Bismillah Ar-Rahman
Ar-Raheem
Honour is From Allah Alone
"Do not follow, nor believe, anyone except those
who
adhere to your Deen." 3:73 Interpretation of Meaning
We should be unashamedly open and honest about the fact that we who
seek to obey only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala - who seek to follow the
perfect example of the Prophet, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa
sallam) - are the declared enemies of kufr and of the kuffar who have
invaded our lands, and who have interfered in our affairs.
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"The kuffar are your declared enemy." ” 4: 101
Interpretation of Meaning
"Haqq has been distinguished from Baatil - and those who
renounce and
denounce Taghut and then believe in Allah have grasped that trustworthy
hand-hold that never breaks." 2:256 Interpretation of Meaning
"You are the best of people among all
peoples, for you
command
Al-Maruf and forbid Al-Munkar, and you submit [in belief] to Allah." 3:
110 Interpretation of Meaning
We do not, and should not, seek some kind of compromise with or
tolerance of kufr, as we should not seek some kind of compromise with
the kuffar while they occupy our land, imprison and torture and
brothers and sisters, and interfere in our affairs. We do not, and
should
not, seek to be tolerant of their occupation of our land, of their
imprisonment of our brothers and sisters who are only seeking to do
their duty of Jihad Fee Sabilillah, as Muslims. For we have a clear
duty, given to us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala:
"And what is wrong with you that you do not fight in the
Cause of
Allah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women,
and children, whose cry is: 'Ya Rabb! Rescue us from this place whose
people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect,
and raise for us from You one who will help." Those who sincerely
believe fight
in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of
Taghut. So fight against the allies of As-Shaitan." 4: 75 - 76
Interpretation of Meaning
"If anyone attacks you, then
retaliate and attack
them in the way that
they have attacked you." 2: 194 Interpretation of Meaning
"To counter them, use whatever force
[quwah] you can, including
steeds of combat, that you might strike great fear into the enemies of
Allah who are your enemies." 8:60 Interpretation of Meaning
The kuffar believe they are being very clever - and indeed they are:
but clever like as-Shaitan. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"As-Shaitan is an enemy to you; so accept that he is your
enemy.” 35: 5 Interpretation of Meaning
The kuffar - with their kufr, with their slyness, their deceit, their
cunning cleverness, their hypocrisy - are the clear allies of
As-Shaitan, and they know they cannot, in a straight and fair fight,
defeat, Alhamdulillah, the
Mujahideen who have resisted and who are resisting the kaffir
occupation of
our lands. So the cunning kuffar are using their old colonial strategy
of
divide and
conquer, of dividing us among ourselves.
For the kuffar fear us having a land or lands of our own where we are
free from their control and influence and where we are free of their
Tawagheet. Thus do they desire to keep their control of our lands, and
to have us, as Muslims, be obedient servants of theirs, and imitate
their kaffir way of life, their kaffir values, which kaffir ways and
which kaffir values include the "democracy" they have
manufactured in their ignorance, the Tagut of
nation-states (with borders set by themselves), the Taghut of
nationalism, and the
observance of what they call international law, which law they have
manufactured in direct pursuit of their goals. Their goals are to
maintain
their domination, their world wide hegemony, and to establish their
fallible human-manufactured laws as the laws by which people, including
all Muslims, must live,
on pain of death or imprisonment or of "re-education".
The most sly deceitful kaffir tactic of the clever kaffir strategy of
these kaffir allies of as-Shaitan is to
loudly proclaim that they are not
fighting Islam, but only "extremism".
Thus, one of their aims is to recruit
tame Muslims - or, in the language of kaffir-speak, to recruit
"moderate Muslims" to their cause of "democracy".
The Muslims so recruited are then encouraged and expected to proclaim
that what the kuffar call "moderate Islam" is "the true Islam",
although this so-called "moderate Islam" has been manufactured for the
most part by the kuffar themselves and by their allies among the
Muslims. In addition, these kaffir-recruited Muslims are
encouraged and expected to proclaim
that
Muslims who do not accept this "moderate Islam" are not only
"extremists" but "deviants" and thus followers of a "deviant, extremist
ideology". These "moderate" Muslims, especially those living in
the lands of the West, also openly side with the kuffar against
their Muslim brothers and sisters, accepting that what they call
"extremist" and/or "deviant" Muslims can and should be punished by the
kuffar according to the laws of the kuffar, and that it is perfectly
acceptable to spy on these "extremists", inform on them to the
kaffir authorities, and to denounce them in public, with the only too
eager help of the
kaffir Media.
Some of these "moderate" Muslims go even further, and actively aid and
ally themselves with the military forces of the kuffar in the lands of
the Muslims, and help the kuffar to kill, torture and imprison their
own brothers and sisters.
Perhaps these "moderate" Muslims have forgotten - or do not even know -
what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has said:
"The believers are as one family."
49:10 Interpretation of
Meaning
Thus, we Muslims are commanded to act as a family: the suffering of one
of our brothers and sisters is our suffering. The humiliation of one of
our brothers and sisters is our humiliation. As it says in a Hadith
narrated by Anas ibn Malik: La
yuminu ahadukum hatta yuhibba li-akheehi ma yuhibbu li-nafsihi. But:
Do
we desire to be imprisoned for years in the jails of the kuffar? Do we
desire to be tortured like thousands upon thousands of our brothers
and sisters at Bagram, at Guantanamo Bay, at Abu Ghraib and the
hundreds
of secret "rendition centres" around the world? Do we desire to be
humiliated by having the boot of kaffir soldiers on our necks?
