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Vol. 15 No. 1
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Seek aid for
your needs in concealment (i.e.
concealment of Sadqah) THE UMMAH’S HUMILIATION —A MANIFESTATION OF ALLAH’S PUNISHMENT“Then when there
came the first of the
two promises (of Divine Punishment), We sent against you servants unto Us who
were most powerful in warfare. Then they penetrated the homes. Indeed it was a
decree executed.” “When the final promise
(of Divine Punishment) came, (it came) so that they could
(the kuffaar) disfigure your faces and enter the Musjid (i.e.Musjidul Aqsa) as
they had entered the first time, and so that they could utterly destroy whatever
they overran.” In these Qur’aanic verses, Allah Ta’ala refers to His punishment which He had inflicted on the Muslims of former times. The specific community referred to in these verses is Bani Israaeel. Two occasions of punishment are mentioned here. On both occasions Allah Ta’ala used the kuffaar to overwhelm, punish and humiliate the Muslims. The punishments had taken the form of kuffaar atrocities-pillage, plunder, killing and humiliating the Muslims, as well as the desecration of Musjidul Aqsa The aayat specifically mentions the destruction which the kuffaar wrought to Musjidul Aqsa. Allah Ta’ala allowed the kuffaar to invade Musjiful Aqsa —to defile and violate its sanctity. The then Muslims were just as helpless as present-day Muslims. They had to suffer the punishment and humiliation without being able to offer any response and unable to defend either themselves or their holy places. ALLAH’S SERVANTS It is significant that in the aayat, the Qur’aan refers to the kuffaar who had defiled and destroyed Musjidul Aqsa and who had ravaged the Muslims of the time, as ‘servants unto Us’. This style of expression conveys that the kuffaar were appointed by Allah Ta’ala to inflict the punishment, atrocities and humiliation on on the Muslims who are supposed to be the true and obedient slaves and servants of Allah Ta’ala. This style of expression implies that the domination of the kuffaar over Muslims is in actual fact a manifestation of Allah’s punishment. Throughout the history of the world, this has always been the case. When the Muslim Ummah had transgressed all bounds of disobedience and had firmly resolved to adopt transgression, sin and kuffaar life style as their way of life, then Allah Ta’ala unleashed His punishment which sometimes came in the form of natural disasters and sometimes in the form of kuffaar brutality and domination. THE CAUSE In this age too, Muslims have degenerated to the lowest level of fisq and fujoor (transgression and immorality). The Sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) has been jettisoned right out of our lives and the life style and concepts of the kuffaar have become the complete culture and code of life of Muslims. It is for this reason that Allah Ta’ala has manifested His punishment on us in the form of kuffaar atrocities and domination over the Ummah. He has made us the slaves of the very kuffaar whom we have appointed as our intelectual masters whose lifestyle Muslims are emulating in entirety. Therefore He has once again sent His kuffaar ‘ibaad’ (servants) to punish and disgrace us as he had done with Bani Israaeel when they had reached the point of no return in their transgression. Thus, the cause of our degradation, humiliation and of the calamities which are befalling the Ummah, is not America or the shaitaan. Rather, these events via the agency of the kuffaar are Allah’s punishment. It is He Who has chosen America to punish and humiliate the Muslims. It is He Who has chosen the Yahood to inflict such terrible acts of brutality on Muslims. GUARDING THE IMAAN OF THE NEW GENERATIONS OF THE UMMAH—THE BULWARK AGAINST THE KUFR ONSLAUGHT R asulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said:“The best of you are those who learn and teach the Qur’aan.” The Qur’aan is Islam. The knowledge of the Qur’aan is the Shariah of Islam. Without the knowledge of the Qur’aan, it is impossible to sustain Imaan. It is for this reason that it has been proclaimed that the noblest of the Ummah are those who are engage in the acquisition and dissemination of the knowledge of the Qur’aan. THE UMMAH’S CHILDREN Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of the Ummah’s children are completely deprived of the very basic and elementary teachings of Islam. All over the world, especially in Muslim countries, children in their thousands are growing up like non-Muslims. Innumerable thousands have already been alienated from Islam and have in the process become cheap fodder for the kufr machine operating under the auspices of the conspirators of the western world. REALISATION The kuffaar conspirators who are always plotting the destruction of Islam and the Ummah, have gained a realisation which most Muslims have failed to comprehend. The kuffaar have realised that the simplest way of defeating Muslims and extinguishing the Flame of Islam, is to alienate the children of the Ummah from Islam. A variety of ways and plots have been engineered to gain this nefarious goal. But, since Allah Ta’ala has undertaken the responsibility of protecting Islam, He creates agencies and institutions to combat the conspiracies of the kuffaar. One such important and absolutely vital institution is the Maktab Programme which was initiated a few years ago solely by the fadhl and with the nusrat (aid) of Allah Ta’ala. BLISSFUL UNAWARENESSThe Ummah is asleep in a state of extreme lethargy and neglect. Muslims are dwelling in blissful unawareness, not knowing and not realising what is happening around them. The conflagration of kufr and immorality is raging throughout the ranks of the Ummah, but Muslims are lost in a ghaflat and fail to see the disaster towards which we are all heading. |