Believers are Forbidden taking Disbelievers as Allies

As before, disbelieving nations are waring with the Believers, who have been divided up in weak states, and kept that way instilling foreign ideas, after our decline in understanding, killing 100s of thousands, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechniya, Palestine, Burma, China, Yemen. 

The war is headed by the USA, yet we find in our lands the muslims allying and befriending the USA and other waring disbelieving nations, due to the disease of secularism that has infected our minds where we do not consider Islam in its totality as a way of life that has strict rules governing our social and political stance policies as well as our spiritual conduct. 

Secularism is so widespread that in Egypt even when the Muslim Brotherhood came to power they maintained a close alliance with the USA and also the peace deals with the neighbouring Jewish occupiers.  Saudi treachery is well known in allowing American military bases in the Hijaz to bomb and destroy Iraq.  All this is despite explicit text repeated in the Quran forbidding such allainces and friendship, Allah (swt) says:

O you who have believed, do not take the disbelievers as allies instead of the believers. Do you wish to give Allah against yourselves a clear case? 4:144

Let not believers take disbelievers as allies rather than believers. And whoever [of you] does that has nothing with Allah , except when taking precaution against them in prudence. And Allah warns you of Himself, and to Allah is the [final] destination. 3:28

O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people. 5:51

O you who have believed, do not take as intimates those other than yourselves, for they will not spare you [any] ruin. They wish you would have hardship. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater. We have certainly made clear to you the signs, if you will use reason. 3:118

O you who have believed, take not those who have taken your religion in ridicule and amusement among the ones who were given the Scripture before you nor the disbelievers as allies. And fear Allah , if you should [truly] be believers. 5:58

You see many of them becoming allies of those who disbelieved. How wretched is that which they have put forth for themselves in that Allah has become angry with them, and in the punishment they will abide eternally. 5:80

And if they had believed in Allah and the Prophet and in what was revealed to him, they would not have taken them as allies; but many of them are defiantly disobedient. 5:81

You will not find a people who believe in Allah and the Last Day having affection for those who oppose Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their fathers or their sons or their brothers or their kindred. 58:22

O you who have believed, do not take My enemies and your enemies as allies, extending to them affection while they have disbelieved in what came to you of the truth, having driven out the Prophet and yourselves [only] because you believe in Allah , your Lord. If you have come out for jihad in My cause and seeking means to My approval, [take them not as friends]. You confide to them affection, but I am most knowing of what you have concealed and what you have declared. And whoever does it among you has certainly strayed from the soundness of the way. 60:1

Allah does not forbid you from those who do not fight you because of religion and do not expel you from your homes - from being righteous toward them and acting justly toward them. Indeed, Allah loves those who act justly. 60:8

Allah only forbids you from those who fight you because of religion and expel you from your homes and aid in your expulsion - [forbids] that you make allies of them. And whoever makes allies of them, then it is those who are the wrongdoers. 60:9

O you who have believed, do not make allies of a people with whom Allah has become angry. They have despaired of [reward in] the Hereafter just as the disbelievers have despaired of [meeting] the inhabitants of the graves. 60:13

The Islamic Response to Printing of Cartoons and Attacks on Muslims

The printing of cartoons ridiculing the Final Prophet of Allah, under the name of Freedom of Expression, is another attack upon the Muslim Nation (Ummah) adding to the list of deep wounds continuously being inflicted upon this honourable nation.  These repeated attacks from the disbelieving nations are coming in the forms of full-scale military onslaught, as in Iraq and other places, to giving support to oppressive occupations such as the state of Israel and a host of political schemes, whether they be the direct creation and propping up of agent governments or using their tools such as the UN against us.

Yet time and time again the Muslims respond to the ever-increasing attacks, by the same emotional, ill-thought out and reactionary measures such as:

-          Demonstrations

-          Boycotts of certain goods

-          Declarations of Condemnations

-          Lobbying the governments

-          Donations of money to Charity Organisations

Instead of reflecting upon how the Muslim Nation should respond as a Nation which has great lands, resources, man power and above all the belief in Allah, we find that this is put aside and we are presented with short term patch up solutions, resulting in diverting our resources and attention away from the fundamental cause of our weakness as a Nation

Demonstrations and Boycotting goods have been going on for so long e.g. With regards to the plight of the Muslims in Palestine, yet they have never amounted to anything except the venting of anger and the false sense of achievement, the same can be seen clearly in recent times with Anti-War Protests and Iraq.

In Britain, Salman Rushdie, this apostate was allowed to publish and sell his book insulting the Prophet and the Mothers of the Believers and his ‘right’ to do so was defended again under the idea of ‘Freedom of Expression’.  This pillar of belief of the Capitalist Ideology is what pushed the media outlets throughout Europe to reprint the blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammed (SAW).

It is important to realise that the Muslim nation is described as such because it’s people hold the creed of Islam, which is fundamentally different to the other nations.  The Capitalist have their own concepts of Freedom, Democracy, Secularism and Human Rights, and they will naturally act according to their beliefs and will defend and propagate them.  Is it not these very beliefs, which justify Fornication, Alcohol, Gambling, Gay Marriages, Guantanamo Bay etc!

