The Incitement of Islam: Al-wala wal-bara
One aspect of La ilaha il Allah, Muhammad-ur-Rasool-Allah is that we hate kufr
and those who hate or demean the Prophet, Muhammad (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa
sallam) in any way. Another aspect is that we love the Prophet, Muhammad (salla
Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) and strive to do what Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has
commanded that we do: that is, we strive to submit to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
alone. Indeed, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has commanded us to hate for His sake
and to love for His sake - to draw closer to what He loves and to distance
ourselves from what He hates.
Love, and hate, are both necessary - and part of being Muslim. Love is the basis
for wala just as hate is the basis for bara. As Muslims we are commanded to
fight the Disbelievers; we are commanded to fight to establish the Word of Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala on this Earth and to make our Deen, our Islamic Way of Life,
triumphant - to make our Way of Life entirely for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
Thus do we incite our brothers and sisters to action - to resist kufr, and
resist the kuffar who interfere in our affairs and who occupy our lands. Thus do
we incite our brothers and sisters to love and respect those, such as the
Mujahideen, who live only for Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
All these things we know, as Muslims, and accept. They are part of Islam, of our
Islam - of our submission to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. Yet the kuffar, in their
arrogance, in their hypocrisy, in their dishonourable insolence, are now
demanding that we abandon this fundamental duty of Islam - this duty to love for
the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and to hate, to show enmity, for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. The kuffar are even introducing new laws in their
lands, in Dar al-harb - and demanding their lackeys, their apostate allies in
once Muslim lands, introduce similar laws - to make Al-wala wal-bara illegal.
Thus do they intend to send us to their prisons for doing our honourable duty,
as Muslims. They are doing this - such is their arrogance, such is their
insolence - as part of their campaign, their strategy, to "secularize Islam", to
change our Way of Life, our Deen.
In this campaign, the kuffar have the enthusiastic help of tens upon tens of
thousands of apostates, and many more so-called "moderate" Muslims who are so
taken with kufr, with the idolatry of the kuffar, with the decadence, the
materialism, the ideas, of the kuffar, that they are intent on imitating the
kuffar, in clear defiance of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
"If you obey the Kafiroon, they will turn you away from your Way of Life and
your own life will be a failure.� 3: 149 Interpretation of Meaning
The kuffar are doing such things because they want to weaken us - because they
want to control us. If we love for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and
hate, and show enmity, for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala then we are
strong - we are Muslim. If we do not do this, then we are simply imitating the
kuffar, and accommodating ourselves to kufr.
The kuffar are saying to us: "Change! Our we will put you in Prison; we will
hunt you down and bring you before our Courts; or we will kill you...Change! For
you must obey our laws, our human-made laws, above everything else." They are
also saying, in their insolence: "We will never allow you to establish what you
desire, a Khilafah, an Islamic land - look what we did in Afghanistan! We demand
you live in a nation of kufr, whose borders will will define, under what we call
democracy."
Hearing such things as this, the apostates cheer and clap their hands - and do
the bidding of the kuffar, just as the so-called "moderate Muslims" applaud, and
take the money of the kuffar, and shake the hands of the leaders of kufr, the
hands that have the blood of hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of Muslims upon
them.
Yet - and yet there are many among our youth, many sisters and brothers, who
understand, who refuse to abandon their duty, who refuse to obey the kuffar; who
refuse to bow down before the kuffar; who refuse to be blackmailed by the kuffar.
These are the ones who have heard, and read - who feel in their hearts - the
words of their Rabb:
"It is only the Shaitan who causes you to fear his awliyaa [supporters and
friends]. Do not fear them; rather, fear Me, if you are indeed of the
Believers." 3:175 Interpretation of Meaning
"And this (Islam and the Quran) is the straight path of your Rabb. For those
who take heed of Our clear revelations there shall be that dwelling which is
peace (Jannah). 6:126-7 Interpretation of Meaning
"Will you not fight? Or is it that you are afraid of them? Rather - fear
Allah most of all, if you do indeed believe." 9: 13 Interpretation of
Meaning
"You who believe! What is wrong with you that you did not rush forth when
called [to aid] the Way of Allah? Or is it that you love this earth so much
- that you crave its comforts so much - that you forget the next life where
such earthly things are revealed for the insignificant comforts they are?"
9: 38 Interpretation of Meaning
"Whomsoever seeks a Way of Life other than Islam, it shall not be accepted,
for in the life to come they shall be the ones who have lost." 3:85
Interpretation of Meaning)
Of course, the kuffar will try and use, and have tried to use, clever words to
disguise their intent - so they will talk and write and make speechs about
"curbing hatred" and "dealing with those who incite hatred". But we know them
for the liars, the hypocrites, the dishonourable, insolent people that they are
- we are not deceived, and neither will we abandon our Allah-given duty to love
for the sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and to hate, to show enmity, for the
sake of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. We will not abandon our duty, because this
duty is a sign of our Islam, of our desire to submit only to Allah Subhanahu wa
Ta'ala, a sign of our desire to obey only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and those
honourable Muslims who show by their deeds, their thinking, their Islamic way of
living, that they deserve our allegiance, our loyalty, our bayah, for the sake
of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala alone.
Thus, let the kuffar say and write what they will; let them pass what laws they
will; let them strive to silence us and imprison us. We say to them what our
Rabb has said to us:
"Do they seek honour from the kuffar? In truth, honour is with, and from,
Allah alone." 3: 139 Interpretation of Meaning
"Fight against those who do not believe in Allah, or in The Last Day, and
who do not forbid that which has been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger,
as well as those among the people of the book who do not acknowledge the
Deen of Truth, and fight them until they pay the Jizya with willing
submission." 9:29 interpretation of Meaning
"But they never lost their belief despite all that happened to them in
Allah's Way, and neither did they weaken or dishonour themselves. And Allah
loves as-Sabireen (the patient ones)." 3:146 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
Abdul-Aziz
13 Rajab 1426