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Allegiance and renunciation:
Dear brother, the outcome of a sound creed, uprightness and good deeds will be a state called by scholars as "Allegiance" which is the opposite of renunciation.
Muslims today are in great affliction and they are in dire need to this topic.
Evidences from Quran and Sunnah for allegiance and renunciation:
What are the Quranic proofs of Allegiance? Allah says:
(( The believers are nothing else than brother (in Islamic religion)))
Unless believers are brother, they will not be believers.
Dear brother, here is a second Ayah:
(( Verily, those who believed, and emigrated and strove hard and fought with their property and their lives in the Cause of Allah as well as those who gave (them) asylum and help, - these are (all) allies to one another.))
Dear brother, Allah the Almighty said:
(( And as to those who believed but did not emigrate (to you O Muhammad), you owe no duty of protection to them until they emigrate, but if they seek your help in religion, it is your duty to help them except against a people with whom you have))
Allegiance and renunciation manifest belonging to this Ummah (nation) and to the group of believers, not to mention that we are in dire need to this topic. Allah says:
(( And those who came after them say: "Our Lord! Forgive us and our brethren who have preceded us in Faith, and put not in our hearts any hatred against those who have believed. Our Lord! You are indeed full of kindness, Most Merciful.))
This means that believers through eras and despite their different regions are one unity.
Dear brother, this is what Allegiance is all about and those are its proofs.
Here is another proof from Allah's book (Quran):
(( The believers, men and women, are Auliya' (helpers, supporters, friends, protectors) of one another, they enjoin (on the people) Al-Ma'ruf (i.e. Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do), and forbid (people) from Al-Munkar (i.e. polytheism and disbelief of all kinds, and all that Islam has forbidden); they perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat) and give the Zakat, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah will have His Mercy on them. Surely Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.))
These Ayas, which are from Allah's book and are sent down from the Creator of heavens and earth, show that the natural outcome of a sound creed, of uprightness and of good deeds is to be part of the Islamic nation and to belong to the group of believers, namely, whatever hurts them should hurt you and whatever brings rejoice to them should bring rejoice to you.
And In Sunnah, it was narrated on authority of Abu Mousa Al-Ash’ari that the Messenger of Allah, (PBUH), said:
((A (true) believer to another believer is like a firmly constructed building the parts thereof strengthen one another.))
In another Hadith:
Muslim narrated on the authority of Nu’man bin Al-Basheer, may Allah be pleased with him: The Messenger of Allah, (PBUH), said,
((The believers in their friendliness, sympathy and compassion are like one whole body: if one part thereof suffers (from an ailment), the whole body hastens (to help) by wakefulness and fever.))
These as7adeth are agreed upon.
Muslims are like one whole body if its eye thereof suffers, the whole body suffers, and if its head suffers of some pain, the whole body suffers of pain too.
Hence, lot of Ayas and As7adeth show the strong belonging of the believer to the group of believers, and unless this brotherhood exists, a believer's faith will be to no avail.
Signs of allegiance:
Dear brother, we have already defined allegiance through Allah's words, but what are the signs of allegiance?
If you were to ask yourself: Do I have allegiance to believers? We will say to you: There are signs to support that claim.
First sign: love
First you should love believers.
The prophet PBUH said as reported by Muslim and Bukhari and narrated by Anas,
((The one of you does not become a (true) believer unless he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.))
You should love for your brother from the best of worldly life and the hereafter what you love for yourself. Hence, if you find yourself loving believers and wishing for them the best in their worldly life and their hereafter, then here is good news for you: this is a sign of your strong faith. However, if you wish for them to fail, to be exposed and to be controlled by their enemy, then by the Lord of Kabah you are not a believer.
The prophet PBUH said:
((The one of you does not become not a (true) believer unless he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.))
Dear brother:
((…two men who love each other for Allah's sake, meeting for that and parting upon that))
This is another proof of the love between believers.
Narrated Anas Ibn Malek, May Allah be pleased with him, he reported that the prophet PBUH said:
((Whoever possesses the following three qualities will taste the sweetness of faith The one to whom Allah and His Apostle become dearer to him than anything else. The one who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah's sake. And the one who hates to revert to disbelief (Atheism) after Allah has brought (saved) him out from it, as he hates to be thrown in fire.))