Yet, astonishingly, it seems that many Muslims do not feel - or even
relate to - the pain, the anguish, the suffering, the humiliation of
their brothers and sisters. Astonishingly, many find it acceptable to
side with the kuffar who inflict this pain, anguish, suffering, and
humiliation and dishonour on our family, on our brothers and sisters.
Thus, astonishingly, do these Muslim allies of the kuffar - when some
of
our young (or
not so young) brothers and sisters, justly angry at the kuffar, seek to
do their duty of Jihad Fee Sabilillah - inform on, or give
testimony against or publicly denounce, these young (or not so young)
brothers and sisters of ours whose sincere and noble desire is to
restore our Muslim honour (izzah),
our dignity, which honour and which dignity are gifts to us from Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone, and which we can never, ever, obtain from
the kuffar or by submitting to the demands of the kuffar or by admiring
or following the kuffar and their kaffir ways of Jahiliyyah.
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
"Obey, follow and give allegiance only to that brought to
you from your
Sustainer, and do not obey, nor follow nor give allegiance to those who
are
Awliya besides Him." 7:3 Interpretation of Meaning
"Say, to the Kuffar: I do not adhere to what you adhere to,
as I do not and will not bow down to what you do." 109: 1-3
Interpretation of Meaning
So, why do so many Muslims tolerate the presence of the arrogant,
hypocritical, ignorant kuffar in our lands - in Afghanistan, in
Filistine, in the Land of the Two Rivers, and elsewhere? Do they fear
the kuffar more than they fear Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala? Do they
admire the ways of the kuffar more than they admire the Deen given to
us by Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala? Do they seek to follow their own
desires more than they seek to submit to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala? Or
is that they no longer feel in their hearts the meaning of La
yuminu ahadukum hatta yuhibba li-akheehi ma yuhibbu li-nafsihi?
Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala says:
"Had it been to their advantage and only for a short while,
they might
have done as you asked, but a long hard struggle is too much for them
so that they make an oath to Allah, saying: 'If we were able, we would
have done so.' But all they have done is harmed themselves, for Allah
knows them for the liars that they are." 9: 42 Interpretation of
Meaning
We need to distance ourselves from the kuffar and their kufr, treating
the kuffar as the enemies they are: enemies of our Deen, and enemies of
all the Muslims. Their way of kufr is not our way. Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala says:
"Let there rise among you a group Calling others to Islam,
enjoining others to Al-Maruf and forbidding Al-Munkar: for these are
the ones who will achieve success (Jannah)." 3:104 Interpretation of
Meaning
"When
they [the deniers] seek compromise, they only desire
you to compromise." 68: 9 Interpretation of Meaning
"Therefore be honourable: let (this) Deen be your aim, the
fitrah
given by Allah. What Allah creates, nothing, and no-one, can change.
And this is the correct, the perfect, Deen, although many remain in
ignorance of this." 30:30 Interpretation of Meaning
Let us remember the wonderful, inspiring, story of Umar ibn al-Khattab
- al-Faruq - (Radiallahu Anhu) during the times of Muslim oppression,
when many
Muslims, fearing the kuffar, feared to proclaim themselves
Muslim. Umar (Radiallahu Anhu) asked
the Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam): "Is it not true that we
are upon the Right Path and the
Kuffar are not?" to which the Prophet
(salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) replied “Yes”. Umar then asked: "So
why are we hiding?” The Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam)
then said to
him: "What would you do?", to which Umar immediately replied, “Go
around around both Makkah
and the Kabba shouting Allahu Akbar!" Which is exactly
what
they did.
We need to re-awaken in the Ummah - among our brothers and sisters -
the desire for positive deeds which aid our brothers and sisters,
which define and manifest our honour, and which destroy the influence
and the power of the kuffar in our
lands and elsewhere, certain in the knowledge that, if in so acting
(and as long as we not transgress certain limits set by Allah) we make
mistakes, then Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala will forgive us these mistakes
of ours:
"If you do not transgress upon the strictly forbidden, We
shall ignore
your mistakes thus granting you an honourable admission [to the most
noble place of all]." 4:31 Interpretation of Meaning
That is, we place our trust in Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone, certain
in the knowledge that our Deen is perfect and complete, and correct,
that the way of the kuffar is wrong, and that it is our duty,
as Muslims, not only to defend our oppressed brothers and sisters, but
also to make the Word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala supreme. Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"Fighting is prescribed for you, even
though you may
dislike it. But it
is possible that you dislike that which is good for you, and that you
love that which is bad for you. Yet although you may not know, Allah
knows." 2:216 Interpretation of Meaning
"Fight
against those who do not believe in Allah, or in The Last Day, and who
do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger,
as well as those among the people of the book who do not acknowledge
the
Deen of Truth, and fight them until they pay the Jizya with willing
submission." 9:29 Interpretation of Meaning
As Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"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
Thus, with such a reliance on only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, we will
have regained our true perspective, as Muslims: the
perspective of obedience to only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, and the
perspective which makes our mortal life in this world a test:
"He [Allah] created life and death that He might put you to
the test and find out which of you acquitted himself best." 67: 1-2.
Interpretation of Meaning.
"Allah has promised to those who sincerely believe that if
they do
honourable deeds [in His name] then He will grant them victory and
authority, as He did for those before them, just as He will raise high
their Deen in triumph, thus exchanging their fear for safety and
security." 24:55 Interpretation of Meaning.
With this Muslim perspective, we can, with the aid of Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala - Wa la howla wala Quwatta Ilaa Billaah - foil the
sly deceitful strategy and tactics of the kuffar, restore our honour,
reclaim our lands, and make the Word of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
supreme.
Abdul-Aziz
26 Ramadan 1429