What is Wrong with the Ummah?
How many Muslims have the authorities in Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Muslim world, handed-over to the Amerikans in clear defiance of Quran and Sunnah? One? Six hundred? A thousand? The numbers are irrelevant. What matters is that those Muslims who have done such things - as well as those who have aided and abetted them or stood idly by without going to the defence of their brothers and sisters - have shown themselves for what they really are: allies and agents of the kuffar. People who fear the kuffar more than they fear Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. People who have dishonoured their brothers and sisters, and thus who have dishonoured themselves.
"Whoever protects the honour of his brother, Allah will protect his face from hell on the Day of Judgment." (Ahmad and Tirmidhi).
"Aiding the Non-Muslims over Muslims - no matter which form of aid or co-operation it be, even if it is merely in speech - this is clear Kufr and sheer hypocrisy. The one who does this has perpetrated one of the actions which negates Islam, as has been specifically stated by the Imams of the Dawah and others, and such a person is not a believer in the aqeeda of al-Wala and al-Bara (being a patron of someone or disassociating solely for Allah)." Sheikh Safar bin 'Abdir-Rahmaan al-Hawaali
Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr: The Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said, "A Muslim is a person who avoids harming Muslims with his words or his hands. And a Muhajir [an emigrant] is the one who abandons all that Allah has forbidden." Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 76, Number 491
Our allegiance, as Muslims, can only be to those people - such as an Ameer - or those organizationss whose base is Islam and Islam alone. We cannot and should not make any pledge of allegiance to any kuffar organization, group, or State just as we cannot and should not rely on anyone or anything other than Allah (SWT) alone. We cannot, as Muslims, make friends with and aid, the kuffar when the kuffar have invaded our lands, have captured and humiliated Mujahideen and are waging a war against our brothers and sisters.
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 kindred..." [ 58:22 Interpretation of the meaning]
What is the matter with the Ummah? What is the matter with Muslims today? Our duty, as Muslims, is clear: we must stand against the kuffar who have invaded our lands; we must fight them to regain our lands; we must not ally ourselves with them; and we must not hand-over to them any Muslims, whatever those Muslims are alleged to have done or even may have done.
Are we to continue to allow ourselves to be humiliated? Are we to continue to allow someone as insolent as Bush to gloat over the capture of one more Muslim? Are we to allow the governments of places like Pakistan to continue to aid the kuffar? Are we going to allow the kuffar to invade yet another Muslim land, and still make excuses for our failure, as an Ummah, to respond as Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala commands us to respond?
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"And what is wrong with you that you do not fight in the Cause of Allaah, and for those weak, illtreated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our Lord! 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." [ 4: 75 Interpretation of Meaning.]
"It has been made clear that if the Kuffar infringe upon a hand's span of Muslim land, Jihad becomes Fard Ayn for its people and for those near by. If they fail to repel the Kuffar due to lack of resources or due to indolence, then the Fara'id of Jihad spreads to those behind, and carries on spreading in this process, until the Jihad is Fard Ayn upon the whole earth from the East to the West." Sheikh Abdullah Azzam (Shaheed): In Defense of Muslim Lands.
How many more Muslims have to be killed in Palestine, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Kashmir, in Chechnya? How many more Muslims have the kuffar to capture and torture and imprison?
Are we going to continue to ignore our clear Islamic duty? Or are we going to say, finally - like Sheikh ul-Mujahideen Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin (hafidhahullah) - that enough is enough, and that somethingg has to done to curb the insolent arrogance of the kuffar who have set themselves up, in their haughtiness, in their arrogant bullying, as rivals to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala?
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says:
"And there shall be no blame for those who take revenge after they have suffered injustice. The way (of blame) is only for those rebellious ones who oppress others and who insolently walk on the earth: for these there will be a painful torment indeed." (42: 41-42 Interpretation of Meaning).
"If an injury has been inflicted on you, make certain that a similar injury has been inflicted, by you, on the disbelievers: there are good days, and bad days, which We give to each side in turn for thereby We know those who believe and choose from among them witnesses (to the Truth)." [ 3:140 Interpretation of Meaning]
"Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the hearts of a believing people." (9:14 interpretation of Meaning)
May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala forgive us for our mistakes and may He guide us to and keep us on the Right Path.
Allah (Subhanahu wa Ta'ala) knows best.
Abdul Aziz