O Lord, who among your servants is dearer to You so that I love him for your sake? The Lord said:
The dearest to me is the one with the pious heart, clean hands (doesn't eat ill-gotten money), and the one who doesn’t wrong anyone, he loves Me and loves those who love Me, and endears Me to My creations.
Therefore, the first sign of allegiance to believers is to love them, to wish for them the best from the worldly life and the hereafter, to hurt when they hurt, to grieve when they grieve, to get angry when they get angry, and to rejoice when they rejoice. This is a sign, up against which, every one of us should measure himself.
Allah described the hypocrites in the Quran:
(( If a good befalls you, it grieves them, but if some evil overtakes you, they rejoice at it.))
Check the believers around you, do you wish goodness for them? Do you wish them safety or destruction? Do you wish that their enemy humiliates their dignity, kills their youth and steals their properties?
Dear brother:
Abu Huraira said: The prophet PBUH said:
(("You will not enter heaven until you believe; and you will not believe until you love one another. Should I not guide you to a thing that if you do, love amongst you will increase? Spread "As salam' (greetings) among you"))
What is the crucial difference between the companions of the prophet PBUH and Muslims nowadays? Despite all the mosques, colleges, universities, books, and conferences, we lack, as Muslims, the love that used to prevail amongst the companions of the prophet PBUH.
(("You will not enter heaven until you believe; and you will not believe until you love one another. Should I not guide you to a thing that if you do it will increase love amongst you? Spread "As salam' (peace be with you)"))
Spreading Salam among believers is the least of Ma'roof (good deed).
Once I was at an assembly where I was told that neighbors in one of the hugest buildings don't know one another, don't greet one another, nor do they visit one another.
(( Spread "As salam' (gretings) "))
The Salam doesn't require more than nice words (Assalam Alaikum Wa Rahmato Allah Wa Barakatoh) in which you invoke Allah for your brother asking Him for safety, security from every evil, and mercy upon the one you are greeting.
Again, the first sign is love, and in the following there are some of the proofs.
Second sign: courtesy call
((Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said:
"There are six rights of a Muslim upon a Muslim: When you meet him, greet him; when he invites you, respond to him; when he seeks counsel, give him advice; when he sneezes and praises Allah, say to him: `May Allah have mercy on you (Yarhamuk-Allah)'; when he is sick, visit him; and when he dies, follow his funeral))
[Agreed upon]
((He who is invited and rejects the invitation is disobedient to Allah and His Messenger))
Some people satisfy their ego by refusing invitations claiming that the place is far.
The prophet PBUH said:
((If I am invited to a meal consisting of a sheep's foot or shoulder, I would respond and I would accept as a gift a shoulder or a foot of a sheep.))
((He who is invited and rejects the invitation is disobedient to Allah and His Messenger))
Let me be frank with you: accepting the invitation of the rich and the powerful is a religious act, whereas accepting the invitation of the weak poor believers is an act of the hereafter.
Here is a serious question: Do you have allegiance towards believers? Do you hurt when they hurt? Do you rejoice when they rejoice? Are you dearly concerned about them? Are you concerned about Muslims in other countries? Do the daily bloody scenes hurt you? Do they exhaust you?
Third sign: giving support:
Giving support to your fellow Muslims and combining into one in facing their enemies.
Dear brother, Allah says:
(( And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help."))
Dear brother, narrated Anas Ibn Malek, May Allah be pleased with him, he said that the prophet PBUH said:
((Help your brother, whether he is an oppressor or is oppressed))
The prophet PBUH explained that helping the oppressor will be by by preventing him from oppressing, whereas helping the oppressed brother will be by standing by his side against oppression.
Hence, dear brother, I have mentioned three signs of allegiance with which you will belong to the group of believers: to love your fellow believers, to accept their invitation and to support them. This allegiance will be a medal of honor with which you will exalt in the sight of Allah.
Nullifications of allegiance:
What are the nullifications of allegiance? What are the signs by which you will not be a supporter of believers, furthermore, you will not be one of them nor will you be a believer.
