This post is not about questioning the sincerity or genuine concern being expressed by Muslims (and non Muslims joining them) about Palestine in the form of protests, boycotts or petitions. This is about whether we're addressing this crisis through obedience to Allah (swt) or heedlessness.
And Allah had certainly fulfilled His promise to you when you were killing the enemy by His permission until [the time] when you lost courage and fell to disputing about the order [given by the Prophet] and disobeyed after He had shown you that which you love. Among you are some who desire this world, and among you are some who desire the Hereafter. Then he turned you back from them [defeated] that He might test you. And He has already forgiven you, and Allah is the possessor of bounty for the believers. (TMQ 3:152)
The questions I'm asking are:
- Have Muslims dived so far down the liberal lizard hole that the commands and prohibitions of Allah ta'ala are not part of the conversation about how to address this crisis? Not even in private company? Where terminology such as 'jihad' is limited to the nafs, where shariah is absent from siyasa (politics), where our victory through the help of Allah ta'ala via our obedience to Him is not even considered as a viable option?
- Do Muslims only think of the likes of Salahuddin and Zengi as historical legends, when they should be viewing them as role models and see their actions as a blueprint for what we should be seeking in our leaders, instead of the pathetic taghout rulers who at most pay lip service like Erdogan whilst supplying israel with the very fuel and foods that Palestine is being starved of?
- Do Muslims really think it's appropriate to look up to scholars who call for obedience to these taghout rulers who only ever turn their weapons on Muslims? Who sit and have cosy dinners with open Zionists and accuse the niyyah (intentions) of anyone who questions this? All this whilst Allah's enemies call openly for our mass slaughter, genocide on the same social media channels that are censoring us? Meanwhile such scholars police their language meticulously in the hope of seeking acceptance from the enemies of Allah (swt) so that they aren't banned from western nations and can be used as an opiate of the masses to promote naval gazing as a virtue even though our Nabi (saw) warned us in this sahih hadith:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
I heard the Messenger of Allah, (ﷺ) say: When you enter into the inah transaction, hold the tails of oxen, are pleased with agriculture, and give up conducting jihad (struggle in the way of Allah). Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you return to your original religion. Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud 3462
- Do Muslims genuinely think that responding to this crisis using the terminology, values and methods of the kufaar is something through which Allah ta'ala will grant us victory or (if not victory) even some semblance of security or long term stability in the region? I mean behaviours like: writing protest letters/petitions to the same western governments that established this cancerous entity in the hope of triggering their conscience or appealing to their hypocritical values of human rights, accepting the leadership of taghout rulers in the Muslim lands who are actively pursuing normalisation with the usurping entity and protecting it by literally holding back crowds of Jordanian volunteers insisting on coming to the aid of our Palestinian brothers and sisters
Last but not least:
- Have Muslims become so defeatist as to have forgotten that destroying the enemies of Allah is not difficult for Allah (swt)? Allah sent ababeel to destroy the elephant army that came to destroy the Kaaba. Allah protected Ibrahim (as) by making a fire cool when his whole society and even his father tried to kill him. Allah ta'ala does not need our help to liberate Palestine- but why would Allah ta'ala WANT to aid a global Muslim community that is turning for answers towards the golden calf of kufr values, of secularism, of contenting itself with the lip service of taghout rulers whose actions violate His laws, of placing 'humanity' as a yardstick for right and wrong instead of halal and haram?
Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. (TMQ excerpt of Surah Rad verse 11)
Do you think our condition will change by putting our "faith" (literally) in the humanity and values of the nations that destroyed the very Khilafah that shielded Palestine from such calamities as the Nakba in the first place? Joe Biden once said "If 'israel' didn't exist, we'd have to invent it", meaning if it wasn't already here, he'd invest US military aid and resources towards making it happen, and the opposition parties in the West are no better. Have you forgotten how the western nations collaborated to disarm Bosnian Muslims whilst Serbs remained armed, leading to the mass rapes and mass murders of thousands of Srebrenican Muslims, because, as the then French President Francois Mitterand admitted, he "did not want to see the rise of a Muslim nation in Europe" and the then US President watched these massacres live on TV? You want to appeal to THEIR humanity? Knowing full well their history of slavery, colonialism to the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq and the assassinations of heads of state that stood up to them- you really think writing to your Senator or Congressmen/women of the nations ideologically opposed to us will change/improve our condition? All this, even though Allah (swt) told us in Surah Hud v113:
And incline not toward those who do wrong, lest the Fire should touch you, and you have no protectors other than Allah, nor you would then be helped.
Don't assume that only the Palestinians are being tested through their hardships. WE are being tested through our relative ease, WE are being tested with censorship, legal threats and massive societal pressures to avoid using demonised words like shariah, jihad, khilafah whilst being pushed to discuss this whole crisis as if we are secular atheists begging for some semblance of human rights and dignity. Is that really the best we can do?
