All Praise and All Thanks are for Allah (SWT) to whom we shall all return to be judged on The Last Day.

We praise Him and ask Him for help and forgiveness; and ask His protection from the mischief of our souls and the bad results of our deeds; whomsoever Allah guides, none can misguide; and whom He declares misguided, none can guide to the right path; and I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah: He is Alone, without partner. And I bear witness that Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) is the Messenger and Servant of Allah (SWT).

I am astonished. The Americans, and their allies, destroy an Islamic government, and install a pro-Western government in Afghanistan. The apostate allies of the Americans capture, then humiliate, hundreds of captured Mujahideen and - in clear violation of the Shariah, hand them over to the infidel Americans who shackle them, inject them with drugs, and forcibly shave off their beards.

The Americans transport these captives to cages in Cuba, and arrogantly publish photographs of Mujahideen being humiliated.

The Americans continue to bomb Afghanistan - killing well over four thousand Muslim civilians in less than four months - as they continue to supply weapons, money and moral support to the Zionist occupiers in Palestine, resulting in the deaths of hundreds more Muslims in Palestine.

The Americans then openly boast about planning to bomb the Muslims of Iraq, Somalia and elsewhere, and launch a series of raids across America to search Muslim organizations, and interrogate Muslims.

Meanwhile, the American government hands lists of Muslims they want arrested, detained, questioned, to other governments, world-wide, and these governments oblige by arresting, detaining, interrogating hundreds upon hundreds of Muslims.
 

And the reaction of the Ummah?

There is hardly any reaction, save for the many who parrot the propaganda of the infidels about the need to "fight terrorism" and the many who drone on and on about Islam being  "a peaceful religion". Not to mention, of course, the subservience of every single so-called Muslim government and leader to the Americans.

The humiliation of the Muslims seems almost complete. Another day, and more Muslims humiliated by infidels; more Muslims killed by infidel bombs, guns and missiles;  more Muslims arrested and detained and held in infidel prisons; more Muslim hypocrites and apostates writing and speaking about the need to "modernize Islam" and "fight the extremists".
 

The Way of Al-Islam:
 

 
Abu Huraira reported that the Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:
"A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim; he does not oppress him, and neither does he disgrace him nor hold him in contempt."

"The Jews and Christians will never be satisfied with you until you follow their way of life." [al-Baqarah (2): 120  Interpretation of
Meaning]
 

"And [they] themselves were the witnesses of what they did to the believers. They had naught against them save that those ones believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Owner of Praise: He to Whom belongs the Mastery of the heavens and this Earth; and Allah is the Witness of all things.

Thus they who persecute believing men and believing women and who do not repent will have the doom of hell, and the doom of burning. And they who believe and do what has been commanded, will be in those Gardens underneath which rivers flow. That is the greatest achievement of all." [85: 7-11  Interpretation of Meaning]
 

"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
 

"It is prohibited to hand over a Muslim prisoner of war to non-Muslims as this involves casting off a Muslim and subjecting him to the control of a non-Muslim; such act typically represents letting a Muslim down."

"Shari`ah stipulates that it is not permissible to hand over a Muslim captive to a non-Muslim authority. This is the meaning of the Hadith of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that reads: "A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He does not oppress him, nor let him down nor even look down upon him. In addition, handing over Muslim captive to non-Muslims is a form of disdaining a Muslim and a sacrilegious act to his blood." Dr. Anwar Dabbour, professor of Islamic Shari`ah at Cairo University.

"You who believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are allies of each other. If any of you takes them as allies, then he is one of them. Indeed Allâh does not guide the wrongdoers." (Al-Mâ'idah:51 Interpretation of Meaning)

"And whosoever does not judge by what Allâh has revealed, such are the Kâfirûn." [5:44 Interpretation of Meaning]

"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..."  [al-Mujadlilah 58:22 interpretation of the meaning]

In a hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad and Abu Dawud,  on the authority of Thawban it is reported that the Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:  "A time will come when the nations (of the world) will surround you from every side, just as people gather around the main dish when eating.  Somebody asked, 'Oh Messenger of Allah, will it be on account of our scarcity at that time?' He said, 'No, but you will be scum, like the scum of flood water.  Feebleness will be placed in your hearts, and fear will be removed from the hearts of your enemies, on  account of your love for the world, and your abhorrence of death.'
 

"Whoever aids an oppressor or taught him an argument to nullify the right of an ordinary Muslim, has drawn upon himself the anger of Allah".  'Abdullah ibn Mas'ood

In Praise of Jihad:

The correct, the Islamic, way to deal with the humiliation we have suffered and are suffering at the hands of the infidels - the correct way to deal with those who are killing and have killed our Muslim brothers and sisters and who have invaded our lands and supported those who oppress us - is Jihad. And by Jihad I mean fighting: for al-Jihaad is al-Qitaal.

Such Jihad is now an obligation, a duty, for us.
 

" The first obligation after Iman is the repulsion of the enemy aggressor who assaults our Way of Life and interferes in our affairs". Ibn Tayymia.
 

"Say to those of the dwellers of the desert who held themselves back: You shall soon be invited (to fight) against a people who are extremely arrogant; you will fight against them until they submit. And if you obey (in this), Allah will grant you an excellent reward, while if you turn away (from this) as you turned away before, He will punish you  with a painful punishment." [48: 16 Interpretation of Meaning]

"You who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you a hardness; and know that Allah is with those who are Al-Muttaqun." [ 9: 123 Interpretation of Meaning]
 

"Let those who would trade the life of this world for the life Hereafter fight in the Cause of Allah. And those who do fight in the Cause of Allah - whether they be killed or are victorious - will have bestowed on them, by Us, a great reward." [4: 74 Interpretation of Meaning.]

"And what is wrong with you that you fight not 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."

Allah's Messenger said, "If anyone meets Allah with no mark of Jihad, he will meet Allah with a flaw in him."  [Al-Tirmidhi #3835, Narrated AbuHurayrah]

"Let those who would trade the life of this world for the life Hereafter fight in the Cause of Allah. And those who do fight in the Cause of Allah - whether they be killed or are victorious - will have bestowed on them, by Us, a great reward." [4: 74 Interpretation of Meaning.]

"Make ready against them all you can of powerful things, including weapons of war, to threaten the enemy of Allah who is your enemy..... [ 8: 60 Interpretation of Meaning]

Hazrat Abu Huraira (RadhiAllahu 'anhu) said: "Safeguarding the Muslim borders in the path of Allah (Jihad) is more beloved to me than my worshipping Allah in the night of Qadr in front of Hajera Aswad (the black stone in the corner of the Kaabah)."

"March forth, whether you are light (healthy, young and wealthy) or heavy  (ill, old and poor), strive hard with your wealth and your lives in the Cause of Allah. For this is the best thing for you, if you only knew." [ 9 41 Interpretation of Meaning].

"Those who believe in Allah and the Last Day would not ask for permission to be exempted from fighting with their wealth and their lives, since they know that Allah knows all who are Al-Muttaqun. It is only those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, and in whose hearts is doubt, that would ask for such an exemption. For they in their doubt waver."  [9: 44-45 Interpretation of Meaning.]
 

"It is not you who kills them: rather, it is Allah who kills them.  You did not shoot (anything) when you aimed and let go: rather, it was Allah who shot as a test for the believers, a fair test from the One Who Hears all, Who understands all. This, in truth, is how things are: for it is Allah alone who can nullify the plots of the disbelievers." [ 8: 15-18 Interpretation of Meaning.]
 
 
 
 

Abdul Aziz