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16 June 2011 By Muhammad Hanif And when Thalut (Saul) went
forth with the soldiers, he said, "Indeed,
Allah will be testing you with a river. So whoever
drinks from it is not of me, and whoever does not
taste it is indeed of me, excepting one who takes
[from it] in the hollow of his hand."
But they drank from it, except a [very] few of them.
Then when he had crossed it along with those who
believed with him, they said,
"There is no power
for us today against Jalut (Goliath) and his
soldiers." But those who were
certain that they would meet Allah said,
"How many a small
company has overcome a large company by permission of
Allah . And Allah is with the patient."
(Al-Baqarah : 249) For example, the jihad movement
and the Islamic party that struggles through
democracy. At a time when the jihad movement is facing
the makar (plots of the enemies), being
hunted and tyrannized, on the other hand, the people
of the Islamic party live a prosperous life, they are
intimate with the rulers and they become the rubber
stamp of the authority's policy, although contrary to
the fundamental principles of Islamic aqeedah.
Jihad
Movement and Islamic Party May be for some people, they see
the jihad movement as a movement that is ridiculous
and unrealistic, this is the opinion of some people
who do not understand. They can't be blamed. But the
jihad movement has proven to the world that the
aqeedah is a fixed price that cannot be bargained
with anything, like the army of Thalut who took enough
water to relieve their thirst. Because the jihad
movement believe that when an activist is excessive in
gulping the freshness of the world, it would only turn
him away from the path that he had committed himself
to from the beginning, even though the world and
torments come one after another insistently. Compare with the parties that
claim to struggle for Islam through parliamentary
democracy. They fight over power, projects and
popularity in the society by making halal
every means. Insulting their own Islamic Shari'ah,
defending the deviated sects which stain their own
holy Dien and a bunch of other policies that
never, in the slightest bit, defend the interests of
the ummah but defending their own faction
perhaps. They are trapped like the army of Thalut who
were satiated by the water, when they were only
instructed to drink by the hand scoop, the freshness
of the world is really comforting, let alone for the
da'wah activists who once have barely enough
to live by, after getting to know that the wealth and
status are so delightful and tempting, then they are
slipping into it, as the saying goes, " Never give
the filthy and sick stray cat wings, it will not only
eat what's in the land but it will surely hunt what's
in the air." This is the natural choice for
the Islamic da'wah. Da'wah does not require
the big quantity of people who congregate, the big
number of famous people there and the big number of
funds owned. This Islamic da'wah is the work
of Allah SWT, He has His own way in making it
victorious and seeing who is true and honest to what
he carries. Just as Allah SWT says: "Or do you think that you
will enter Paradise while such [trial] has not yet
come to you as came to those who passed on before you?
They were touched by poverty and hardship and were
shaken until [even their] messenger and those who
believed with him said,"When is the help of Allah ?"
Unquestionably, the help of Allah is near." (QS.
Al-Baqarah : 214) Da'wah is a conviction,
what good is their struggle for prosperity but they
are selling off the aqeedah, they are
struggling for the human rights but the rights of
Allah SWT are violated. When will the ummah
be awake to the tawheed, shari'ah
and jihad when their carriers themselves are shy to
talk about them, feeling inferior with their Islam and
they sell off the verses that talk about them in the
name of the maslahat (benefits) of da'wah,
personal maslahat perhaps. Tadzkirah
I quote the words of
Sheikh Ahmad Bawadi from the Emirate of
Afghanistan, as a reminder in the journey, to where
will Islam and its ummah be taken. So that we do not
get caught by the path which turn us away from the
real purpose. The dead live by their words, and
what their fingertips have written. They live by the
truth of their words and the steadfastness of their
attitudes despite the demise of their bodies and the
ascension of their souls. The words written by their white
hands will endure and revive and awaken hope after
they have sacrificed themselves, their wealth, their
blood and their worldly life for the sake of what they
wrote, (which emanated) from their firm values and
deep seated principles in the cause of the Dien.
On that day, although they are dead, Islam and the
Muslims shall triumph through them. The people of
faith will be glorified and the people of shirk
and idolatry will be debased and life will be
honorable and dignified. Their blood and their
sacrifices are the fuel and the fire that will
eliminate injustice and take away sorrow and pain.
Justice will prevail and the oppressed will be
victorious. The prisons will be emptied and the
afflicted set free. There will not be any loss of
rights, and neither tax nor toll. Countries will be occupied and
the Qur'an defiled. That which is sacred will be
sullied, the pure maidens will be raped and honor will
be ravaged in order to revive from death Laka' Ibn
Laka' upon the skulls of the innocent, the blood of
the noble and the deaths of the guiltless. At their
hands will come the day in which Islam will be washed
away as a garment is washed away and neither fasting
nor charity; nor piety will be understood. But they
(will) meet a poor fate and come to a bad end, with
the permission of the One, the Benefactor, as their
wages for what they have done to the Ummah,
for the blood they have spilled with their fatwas,
for their silence about the truth and for the
assistance they have rendered to falsehood. Yet, they
will think that they have done well: "Is he, then,
to whom the evil of his conduct is made alluring, so
that he looks upon it as good…" Ibn Abu Dawud (he
of the fitna of the creation of the Qur'an)
lived on the blood of al-Bawayti (a student of Imam
al-Shafa'i, may Allah Almighty have mercy on him) and
although he was famed for his learning, eloquence and
munificence, he was nonetheless of wicked intention
and corrupt creed so none of that benefitted him and
he came to a bad end because of how he criticized,
harmed and slandered the people of truth and faith. Sayyid Qutb was one of whom it
was believed that his words would be killed and their
letters erased from hearts and minds. Yet, his words
have endured as if they were carved in rock and stone.