1- Intentionally excluding a Muslim from Islam (Takfeer):
Whosoever accuses a Muslim of Kufr (disbelief), knowing that he is a Muslim, will be a Kafer
himself. Therefore, he will be a Kafer the one who accuses a Muslim of Kufr.For the prophet PBUH said:
((If a person says to his brother, O KAFIR (disbeliever) ! Then surely one of them is such))
Unless this person, you accused of Kufr, is really a Kafer, you will be the Kafer instead.
He will not belong to Muslims the one who puts down Muslims' determination, weakens their strength and threatens them of demise and destruction.
Let me be frank and transparent with you: I can't promise success to the student who didn't study, for this will be misleading and lying, instead I will say to him: "Study and you will succeed".
Accordingly, you shouldn't praise those who are indulged in sins, who eat ill-gotten money, who mingle between men and women and who live in distractions, instead, you should warn them.
In the naive optimism one will say that nothing will happen (though people live in all these sins), instead, the challenge should take place when you are upright, spreading Islam in your country, removing sins and adhering to Allah not to this or that person, only then can you claim that you will triumph, for the latter has a price that should be paid.
Dear brother, Abu Dharr (RA) also related that he heard the Prophet (SAW) say,
((If somebody claims to be the son of any other than his real father knowingly, he but disbelieves in Allah, and if somebody claims to belong to some folk to whom he does not belong, let such a person take his place in the (Hell) Fire, and if somebody accused a man of Kufr or said: "Enemy of Allah" and the man was not as such, then he is the Kafer))
All these As7adeth are authenticated and reported either by the two Shaiks (Muslim and Bukhari), which means that they are agreed upon (by both of them), or they are reported by one of them.
Dear brother, it is not part of the religion to exclude a Muslim from Islam in a randomly Takfeer (the act or accusing sh3er of Atheism) only because he did something that you didn't like. Furthermore, such an act annuls your allegiance to Islam which in turn annuls your faith.
2- Deeming a permissible access to a Muslim's blood, money or honor:
Those who deem legitimate a Muslim's blood, honor or money.
The prophet PBUH said:
((O People, just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust. All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to sh3er and those to sh3er again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly.))
By the Lord of Kabah, you will not be a believer and your allegiance and faith will be annulled if you considered sh3er' blood legitimate to you or helped in such act, if you transgressed somebody's honor or helped in such act, if you ravished a woman or helped in such act and if you deemed lawful taking other's money or helped in such act. The prophet PBUH said:
((O People, just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust))
Saeed Ibn Zaid narrated that the prophet PBUH said:
((The worst type of usury is to attack a Muslim’s reputation without right))
When you accuse him of something he is innocent of.
Dear brother, the first thing to annul your allegiance is to go against your Muslim fellow and to exclude him from Islam.
3- Standing by Kuffar (disbelievers) against Muslims:
Considering this measurement to evaluate your acts will stun you with the results, for when you help a Kafer (Atheist) against a Muslim, and when you give him information in order to destroy Muslims, this will be nothing but High treason, Allay says:
(( Let not the believers take the disbelievers as Auliya (supporters, helpers, etc.) instead of the believers, and whoever does that will never be helped by Allah in any way,))
He, who helps a powerful Kafer against a weak believer, doesn't has an atom like weight of faith in his heart. This help is by giving him information and by exposing Muslims' weak points and personal issues.
Dear brother, here are some other Ayat:
(( And if any amongst you takes them as Auliya', then surely he is one of them.))
It is out of question that he is one of them.
There are other matters which don't annul your allegiance and faith, yet they vituperate them:
4- Oppression:
It is deemed impermissible to oppress a Muslim, because Allah the Almighty said in Qudsi Sahih
Hadith:((O My slaves, I have forbidden oppression for Myself and have made it forbidden amongst you, so do not oppress one another.))
And the prophet PBUH said:
((A Muslim is another Muslim’s brother: he does not do wrong (or injustice) to him; he is not untruthful to him; and he does not disdain him))
There are hundreds of thousands of law suits in the court of justice between Muslims who attend mosques, most of which have no grounds, yet they are of malicious nature sued by a Muslim in order to take what doesn't belong to him.
