All praise is due to Allâh, Lord of the Worlds. May peace and blessings
be upon the Messenger, his household and companions.
Fear Allâh and be dutiful to Him. Call yourselves to account before you
are called to it. Today is the time for good deeds, for death comes after
that where there will not be an opportunity to do any work.
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“Be afraid of the Day when you shall be brought back to Allâh. Then every
person shall be paid what he earned, and they shall not be dealt with
unjustly.”
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Brethren in faith! In the Year of Conquest which is the 8th year of
Hijrah, the Messenger of Allâh entered Makkah with calmness and
tranquility, gallantly and victoriously; while reciting the word of
Allâh,
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“Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Surely falsehood is ever bound
to vanish.”
(Al-Isrâ 17 :81)
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He entered the Sacred Mosque, took the Key of Kâba from ‘Uthmân bin
Talhah and then sat in the mosque. Alî bin Abî Tâlib came to him while
he was holding the Keys of Kâba and said, “O Messenger of Allâh! Give us
the custody of the Keys of Kâba in addition to the office of water
supply. May Allâh bestow peace on you.” The Messenger of Allâh did not
answer him, but instead said, “Where is ‘Uthmân bin Talhah?” When he was
called for him, he said, “Take your Keys, O ‘Uthmân! For this day is the
day of fulfillment of obligations and righteousness.” The Prophet then
went out reciting the Word of Allâh,
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“Verily, Allâh commands that you should render back the trusts to those
to whom they are due; and that when you judge between men, you judge with
justice.”
(An-Nisâ 4 :58)
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Allâhu akbar! This great victory over disbelief, oppression and
transgressors, did not make the Prophet forget that he was sent with
justice and equality. It is by this justice that distinguished this Ummah
among other nations.
Allâh says,
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“Thus We have made you (true Muslims) a just (and the best) nation.”
(Al-Imrân 3:143)
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Almighty Allâh enjoins justice and praises the just, and forbids
injustice and condemns the unjust in more than 350 verses in His Book.
Fellow Muslims! Justice is the balance on the earth and injustice is
nothing but a tool of destruction of all that lives on the earth. The
greatest manifestation of injustice on the earth is aggression and
oppression and the worst form of oppression is shedding of innocent blood,
causing mischief on the land, transgressing and barbaric persecution of
the weak at the hand of the strong.
Justice in the glittering contemporary civilization, like its other
values, is defined by relativity and applied with double standard by those
who are non-Muslims. But in Islâm, justice is an absolute value in which
there is no relativity. In Islâm, justice is a quality that should be
applied to Muslims and non-Muslims alike; to friend and foe; to peace
partner or war opponent.
All this is in accordance with the saying of Allâh,
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“And let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice, as
witnesses to Allâh, even though it be against yourselves, or your parents
or your kin.”
(Al-Mâidah 4 :135)
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Ibn Kathîr said, “Maintaining justice is required of everybody at all
situations.”
This is supported by the saying of Allâh,
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“And let not the hatred of some people in (once) stopping you from
Al-Masjid Al-Harâm lead you to transgress.”
(Al-Mâidah 5 :2)
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In this verse, Allâh forbids the Muslim from treating enemies unjustly.
It is here that Islamic orientation for all Muslims worldly manifests
throughout their history regardless of wartime or peacetime. Ibn Taymiyyah
said, “If the believer overwhelms and becomes victorious, he treats his
opponents with justice and kindness and he is conquered, he perseveres and
hopes for reward.” Ka‘b bin Zuhayr rendered a poem in front of the
Messenger of Allâh in which he said,
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They do not over-rejoice when their spears hit the targets;
And they do not become sad if they are defeated.
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An Arab man was asked about some qualities of the Prophet and he answered,
“I saw that when he won he did not become ostentatious and when he was
defeated, he did not become sad.” Those who are called freed-men of
Quraysh were not called so but for the fact that the Prophet told them at
the peak of his victory, after they had expelled him and persecuted his
companions, “You can go, for you are freed.”
Brethren in faith! It is in the light of showing the essence of justice
and its natural application in these contemporary days that we want to
make a comparison between the behaviour of Muslim soldiers in their wars
and that of non-Muslim soldiers including the soldiers of modern
civilization. This shall be discussed in the light of six times that
Palestine has been exposed to wars in the past 2,000 years.
