Hypocrites and Apostates are Unreliable

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الصلاة والسلام عليك يا رسول الله

Many people are unable to make sense of the attack in Magdeburg, Germany on December 20, 2024, in which a man rammed his vehicle over people participating in a Christmas market. Over two hundred people have been injured in this attack, with at least five having been killed to date. Since so many people are in critical condition many more are expected to die in the coming days.

What makes this incident unusual is that the perpetrator, Taleb bin Jawad Abdulmohsen, is apparently an ex-Muslim, an apostate from Islam (though from a Shi'ite background, making his apostasy nothing remarkable). A Saudi national who was granted asylum in Germany, where he has been a resident since 2006, his social media profile reveals he is strongly critical of Islam. In fact, his hatred of Islam and Muslims is so strong that he is openly supports Zionism and the Islamophobic Far-Right in Europe, including the Alternative for Deutchland (AfD) political party in Germany. Ironically, the AfD and the like are using this mass-murder, committed by one of its ardent backers, as justification for its politics of hostility toward Islam and Muslims. Taleb was deeply critical of the German government for what he perceived as their complacency in the “Islamification” of Germany, and later for what he claimed was their betrayal of Saudi dissidents and other ex-Muslims seeking asylum. This is likely his motive for the mass-murder he committed in Magdeburg, though of course madness is probably another factor. It is quite common for Murtads, apostates from Islam, to eventually be driven insane by the touch of the devils that surround them and have taken their souls captive. They are a people filled with internal rage and whose hearts are blackened with hatred for Allah and His Apostle, peace be upon him. It is also well-known that the overwhelming majority of individuals who leave Islam do so because they are unable to accept the Faith’s restrictions and condemnation against unnatural sexual activity, particularly homosexuality. Upon leaving the Faith they usually go wild in their newfound freedom, and adapt an extremely hedonistic lifestyle which even ordinary non-Muslims find objectionable. Their condition is described by Allah Most High in the following Verse:

لَعَمۡرُکَ اِنَّہُمۡ لَفِیۡ سَکۡرَتِہِمۡ یَعۡمَہُوۡنَ

By your life [My Apostle] they are wandering blindly in their intoxication

(Surah 15, Ayah 72)

This betrayal of the German unbelievers by a Saudi apostate reminds one of a similar treachery committed by the Munafiqin against the Jews in the time of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him.

The story starts with a plot of the Jews of the Bani Nadir tribe to assassinate the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him:

خرج رسول الله ص إِلَى بَنِي النَّضِيرِ يَسْتَعِينُهُمْ فِي دِيَةِ ذَيْنِكَ الْقَتِيلَيْنِ مِنْ بَنِي عَامِرٍ اللَّذَيْنِ قَتَلَ عَمْرُو بْنُ أُمَيَّةَ الضَّمْرِيُّ لِلْجِوَارِ الَّذِي كَانَ رَسُولُ الله عَقَدَهُ لَهُمَا - كَمَا حَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ رُومَانَ- وَكَانَ بَيْنَ بَنِي النَّضِيرِ وَبَيْنَ بَنِي عَامِرٍ حلف وعقد فلما أتاهم رسول الله يَسْتَعِينُهُمْ فِي دِيَةِ ذَيْنِكَ الْقَتِيلَيْنِ قَالُوا نَعَمْ يَا أَبَا الْقَاسِمِ نُعِينُكَ عَلى مَا أَحْبَبْتَ مِمَّا اسْتَعَنْتَ بِنَا عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ خَلا بَعْضُهُمْ بِبَعْضٍ فَقَالُوا إِنَّكُمْ لَنْ تَجِدُوا هَذَا الرَّجُلَ على مثل حاله هذه- ورسول الله إِلى جَنْبِ جِدَارٍ مِنْ بُيُوتِهِمْ قَاعِدٌ- فَقَالُوا مَنْ رَجُلٌ يَعْلُو عَلَى هَذَا الْبَيْتِ فَيُلْقِي عَلَيْهِ صَخْرَةً فَيَقْتُلُهُ بِهَا فَيُرِيحُنَا مِنْهُ فَانْتُدِبَ لِذَلِكَ عَمْرُو بْنُ جِحَاشِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ أَحَدُهُمْ فَقَالَ أَنَا لِذَلِكَ فَصَعِدَ لِيُلْقِيَ عَلَيْهِ الصَّخْرَةَ- كما قال- ورسول الله فِي نَفَرٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِهِ فِيهِمْ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وعمر وعلى فاتى رسول الله ص الْخَبَرُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ بِمَا أَرَادَ الْقَوْمُ فَقَامَ وَقَالَ لأَصْحَابِهِ لا تَبْرَحُوا حَتَّى آتِيَكُمْ وَخَرَجَ رَاجِعًا إِلَى الْمَدِينَةِ فَلَمَّا اسْتَلْبَثَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَصْحَابُهُ قَامُوا فِي طَلَبِهِ فَلَقَوْا رَجُلا مُقْبِلا مِنَ الْمَدِينَةِ فَسَأَلُوهُ عَنْهُ فَقَالَ رَأَيْتُهُ دَاخِلا المدينة فاقبل اصحاب رسول الله حَتَّى انْتَهَوْا إِلَيْهِ ‌فَأَخْبَرَهُمُ ‌الْخَبَرَ ‌بِمَا ‌كَانَتْ ‌يَهُودُ ‌قَدْ ‌أَرَادَتْ من الغدر به وامر رسول الله ص بِالتَّهَيُّؤِ لِحَرْبِهِمْ وَالسَّيْرِ إِلَيْهِمْ

