It
definitely makes our hearts
filled with anger, rage and
sadness when we see the
Messenger of Allah - the best of
His creation, the mercy of Allah
to the Universe - is mocked upon
undeservedly. However, It's not
a new phenomenon. Throughout the
history of Islam the ignorant
enemies of the religion of Allah
had mocked him, even during his
life time. It's well known to
all students of Islamic history
how Rasul Allah (May Allah's
Blessings and Peace be Upon Him)
was tortured, abused and mocked
upon by the kuffar. He was
mocked and tortured by the
ignorant youth of Ta'if who were
provoked by the leaders of the
city. He was mocked and abused
by his own people, the Quraysh
of Makkah, even by his own
family members among whom are
his uncle Abu-Lahab ibn Abdul
Muttalib and his cousin Abu-Sufyan
ibn al-Harith ibn Abdul-Muttalib.
The latter was a good friend of
Rasulullah in his youth, but
became an enemy after the
messenger (SAAS) started to
preach the message of truth.This
Abu Sufyan (not to be confused
with Abu-Sufyan ibn al-Harb ibn
Umayya - the leader of the
Quraysh) was also a foster
brother of Rasulullah (SAAS).
Rasulullah (SAAS) expected that
he would be among the first to
accept his message. Yet Abu-Sufyan
chose the path of
enmity and
composed slanderous poems
against Rasulullah.
There
were many others who insulted
the messenger of Allah (Salla
Allahu Alayhi wa-Sallam). The
earlier prophets of Allah were
also insulted and tortured. The
children of Israel killed
numerous of their own prophets.
The ignorant and
stuborn-arrogants never make an
effort to understand the message
of the messengers. Instead they
chose the path of enemity and
hatred, and ultimately Allah's
wrath befell them. The irony of
the matter is that they don't
learn lesson from the imprudent
actions of their predecessors.
We
have Muslims also who are
imprudent. Many of them go
beyond the limit of civilized
behavior. Where patience and
prudence are the dire needs of
the time they go on chosing
paths of hasty and imprudent
destruction. Where the show of
anger in a civilized manner is
necessary, imprudent stupidity
takes over, giving new weapons
to our enemies. It is to be
noted that the people who chose
this path of violent reaction to
our enemies do not really
practice Islam in their personal
life. Many of them only has
nominal emotional attachment to
this religion.
Remember
brothers and sisters, we need
patience and let Allah take care
of the enemies of his Frineds
and messangers. Throughout
history of humanity Alllah has
done that. He did punish the
enemies in His own unique way -
sometimes by sending heavenly
wrath or sometimes by the hands
of the believers. I would like
you to read the following from
Imam Ibn Taimiyyah regarding the
matter:
"�And
from the ways of Allah is that
in regards to those who harm
Allah and His Messenger whom the
believers cannot punish, then
Allah Himself takes sufficient
revenge on behalf of His
Messenger. For example, the
story of Allah's one-by-one
destruction of those who mocked
the Prophet (peace be upon him)
is well known, as has been
mentioned by the scholars of
history and tafsir. They were a
small group of the heads of
Quraysh, including al-Walid bin
Mughirah, al-`As bin Wa'il, al-Aswadan
(Abu-Lahab) bin `Abd al-Mutallib,
Ibn `Abd Yaghuth, and al-Harith
bin Qays.
Also, the Prophet (peace be upon
him) wrote to Kisra (the king of
Persia) and Caesar (the king of
Rome), while neither of them had
entered into Islam. However,
Caesar respected the letter of
the Messenger of Allah (peace be
upon him), and treated his
ambassador in a fine manner, so
his kingdom was kept for him,
and this is why it was said:
"His kingdom remains for
him among his descendents until
today." As for Kisra, he
tore the letter of the Messenger
of Allah into pieces and mocked
him. As a result, Allah caused
Kisra to be
killed soon after, and caused
his kingdom to be torn into
pieces, and there did not remain
for any of the future Kisras any
kingdom, and this � and Allah
Knows best � is in accordance
with the phrase "the flesh
of the scholars is
poisonous." So, how would
it be with the flesh of the
Prophets (peace be upon them)?
And in the `Sahih,' it is
narrated: "Allah the
Exalted says: "Whoever
declares his enmity to a close
ally of Mine, then I declare war
on him."" So, how
would it be in the case of the
one who declares his enmity to
the Prophets?
Whoever Allah declares war upon,
then he will no doubt be fought!
If you read the stories of the
Prophets mentioned in the Qur'an,
then you will find that their
people were destroyed the moment
they began harming their
Prophets by throwing at them the
nastiest of words and actions.
This is how the Children of
Israel had humiliation thrown
upon them, and this is how they
earned the anger of Allah, and
they had nobody to help them
againt Him � all of this,
because they killed the Prophets
without any right, in addition
to their disbelief, as
Allah mentioned in His Book. And
you will not find anybody who
ever harmed a Prophet from the
Prophets - and did not repent
from this � except that Allah
would strike him with some type
of calamity or disaster soon
after. And we have previously
mentioned the efforts of the
Muslims in hastening their
punishment of the disbelievers
who insulted the Messenger of
Allah (peace be upon him), and
we mentioned many different
examples of this, and this is a
wide door of discussion that
cannot be mentioned here in its
entirety.
An example of this is what has
been mentioned regarding a huge
group of the Muslims in our
times, when they were laying
siege to the fortresses and
cities of the Romans on the
Syrian coast. They said:
"We used to lay siege to
the castle or city for a month
or more without being able to
penetrate it. As soon as we
would hear that its people began
insulting the Messenger of Allah
(peace be upon him)
and attacking his honor,
our victory over them was
suddenly and miraculously made
quick and easy, and would not
come beyond a day or
two afterwards. The gates of the
area would open, and we would
proceed to attack them severely.
We would be extremely happy with
this speedy victory when we
heard their slander of him
(peace be upon him), despite our
hearts being filled with rage
because of what they had
said."
And similar accounts were
narrated from our trustworthy
companions from Morocco, as
their incidents with the
christians where were similar.
So, from the ways of Allah is
that He sometimes punishes His
enemies with a torment of His
own, and He sometimes does so at
the hands of His believing
servants."
[Taken
from `as-Sarim al-Maslul `ala
Shatim ar-Rasul']
May
Allah help this ummah. May Him
endow all the believers with
wisdom and awaken their
sense of the love of Muhammad (SAAS)
by making them learn the message
brought by him and by practicing
the examples of the messenger
(May Allah's blessings and peace
be upon him and his family).
Jazakum
Allahu Khayran
"To
each is a goal to which
Allah turns him; then strive
together (as an ummah)
towards all that is good.
Wherever you are, Allah will
bring you together; for
Allah has power over all
things." (Qur'an 2:148)
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Siraj Sandwipyi
