Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem
Tolerance, Hatred and Deen Al-Islam - A Question of Balance
Tolerance, and hatred, are both part of Deen Al-Islam, for Deen Al-Islam is the Way of honour - the way of natural balance. That
is, it is the true middle way where tolerance is seen as a virtue to be
cultivated: part of Abab Al-Islam, of the culture of Islam.
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"You should
strive toward forgiveness, seek what is honourable and distance
yourself from the ones of Jahiliyyah." 7:199 Interpretation of Meaning
"Be forgiving and generous, for would you not seek Allah's
forgiveness for yourself? For Allah is indeed The Most Merciful: He Who
Often Forgives." 24:22 Interpretation of Meaning
The wisdom of Deen Al-Islam - its humanity - is evident in the truth
that genuine tolerance, forgiveness and generosity of spirit is based
upon respect and is not unconditional. Thus, we are not expected to be
tolerant, for instance, of bullies: we are not expected to bow down
before them, to give in to them, just as we are not expected, as
Muslims, to tolerate what has been specifically forbidden by Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. The human thing to do when faced with a bully -
the noble, the honourable thing to do - is to fight: to stand up to the
bully or bullies even though they may be stronger than us, outnumber
us, and even though we might be injured or even killed if we do fight.
As Muslims, we strive to do the right thing, placing our trust solely
in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and remembering that, as Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala says:
"Every soul shall taste death. We shall try you in good
and bad ordeals, and to the Unity you shall return." 21:35
Interpretation of Meaning
"What your heart desires and your eyes delight in will be there in
that Garden of Paradise you can inherit through your deeds in your life
in this world." 43:71-72 Interpretation of Meaning
Yet, if we have the upper hand - if we fight, and win - we can, and
should be, inclined toward generosity, toward forgiveness and
forgetting, for this is the honourable, the noble, the Muslim, thing to
do, as many Ahadith make clear, such was the nobility of our beloved
Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam); a nobility so clearly evident
when he, having routed his enemies, re-entered Makkah after years of
fighting, following much abuse and many tribulations - for he forgave
his enemies, granting them amnesty.
However, he did make a few exceptions. That is, there were a few people
who had gone so far beyond the limits that their behaviour could not
excused. These included the female servants of Abd Allah ibn Khat'l who
were killed by order of the Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam)
[Refer to Ibn Taymiyyah: Al-Saarim al-Maslool.]
The Dishonour of the Kuffar:
The kuffar, in the abject arrogance, often talk and write about us, as
Muslims, "preaching hate and intolerance" while portraying themselves
as tolerant, civilized people, and while portraying the ways of the
West as "superior" to Deen Al-Islam. Thus do they castigate us for
getting annoyed, even angry, sometimes with them and their kaffir ways
- and demand that the "full force of the law" be used to silence us,
and/or imprison us. Many of the kuffar go further and demand that we be
"re-educated" until we accept their ways, or at the very least until we
accept the tame, "non-political", version of the so-called Islamic
religion which they and their apostate and "moderate" lackeys and
allies have manufactured for us - which manufactured religion does away
with practical Jihad and with Al-wala wal-bara: with our dislike (even
hatred) of kufr and our dislike (even hatred) of those who demean and
disrespect Deen Al-Islam and our beloved Prophet, Muhammad (salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam).
"The testimony of Shahadah, there is no god but Allah,
requires you to love only for the sake of Allah, to hate only for the
sake of Allah, to ally yourself only for the sake of Allah, to declare
enmity only for the sake of Allah; it requires you to love what Allah
loves and to hate what Allah hates." Ibn Tammaya, al-Ihtijaj bil-Qadar,
62
However, what the arrogant and hypocritical kuffar who make such
demands seem to have forgotten is that we have not invaded and occupied
their lands, nor killed hundreds of thousands of their people; nor
tortured and imprisoned tens upon tens of thousands of them, year after
year after year. For that is what they have done to us, for over a
century - interfered in our affairs; invaded and occupied our lands;
manufactured Taghut "nations" with borders determined by them (as in
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon); killed hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of
Muslims, through their invasions, occupations of our lands; and
tortured, humiliated and imprisoned thousands upon thousands upon
thousands of our brothers and sisters, year after year - from Algeria
to Al Shaams, and from Sheeshan to Afghanistan.