The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, went out to Banu Nadir to ask for their help in the blood money of the two men killed from Banu Amir whom Amr ibn Umayyah ad-Damri had killed because of the protection that the Messenger of Allah had made for them and there was an alliance and a contract between Banu Nadir and Banu Amir. So when the Messenger of Allah came to them to ask for their help in the blood money of those two men killed, they said: Yes, O Abul-Qasim, we will help you with what you liked what you asked us for help with. Then some of them spoke to one another and said, “You will never find this man in such a state as this.” The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was sitting next to a wall of their houses. They said, “Who is the man who will climb up to this house and throw a rock at him and kill him with it, thus relieving us of him?” So Amr bin Jihash bin Ka’b, one of them, volunteered for this, and he said, “I will.” So he went up to throw the rock at him - as he said - and the Messenger of God was with a group of his companions, among them Abu Bakr, Umar and Ali. Then the news came to the Messenger of God from Heaven about what the people wanted, so he stood up and said to his companions, “Do not move until I come to you.” Then he went out, returning to Medina. When the Messenger of God had tarried for a long time, his companions went in search of him and they met a man coming from Medina, so they asked him about him. He said: I saw him entering the city, and the companions of the Messenger of God approached him until they reached him. He informed them of the news of what the Jews had intended to do to him, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, ordered them to prepare to fight them and to march towards them (Tarikh at-Tabari; v.2, pp.551-552)

So when the Prophet, peace be upon him, ordered the banishment of the Banu Nadir for their treachery, the Munafiqin, led by Ibn Ubayy, sent them a dispatch pledging to protect them, and this is mentioned by Allah Most High in the Holy Quran:

اَلَمۡ تَرَ اِلَی الَّذِیۡنَ نَافَقُوۡا یَقُوۡلُوۡنَ لِاِخۡوَانِہِمُ الَّذِیۡنَ کَفَرُوۡا مِنۡ اَہۡلِ الۡکِتٰبِ لَئِنۡ اُخۡرِجۡتُمۡ لَنَخۡرُجَنَّ مَعَکُمۡ وَلَا نُطِیۡعُ فِیۡکُمۡ اَحَدًا اَبَدًا ۙ وَّاِنۡ قُوۡتِلۡتُمۡ لَنَنۡصُرَنَّکُمۡ ؕ وَاللّٰہُ یَشۡہَدُ اِنَّہُمۡ لَکٰذِبُوۡنَ

Have you not seen those who are hypocrites? They said to their brethren, those who disbelieve among the people of the Scripture: “If you are expelled we shall go out with you, and we will never obey anyone against you. And if you are fought against will aid you.” But Allah bears witness that they are liars

(Surah 59, Ayah 11)

لَئِنۡ اُخۡرِجُوۡا لَا یَخۡرُجُوۡنَ مَعَہُمۡ ۚ وَلَئِنۡ قُوۡتِلُوۡا لَا یَنۡصُرُوۡنَہُمۡ ۚ وَلَئِنۡ نَّصَرُوۡہُمۡ لَیُوَلُّنَّ الۡاَدۡبَارَ ۟ ثُمَّ لَا یُنۡصَرُوۡنَ

If they are expelled, they will not go out with them, and if they are fought they will not aid them. And even if they aided them they would assuredly turn [their] backs. Then they would not be aided

(Surah 59, Ayah 12)

And so the Bani Nadir decided to remain put and defy the Prophet’s order of banishment, having confidence in the pledge of the Hypocrites to defend them. Little did they know that the Hypocrites, because of their cowardice, low character and morals, would betray them and fail to show up to defend them. And this reveals the fact that the hypocrites (fake Muslims), many of whom eventually openly renounce Islam as apostates, are slimier than even the Jews and other unbelievers who are hostile to the Believers.