Hence, we are in a bad condition (as Muslims), and we didn't bring forth the reasons to deserve victory.
Abu Umamah said that the prophet PBUH said:
((Allah decrees the (Hell) Fire and debars Paradise for the one who usurps the rights of a believer by taking a false oath))
A brother told me once: "A witness was called for testimony in a case in front of me (in the court of justice), the building, subject of the law suit, was worth 57 million \, and to claim this building the oppressor needed a forged testimony, thus if the witness takes the oath and testified, the building will be owned by this oppressor. So after they brought this witness, he put his hand on the Quran, and swore as directed by the judge, then he raised his hand, but the hand stayed in the air raised, so the judge was upset and he told him: you can lower your hand", but the witness was already dead, then he collapsed on the ground."
Dear brother,
((Allah decrees the (Hell) Fire and debars Paradise for the one who usurps the rights of a believer by taking a false oath.” One man asked: “O Messenger of Allah! Even if it should be for an insignificant thing?” (some people consider millions as insignificant ) He said, “Even if it be a stick of the Arak tree (i.e., the tree from which Miswak stick are taken).))
Hence, oppressing vituperates your allegiance and your faith.
5- insulting, cursing, blaspheming, backbiting and calumny:
Insulting a Muslim is an act of Fisq.
Abdullah narrated that the prophet PBUH said:
((Insulting a Muslim is Fisq, fighting him is kufr.))
Insulting a believer is like killing him.
((…Insulting a believer is like killing him, and he who slanders a believer with shirk is his killer.))
Allah the Almighty says:
(( Nor defame one another, nor insult one another by nicknames. How bad is it, to insult one's brother after having Faith [i.e. to call your Muslim brother (a faithful believer) as: "O sinner", or "O wicked", etc.]. And whosoever does not repent, then such are indeed Zalimun (wrong-doers, etc.).))
(( And those who accuse chaste women, and produce not four witnesses, flog them with eighty stripes, and reject their testimony forever, they indeed are the Fasiqun (liars, rebellious, disobedient to Allah).))
As for backbiting, Allah says:
((Neither backbite one another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting). And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is the One Who accepts repentance, Most Merciful.))
Why are Muslims shredded and dispersed?
They are shredded within their families, within their neighborhood, within their companies, within their schools, within their universities and within their hospitals, why is that?
The answer is because of backbiting and calumny.
Dear brother, Allah the Almighty forbade backbiting and deemed calumny enough reason for a person to be admitted in hell fire.
((A tattler will not enter Paradise))
The tattler is the Nammam who passes over discourses from person to person to sow dissension between people. By Allah, people perform calumny like performing Awrad (laudations) on a daily basis.
6- Selling for lesser price to negate a Muslim's bargain:
Selling over the sale to another, betroth over the betrothal of one another, Najash (outbidding with the sole purpose of leading sh3er to pay a higher price for something) and fraud are reasons to annul allegiance and to weaken faith.
Nafe'e narrated, that Abdullah Ibn Umar, May Allah be pleased with him said, that the prophet PBUH said:
((Don't sell over the sale to another))
When the seller asks his customer about the price he paid for the commodity: How much did you pay for it? Then he offers him a lesser price to buy from him instead.
Nafe'e narrated that Abdullah Ibn Umar said that the prophet PBUH said:
((Don't sell over the sale to another, and don't betroth over the betrothal of one another))
Najash is to outbid with the sole purpose of leading sh3er to pay a higher price for something, whereas bidding is allowed in Islam, but in case it was not real, it is forbidden, like when someone hires a person to outbid a certain commodity in order to raise its price, this is an impermissible act.
((Whosoever deceives us is not one of us))
7- Deserting your fellow Muslim:
To desert your fellow Muslim:
Narrated Abu Aiyub Al-Ansari: The prophet PBUH said:
((It is not lawful for a man to desert his brother Muslim for more than three nights. (It is unlawful for them that) when they meet, one of them turns his face away from the other, and the other turns his face from the former, and the better of the two is the one who greets the other first))
Abandonment weakens allegiance and faith.