Palestine has been exposed to Persian invasion that burned down the
region, killed its ruler and desecrated its holy places. In less than ten
years, the Byzantines also invaded the region, defeated the Persians and
took revenge on them and the Jew who supported them in a most cruel form.
In this case, the Byzantines were not less barbaric than their
predecessors.
After about ten years, the Muslims won the city and entered it victoriously. They did not shed any blood, nor looted any property or
killed any old man, woman or child. The popular ‘Umâr document was then
issued. Whoever reads this document and sees the justice, magnanimity and
impartiality that it contained, he would not think that it was between a
victorious army and a defeated one.
After some centuries, the crusaders invaded Baitul-Maqdis and conquered
its inhabitants who were mostly Muslims. But what were the war manners of
these invading warriors? This was summed up in a statement said by the
leader of that crusade that their horses were wading through the blood of
Muslims. Another European historian narrated the war saying, “The
crusaders had invaded the streets of Baitul-Maqdis harvesting souls of
men, women, old people and little children until the number of the killed
reached 10 ,000.”
In less than a century, the army of Salahuddîn decisively defeated the
crusaders in the Battle of Hittîn and the gates of Baitul-Maqdis were
opened for the Muslims who entered the city victoriously and gallantly
while they demonstrated a high sense of magnanimity, justice and mercy in
times of war. The western historians were even forced to admit and praise
that.
Then came another calamity and blind barbarity in the second half of the
last century when the army of European mandate entered Palestine along
with Jewish soldiers. The Jews committed massacres and different forms of
barbarism and hostilities, most heinous of which was the famous Deir Yasin
massacre and which was described by one of the perpetrators in his words:
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“This operation has had great results. The Palestinians had become
appalled by the news of what happened in Deir Yasin and started fleeing in
terror and none remained of them but only about 150,000 after they had
been more than 800,000.”
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This butcher then said, “Had it not been Deir
Yasin massacre, Israel would not have come to existence.”
According to the views of modern civilization, this atrocious act did not
contradict the concept of justice. That was why this criminal was awarded
Nobel Peace Prize.
This comparison between the behaviour of Muslim armies and that of
non-believing armies confirmed the assertion of one of the greatest
historians of modern civilization, that human history had not seen
conquerors more compassionate than Muslims. Thus, the Muslims were always
the victims of every aggression and hostility and they have never been
known as transgressors even in modern history. In Palestine, Algeria,
Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and other nations, the citizens of those
countries were never the aggressors, it was rather the colonialists who
claimed to be masters of modern civilization who were aggressors. It is
however saddening that these masters of modern civilization were able to
exploit the Muslims' forgetfulness, their weak sense of history and lack
of understanding the situations and concept of justice in the views of the
advocates of the so-called modern civilization. If not so, how could they
call the armed resistance against transgressors in some Muslims states
resistance movements and suddenly within a twinkle of an eye start
labeling these same struggles terrorism that must be uprooted?
Fellow Muslims! Modern civilization drew for itself an industrial and
technological shape that is devoid of piety, proper concept of mutual
compassion and human justice in the least. It therefore turned to an
arrogant and repressive civilization that abandons kind arguments for
wars. They made their evil inclinations feared and disregarded the rights
of others. They only wanted these colonized lands independent areas where
their citizens will serve them and toil in order to make the colonizers
happy. That was why the military revolutions were made to succeed by the
modern civilization so that most part of the Muslim world would continue
to suffer all kinds of political and economical oppressions; a situation
that has turned security in most of these lands into a mere mirage.
It is also of no doubt that, the less resurgent the Muslims are, the more
they wallow in this mirage.
Allâh says,
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"For if they come to know of you, they will stone you (to death or abuse
and harm you) or turn you back to their religion; and in that case, you
will never be successful!"
(Al-Kahf18 :20)
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It is because of this, that many aspects of the history of this
civilization is red with shed blood of many victims; for it killed nations
that wanted freedom and deprived them of means of knowledge, power and
growth.
