THE MUSLIM RESPONSE TO THE ATTACK ON
ISLAM
The
ultimate Muslim response to the ‘attack on America’, an attack which has been cynically
exploited to savagely attack Islam and Muslims while hiding behind the
curtain of ‘terrorism’, is to rededicate themselves to remain faithful to Allah
Most High and his Messenger regardless of the price they may have to pay for
doing so!
They
do so when they devote their lives to preparing for that armed struggle
through which the Holy Land will be liberated and Islam will reemerge
triumphant in the world. This is what
the Qur’an has to say about that armed struggle.
It
was the second Shaban in Madina when Allah subhanahu wa t’alah
sent down the revelation concerning Qital (fighting). The British Prime
Minister, the American President and the Israeli Prime Minister may have
difficulty in digesting the following verses of the Qur’an. But in the
context of the British/American/Israeli attack on Muslims we must redirect the
attention of all Muslims to what Allah Most High has said concerning fighting.
1. He
has made it obligatory. It is Shirk for a government, or for the United
Nations, to outlaw that which Allah has commanded. It is also Shirk for anyone to accept
as illegal that which Allah has commanded:
“Fighting is prescribed upon
you although you dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing that
has benefit for you, and that you desire a thing (not having to fight) that is
evil for you. And it is Allah (and not the godless Euro-Jews and
Euro-Christians who now control the world) Who truly knows (what is beneficial
and what is harmful for you) and you know not.”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:216)
2. The
Muslim must fight to defend himself when he is attacked:
“Fight in the cause of Allah
those who fight you (the godless Euro-Jews and Euro-Christians who now control
the world are doing precisely that), but do not transgress limits; for Allah
loves not transgressors.”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:190)
3.
Fighting is supposed to result in the establishment of a world free from oppression
and injustice, and such is possible only when Allah's Din (i.e., Islam)
is established on earth:
“And fight them on until there is no more
tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they
cease (fighting you) let there be no hostility except to those who practice
oppression.”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:193)
4. Allah
has made it obligatory for Muslims to fight to liberate those of the oppressed
who are themselves crying out for help and for liberation from oppression:
“And why should ye not fight
in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and
oppressed)? Men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our Lord! Rescue us
from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from Thee one who
will protect (us); and raise for us from Thee one who will help (us)!”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:75)
[There
is no town on the face of the earth today in which there is more oppression than
Jerusalem.]
Allah
Most High goes on to recall the Jewish reluctance to fight. He then warns of the dire consequences of
such reluctance:
“Hast thou not turned thy vision to those who were told to hold
back their hands (from fight) but establish regular prayers and spend in
regular Charity? When (at length) the order for fighting was issued to them,
behold! a section of them feared men as, or even more than, they should have
feared Allah; they said: Our Lord! Why hast Thou ordered us to fight? Wouldst
Thou not grant us respite to our (natural) term, near (enough)? Say: Short is
the enjoyment of this world: the Hereafter is the best for those who do right;
never will ye be dealt with unjustly in the very least!”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:77)
5. A
Muslim is not allowed to fight other than under the command of a Muslim and
other than in accordance with Allah’s law as it pertains to fighting. Those who fight under any other command or
law would be fighting under an evil command:
“Those who believe fight in
the cause of Allah, and those who reject Faith fight in the cause of Evil: so
fight ye against the friends of Satan: feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:76)
6. Nor
should a Muslim refrain from fighting because of fear of death:
"Wherever
ye are, death will find you out, even if ye are in towers built up strong and high!
If some good befalls them, they say:
This is from Allah; but if evil, they say: This is from thee (O
Prophet)! Say: All things are from Allah! But what hath come to these people, that they
fail to understand a single fact?”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:78)
7. The
disbelievers are going to fight the believers with terrible rage and fury. A respite will come from Allah if the
believers rouse themselves to take steps to respond to the disbelievers:
“Then fight in Allah’s
cause, thou art held responsible only for thyself, and rouse the Believers. It
may be that Allah will restrain the fury of the Unbelievers; for Allah is the
strongest in might and in punishment.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:84)
8. The
best Muslims are those who rouse themselves and fight in Allah’s way. They are
decidedly superior to those who ‘sit at home’:
“Not equal are those
Believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight
in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a
grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to
those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) hath Allah promised good: but
those who strive and fight hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home)
by a special reward.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:95)
9. There
will be some who will offer as an excuse for their non-participation in fighting
the plea that they were helpless in this matter. For example they would argue that they lived
under governments that did not allow them to fight in Allah’s cause. But such excuses would not save such Muslims
from the hell- fire since they would be asked: ‘Was Allah’s earth not wide
enough that they could have migrated to another place in which they would have
had the freedom to fight?’:
"When angels take the
souls of those who die in sin against their souls, they say: In what (plight) were ye? They reply:
Weak and oppressed were we in the earth.
They say: Was not the earth of
Allah spacious enough for you to move yourselves away (from evil)? Such men will find their abode in Hell, what
an evil refuge!
Except those who are
(really) weak and oppressed, men, women, and children who have no means in
their power, nor (a guide-post) to direct their way.
For these, there is hope
that Allah will forgive: for Allah doth blot out (sins) and forgive again and
again.
He who forsakes his home in the cause of
Allah, finds in the earth many a refuge, wide and spacious: should he die as a
refugee from home for Allah and His Messenger, his reward becomes due and sure
with Allah: and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
(Quran: al-Nisa : -4:97-100)
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