Dear brother, the first group, which is far from allegiance, are the hypocrites, for they are the vicious enemies of allegiance in origin, simply because deep inside they are atheists, their hearts are full of bitter feelings towards Muslims and they are eager to see Muslims defeated and weak. This group of people usually mock Muslims, make fun of them, insult them in quarrels, break their promise to them, behave treacherously towards their covenant with them, betray them, cheat them, tell them lies and they are annoyed, distressed and upset when Muslims are prospered with benediction, goodness and rejoice, whereas they are filled with joy when Muslims are afflicted with badness and calamity.
The Quran described at great length their conditions and scandals, and in order to be aware of hypocrites' conditions, you can reauthor Surat At-Taubah, Al-Munafiqoon, Al-Hashr, Al-Ahzab and the starting Ayas of Surat Al-Baqarah.
Narrated Umar Ibn Al Khattab, May Allah be pleased with him, that the prophet PBUH said:
((That which I fear most for my nation from is every hypocrite of cunning tongue))
((And when they speak, you listen to their words.))
((And there are some among you who would have listened to them.))
The hypocrite owns a very dangerous sweet tongue with which he claims to be your ilk and adopts what you say, but inside he keeps bitter feelings and bears a grudge in his heart towards you.
Dear brother, it has been said: The believer's fate is to have a Kafer who fights him, a hypocrite who hates him, a believer who envies him, a lust which seduces him and an evil who tempts him till he sins.
((Narrated: Abdullah Ibn Umar The Prophet said, "Whoever has the following four (characteristics) will be a pure hypocrite and whoever has one of the following four characteristics will have one characteristic of hypocrisy unless and until he gives it up. Whenever he is entrusted, he betrays. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie. Whenever he makes a covenant, he proves treacherous. Whenever he quarrels, he behaves in a very imprudent, evil and insulting manner.))
Dear brother, in our next sermon if Allah wills, we will talk about renunciation since we tackled allegiance in this sermon. Allegiance is a natural outcome of a sound creed and uprightness. As aforementioned, we talked about Nullifications and matters which weaken Allegiance, all of which were supported by texts from the Quran and Sunnah as proofs brought to you and with which no person in the Islamic world can argue.
Dear brother, call yourselves to account before you are called to do so and weigh your deeds before they are weighed, and you should know that the Angel of Death has been reaching sh3er and will reach us soon, so pay heed. The clever one is he who upbraids himself and works for what comes after death; and the weak one is he who follows his desires and lives on wishful thinking, and praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
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Second sermon:
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds and I bear witness that there is no God but Allah the ally of the pious, and I bear witness that our Master Muhammad PBUH is His slave and messenger the one with noble morals. O, Allah grant your blessings and peace to Muhammad, the Faithful and the Honest, and may Allah bless his folks and companions.
The cautious optimism:
Dear brother, again, optimism is demanded yet it should be a cautious one, namely, it should be an
optimism with taking expedients (using the reasons to reach meaning optimism rather than wishing for it only), and unless you do so, your optimism will be foolish and meaningless.Here are some Ayahs which confirm this fact, Allah says:
((And Allah said: "I am with you))
This is outstanding, for the creator of heavens and earth is saying:
(( "I am with you))
But be careful, for this divine accompaniment is conditioned, Allah says:
((if you perform As-Salat (Iqamat-as-Salat) and give Zakat and believe in My Messengers; honour and assist them, and lend to Allah a good loan. Verily, I will remit your sins and admit you to Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise). But if any of you after this, disbelieved, he has indeed gone astray from the Straight Path."))
Allah's accompaniment is conditioned. There is a common accompaniment:
((And He is with you (by His Knowledge) wheresoever you may be.))
