All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May blessings and peace be upon His Messenger Muhammad, and his family and companions. As to what follows: As this crusade proceeds against the Islamic State, one should remember that the Muslim creed is one based upon husnudh-dhanni billāh (good expectations concerning Allah). Allah ta’ālā said, as in the qudsī hadīth, “I am according to My slave’s expectations of Me. So let him expect of Me what he wishes” [Sahīh: Ahmad, Ibn Hibbān, and al-Hākim]. While the opposite of this attitude is one that sways between deviance and kufr. Allah ta’ālā said, {He (Ibrāhīm) said, “And who despairs of the mercy of his Lord except for those astray?”} [Al-Hijr: 56]. And He ta’ālā also said, {O my sons, go and find out about Yūsuf and his brother and despair not of relief from Allah. Indeed, no one despairs of relief from Allah except the disbelieving people”} [Yūsuf: 87]. This attitude is one of the attributes of the sick-hearted, for they are those who Allah ta’ālā mentioned in His statement, {“But you thought that the Messenger and the believers would never return to their families, ever, and that was made pleasing in your hearts. And you assumed an assumption of evil and became a people ruined”} [Al-Fath: 12]. This attitude is also from the dhann (weak thought) of jāhiliyyah. It is the attitude of doubt concerning Allah’s support for His religion and its followers. We have a promise from Allah that this religion prevails, and by this religion what is meant is the religion described by the inspired and rightly guided khalīfah ‘Umar Ibn al-Khattāb (radiyallāhu ‘anh) who said, “There Is no Islam except with jamā’ah, and no jamā’ah except with imārah (leadership), and no imārah except with tā’ah (obedience)” [Sunan ad-Dārimī]. The religion that Rasūlullāh (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) came with, as in the hadīth, “I order you with five things that Allah ordered me with: jamā’ah, sam’ (listening), tā’ah, hijrah, and jihād fī sabīlillāh for indeed, whoever leaves the jamā’ah by a hand span has removed the noose of Islam from his neck unless he returns” [Sahīh: Ahmad and at-Tirmidhī]. This religion is the one promised with victory, not the religion of division, partisanship, innovation, and pride in personal opinion, nor the religion void of bay’ah, imārah, and khilāfah. This is the religion manifest truly at the level of the individual, community, and nation. This is the religion promised with: {It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth to manifest it over all religion, although they who associate others with Allah dislike it} [At-Tawbah: 33] {And sufficient is Allah as Witness} [Al-Fath: 28]. This faith and attitude is what has nourished the leaders and soldiers of the Islamic State since the days of Abū Mus’ab az-Zarqāwī (may Allah accept him) who paved the way for the establishment of this State. For this reason, you find the words of the a’immah (plural of imām) full of absolute conviction in Allah’s support for the Islamic State. They have not a mustard seed of doubt regarding this.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:57:30 +0000
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