Prophet Jeremiah (4:164; 40:78)

 

بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ

In the Name of Allâh, the Rahmân, the Merciful

اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على نبينا وسيدنا ومولانا محمد

Allah سبحانه وتعالى says:

وَلَقَدۡ اَرۡسَلۡنَا رُسُلًا مِّنۡ قَبۡلِکَ مِنۡہُمۡ مَّنۡ قَصَصۡنَا عَلَیۡکَ وَمِنۡہُمۡ مَّنۡ لَّمۡ نَقۡصُصۡ عَلَیۡکَ ؕ وَمَا کَانَ لِرَسُوۡلٍ اَنۡ یَّاۡتِیَ بِاٰیَۃٍ اِلَّا بِاِذۡنِ اللّٰہِ

And We sent Messengers before you, of them are some We have mentioned to you and of them are some We have not mentioned to you. And it is not for the Messenger to bring a Sign except by the leave of Allah

(Surah 40, Ayah 78)

Among the Messengers of God explicitly mentioned in the Quran are Noah, Abraham, Moses, Aaron, Elias, Elisha, Jonas, Zechariah, John, Jesus, and the final Messenger Muhammad, peace be upon them all.

However, the Prophet Jeremiah, despite not being explicitly named in the Quran, was certainly one of the Messengers who falls under the category of minhum man lam naqšuš ‘alayka ‘of those We have not mentioned to you’. Wahb bin Munabbih, Mujahid bin Jabr, Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Ibn Asakir, Ibn Kathir and other Muslim scholars and historians have all affirmed the Prophesy of Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah.

This great Prophet is best known for his prophesying of the imminent destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple, in the sixth century before the common era, because of the corruption and wickedness of the Jews. He preached a message of repentance, condemning idolatry that was rife in Judah, as well as social injustice.

Among the features of Jeremiah’s Prophesy was the performance of symbolic actions, such as placing a yoke on his neck to symbolize the captivity the Jews would soon suffer under Babylon. This type of Prophetic activity is also associated with Ezekiel. It may be said that our own Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم likewise performed a symbolic act of prophesy and explained it too when he struck a boulder thrice breaking it up into pieces while the Trench was being dug. With each strike of his spade there was a flash of light, and he declared after the first strike: “Allahu Akbar! I have been given the keys of the Levant. And by Allah I am viewing its red palaces now from this place” and upon the second strike, “Allahu Akbar! I have been given the keys of Persia, and by Allah I am viewing the white palace of Mada’in now” and upon the third strike, “Allahu Akbar! I have been given the keys of Yemen, and by Allah I am viewing the gate of San’a”

Returning to the Prophesy of Jeremiah عليه السلام we find that while Jerusalem was being besieged by the Babylonians, Jeremiah preached that the Jews should surrender to them and thus save their lives. This caused great controversy that the Jewish princes and nobles complained to King Zedekiah, saying that Jeremiah’s prophesying of doom was demoralizing the troops defending the city and so he should be imprisoned. King Zedekiah permitted them to do so, and they lowered him into the cistern where he would have starved to death were it not for the intercession of the eunuch Ebedmelech the Ethiopian. The enemies of the Jeremiah, especially the false prophets, would accuse him of treason, and attempted to counter his Prophesy by predicting that Judah would instead be blessed, victorious and prosperous.

Surely, the Prophesy of Jeremiah is relevant to the situation of the Muslims today. For example, the present siege of Gaza by the Zionist forces has resulted in considerable death, destruction and human suffering for the Palestinian Muslims. Many are even describing it as a genocide. Now the question arises what should the reaction of the Palestinian Muslims in Gaza be to this calamity? Should they, as most seem to agree, resist bravely through Jihad and embrace the opportunity for martyrdom? That would certainly be the right path in a scenario where the Palestinian Muslims are a nation that is generally upright and obedient. But the truth is that while it cannot be said that they have become totally corrupt and wicked they are not exactly the most righteous and zealous for the Faith either. It would not be wrong for the Rabbaniyyun to preach a message of repentance and rectification to them and indeed to the Ummah more broadly. If one like Prophet Jeremiah appeared in their midst calling them to not only surrender to the Zionists and give up the futile effort of armed resistance but more importantly to repent from disobedience and immorality too, he should by no means be deemed a traitor but rather a well wisher of the nation. But this is not a matter that is clear, for the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم has reportedly said:

لَا ‌تَزَالُ ‌طَائِفةٌ ‌مِنْ ‌أُمَّتِي ‌يُقَاتِلُونَ ‌عَلَى ‌أبوَابِ ‌دِمَشْقَ ‌وَمَا ‌حَوْلَهُ وَعَلَى أبْوَابِ بَيْتِ المَقْدِسِ وَمَا حَوْلَهُ لَا يَضُرهُم خُذلَانُ مَن خَذَلَهُمْ ظَاهِرِينَ عَلَى الحَقِّ إلَى أَنْ تَقُومَ السَّاعَةُ

There will not cease to be a faction of my Ummah that will fight at the gates of Damascus and its vicinity, and at the gates of the Holy Place [Jerusalem] and its vicinity. They will not be harmed by the blamers of those who blame them. They are manifest upon the Truth until the establishment of the Hour

(al-Mu’jam al-Awsat lil—Tabarani)

Indeed, there is the directive of Jihad in this Religion which can never be abandoned as long as the conditions of its validity are met. Nevertheless, there are forces that Allah Himself empowers from among the pagans and unbelievers who are His instrument in exacting retribution against this Ummah when it falters and incurs His wrath. That is from the Sunnah of Allah, and He does not alter His Sunnah. Concerning Gog and Magog, Allah عز وجل says that they are servants of His whom none is able to fight:

فَإِنِّي قَدْ أَنْزَلْتُ عِبَادًا لِي لاَ يَدَىْ لأَحَدٍ بِقِتَالِهِمْ

For I have sent servants of Mine whom none dare to fight them

(Sahih Muslim)

Neither did Dhul—Qarnayn directly confront the nations of Gog and Magog nor will the Messiah Jesus عليه السلام do so when he descends in the Latter Days. While the Zionist forces are not Gog and Magog and they are obviously not invincible, the Muslims will be unable to overcome them while we are in a state of moral corruption and disobedience to Allah.

Danger of Heretical Groups Professing Islam

 بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ

In the Name of Allâh, the Rahmân, the Merciful

One of the dangers posed by the Zanâdiqah, heretical sects that profess Islâm, is their propensity to back stab the Ummah by covertly, and in many cases not so covertly allying with our external enemies. In India the Dâwûdî (Bohra) sect of Ismâ’îlîs maintain a special relationship with the diabolical, anti-Muslim Prime Minister Modi and the BJP government. They have thrown all other Muslims under the bus with the aim of reaping favorable treatment for their own minuscule sect. To a lesser extent this is also true of the larger Twelver Shî’ah community, who are viewed more favorably by Hindus, and who have frequently back stabbed the mainstream Sunnî Muslim community by aligning with the BJP government and with the Hindutva movement. But unlike the Dâwûdî Bohras, who are more organized and beholden to the policy of their leader, the Twelvers are not monolithic in their politics, and some elements within that community have historically and presently expressed solidarity with the interests of the broader Ummah. Saifuddin Insaf, a reformist within the Dâwûdî Bohra community, exposed the attitude of his sect in an article published by the Milli Gazette, 28 November, 2012:

“The Dawoodi Bohra priesthood has always used Muslims to safeguard its interests and power. But it has not joined and helped Muslims in any welfare activity and humanitarian work, victims of riots and violence, participating in events like Miladun Nabi, peace committees, Babri Masjid agitation etc...Loss of Muslim support compelled the Bohra priestly class to seek support of Hindus and hardcore Hidutwa leaders like Narendra Modi, LK Advani, Bal Thackeray etc.”