"By His knowledge" Allah is with the Kafer, with the hypocrite and with the Atheist, whereas the special accompaniment is only with believers, for Allah said that He is with the believers, with the honest and with the pious supporting them and granting them triumph, protection and prosperity. However, this special accompaniment is conditioned:
(( And Allah said: "I am with you))
In another Ayah:
(( Allah has promised those among you who believe, and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them succession to (the present rulers) in the earth, as He granted it to those before them, and that He will grant them the authority to practise their religion, that which He has chosen for them (i.e. Islam). And He will surely give them in exchange a safe security after their fear (provided) they (believers) worship Me))
Succession, being firmly established and being secured are conditioned to worshipping, which is not but a voluntary obedience mixed with wholeheartedly love and based on unquestionable knowledge which leads to eternal rejoice.
In a nut shell: the ball is in our court (so to speak).
((And if you return (to the attack), so shall We return,))
It is all up to us not up to our enemies. If Allah is with you who will be against you? And if Allah is against you, who will be with you? O Lord, what did he lose who found You? And what did he find who lost You? Hence:
((worship Me))
In case we worshipped Allah the Almighty, we will be paying the price for being successors, and the proof to that is that the companions were nothing but Sheepherders and they became leaders of all nations. Allah has promised us to become successors, to be firmly established in our religion and to be secured.
By Allah, the next Ayah includes the six words in which the salvation of the Islamic nation lies within.
(( But if you remain patient and become Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2), not the least harm will their cunning do to you.))
Though their plot was a great one to such an extent that it would move mountains from their places, Allah says:
((Indeed, they planned their plot, and their plot was with Allah, though their plot was a great (one, still) it would never be able to remove the mountains (real mountains or the Islamic law) from their places (as it is of no importance) [Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Vol. 2, Page 597]. [It is said by some interpreters regarding this Verse that))
Despite all that, Allah will protect us from their cunningness if we were patient and pious, however if we were patient and we disobey, all we can get is nothing but grief and grave.
Here is a fifth Ayah:
(( Verily! Allah will not change the good condition of a people as long as they do not change their state of goodness themselves (by committing sins and by being ungrateful and disobedient to Allah).))
Within this Ayah lies a divine law, Allah says:
(( So no change will you find in Allah's Sunnah (way of dealing)))
By Allah, no matter what we do; unless we change (to the better) Allah will not change our conditions. Deal with Allah according to His laws not according to a random luck, emotions or affection, for Allah the Almighty has set up a method for us to deal with Him.
(( If you help (in the cause of) Allah, He will help you))
(( If Allah helps you, none can overcome you;))
(( And that Allah may help you with strong help.))
Allah has prescribed the disease and its cure, Allah says:
(( Then, there has succeeded them a posterity who have given up As-Salat (the prayers) [i.e. made their Salat (prayers) to be lost, either by not offering them or by not offering them perfectly or by not offering them in their proper fixed times, etc.]))
Scholars agreed upon considering losing Salah is not about not performing it, rather than voiding it from its gist.
When our Salah doesn't prevent us from sinning, we will be losing Salah and it will be worthless.
A Salah performer shouldn't, for example, swear by Allah and by the Kabah that he paid a certain price for his land in order to sell it for a higher price to get a small amount of profit, but the reality is that there is a huge difference between what he claimed and the real price.
Dear brother, Allah says:
(( Then, there has succeeded them a posterity who have given up As-Salat (the prayers) [i.e. made their Salat (prayers) to be lost, either by not offering them or by not offering them perfectly or by not offering them in their proper fixed times, etc.] and have followed lusts.))
(( The Day whereon neither wealth nor sons will avail, Except him who brings to Allah a clean heart [clean from Shirk (polytheism) and Nifaq (hypocrisy)].))
The pure heart is the one which doesn't long for a lust which is not allowed by Allah, doesn't believe any reporting which contradicts with the revelation, doesn't resort to any law save Allah's law and doesn't worship but Allah.
Hence, our agenda should be as follows: to tighten our relation with Allah after being upright on His path, to draw closer to Him, and to stay away from desires which are not allowed by Allah.
Lest we get bored blaming the era for our bad condition, Allah said:
(( (What is the matter with you?) When a single disaster smites you, although you smote (your enemies) with one twice as great, you say: "From where does this come to us?" Say (to them), "It is from yourselves (because of your evil deeds)." And Allah has power over all things.))
When we neglected Allah, He neglected us in return. When we didn't carry out the teachings of the Quran they (our enemies) dared to defile it. When we didn't follow the divine commands in our lives, they challenged us and invaded our society with their foreign culture.
