, of interpretation, of
understanding - instead of the perfect and complete guidance Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has
given us, in the Quran and Sunnah. [(2)]
Let us be quite clear about this. The kaffir idea, the kaffir concept,
of "ideology" is a Taghut, just as each and every kaffir "idea" itself
is a
Taghut, and just as
the "idea" of a nation-State is a Taghut.
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Their way is to refer matters to a
Taghut. " 4:60 Interpretation of Meaning
"Do not manufacture comparisons for Allah, for assuredly Allah
knows, while you do not." 16:74 Interpretation of
Meaning
"And all that they devised will be
removed from them" 10:30 Interpretation of Meaning
In the same way, we should not divide Islam - and Muslims - according
to the fallible manufactured criteria, the abstractions, of the kuffar,
and thus it is not correct for us to write and talk about "extremist
Muslims" who adhere to some "radical or fundamentalist ideology". Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Thus will they say on that day
they are cast into The Fire: 'If only we had obeyed Allah and His
Messenger! But - Our Rabb! - We obeyed our leaders and those who guided
us, and they sent us astray.' " 33: 66-7 Interpretation of Meaning
(2) The second error that the kuffar make is their arrogant belief that
their perception, their concepts, abstractions and theories, are
universal and not only apply to Deen Al-Islam but also mean that we
must use them in preference to the guidance given to us by Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Thus, according to them, we share the "same
values" - which values, of course, they have defined.
However, this is incorrect. We do not have the same values, the same
perspective, as the kuffar.
As Muslims, we view our life here, in the dunya, as but a prelude, a
means. We look toward Jannah and its rewards. That is, we understand
the meaning of the Hadith:
Abu Hurayra reported that Allah's
Messenger (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam)
said: "The dunya is but a prison for the believer and yet [seems]
Paradise for a kaffir." Muslim:
Book 42 (Kitab Al-Zuhd wa
Al-Raqa'iq) 7058
Hence, we are eager to escape from this prison - eager to reach
(InshaAllah) Jannah - just as we understand that the "peace" which the
kuffar write and talk about and which they make their goal (or claim to
make their goal) is not the peace which we desire and not the peace
which Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has told us about. Rather, the peace we know, we
have been informed about by Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, is the eternal, perfect, peace of Jannah and the
worldly peace that arises - which only arises - from a simple
submission
to only Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, from an acceptance of al-qada wa al-qadar,
for such a submission, such an acceptance, returns us to, and
expresses, our natural human nature, our fitrah, and thus makes real for us
the
simple truth of Tawheed, a truth which the Tawagheet of the kuffar -
which the ideas, abstractions and concepts of the kuffar - obscure,
distort and conceal.
Thus, our perspective, deriving from the truth we have accepted -
given to us by Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - is the perspective of Jannah, not the
perspective of the dunya: not the perspective of some Taghut which the
kuffar have manufactured and which they strive for (such as worldly
"peace" or "democracy" or the triumph of one nation-State over some
other nation-State by whatever means).
Furthermore, our values - manifest in Adab Al-Islam, in Shariah, and
revealed to us in Quran and Sunnah - are different from those of the
kuffar. We seek to please, to obey, Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - to follow the perfect example of the Prophet,
Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) - and do not seek to live
according to some "ethical theory" or some moral values which the
kuffar have manufactured or devised. If we need guidance on some matter
- on what to do, how to behave - we turn to Quran and Sunnah, to the
classical scholars of our Deen. We do not turn, for guidance, to some
kaffir "expert" or some "leader" who follows some fashionable or some
accepted theory,
be that theory classified as "ethical", "psychological", "political" or
"moral".
What the kuffar think, or say, or write or believe about what we do -
and why we do it - is irrelevant. What terms they apply, or might
apply, to describe us and our alleged "behaviour" is irrelevant, as are
the "explanations" they will give, have given, and may give, based as
such "explanations" are on some Taghut of theirs, on one or more of
their ideas, their theories, their concepts.
Thus, if it is correct for us, an obligation - according to Quran and
Sunnah - to undertake Jihad Fee Sabilillah against those who have
invaded and occupied our lands and those who support such invasions and
occupations, then that,
for us, is the right, the moral, thing to do, even if the kuffar in
their hypocrisy call us "enemy combatants" and imprison us for
contravening one of their many fallible human-manufactured laws. Thus,
if it is correct for us, an obligation - according to Quran and Sunnah
- to strive by Jihad Fee Sabilillah to establish a land or land where
we can make the Word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
supreme, where we can live as Muslims, ruled by Shariah alone, and
where the kuffar have no power or influence, then that for us, is the
right, the moral, thing to do, even if the kuffar
in their hypocrisy call us "enemy combatants" or "terrorists" and
imprison us for
contravening one of their many fallible human-manufactured laws.
To further understand the difference between us, let us consider the
example of Shariah, and especially Hudood.