The author goes on to detail the heretical theology and corrupt religious practices within the sect:

“To establish his absolute authoritarian control over the Bohra community, Syedna Taher Saifuddin went to the extent of claiming that he is “Elahul-Ard” (God on this earth) (na’udhu billah) and that he has powers equal to that of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and that he is accountable to no one and that he is master of the soul, mind, body and properties of his followers. He made it compulsory that every Bohra should call him/herself as “Slave of Sayedna” (Abd-e Sayedna / Amat-e Syedna) and perform “Sajda-e ‘Ubudiyat” in front of him. He also claimed that he is “Qur’an-e Natiq (speaking Qur'an) (na’udhu billah) and that the Quran in the present book form is a dead book (na’udhu billah)...Namaz, Hajj, Zakat etc., which are obligatory according to Islam and Quran for every Muslim, were declared unacceptable to Allah if done without the prior permission (Raza) of Syedna.”

While also heretical, some other sects and movements like the Nizârî Ismâ’îlî branch, led by the “Aghâ Khân” and the modernist Aligarh movement founded by Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khân, at least did not betray the broader Ummah in the political sense. To his credit, Aghâ Khân III, grandfather of the present Ismâ’îlî Imâm, Aghâ Khân IV, was one of the founders of the Muslim League in India which spearheaded the movement for a separate Muslim State, Pakistan. Cadres of the modernist Aligarh movement likewise worked passionately for the Muslims in India. Even the so—called Ahmadiyyah or Qâdiyânîs, have historically participated, however insignificantly, in the Muslim political cause, while presently issuing statements in favor of Muslims being oppressed in Palestine. But sadly no such positive contribution to at least the basic social, economic and political interests of the broader Ummah has been made by the Bohra sects (Tayyibîs or Must’alîs).

Another heretical sect, the Druze, who at least have the decency to not claim the label of Muslims (unlike the Ahmadiyyah, Bâtinî Ismâ’îlîs and Nusayrî Alawites), are fanatically devoted to the Zionist State. The Druze eagerly fight within the ranks of the Zionist armed forces, the IDF, and manifest a vicious hatred for the Muslims that is almost unparalleled. While the Druze do not profess Islâm, they are nevertheless an offshoot of the Ismâ’îlîs and are concentrated in a region of the world where they are in close proximity to the Muslims. Historically, they launched several armed rebellions against the Sunnî Ottoman empire. Concerning the Druze, Shaykh—ul—Islâm Ibn Taymiyah has said:

كفر هؤلاء مما لا يختلف فيه المسلمون؛ ‌بل ‌من ‌شك ‌في ‌كفرهم فهو كافر مثلهم؛ لا هم بمنزلة أهل الكتاب ولا المشركين؛ بل هم الكفرة الضالون فلا يباح أكل طعامهم وتسبى نساؤهم وتؤخذ أموالهم. فإنهم زنادقة مرتدون لا تقبل توبتهم؛ بل يقتلون أينما ثقفوا؛ ويلعنون كما وصفوا؛ ولا يجوز استخدامهم للحراسة والبوابة والحفاظ. ويجب قتل علمائهم وصلحائهم لئلا يضلوا غيرهم؛ ويحرم النوم معهم في بيوتهم؛ ورفقتهم؛ والمشي معهم وتشييع جنائزهم إذا علم موتها. ويحرم على ولاة أمور المسلمين إضاعة ما أمر الله من إقامة الحدود عليهم بأي شيء يراه المقيم لا المقام عليه

The Muslims do not differ as to the unbelief of these [Druze]. Rather, one who doubts their unbelief is an unbeliever like them. They are not in the same position as the people of the Scripture [Jews and Christians] or even the polytheists. Rather, they are misguided infidels so it is not permissible to eat their food. Their women and wealth are to be taken for they are heretical apostates whose repentance is not accepted. Rather, they are killed wherever they are found and cursed as they are described. It is not allowed to use them to guard or protect. It is obligatory to execute their scholars and their religious men so they do not lead others astray. It is prohibited to sleep the night with them in their houses, have their companionship, walk with them, and to participate in their funerals when learning of their death. (Majmû’ al-Fatâwâ; v.35, p.162)

