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Attaining Allaah’s Help and Victory
By
Shaykh ‘Abdul-’Azeez bin Baaz
The
Muslims took this call (da’wah) and
this jihad beyond the Arabian
peninsular; and through them Allaah guided those, from His worshippers that
were foremost in [attaining] joy and bliss. It was through them that Allaah
spread truth and justice throughout the greater part of the earth and they
became - due to this - leaders of guidance, examples of truthfulness and
callers to justice and reformation. Those who followed them in goodness also
traversed this same path. They were also leaders of guidance and callers to
the truth, who helped spread the Religion of Allaah, calling people to
single-out Allaah alone with worship, waging jihad
in His Path with their lives and their wealth, and not fearing, for the
sake of Allaah, the blame of the blamers. So Allaah aided them, made them
victorious over their enemies and fulfilled for them what He had promised in
His saying:
“0
you who Believe! If you help the cause of Allaah, then Allaah will help you
and make your foothold firm.” [Soorah
Muhammad 47:7]
Allaah
the Mighty and Majestic also said:
“Indeed,
Allaah will help those who help His cause. Indeed Allaah is All-Mighty,
All-Powerful. Those who, if We give them power and authority in the land,
establish the Prayer, pay the Zakaah, order
the good and forbid the evil. And with Allaah rests the end of all affairs.”
[Soorah al-Hajj 22:40-41]
However,
after this people changed. They split-up, became negligent about the matter of
jihad, preferred luxury and easy
living, began following their whims and desires and evil spread amongst them,
except those whom Allaah, the Most Perfect, protected. Due to this, Allaah
changed their condition and covered them with degradation and humiliation as a
result of what they did; and indeed Allaah is not unjust in the least to any
of His slaves. Allaah the Exalted said:
“Indeed,
never will Allaah change the condition of a people, until they change
themselves.” [Soorah
Ra’d 13:11]
So
it is obligatory upon the Muslims - both the rulers and the ruled - to return
to Allaah the Most perfect; make their worship exclusively for Him; repent to
Him with regards to their previous acts of neglect and sins; hasten to fulfill
what Allaah has made obligatory upon them; keep away from what He has
forbidden them; and to mutually help and co-operate with one another to
achieve this.
From
the most important of all this is to establish the Sacred Law (sharee’ah)
and to judge with it between the people in all of their affairs, to refer
judgment back to the sharee’ah, to
abolish all man-made laws that oppose what Allaah has prescribed as law; not
resorting to such laws for judgment, but rather making judging by the sharee’ah
an obligation upon everyone. Also, it is obligatory upon the scholars to
teach people to understand their Religion, to cultivate an Islamic awareness
amongst them, to help them upon the truth, help them to be patient and
steadfast, order the good, forbid the evil; encouraging the rulers with all of
this. It is also obligatory upon them to combat the destructive ideologies,
such as communism, socialism, nationalism and other false and destructive
ideologies that oppose the sharee’ah.
So only by fulfilling this will Allaah correct for the Muslims what has
been corrupted, grant them what has eluded them, reinstate to them their
glory; give them help and victory against their enemies, and establish them in
authority upon the earth. Allaah, the Most Truthful in speech, said:
“And
it was incumbent upon Us to help the Believers.” [Soorah
Room 30:47]
Allaah
the Most High said:
“Allaah
has promised those who truly believe amongst you and act in obedience to
Allaah and His Messenger, that He will grant them rulership upon the earth;
just as He granted it to those before them. He will establish their Religion
for them and grant them the authority to practice the Religion that He chose
and ordered them with. And He will certainly change their situation to one of
security, after their fear; providing that they worship and obey Me, not
associating anything else in worship with Me. Then, whoever rejects this favor
[by disobedience to their Lord] then they are the rebellious transgressors.”
[Soorah
an-Noor 24:55]
Allaah
the Most Perfect also said:
“Indeed,
We shall surely make Our Messengers, and those who believe, victorious in this
worldly life and on the Day of Resurrection, when the witnesses will stand
forth. The Day when the excuses of the unbelievers will be of no benefit to
them. Theirs will be the curse, and theirs will be a painful punishment in the
Hellfire.” [Soorah
al-Ghaafir 40:51-52]
We ask Allaah, the One
free from all defects, that He grants guidance to the Muslim leaders and their
general masses, that He grants them all the understanding of the Religion,
that He unites their word upon piety, guides all of them to His Straight Path,
and that He supports the truth with them and vanquishes falsehood through
them. We ask that He unites them all upon cooperating in righteousness and
piety, helping one another upon the truth and upon patient perseverance.
Indeed He is the Guardian for this, the One having power over this .
May
Allaah extol and send blessings of peace upon His Slave and Messenger and the
best of His creation, our Prophet and leader (sayyid)
Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullaah; and upon his Family, his Companions and all
those who follow his guidance until the Day of Judgment.
SOURCE:
The Ideological Attack by Sheikh Ibn Baaz [Published by “Message
of Islam” – Translated by Abu Aaliyah Surkheel ibn Anwar Sharif]
