Sunday, October 30, 2016

The Battle of Kuffr and Imaan...


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All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of Might, Lord of the creation, Supporter of this Deen. There is nothing worthy of worship but Him. He grants the truth victory, even if after some time. And may blessings and peace be upon the Imaam of the Messengers, and may Allah be pleased with his Companions from the Ansaar and the Muhajireen. To proceed:
Allah says:
"They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah refuses except to complete His light, even if the disbelievers hate it. He is the One who sent His Messenger with guidance and the Deen of truth to make it prevail over all religions/ways of life, even if the mushrikīn despise it." [9:32-33]

Thus, every Muslim must be certain that complete victory is coming, that Allah will honor this Deen, that the future belongs to it, even if all nations rabidly contend against us, and that we shall definitely rule the earth by the might of Allah, the Powerful, the Strong. And whoever rejects or doubts that is nothing but one of the disbelieving fear-mongers. Allah, the True King, says:
"And We have written in the Zabūr after previous revelation that the earth shall be inherited by My righteous slaves. Verily in that is a message to a worshiping people." [21:105-106]

The truthful and trusted Prophet (saws) said, “This matter shall reach all that the night and day have reached, and Allah will not leave a house of mud or fur (i.e. dwellings in the city or desert) except that He will make this Deen enter it, through glory or humiliation – glory by which Allah glorifies Islām and humiliation by which Allah humbles the disbelievers.” [Musnad Ahmad]. This was narrated by Tamīm ad-Darī, who then said, “I recognized that in my own household. Those of them who accepted Islām received much good, honor, and glory. And those of them who remained in Kuffr were afflicted with humiliation, subservience, and the jizyah.” 

The people of Tawheed (Ahlu Tawheed) must know that a ‘Aqeedah for which pure blood has been spilled and for which Shuhadah have fought, lived, and died will definitely be victorious. Its arrows will extend to strike the neck of every kāfir. And it will enlighten the heart of every Muwahhid. But we must all realize that the condition for victory is following the Prophet (saws). If this adherence is present, victory shall come, and if it is absent, there shall be no victory. No other cause rivals it, as the scholars have explained.
Ibnul-Qayyim said, “As such, victory and complete support is only for the people of complete Imaan. Allah says:
"Indeed, We shall support Our Messengers and those who believed, in the worldly life and on the day the witnesses rise." [40:51], and He says:
{So We empowered those who believed against their enemy, so they became victors.’ [61:14]
Thus, whoever is lacking in Imaan will also lack in his portion of victory and support.” [Ighathat al-Lahfan]

The Prophet (saws) also guided us – with great detail – to both the causes for victory and the hindrances to achieving it. Ibnul-Qayyim said, “Thus did he (saws) teach them the tactics of war and confronting the enemy, as well as the paths to victory and triumph – such that if they were to learn them, comprehend them, and maintain them as they should be maintained, there would never be an enemy that could stand against them.” [I’lam al-Muwaqqi’in]

And from the several causes for victory is Tawheed. Allah says:
"And they will not cease to fight you until they make you turn from your deen if they are able." [2:217], and He says:
"They only resented them because they believed in Allah, the Mighty, the Praised." [85:8]
This is the reality, which all Mujahideen must comprehend. The battle between the Muwahhideen and the Kaafireen is fundamentally a battle of ‘Aqeedah, and Allah has confined this enmity to the Deen. So the Kaafir, regardless of his Kuffr – whether he is a secularist, communist, christian, or jew – do no hate the Muwahhideen except for their untainted īmaan. Any slogan raised for any battle between us and them, other than the slogan of Deen, is an utter lie and deception, for the enmity of the Kaafir asli or the Murtadd against the Muwahhideen Mujahideen is never based in an economic or political motive. It is only a battle between Kuffr and Imaan, a battle of ‘Aqeedah, a matter of Deen.

By Shaykh Abu Hamzah Al-Muhajir (rahimahUllah)

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