According to the kuffar, Shariah is at best "outdated" (and in need of
modernization) and at worst, it is "barbaric" and "uncivilized". Thus
do the kuffar tell us that we should not kill apostates; we should not
stone to death someone convicted - in a Shariah Court - of adultery,
and should not cut off the hands of thieves. Instead, we should follow
their example and introduce fallible human-manufactured laws with
sentences derived according to Western jurisprudence. That is, they
direct us to ignore what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"If you believe in Allah and The Last
Day do not let pity deter
you from administering the punishments which Allah has ordained, and
let a group of those who believe witness such punishment." 24:2
Interpretation of Meaning
Yet again, what the kuffar think, or say, or write or believe about
Shariah is irrelevant. It is our duty to implement it; it is our belief
that it is right, and perfect - a guide, a gift, to us from Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. It is the kuffar who are wrong; who are in error.
It is the ways of the kuffar which do not work - which will never work
and never guide them toward the very purpose of their lives. Thus do we
present our Deen to them - but as it
is, as it always has been, as we understand it to be: complete,
perfect, the true guide to guide us, InshaAllah, to the perfect peace
of Jannah. If they accept - Alhamdulillah. If they reject -
Alhamdulillah. Thus do we do our duty, as Muslims striving to obey
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, Who says:
"Is Allah not sufficient for you? Yet
they
strive to frighten you by things inferior to Allah."
39:36 Interpretation of Meaning
Concerning Al wala wal Bara:
The kuffar have been adept - and sly and hypocritical, as usual - in
portraying those Muslims who oppose their goals and aims as
"extremists" who "preach hatred". Thus, almost every day the Media of
the West have some story about "the dangers of Islamic extremism" or
have some report about one of our brothers and sisters "preaching hate".
In addition, the kuffar have been very successful in getting many
Muslims to follow their lead and parrot their propaganda. Thus we have
the recent spectacle of a Muslim "politician" in Britain publicly
gloating
about how pleased he was that a brother was to extradited to Amerika to
be imprisoned and interrogated there: "This is excellent news...Those
who propagate
evil, hate and division cannot be a part of British society." Notice
how this ally of the kuffar speaks using the terms of the kuffar, and
how he seems to judge using the kaffir idea of "Britishness": that is,
using the Taghut of the nation-State.
To give another recent example, we have the Western Media awash with
stories
about a video found by Amerikan troops in Iraq which showed young
children holding weapons and dressed in military clothing, with the
kuffar saying and
writing how "disgusting" and "uncivilized" it is for Muslim children to
do such things and how, yet again, it shows the extremists and the
"preachers of hate at work". Yet, the kuffar - and the apologetic
"moderate Muslims" - conveniently forget about, for instance, the
Combined Cadet Force in certain schools in England, and the vast number
of Amerikan children who are instructed in the use of guns and who
regularly wear military-style clothing.
Thus, we see yet again how the kuffar set the agenda, and the terms and
conditions of debate, and argument, and how they have made us divided,
defensive and apologetic.
However, what the kuffar - and their tame apostate lackeys and
"moderate Muslim" allies - need to understand is that we should not be
ashamed or even afraid of, or be apologetic about, following the
correct and perfect guidance we have been by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
Thus, we need to affirm Al wala wal
Bara - to state and strive to follow this fundamental part
of our Deen.
For Al wala wal Bara is a manifestation of, and a means
to know, Tawheed - and it means
loyalty and enmity for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala alone.
To apply Al wala wal Bara is to show loyalty to Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala, loyalty to His Messenger (salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) and
loyalty to our brothers and sisters, our fellow Muslims. It is to
understand what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala says:
“The believers are as one
family.” 49:10
Interpretation of Meaning
To apply Al wala wal Bara is to show enmity for those
who hate, dislike or are disrespectful toward Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala, His Messenger (salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) and our family:
our brothers and sisters. As Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala says:
"You who believe! If anyone turns away
from this Deen, then
Allah will replace that person with many whom He loves, who love Him -
those who are loyal to the Believers,
stern toward the kuffar, who
fight in the Way of Allah, and who do not heed the criticism of their
critics. For this is the honour that He bestows upon whomsoever
He
wills - for Allah
is The All-Knowing, The Infinite One. In truth, your champions are
Allah, His Messenger, and the Believers - those who undertake As-Salat,
who give Zakat and who submit [in loyalty to Allah]. For whomsoever has
Allah, His Messenger, and Believers as their Champion, are the ones who
will achieve victory." 5: 54-56 Interpretation of Meaning
To apply Al wala wal Bara is apply the Muslim principle
of husn udh-dhan
to our family, and to be wary and suspicious of the kuffar and their
intentions: to doubt all that they say and write. As Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala says:
“They [the kafiroon] want to
extinguish Allah’s Light with their
deceit, their lies.” 9: 32 Interpretation of Meaning
Thus, when we hear about one of our brothers and sisters being
imprisoned - or being extradited to a kaffir land - we do not jump up
and down for joy and shout some kaffir-slogan or call that brother or
that sister by some kaffir-manufactured term. Instead, we make dua to
Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala to ease the sufferings, the hardship of that brother, that
sister - and of their families - and ask Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala - The Merciful, He Who Often Forgives - to guide them. For
that Muslim is
part of the Ummah - part of our own family - and their hardship, their
suffering, is our hardship, our suffering. Thus, instead of siding with
the kuffar - and believing what they or their Media tells us about one
of our brothers and sisters - we use our Muslim principle of husn
udh-dhan. We reserve our judgement, knowing, accepting, that Allah
Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala will judge both us and this particular brother or sister - and
that it is the judgement of Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala that matters, that is important, not the judgement that some
kaffir so-called "Court of Law" makes.