The biggest danger to the Muslims is when they start adopting, acting and spreading the non-Islamic principles of the Capitalist, often out of ignorance of Islamic political principles, or in order not to lose the comforts of the world and sometimes in reaction to traps laid by the disbelievers, such as the recent calls for Freedom of Speech and Human Rights when laws of silencing Muslims, under the guise of Fighting Terror, were announced by British government.

So let us rightly look to Muhammed (saw) and those that followed him to see how they responded to the hostility of the Quraysh and the menace of the Jewish tribes towards the Muslim Nation.  We do not find boycotts, demonstrations or charity organisations but an organised nation with an economic and political infrastructure ready to respond militarily if need be - so that the disbelievers would think twice before they dared attack the Muslims.  This exemplary response to attacks continued in our history even up until the late Uthmani Khalifs who warned France and Britain to stop a theatrical play insulting our Prophet, otherwise they would find the Muslim Armies at their doorsteps.

However, today we are missing such a response because we are divided into many nation states, being ruled by secular puppet governments.  Unless our efforts are aimed at resuming the Islamic way of life, having a sincere Islamic leadership (Imam/Khalifah), we will not deal effectively to the attacks we face and other vital issues.  Each one of us must support this cause for the political change in our lands, and advise each other of not diverting our energies.

“O you who believe! If you will aid the cause of Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly. But those who reject, for them is destruction, and Allah will render their deeds astray.” [TMQ 47:7]

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A Concise Rational Proof of the Creator’s Existence

The universe, in which we find ourselves, has a certain description and a set of laws fixed with in it e.g. the law of gravity, the strength of steel, the spectrum of colours in light etc. and this why  we witness the sun rise and set each day exactly the same way each year.  Like a painting, painted in a particular way, the world around us is a certain way, and thus if there is a painting there must be a painter.

If we were for a moment to ponder over this fact that everything around us has set characteristics and limitations in height, weight and energy, from a speck of dust to the countless stars; the only rational conclusion that can be drawn is that this universe must have been brought in to existence and given these characteristics by a Creator, who is unlimited. The denial of a Creator would be to deny the reality around us, to be irrational.

Another reality also exists, the clear revelation from the Creator informing us of the purpose of creation, i.e. the Qur’an (see Concise Proof also).  To quote from it:

“Did you think that We had created you in play (without any purpose), and that you would not be brought back to Us?” [23:115 TMQ]  

Realising the solution that will deal with injustices around the world

The prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay and other similar interrogation centres, are just one of the injustices and crimes being committed in the world today, many by the USA and her Allies.  Countless other crimes and injustices are being committed around the world, where suffering and exploitation of people is at unimaginable levels.

The reaction by many people to these crimes and injustices thus far have been: to march and shout on the streets, sign some petitions, donate to a charity organisation, boycott some goods, or vote for secular political parties, in the hope that somehow these ineffective actions will lead to resolving just one of the burning issues around the world.

We also see that describing in detail these injustices is easier than providing the real solutions that will actually deal with these crimes and sufferings.  This is because to correctly identify the solutions, requires a correct ideological basis* from where the solutions will be derived.

So for the secular people and their parties, it is the mind, which decides what is a crime and what is not, and what is implemented is what the majority of minds agree upon (Democracy).  For them the Word of God does not dictate any policies.  So you will find that they do not see homosexuality, nudity, gambling, alcoholism, relationships outside marriage, prostitution etc as crimes.  Moreover because there is not a set moral standard, except what the majority agree upon, then what is evil or despicable today may become acceptable tomorrow, and homosexuality in the West is an example of this.

As for the Muslims, the crime and its remedy are both defined by the Guidance sent by the Creator and Lord of this world i.e. Islam.  In fact, when Islam is not the basis for judging matters, then oppression and injustice are more likely to occur.  The world has witnessed the scale of bloodshed, tyranny, oppression and spread of corruption in the last century since the decline of Islam as a political power and the rise of the ideology of ‘Democracy and Freedom’.

In truth, the materialistic ideologies, Capitalism and Socialism, cannot stand up for justice, because from their basis they have a corruption - since they have detached God as the source of moral standards and criteria of justice.  Thus our support needs to be with those whose basis is the Truth and are working for the rise of the ideology based on this truth and not with those whose basis is falsehood. 

It is the re-establishment of Islam as a political, economic and social entity, which will organise the resources to counter the tyranny and oppression prevailing in the world today, in order that justice and mercy can be witnessed again.  Allah (swt) says:

"We verily sent our messengers with clear proofs and revealed with them the scripture and the balance (of right and wrong), that mankind may observe justice” TMQ 57:25

The guidance, of the creator, must be implemented in its entirety without compromise, and the first step towards this is to know how to identify the systems of Islam from other ideologies, and support those who work for God’s Law and shun those who work for Man’s laws.