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Dit is 100% waar. Daarom zijn de orthodoxe moslims altijd fel tegen dit soort politieke groeperingen geweest. Ze verzinnen gewoon hun eigen methodes, hebben lak aan Islam, misbruiken wel de vlag en naam van Islam.
Advice from Shaykh Abū Khadeejah ‘Abdul-Wāhid today after being asked about the current situation in Palestine
"As for what is taking place in Palestine today, then it's a trial upon the Ummah. When you know that your neighbour is a bully, and you know that your neighbour is armed to the teeth, and you know that your neighbour — if you rile him up — he will come and break your windows and kill your children, then that's not the neighbour that you throw stones at because you do not have the ability to overtake him, you don't have the ability to deal with his oppression.
And this is the similitude in Palestine. They do not have the ability, not in the terms of their religious knowledge, nor in terms of their military prowess. So it is naive to assume that you are going to attack a nation that is armed to the teeth, a nation of Zionists that already are itching to fight and to kill. And you know that you do not have the ability to repel them. And you know that when they come for you, they are not coming for you—they are coming for your children, and your women, and your schools, and your homes. And if you kill 10 of them, they are going to kill a hundred of you. For every one of them that you kill, then they will kill dozens of yours.
Then in that situation, there is no wisdom in attacking them, and it makes no sense to go and fight people like that.
Furthermore, it is not permissible to kill civilians. So if civilians are attacked, then that is not permissible in Islam and the Sharee'ah, the Prophet ﷺ forbade the killing of women, children and non-combatants.
So a person needs to be wise, these types of affairs are left to the powerful Muslim countries who are working in the background, and have been working in the background. And it is the duty of the scholars to teach these people what will aid them in their worldly affairs, and more so in their religion—and that will bring about the aid of Allah: and that is achieved by returning our affairs back to Tawheed, the correct belief, the Sunnah of the Prophet, and to the ‘ibādah (worship) of Allah سبحانه و تعالى. That is the cure, that is the solution.
As for randomly attacking this neighbouring country, and killing their civilians, or indiscriminately killing whoever comes in your way, then that is not going to solve anything, and in fact, it is harām anyway to kill civilians. We don't believe in these types of vigilante attacks—and when they hit back they will attack with injustice, oppression and huge amounts of harm. So it is not from wisdom what they have done.
And this is why — and Allaah knows best — that I believe that there is something more sinister behind this because it doesn't make any sense that a Muslim would do that knowing what the response would be! Why would I go and attack my neighbour if I know he will come and kill my wife and children? Why would I do it? So then I will go into hiding whilst they attack my wife and children? It doesn't make any sense!
There is something more sinister that is taking place in the background and Allah knows best what it is, but there are some elements here that we have not fully comprehended.
So the solution is that you read the articles that we have authored, that our scholars have written and we've translated, about the state of the Ummah and its causes of weakness and means for revival. Inshā’-Allāh I will tweet it out today, and that's the way forward—to read, learn and aid the Ummah.
As for helping our Muslims brothers and sisters in need, and their families then yes, through donations, medical care, food donations, providing them shelter, helping them in that regard in humanitarian aid—that's the way—and make du’ā for them. There's nothing else to be done by you, bārakallāhu feekum.
If you want betterment for the Ummah, then that's the way. You should be wise, you should know how your enemy is going to react. Muslims should not be aiming at civilians, non-combatants. War is declared by those in authority (the rulers)—and this random killing is not how things are done.
Learn the Sunnah and act upon the Sunnah. And wisdom needs to be employed, bārakallāhu feekum, wisdom needs to be employed—by returning the affairs to the scholars of the Ummah. So we ask Allāh to aid our sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, those who are not responsible for any of this turmoil but they have become victims in all of this.
Every time the the oppression strikes, and these oppressors attack it's the innocent Muslims who are harmed—and their mosques and their homes that are blown up, their hospitals and schools destroyed, and their children killed generation after generation. What has been achieved then? What do you achieve? Allāhul-Musta’ān.
We ask Allāh سبحانه و تعالى to aid them, to have mercy upon them, to guide them, to forgive us and to forgive them. May Allāh (the Most Perfect and Most High) to aid the Muslims everywhere in the world. Āmeen.”
Abu Khadeejah: An advice during the class, and he accepted the advice to be shared so I wrote it down. Questioner: Sulaymaan Abu Hamzah.
10th of October 2023.