Many Ribbis Killed With Prophets (3:146)

 

بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ

In the Name of Allah, the Rahman, the Merciful

وَکَاَیِّنۡ مِّنۡ نَّبِیٍّ قٰتَلَ ۙ مَعَہٗ رِبِّیُّوۡنَ کَثِیۡرٌ

And how many a Prophet there has been beside whom fought numerous Ribbis

In an alternative reading:

وَکَاَیِّنۡ مِّنۡ نَّبِیٍّ قُتِلَ ۙ مَعَہٗ رِبِّیُّوۡنَ کَثِیۡرٌ

And how many a Prophet, with him many Ribbis, was killed

(Surah 3:146)

The word Ribbiyyun, plural of Ribbi, is interesting and occurs exclusively in this Ayah. It is recognized as being a borrowing from either Hebrew or Syriac. It therefore corresponds to the Jewish term “Rabbi” which is actually correctly pronounced “Ribbi” by the Sephardic and Yemenite Jews. A Ribbi is therefore a learned man of God.

During the Second Temple period, the Jews were divided into dozens of sects and parties. It seems those closest to the Truth were those of the Pharisaic tradition, also known as Rabbinic Judaism. Unlike the heretical Sadducees, who denied the bodily Resurrection, the Pharisees acknowledged that along with a written Scripture the Prophet Moses received the Oral Torah at Mount Sinai. For our Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, we Sunni Muslims similarly believe that not only was the Quran, the final sacred Text or Scripture, revealed to him, but also the Similitude of the Quran, which is an unwritten Revelation that is known as the Sunnah:

أَلاَ إِنِّي أُوتِيتُ الْكِتَابَ وَمِثْلَهُ مَعَهُ

“Beware! Indeed, I have been given the Scripture and with it its Similitude”

(Sunan Abi Dawud)

The latter Prophets of the Israelite dispensation, namely, John the Baptizer (Yahya) and Jesus, came from the Pharisaic or Rabbinic tradition, although they railed against corruption and hypocrisy that had seeped into the Pharisees. Other denominations such as the Samaritans, Sadducees, Essenes, Karaites, etc., are therefore heterodox.

Likewise, in the Islamic dispensation, we observe that the Ribbis, or the learned and pious divines of this Ummah, all hail from ahl us-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah, or Sunnism, indicating that the sects which have been deprived of the blessing of Sainthood, such as the Kharijites, Shi’ites, Mu’tazilites, etc., are obviously heterodox.

The setting up of rival Shrines and alternative pilgrimages to that which is established in Islam is like the deviation of those Samaritans who did not worship in Jerusalem nor accepted the sanctity of the Temple therein. The Hadith—rejecters Ghulam Ahmad Parwez and Muhammad Shaikh both rejected the sanctity of Jerusalem and that Masjid al—Aqsa spoken of in the Quran is in Jerusalem (they identify it with the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina). The heretical Zikri sect based in Baluchistan reject the sanctity of the Ka’bah and Mecca and instead make a pilgrimage to the mountain Koh—i—Murad near Turbat. The Shi’ah have added to the Shrines by declaring the towns of Najaf, Karbala, Mashhad and Samarra holy and undertaking pilgrimages to them, often with greater fervor than the pilgrimage or Hajj to Mecca.

In our time a great fitnah has surfaced in the creating of rival Ka’bahs to the Ka’bah in Mecca. Many ignorant so—called Muslims flock to these replicas and perform similar rites like Tawaf around them. Incidentally, the Tefillin or phylacteries worn by Orthodox Jews during worship, includes a black box placed on the forehead and leather strap that is wound seven times around the forearm is meant to be a foreshadowing and symbolic representation of the Ka’bah and the seven rounds of its Tawaf.

