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