“The words, they could die,” Sayyid Qutb wrote, “The words will also be frozen, although written with beautiful or enthusiastic lyrics. The words will be like that when they do not come from the hearts of those who believe in what they say. And someone is unlikely to have a strong belief in what he says, unless he construes in himself what he says, and then becomes a real visualization of what he said.” Sayyid Qutb continued in his monumental literary work, the Fii Zilaalil Qur’aan.
This is the sunatullah of the struggle from the various kinds ideologies and beliefs. Let alone in struggling for Islam which has been made as the common enemy of the entire mankind, from those claiming to be Muslim, to the kafir and zindiq. This is the path of the Apostles which is travelled again by the proponents of tawheed, i.e. the path when major corruption comes, so Allah wants to perfect His Deen by testing those of His slaves, that they are absolutely confident with what are embedded in their hearts.
In a narration, Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin al-‘Aas said:
"When we were with him (saws) and he said ‘toobaa lil-Ghurabaa' (glad tidings for the Strangers)', we asked: 'who are they?' He (saws) replied: ‘They are the righteous people and are very few in number compared to the majority.’" [Can be found in Saheeh Muslim, Ibn Maajah, Musnad Imaam Ahmad, al-Bukhaari and at-Tirmidhi]
So when there are strugglers of Islamic Shari'ah who are fought against, killed and imprisoned because of their beliefs, that is something natural and commonplace. Because everything that is befalling them had already befallen the people before them. Even to the point of complaining to Rasulullah (saws) as a result of the severity of the torments inflicted upon them by the kafir and jahil people.
It is narrated by Bukhari, from Khabbab ibn al-Aratt that he came to the Prophet (saws) to complain about the difficult situation the Muslims were enduring. By way of background, Khabbab ibn al-Aratt was inflicted with the most severe torture imaginable; red hot irons from the furnace would be placed on his head and he was regularly taken to the open area of Makkah when the sun was at its highest and the ground was baking hot. He would be stripped of his clothes and dressed in iron armour and placed on the ground then they would place a large hot stone on his back. Khabbab narrated:
"I came to the Prophet (saws) while he was leaning against his sheet cloak in the shade of the Ka'ba. We were suffering greatly from the pagans in those days. I said (to him): 'Will you not invoke Allah (to help us)?' He (saws) sat down with a red face [i.e. became angry] and said: '(A believer among) those who were before you used to be combed with iron combs so that nothing of his flesh or nerves would remain on his bones; yet that would never make him desert his religion. A saw might be put over the parting of his head which would be split into two parts, yet all that would never make him abandon his religion. Allah will surely complete this [dien] (i.e. Islam) so that a traveller from Sana to Hadra-maut will not be afraid of anybody except Allah or the wolf lest it should harm his sheep. But you are in too much of a hurry.'”
So, when we have already intended to stand along with the lions of tawheed, to walk with the callers of Islamic Shari'ah and we have promised that every life and death is only for Allah, then live what we believe even if ordeals are coming incessantly against us, shaking all fabric of life. It's time to prove what we have buzzed, at the time when the feelings of security are blanketing our lives, when leisure times are making us complacent and think that this path will be fine. Because when we have already walked upon the path of truth, it does not matter where this head is turning.
"Indeed, those who have said, 'Our Lord is Allah' and then remained on a right course - the angels will descend upon them, [saying], 'Do not fear and do not grieve but receive good tidings of Paradise, which you were promised.'" [Fussilat : 30]
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