False Religious Leaders and Movements of North Africa and Egypt

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

اللهم صل وسلم على خاتم النبيين

A large number of Mahdi claimants have risen in this Ummah, causing disturbance and division. Ibn Tumart (1080-1130) was one of the more notorious such claimants. His deviation from normative, Sunni Islam lay in his false theology which may be described as neo-Mu’tazilite. Like the classical Mu’tazilah who preceded him, Ibn Tumart dissented from the rest of the Community on the problem of the Divine Attributes. Ibn Tumart also rejected the four established schools of Sunni jurisprudence in favor of the obscure and literalist Zahiri school. He is credited for founding the Almohad movement, which became a governing dynasty in Iberia and North Africa. The term Almohad is an Anglicization of al-Muwahhidun, meaning the ‘unitarians’. It is not unlike how the classical Mu’tazilah called themselves ahl al-Tawhid, or how even the heretical Druze of today consider themselves al-muwahhidun. Indeed, many wayward movements and sects in Islamic history have emerged creating dissension under the pretense of monotheism, and the Almohad movement of Ibn Tumart was no different. Centuries earlier, the false prophet Salih bin Tarif had risen in the same geographic location. A Berber like Ibn Tumart, Salih bin Tarif of the Berghouata founded a new religion altogether, declaring himself a prophet, and hence was an apostate. The rebellious nature of the Berbers against the Arab central administration based in the East meant they were often susceptible to unorthodox movements and sects, such as the Kharijites. The Sufri Kharijites in particular played a damaging role in taking away the Berbers from orthodox, normative, Sunni Islam. Even today, while most of the Muslims of North Africa profess Sunni Islam and adhere to the Maliki school, there is still a remnant of the Ibadi Kharijites coexisting among them. The attraction to Kharijism for the Berbers and other North African populations may be rooted in their pre-Islamic history of Donatism.

The presence of Judaism in the lands of North Africa and Iberia was another factor in the deviation of many Muslims there. It is speculated that Salih bin Tarif himself was of Judaic origin, like Ibn Saba, the Himyarite Jew who outwardly converted to Islam only to create dissension within the Community. Ibn Saba found Egypt to be the most fertile soil for his devilish machinations. Many Muslims in Egypt and North Africa were drawn to Jewish mystics and continue to venerate them. The Jewish rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira, also known as Abu Hasira, hailed from Morocco but died in Damanhur, Egypt, where his tomb has become a pilgrimage site. Incidentally, the Kabbalist known as Baba Sali was a grandson of Yaakov Abuhatzeira. The scions of this family are attributed with miraculous powers and as such may be understood as prototypes of the Dajjal. It is reported that Ka’b al-Ahbar, may Allah be pleased with him, said:

الدَّجَّالُ بَشَرٌ وَلَدَتْهُ امْرَأَةٌ وَلَمْ يَنْزِلْ شَأْنِهِ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَالْإِنْجِيلِ وَلَكِنْ ذُكِرَ فِي كُتُبِ الْأَنْبِيَاءِ يُولَدُ فِي قَرْيَةٍ بِمِصْرَ يُقَالُ لَهَا ‌قُوصُ

The Dajjal is a mortal human, born of a woman, and although he is not mentioned in the Torah or the Gospel, but there is mention of him in the Books of the Prophets. He will be born in a town in Egypt called Qus. (al-Fitan li-Nu’aym bin Hammad)

It appears likely that despite his Judaic origin, the Dajjal will be perceived as belonging to this Ummah or a section of it, at least at a cultural level, which will be a means for many Muslims to be duped by him and actually believe that he is a truthful religious figure of some kind.

Being on the periphery of the Muslim World, North Africa (or the Maghreb) has often been a place where dissident and heretical factions established breakaway emirates and dynasties. In the early days of Islam the Berbers proved resistant to Islamization and Arabization. Due to their previous associations with Donatism, a Christian heresy, they were easily swindled by Sufri and Ibadi Kharijite proselytism. The Ibadis established the Rustamid dynasty in the Maghreb which united rival Berber tribes under a Persian Kharijite named Abd al-Rahman bin Rustam. Likewise, the Idrisid dynasty was established in modern-day Morocco by Idris, son of Abd Allah al-Mahd, when Idris fled the Abbasids in the aftermath of the Battle of Fakhkh, a sort of Zaidi uprising, which would mean the Idrisids were probably upon the Zaidi doctrine.