Brethren in faith! Do not be deluded by the slogans of brotherhood,
justice and freedom of religion that the modern civilization makes between
now and then. They have actually explained these slogans to the whole
world except the Muslims; and if there was a need to explain them to
Muslims, it has to be on the condition that man relinquishes the honour of
being ruler on the earth, with dual purpose of worshipping Allâh and
establishing justice on the earth. If there must be more explanation, it
should be on the fact that, Islâm should be made to sit on the fence and
support whatever they want. But that the religion should support the human
rights and command people to enter into the religion of peace entirely,
that should not be, because, Islâm according to them, should be kept from
the public life as far as possible. As for other religions, nations should
be allowed to be established on their names. That is why their
civilization welcomes the idol worshippers with heartfelt regards and all
pleasures. By your Lord, what kind of civilization is this?!
In view of the above, correct is what the experts in international
relations said that, all these behaviours are only based on the concept of
national interest or like interrelationship between highway robbers. And
the guarantees that the international treaties on justice represent are
only implemented if Muslims or Arabs are not involved. But if a Muslim or
an Arab country is involved, the matter will be given a different colour.
All these unjust activities performed by the so-called modern
civilizations cause some wise men among them to warn their people against
the consequences of these behaviours. Will the Muslims then understand? It
is however of the way of Allâh to let this civilization reap what it has
sowed and taste what it reaps for no bird flies and goes up except that it
lands at last.
Allâh says,
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"And a disaster will not cease to strike those who disbelieved because of
their (evil) deeds or it settles close to their homes, until the Promise
of Allâh comes to pass. Certainly, Allâh breaks not His Promise."
(Ar-Ra'd13 :31)
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Brethren in Islâm! The witness to the situation of modern civilization
will realize that its perversion in its concept of justice is natural
because its very spirit is based on selfishness, aggression, urge for
power and a desire to destroy. Nothing testifies to this more than what
this civilization has produced of weapons of mass destruction and the
amount spent on that that was far more than the whole world's food
expenditure. It is also a well-known fact that one of the nations of this
civilization has produced weapons that are capable of destroying the whole
of the third world and three times its size. Few decades ago, one of these
superpowers had thrown truckloads of poisonous gases into the oceans when
it saw that it was capable of destroying the whole world six times.
Fellow Muslims! It is enough a surprise that the claimant of this
civilization could be so vicious as to possess the weapons that are
capable of destroying the whole world. This is sheer arrogance and
transgression. What is the sin of the whole world to be threatened of
destruction? Are the world wars in which millions of people died not
enough lesson from this perverted imagination?
Brethren in Islâm! Our aim is not to deride modern civilization by
exposing its evils. The purpose is actually greater than that; for many in
different Muslim lands have been influenced by the slogans and glitters of
this civilization to the extent that we see of them justifying the
injustices and aggressions perpetrated by these so-called civilized
nations and they also glorify their double standard in applying the
concept of justice. What is required is to acquaint the Muslims with the
false concept of justice and let them understand the actual meaning of
justice according to this civilization.
This is therefore the responsibility of every sector of the Muslims which
they owe to their Lord and that is by correcting the situation through
sincere return to Allâh and by introducing the real Islâm in aspects of
education. We must also nurture the growing Muslims on Muslims on proper
usage of media so that Muslims may stand firm against the waves of fake
modern civilization, that truth cannot be overwhelmed and that falsehood
cannot be turned to truth because it is backed by a political power, for
the atrocities committed by Pharaoh were not turned to virtues because he
possessed a power to kill and spare at will.
The criterion for goodness is how closer one is to Allâh. We must also
face this deplorable situation and know the hidden motives of our enemies
before we are destroyed spiritually, historically and militarily. Though
the enemies would want to build their glory on our destruction, that would
not be possible, because falsehood never overwhelms the truth and because
other predecessors had went through similar situations like our present
ones and came out victorious, after they had reformed themselves and
genuinely reformed their relationships with their Lord.
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"And Allâh has full power ad control over His Affairs, but most of men
know not."
(Yűsuf12 :21)
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Insha Allâh, a time will come when real justice and equality will fill
the land as it is filled now with injustice and perversion.
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"Let not the free disposal (and affluence) of the disbelievers throughout
the land deceive you. A brief enjoyment; then, their ultimate abode is
Hell; and worst indeed is that place for rest."
(Aal 'Imrân 3 :196-197)
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