We should be, as Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala says (5: 54): "Loyal to the Believers, stern
toward the kuffar..." just as we should always remember that "The
believers are as one family."
We should feel the truth of what Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala says in our heart - and thus put into practice the words of the
Hadith, narrated by Anas Ibn Malik, La
yuminu ahadukum hatta
yuhibba li-akheehi ma yuhibbu li-nafsihi: words, guidance, which
we seem to have forgotten in the storm of propaganda which the kuffar
have unleashed upon us in their attempt to divide us, in their attempt
to
have us accept their Tawagheet in place of our perfect Deen.
Furthermore, it is the kuffar who are full of hatred - for the true
Deen, and for those who cannot be persuaded or bribed into exchanging
their loyalty to Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala for the Tawagheet, the promises, of those allies of as-Shaitan,
the kuffar. The hatred of the kuffar is evident in their invasion and
occupation of our lands; in their imprisonment of tens of thousands of
Muslims Muslims word-wide; in their torture and humiliation of our
brothers and sisters in places such as Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, Abu
Ghraib
and their many other "detention centres". Their hatred is evident in
their toleration of any kaffir who insults our Deen, who insults our
beloved Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and our brothers and
sisters, and in their kaffir
intolerance toward, and imprisonment of, any Muslim who even plans to
defend the honour of the Muslims or who publicly condemns such
dishonourable insults and who, out of loyalty and love to Allah
Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala,
seek to apply the obligation imposed by our Deen to those who have
arrogantly, insolently,
overstepped the limits prescribed by Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala.
Conclusion:
We need always to remember, InshaAllah, that we have been given, by
Allah Subhanahu
wa
Ta’ala, the complete and perfect Way: the complete and perfect guide we
need. We need always to remember that it is the kuffar who are wrong;
it is their ways, their ideas, their concepts, their theories, which
are Tawagheet - which conceal, which distort, which obscure, the simple
truth of Tawheed.
We need always to remember that is Deen Al-Islam which alone correctly
defines what is civilized; what is right; what is wrong; what is
honourable and lawful.
Thus do we need to reject each and every Taghut of the kuffar, as we
need to be wary of the kuffar and of their propaganda - of their
attempts to divide us according to some criteria which they have
manufactured and devised, such as "moderate", "extremist",
"terrorist", "preachers of hate and intolerance."
Thus do we need to challenge, to expose, the deceit, the hypocrisy,
the lies of the kuffar, the failures of their societies, as we need to
support, in
whatever way we can, those of our brothers and sisters who out of love
and loyalty to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and by Jihad Fee Sabilillah
are striving to make the Word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
supreme.
As Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta’ala says:
"And it is our forces who will be
victorious." 37: 173 Interpretation of Meaning
May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala protect us from all forms of Al-asabiyyah
Al-Jahiliyyah, forgive us for our mistakes, and guide us to and keep us
on the Right Path. Wa Allahu Allam.
Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt
7 Safar 1429
Notes:
(1) Meaning: lacking in wisdom;
ignorant; of no significance.
(2) There is a fundamental difference between an "idea" - a fallible,
manufactured, human construct or category which exists (or is believed
to exist) within "the mind" (or be detached - autonomous - and
"knowable" through Kantian "pure reason") - and between what is
directly
observed, by us, in the world, in Nature, and to which we assign or can
assign some name or some descriptive term.
The Taghut of "the idea" begins with Plato, with "ontos" as distinct
from phenomena. Thus began the error of Western causal reductionism:
that fundamental division - continued by Western philosophers such as
Kant - into "subject" and "object".
The approach of Islam is quite different. Islam begins with the unity
of Tawheed -
with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - and with a free and willing desire,
made out of love, to submit to only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala; to
accept Kalimaah Tayyibah: to
acknowledge Deen Al-Islam as the perfect, the complete, Deen.
Thus, for Muslims, instead of the kaffir Taghut of a linear causal
"progress" (defined according to some kaffir manufactured ideal said to
exist in the future, or said to be achievable in some future) there is al-qada
wa al-qadar: an acceptance, by us, of the perfect knowledge,
the perfect knowing, of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, Who alone is the
Creator,
Who alone knows all that was, is and will be, Who has recorded it all
in Al-Lawh Al-Mahfuz, and Who
has given us a brief life, in the dunya, that we might prove worthy of
Jannah.