Let us also not forget that the West - through its own wars, civil
wars, occupations and invasions - has, in the last hundred years alone,
killed some 160 million people (many of them their own people). Let us
not forget how the West slaughtered 140,000 people in just one day and
then slaughtered another 74,000 people only a few days later on 29
Shaban 1364 AH (1945 CE) - or how they burnt at least 35,000 people to
death in Dresden, and how they refined their technique of dropping
bombs on people, so that now they can use "precision bombs" which only
kill a few dozen or so people (women and children included) at one
time, as they did at Sultanpur Mosque in Jalalabad when 17 were killed,
or at the village of Chowkar-Karez where 19 were killed, or at Charikar
where at least 30 died. Let us not forget that the new kaffir technique
of precision bombs and missiles killed an estimated 3,700
non-combatants in less than three months in Afghanistan in 1422 AH
(2001 CE). How many more Muslims have they killed there since then, and
during and since their invasion of Iraq? Ten thousand? Twenty thousand?
More?
Let us not forget the deceit, the lies, of the kuffar - who are the
most skilled at lies, deception and hypocrisy, like Shaitan. Let us
remember how the British treated thousands of people in Kenya during
their so-called Mau-Mau emergency - by beating them, and torturing
them, and then lied about this, for decade upon decade. Let us remember
how the Amerikans treated Muslims in Abu Ghraib, and how they lied
about it, and denied their torture until they could no longer deny the
truth and instead went into "damage limitation mode" by denying any
government involvement. Let us remember how the Amerikans denied, and
lied about, rendition flights, and covered them up. Let us remember how
they lied about the killing of Saif Ra'ad Ali Said al-Azawi in the
al-Slaikh neighbourhood of Baghdad, and how they lied about the killing
of Uday Ahmad Mustafa, also in Baghdad. Let us remember their lies
about dozens of similar killings, and their lies regarding their use of
phosphorus bombs in Fallujah. Let us remember how they lied about Iraqi
"weapons of mass destruction" as a pretext for their invasion of
another Muslim land.
Let us remember their quite recent imperialist words about dealing with Muslims and "natives":
"The Pentagon's doctrine for psychological operations
specifically contemplates actions to convey and (or) deny selected
information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their
emotions, motives, and objective reasoning. ... In various ways,
perception management combines truth projection, operations security,
cover, and deception, and psyops." (Taken from U.S. Defense
Department's Information Operations Roadmap, a document approved by
Donald Rumsfeld.)
Let us not forget the corruption, the lies, the "spin", the propaganda,
the deceit, the deception, that lies at the heart of every Western
government, and which Western politicians display again and again.
Deception, deceit, denial, media manipulation, lies, have become a way
of life for the governments of the West.
Thus, we are not dealing with honourable people here - we are dealing
with people who cannot be trusted; with bullies, who threaten,
manipulate, and who use force to get their own way. We are dealing with
Jahiloon - with the ones of Jahiliyyah.
What, then, are we to do when faced with such dishonourable, arrogant,
ignorant, bullies? We have tried, for decades, to deal with them in a
noble way - but they have shown themselves to have gone far beyond the
limits set by tolerance.
Dealing with the Kuffar:
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Allah does not forbid you from treating honourably those
who do not act against you because of your Deen, or who have not driven
you from your dwellings, for Allah loves those who act with honour. But
Allah forbids you from treating with respect, or befriending, those who
act against you because of your Deen, or have driven you from your
dwellings or aided others to do this - for those of you who do this are
without honour." 60: 8-9 Interpretation of Meaning
The kuffar have surely acted against us: they have invaded our lands;
they have imprisoned our brothers and sisters in their tens of
thousands. They have killed so many Muslims that no one knows the exact
figure. They have set up governments of occupation in our lands, and
apostate, lackey, governments which act in their name and according to
their kaffir agenda. They - and they apostate lackeys and allies - have
driven us, our brothers and sisters, from our homes, our dwellings. The
have acted against our Deen - and seek to change it, having
manufactured their own version which they insist we accept. Thus have
they acted, as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says, without honour.