The Sufri Kharijites established the Ifranid emirate of Tlemcen under Abu Qurrah. The Midrarid dynasty of Sijilmasa was another Sufri Kharijite state of Samgu bin Wasul al-Miknasi. The Barghawata (also spelled Berghouata) were another faction that rose during the Berber Revolt of 740 CE. They too were Kharijite in orientation established by Tarif al-Matghari. The son of this man, Salih bin Tarif, succeeded his father but was a false prophet who established a new religion. After the success of the Abbasids in toppling the Umayyads, the fugitive Abd al-Rahman bin Mu’awiya bin Hisham managed to flee to Andalusia (Spain) where he established a breakaway Umayyad emirate in Cordoba, where there would be a “counter-caliphate” to the Abbasids for nearly three centuries. The Aghlabids were a Mu’tazilite dynasty founded by Ibrahim bin al-Aghlab. A return to Sunni orthodoxy was marked by the rise of the Almoravids of Abd Allah bin Yasin. But the Almoravids were toppled by the Almohads, founded by the heretic Ibn Tumart, who claimed to be the Mahdi. These Almohads rebelled against the Shari’ah in rejecting the concept of dhimmah and attempted to coerce non-Muslims, including the People of the Book (Jews and Christians) into converting to Islam.

After the period of European colonialism, particularly by the French, much of the Maghreb was culturally secularized and Europeanized. Yet, Khariji extremism remained among a segment of the Maghrebis as was seen during the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s. That conflict saw the emergence of an extremist neo-Kharijite faction called the Armed Islamic Group or GIA. Influenced by Qutb’s thought, they engaged in mass-Takfir of the Muslim society and thereby justified indiscriminate killings of civilians.

Fanatical Nationalism and Racism Among the Turks Today

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

وصلى الله على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وبارك وسلم

The recent disturbances in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in which Pakistani medical students were severely thrashed by locals points to the disease of fanatical nationalism and racism that has infected the Muslims of Central Asia (Turkestan) for some time now.

This region of the world is nominally Muslim as most of its people profess Islam, that too the orthodox Sunni Hanafi tradition within it. But decades under Soviet, Russian rule, which was socialist and atheist, resulted in the tragic secularization of the society.

After the collapse of the evil Soviet Union, a truly divine blessing from Allah Most High, attempts were made by the rest of the Ummah to reintegrate the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia into Islamdom. The Saudis and other Gulf Arab governments and philanthropists contributed much to facilitating an Islamic revival in the region.

But the rulers and elites of these Turkic Republics, who are remnants of the Soviet era, feared an Islamic revival and became agents of Iblis in enacting steps to curtail it. External signs of Islam especially the veil were strongly discouraged or even outright proscribed. The preaching and teaching of Islam became highly regulated and controlled by the State. The Russian Federation, till this day, plays a Satanic role pressuring the Turkic Republics of Central Asia to maintain their political secularism and cultural secularity, especially considering there remain in these States a significant minority of ethnic Russians. Neighboring China likewise wishes to pull the Turkic Republics of Central Asia into its own sphere of geopolitical and economic influence and therefore views a potential Islamic revival as a threat to its nefarious agenda.

Within these repressive and tyrannical Republics Wahhabism is used as a term of fright and a scare tactic to describe the Islamic revival for the purpose of warding it off. What is intended by Wahhabism is not merely the particular interpretation of Islam that was exported from Saudi Arabia, but in fact any conservative and strict approach to Sunni Islam which emphasizes the necessity of adhering to the Shari’ah and the Sunnah; practices like offering Salah five times daily, observing veil for ladies, and learning to read and understand the Quran.

While the population of the Central Asia Republics profess Sunni Islam, in reality, much of their practice of Islam is infused with pre-Islamic pagan spirituality like shamanism. Many others in this part of the world have become apostates in that they openly profess atheism or agnosticism.