The words of those who attempted to destroy his honor
and his writings, however, have died, even though they
were seduced by his writings and his books. They stole
from them and pretended that they came from their own
thoughts. Allah has exposed them, disgraced them and
sullied their houses. They are dead even though they
are still alive, while Sayyid Qutb lives even though
he is dead. Sayyid Qutb paid the price of his
words with his own blood. As for those who received
their wages for their speeches, books and articles
criticizing Sayyid, and those who stole his words and
collected their salaries from the publishing houses,
or promoted themselves and earned a reputation on the
satellite networks by criticizing him: Sayyid Qutb is
living even though he is dead and they have died even
though some of them are still living. Many of the sons of this
da'wah lived, and their words lived with them,
when they revived among people the glory of the
Dien, and it was accepted and resonated. The
righteous and the truthful gathered about them and on
that day purity was not mingled with the defects of
this world and it was not polluted with disturbances
caused by whims or fancies or patchwork fatwas
of favouritism. The Word of Truth and sincerity in
counsel were the intent of the faithful. They lived
and their words lived as beacons of light and
guidance, and the people of piety and faith followed
in their footsteps. Other followers of this
da'wah lived, and they were held with affection
and esteem in people's hearts. When suddenly (this
affection) it declined and receded and was taken by
death and they suffered and sighed the moans of death.
Perhaps someone will rescue or pay attention to it.
Suddenly it becomes nothing more than a memory killed
by its masters after they chose the life of their
bodies over the life of their words and after they
chose to live by principles and ideas of the West, the
logic of the mind and the pretext of rationalism. They
claim, to show favoritism for and to flatter the
people of innovation and error, that they had changed
their paths and turned their ideologies and ideas
upside down. They shed their values and principles;
and the secularists gathered around them. They became
the boon companions of the secularists and the
liberals and, by their words, became secularists
themselves. Their pulpits were the MBC and IBC
networks and they became jurists of beggary (fuqaha'
al-tasawwul) so that the righteous and true
abandoned them. None remain in their life except some
of the duped, the seduced; the secularists, the
liberals and the democrats. So they have died while
they are still alive. Their fatwas are
circulated by the soldiers of the marines, by the
vulgar; the men of surrender and treachery, and the
people of defeat. They meet on the satellite networks
and criticize those whose field is the arena of Jihad
and martyrdom. Birds of a feather flock together. Ahmed Ibn Hanbal (Imam of the
Ahlus Sunnah) has died and the head of fitna
Ibn Abu Dawud (of the fitnah of the creation
of the Qur'an) has died and Bishr Mirisi (a
Mu'tazalite sheikh) have died. Yet, what Ahmed bin
Hanbal wrote lives and is redeemed by the truth of
what his fingertips wrote and his tongue spoke. His
words have been redeemed by his body when he was
flogged, imprisoned and tortured by the executioners
and his memory lives. Ibn Abu Dawud and those with him
died after they spent their lives in the palace of the
sultan living on the screams and pain of Ibn
Hanbal while they themselves dwelt in comfort. Their
ideas and beliefs died with them and they have no
worth except begging, injustice, subjugation to
slavery and love of passions. How can such a worth
bear any remnant of the truth? Ibn Abu Dawud died
imprisoned inside his own paralyzed body which for
four years did not possess the power to move. As for Ibn Taymiyya, his memory
is immortal, Allah permitting, until Allah inherits
the earth and those upon it. He composed his message
of astightaha, but the people of innovation
and whim were not impressed, as is indeed the case
with them always and everywhere. So Ali bin Yaqub
al-Bakari attacked him; Ibn Taymiyya, declared him
kafir and demanded his death. But the rulers
joined forces and incited the people, stirring them
against (al-Bakari). He was reviled, cursed and
imprisoned. They went to great lengths to harm him
until they gathered with the mob against him. They
struck him and did him harm until he was exposed and
fled. When the earth pressed around him he could find
none but Ibn Taymiyya, in whose house he hid. Allah
has exalted the memory of Ibn Taymiyya and his message
lives. His enemies have died and their ideas have died
with them. Those ones sacrificed for the
sake of their words and their writings. They did not
eat by them and they did not beg through the ink of
their books. They avoided uncertain (shubhat)
and forbidden (muharramat) areas. They did
not find their nourishment in the efforts of others or
from reviling harming or slandering them. They did not
accept a price from the depravity and pleasures of
this world. They threw all of that behind them, as
opposed to their opponents who – because they cursed,
reviled and criticized the people of truth, faith and
Jihad and because they favoured the people of
falsehood, error and deviation – are consigned to
oblivion. Wallahu A'lam |
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