Therefore we can neither befriend them, or treat them with respect - we
most certainly cannot ally ourselves with them, against our brothers
and sisters, as some Muslims have done.
Our dignity, our honour, derive from Deen Al-Islam, from Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone, for as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Those who seek dignity and honour should know that they derive from Allah (alone)." 35:10 Interpretation of Meaning
Our dignity, our honour, do not derive from the kuffar - from their
laws, from their way of life, from accepting them as friends, from
obeying them or allowing ourselves to be ruled over or commanded by
them. To accept these dishonourable people as friends, now: to have
them command us, to obey them, to respect them, is dishonourable.
Our duty as Muslims is clearly to distance ourselves from the ones of
Jahiliyyah, the ones who are intent on changing Deen Al-Islam. Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"The Jews and Nazarenes will never be satisfied with you
until they have changed your way of life." 2: 120 Interpretation of
Meaning
"They long for you to disbelieve even as they disbelieve, so that
you may be the same (as them) so do not choose friends from among them
until they accept the way of Allah." 4:89 Interpretation of Meaning
Certainly, our duty, as Muslims, is clearly not to join or support
their oppressive Institutions, and organizations, and Armed Forces and
Police, dedicated to their Tawagheet, to their idols of democracy and
divisive, separate, manufactured "nations", to their manufactured,
fallible laws, and to their fallible, ignorant, dishonourable, kaffir,
concepts of "peace" and "justice". To do such things is surely to
disobey Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and His Messenger (salla Allahu
'alayhi wa sallam) - for it is taking the dishonourable bullies, the
ones of Jahiliyyah, as friends and allies. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
says:
"You will not find any people who believe in Allah and the
Last Day, making friendship with and loving those who oppose Allah and
His Messenger (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam), even if they are their
fathers or their sons or their kin-folk..." 58:22 Interpretation of
Meaning
"Do not follow anyone except he who adheres to your Way of Life." 3:73 Interpretation of Meaning
Our duty is clear: be honourable, and so defend our brothers and
sisters from the bullies; undertake Jihad Fee Sabillah to reclaim our
lands, to exalt the Word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and establish the
rule of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and defend Deen Al-Islam by resisting
those who seek to imitate the kuffar and who seek to impose the false,
tame, so-called moderate "Islam" upon us.
As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Be loyal and do your duty to Allah; fear Him and always
speak with honour. He will direct you to do honourable deeds and will
forgive your mis-deeds. And whosoever obeys Allah and His Messenger
will achieve the greatest achievement of all." 33:70-71 Interpretation
of Meaning
"The believers are as one family." 49:10 Interpretation of Meaning
Let us be as the brave, honourable, human, Mujahideen have been before
us, generation after generation, so that tears flow from our eyes when
we remember the suffering of our brothers and sisters at the hands of
the kuffar and their lackeys. Tears flow from our eyes when we hear -
when we remember - the du'a of our brother held and tortured in the
torture camps of that lackey of the kuffar, Gul Agha:
"Allahumma! Ya Rabbi! Our one and only reason for coming
here was to exalt Your word, to fight against the people who are
killing the ones who say "La ilaaha illallaah". Allahumma! Make this
torture easy for us to bear. Allahumma! Do not let any of our brothers
or sisters taste [the bitterness of] this torture. Allahumma! We know
that gaining Jannah is not easy, but Ya Allah we are weak, we are weak!
Ya Rabbi azza wajal."
Hiya Maytatun Waahidah, Fal Takun Fee Sabelillah.
Abdul-Aziz