Taste you this! Verily, You were the Mighty, the Generous!
Posted on Monday, August 12 @ 10:39:34 EDT by | 
by Dr. Waseem Fathullaah
Translation by Azzam Publications
Feelings of defeat may enter our hearts when we see the reality of our brothers in Islam, who have fallen prisoner to the hateful Crusaders. Indeed, perhaps it is not an exaggeration for me to say that he whose heart does not bleed at the state of our brothers, and at the betrayal of those of us who have abandoned them, is far-removed from even the lowest meanings of the brotherhood of faith.
This feeling of defeat may transform into a mixture of anger and humiliation, which would almost have weakened us if Allah had not established us upon the pillars of this great Deen, due to which these disbelievers have been killed (in our opinion). To begin with, our brothers and ourselves must fulfill our contract which will never fail us, which is represented in Allâh’s saying, “So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be superior (in victory) if you are indeed (true) believers.” [Quran 3:139]
Yes, the believer is superior despite losing the first round or being defeated temporarily. The believer is stronger, despite the apparent shackles and chains. The believer is freer, despite the prisons and arrests. The requirements of fulfilling this honourable contract are action and perseverance. We will not surrender, we will not be negligent, and we will not hesitate to fuel the battle with out limbs, or to make the blood in our veins pour out as martyrs. Allah the Exalted says, “So, be not weak and ask not for peace (from the enemies of Islam) while you are having the upper hand. Allah is with you, and He will never decrease the reward of your good deeds.” [Quran 47:35]
The matter at hand is not only about the feeling of honour, rather it is about a reality which imposes firm commands upon us – commands which are at variance with the feelings of retreat and withdrawal which may creep into our souls in face of our apparent defeat. However, there is no excuse then for calling to peace, and there is absolutely no justification for discarding the sword and extinguishing the embers of the Jihad, or for granting the pen and the word the status of the spear and the arrow. We must abide by our principles and proceed along this path, however thorny, painful, or difficult it may be. Allah the Exalted said, “And (remember) when Allah promised you (Muslims) one of the two parties (of the enemy, i.e. either the army of the caravan) that it should be yours; you wished that the one not armed (the caravan) should be yours, but Allah willed to justify the Truth by His Words and to cut off the roots of the disbelievers (i.e. in the battle of Badr).” [Quran 8:7]
There is a wisdom in all that occurs, known only to Allah, and we must only hear and obey. If we have overcome our feelings of defeat and humiliation by virtue of these clear Quranic verses, what now remains is our feelings of silent rage and burning torment at the tribulations befalling our brothers. I have reflected much, and the only cure I was able to find for this rage was abiding by the Command of Allah the Exalted, “Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of a believing people, and remove the anger of their (believers’) hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.” [Quran 9:14-15]
We ask Allâh that He grants this to us in this life. As for those foolish, venomous Crusaders and their followers, who wear medals of empty pride, and sit on imaginary thrones of glory, and see the merits of honour and nobility in their vain souls, then for them is another appointment with Surah Ad-Dukhan, where the One and Only, the Omnipotent, says, “Verily, the tree of Zaqqum will be the food of the sinners. Like boiling oil, it will boil in the bellies, like the boiling of scalding water. (It will be said:) ‘Seize him and drag him into the midst of blazing Fire. Then pour over his head the torment of boiling water. Taste you (this)! Verily, you were (pretending to be) the mighty, the generous!” [Quran 44:43-49]
O to cure my heart from you, O you leaders of disbelief and criminality! And O to be rid of my rage at you, O you spiteful symbols of the Crusades! Whatever you do in this life cannot harm me, for my Lord has promised me that my heart will be cured, and my anger will be no more. Even if the biggest hypocrites said beforehand, “The more honourable (leader of the hypocrites in Madinah) will expel therefrom the meaner (the Prophet saw).”[Quran 63:8], then we shall say with all that is in us, “But honour, power and glory belong to Allah and to His Messenger, and to the believers, but the hypocrites know not.” [Quran 63:8]
As for you O prisoners in Guantanamo, who have been happy for your body to be covered with dust that your souls may rise above this soil of this earth, then forgive me if I am unable to help you with other than my words. Perhaps I can grant my soul some hope and comfort knowing that he who was better than me was once able to help they who were better than you, with only a word of truth. He (peace be upon him) said, “Have patience, O family of Yasir! Your reward is Paradise!”
So I exhort both myself and you to patience, that we may also perhaps be of the inhabitants of Paradise.
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