A
Muslim for the Sake of the Disbelievers
In
the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
By:
Shaykh "Abu Nour"
(Copy pasted from a forum post)
I
recently received this email from a brother. Question:
"Aassalamualaikum
sheikh. i loved your works, enjoyed and learned from them. i do
desire to become one of the mujahideen but not as you describe. i
desire to become a mujahid in da’wah and learning and believe this
is the right path. I heard and read some of your views on what the
muslims should do and belive them not to be true. i think you should
review your works and when you find the true path, apologize about
your previous works. jihad cant be the right path because this is a
religion of peace and if we go around killing everyone, it would be
wrong for us to call this religion a religion of peace. what the
muslims should do is evacuate palistine and afghanistan and continue
with the da’wah and the rest is with ALLAH inshalah."
Answer:
Just
like there is a Muslim for the sake of Allah, there is a new
phenomenon of a Muslim for the sake of the disbelievers. And just
like the Muslim for the sake of Allah does everything thinking what
will Allah will think of me, the Muslim for the sake of the
disbelievers does everything thinking what the disbelievers would
think of him. So when a Muslim speaks out he does so to please Allah
and when our other Muslim does not speak out he does so in order to
please the disbelievers. When a Muslim fights he does so for the sake
of Allah and when this other Muslim does not fight -even though he
has every reason to do so- he does that in order not to displease the
disbelievers. Obviously this is not expressed as such but is packaged
in nice terms such as ‘this is not good for dawa’, or ‘this
would turn away the people from Islam’.
Allah
says: “It
is not your responsibility to guide people but it is Allah who guides
whomever He wills”
This
Muslim is obsessed with his image in front of the disbelievers. He is
so obsessed with it that it becomes his standard for wala and bara.
So he loves the Muslims who present the ‘good boy’ image to the
disbelievers and he despises the Muslims who give Muslims a ‘bad
name’.
Rasulullah
(saaws) says: One of you does not achieve full Imaan until he loves
for Allah, dislikes for Allah, gives for Allah and holds back for
Allah.
This
Muslim is so aggressive and intolerant with his fellow Muslims but is
tolerant and kind towards the disbelievers. He is an extremist with
Muslims and a moderate with disbelievers.
Whenever
the interests of the disbelievers are threatened or harmed by Muslims
he is the first to jump to their defense. He would speak against his
brothers and betray them. He may even advise Muslims to spy against
one another and report to the authorities. For him fighting for
Islam, and for the ummah is terrorism, but he manages to shop for a
fatwa that would allow him to serve in the armies of the disbelievers
and fight against his brothers. Being a Muslim for the sake of the
disbelievers permeates his every action. If he meets a Muslim he
frowns and if he meets a disbeliever his face beams with a
smile.
Infact
there are some Muslims who are so much Muslim for the sake of kuffar
that they do not even like Muslims who call the kuffar kuffar!
I
mentioned that this is a new phenomenon because this only came about
in these later times. The Muslims of the early times would care less
about the kuffar, and if they ever did it was for the sake of Allah
and not for their sake.
But
lets put things in proper perspective:
Allah
says about the disbelievers: “They
are like cattle, nay, they are even more misguided”
And
Rasulullah says about the believer: “Tearing
down al Kaaba stone by stone is less than shedding the blood of a
Muslim”