Glad tidings:
Dear brother, in order to keep balance, get ready for the coming glad tidings, Allah says:
(( Verily, Fir'aun (Pharaoh) exalted himself in the land))
'Ad said: Who is mightier than us in strength? Whenever Allah demised a nation, he would remind them that he demised those who were mightier than them save 'Ad, for when He demised them he said:
(( See they not that Allah, Who created them was mightier in strength than them.))
(( Verily, Fir'aun (Pharaoh) exalted himself in the land and made its people sects,))
In western countries they claim that citizenship is the common denominator between citizens and they never discriminate according to religious backgrounds, however when they occupy other's lands, they sow dissension between its people and leave them in a hundred sects and parties.
(( Verily, Fir'aun (Pharaoh) exalted himself in the land and made its people sects,))
Their minister for foreign affairs said once: I am not satisfied to have 200 countries in the world, and I wish they were five thousand of them.
In that purpose they are provoking sects and parties in every country till a civil war starts and when the latter occurs, the country will turn into five worthless countries.
Hence, we are in dire need to have deep awareness with which we are able to abort the enemy's plans.
(( Verily, Fir'aun (Pharaoh) exalted himself in the land and made its people sects, weakening (oppressing) a group (i.e. Children of Israel) among them, killing their sons, and letting their females live. Verily, he was of the Mufsidun (i.e. those who commit great sins and crimes, oppressors, tyrants, etc.).))
The glad tidings:
((And We wished to do a favour to those who were weak (and oppressed) in the land, and to make them rulers and to make them the inheritors, And to establish them in the land, and We let Fir'aun (Pharaoh) and Haman and their hosts receive from them that which they feared.))
Yet there is danger which is awaiting:
(( Say: "He has power to send torment on you from above or from under your feet, or to cover you with confusion in party strife, and make you to taste the violence of one another.))
And this exactly what is happening in some Islamic countries:
(( or to cover you with confusion in party strife))
And this is the hardest thing, Allah says:
(( See how variously We explain the Ayat (proofs, evidences, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.), so that they may understand.))
I hope that you become optimistic, combine into one unity and strengthen one another's spirits, but be careful of the naïve and foolish kind of optimism and never say: We are the nation of Muhammad PBUH (and rely on that only):
((Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, "Some of my companions will come to me at my Lake Fount, and after I recognize them, they will then be taken away from me, whereupon I will say, 'My companions!' Then it will be said, 'You do not know what they innovated (new things) in the religion after you".))
I hope that we are not among those who neglected Allah thus Allah neglected them in return (which is a fact).
We are in dire need to combine into one unity, to love each other and to support one another. Our optimism should be based on facts not delusions. And finally, we should deal with Allah the Almighty by fulfilling expedients instead of relaying on random luck or emotions. We should consider reasons as if they are everything and depend on Allah as if they are nothing.
Supplication:
O, Allah help us to control our desires so that we can stand by Your side in order to deserve triumph upon our enimies. We beseech you Allah to show us the way of rightness, together with those to whom You have showed it; and give us good health, together with those whom You have healed; and be our Protector, together with those for whom You have become their Protector; and bless us in what You have bestowed on us and save us from the afflictions that You have decreed, for You rule with justice and You are never judged. He whom You protect shall never be humiliated and he whom You make enemy shall never be exalted. Blessed and dignified are You, and we thank You for what You have decreed.
We seek your forgiveness and we repent our bad deeds, O, Allah guide us to perform a good deed for You are the One who guides to good deeds. O, Allah guide us to acquire good conducts for You are the one who guides to the best conducts.
O, Allah make us do well in the religion which is our dignity and make our lives good for it is our living and make us safe on the day of judgment for it is our final destination please make the life our supply for all good things and make the death a rest from every evil our master the Lord of all worlds.
O, Allah please make us with what You have made lawful needless of what You have made unlawful and make us with Your benevolence independent of all sh3er.
O Allah, our Lord! Grant peace and blessings to Sayyidina Muhammad, upon his Family and his Companions altogether.