Shaykh-ul-Islam, Ibn Taymiyah, encountered this strange phenomenon with those of the Mongols who outwardly converted to Islam yet retained their pre-Islamic attitudes and some pre-Islamic pagan practices. His series of fatawa or legal opinions on those Mongols may certainly apply today to segments of the professing Muslims of Central Asia, particularly their rulers and elites who openly act contrary to the interest of Islam. Allah Most High described a similar situation with the early Bedouin converts to Islam:

قَالَتِ الۡاَعۡرَابُ اٰمَنَّا ؕ قُلۡ لَّمۡ تُؤۡمِنُوۡا وَلٰکِنۡ قُوۡلُوۡۤا اَسۡلَمۡنَا وَلَمَّا یَدۡخُلِ الۡاِیۡمَانُ فِیۡ قُلُوۡبِکُمۡ

The Arabs of the desert say: We have believed. Say to them: You have not believed yet, but say rather: We have submitted; for faith has not yet entered into your hearts

(Surah 49, Ayah 14)

And this explains why bands of Kyrgyz goons viciously assaulted Pakistani and other Muslim foreign guests present in their country for studies. These are a nation in whose hearts Faith has not yet entered in totality and with establishment, rather, they are merely Muslims in that they outwardly profess Islam.

I see the Taliban in Afghanistan as a ray of Light in this region that has the potential to spread the sincere understanding and practice of the Faith north of its borders, into a place that is presently wrapped in darkness and ignorance. The contrast between the Taliban, and the conservative and zealous Pashtun population they come out of, with the totally secularized and non-observant Turks of Central Asia is stark. One can even say that Allah has blessed the Pashtuns with an external beauty in contrast to the Turks, whom the Prophet, peace be upon him, described as having:

صِغَارَ الأَعْيُنِ حُمْرَ الْوُجُوهِ ذُلْفَ الأُنُوفِ كَأَنَّ وُجُوهَهُمُ الْمَجَانُّ الْمُطَرَّقَةُ

Small eyes, reddish faces, flat noses, as if their faces were hammered shields

The history of the Turks is a history of warlike aggression, bloodshed, plunder, destruction, barbarism and savagery. And sadly it cannot be said that these deplorable qualities were erased from them when they outwardly embraced Islam. But instead of being humbled by their black history the Turks today have been captivated by the arrogance of nationalistic and racial supremacism. Like the Hindus of India, they have created a mythology surrounding their ancient past for the purpose of inculcating notions of national pride.

Misguidance of Imran N. Hosein

 

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

وصلى الله على سيدنا ونبينا محمد وبارك وسلم

In his podcast with brother Dilly Hussain, the antichrist known as Imran N. Hosein of Trinidad doubled down on his statements of kufr that the reading of the Ayah:

وَاِنَّہٗ لَعِلۡمٌ لِّلسَّاعَۃِ

And he (Jesus) is a knowledge for the Hour

(Surah 43, Ayah 61)

is a distortion of the Revelation and his refusal to make takfir of the Eastern Orthodox Church despite their confession of the polytheistic doctrines of the Trinity and the divine incarnation of Christ. This is certainly a man who has separated himself from the mainstream and orthodox Jama’ah of the Muslims, namely, the Sunnis, and gone his own way into the darkness of misguidance. The rise of these false and wayward religious leaders was accurately prophesied by the most holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم who said:

إِنَّمَا أَخَافُ عَلَى أُمَّتِي الأَئِمَّةَ الْمُضِلِّينَ

I fear for my Ummah the misguided Imams

(Sunan Abi Dawud)

Imran N. Hosein of Trinidad is undoubtedly among those misguided Imams concerning whom the most holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم warned. Apart from his damning heresies in denying a part of the Quran and holding the Eastern Orthodox Christians to be Believers, Imran N. Hosein is pushing a political agenda in the Ummah centered around taking the Russian Federation and its diabolical President, Putin, as our saviors. Clearly beholden to Russia, his obsession has led him to deny or else mitigate the atrocities that nation and its allies have perpetrated against the Muslims, specifically in Chechnya, the former Yugoslavia and Syria. His enmity toward Western civilization, particularly the United States and the United Kingdom, has led him to the extreme of conspiratorial thinking in seeing the hand of the CIA behind every movement of resistance among the Muslims toward the tyranny and barbarism of Russia and China. His mentality is a testament to the Ayah:

وَلَا یَجۡرِمَنَّکُمۡ شَنَاٰنُ قَوۡمٍ عَلٰۤی اَلَّا تَعۡدِلُوۡا

Let not a people’s enmity towards you incite you to act contrary to justice

(Surah 5, Ayah 8)

In the narrative of this evil man, Imran N. Hosein, Russia and the Muslims are destined to form an alliance against Western civilization, based on the Hadith:

ثُمَّ هُدْنَةٌ تَكُونُ بَيْنَكُمْ وَبَيْنَ بَنِي الأَصْفَرِ

Then there will be a truce between you and Bani al-Asfar

(Sahih al-Bukhari)

*Bani al-Asfar is understood as referring to the Romans. Rome itself is recognized as a reference to European Christendom.

Imran N. Hosein insists that references to Rome in the Quran and Hadith apply only to the Eastern Roman Empire, or the Byzantines, who were based in Byzantium or Constantinople, and today it is Russia which is the proper heir of that legacy. Therefore, according to him, the prophecy of the Muslims having a truce with Rome means an alliance with Russia, the pre-eminent power in the world of Eastern Christendom. Whatever the merits of this interpretation, it is concerning that Imran N. Hosein dismisses the second part of the prophecy which states:

فَيَغْدِرُونَ فَيَأْتُونَكُمْ تَحْتَ ثَمَانِينَ غَايَةً تَحْتَ كُلِّ غَايَةٍ اثْنَا عَشَرَ أَلْفًا

They will betray you and come to you under eighty banners, under each banner twelve thousand (soldiers)

(ibid)

So if, for the sake of argument, the Muslims are destined to form an alliance with Russia, it is Russia that shall thereafter betray the Muslims and attack them with a massive force of nearly a million soldiers! This apocalyptic war, which is known as Armageddon or the Great Malhamah, shall closely precede the emergence of the False Messiah, the Dajjal.

How Quran Differs from Bible in Some Historical Details

 بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ

In light of contemporary discoveries in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, and other modern sciences, aspects of the Biblical narrative have been called into question. As a consequence, many Christians and Jews have forsaken the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy. We Muslims acknowledge that the Biblical text as it appears today has not been protected from interpolation and corruption. This issue is only problematic for us if it can be decisively demonstrated that the Scripture we believe in, the Quran, which we hold to be inerrant, divine Words of God, repeats the apparent errors in the Bible.

According to Biblical chronology humanity is not older than six thousand years. If it is objectively false it cannot be used to taint the Quran which does not give, either explicitly or implicitly, a chronology of human history in terms of years. On the contrary, and interestingly, according to a Hadith Qudsi, King David is from the latter portion of Adam’s progeny:

هَذَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ آخِرِ الأُمَمِ مِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِكَ يُقَالُ لَهُ دَاوُدُ

This is a man from the latter nations of your offspring, he is called David (Jami’ at-Tirmidhi; #3076)

Now according to the Biblical timeline King David reigned approximately three thousand years ago. If humanity is merely six thousand years it would be a stretch to describe King David as a man from the latter portion or toward the end of Adam’s progeny.

When it comes to the historicity of the Exodus, virtually all historians reject it as presented in the Bible. The Bible claims that about six hundred thousand men, alongside a presumably equal or larger number of women and children, ventured out of Egypt (Exodus 12:37)

Simply put, the idea of over a million people suddenly being liberated and moving out of Egypt toward the Holy Land, for which it is necessary to cross the Sinai Peninsula, has no archaeological evidence whatsoever.

Now the Quran confirms the event of the Exodus, but apparently differs from the Bible in that it describes those who went with Moses as being less in number:

اِنَّ ہٰۤؤُلَآءِ لَشِرۡذِمَۃٌ قَلِیۡلُوۡنَ

These are a small party

(Surah 26, Ayah 54)