AL-HAQ
26 Jamaadil Ula 1446
28 November 2024
“CEASEFIRE”?
WHAT THE QUR’AAN SAYS
“Do not become cowardly and do not call for Salam (peace/ceasefire/truce). (Ultimately), you will be victorious. Allah is with you, and He will not destroy your good deeds.”
(Muhammad, Aayat 35)
Ceasefire is the consequence of weakness which forebodes defeat. Either both sides are exhausted and perceive defeat overshadowing them or one side is weak and exhausted, and is thus compelled into disgraceful bootlicking of the Yahood and Nasaara.
Regarding ceasefires, the Qur’aan Majeed rules to the contrary. For the Mu’mineen, a ceasefire and peace with the kuffaar, especially of the brutal kind such as the Yahood of Israel and the Nasaraa of the West, is humiliating and it is only weakness and defeat which constrain acceptance.
However, the reality on the ground cannot be ignored and wished away. If the back of the Muslim fighters/resitance has been broken and they now believe that they will not be able to sustain the war much longer, that is, if they find themselves sprawled at the feet of the brutal kuffaar forces, then ceasefire and peace will be permissible. Or if the motive is to regroup, rebuild and rearm for the longer term, then the ceasefire will be permissible and it will come within the purview of the Qur’aanic Aayat:
“O People of Imaan! When you clash with the kuffaar in battle, then do not turn your backs to them (that is, do not flee). Whoever turns his back to them on such a day (of Battle), except with the intention of changing tactics to do Battle, or to seek aid from another group (of Mu’mineen), then verily he shall return with the Wrath of Allah, and his abode shall be Jahannam. Indeed it is a vile abode.”
(Al-Anfaal, Aayats 15 & 16)
Victory is promised for those who are Mu’mineen in the meaning of the Qur’aan. Those who, despite being professed Muslims, who abolish and destroy the Shariah and the Hizbullah Shiahs are not the Mu’mineen who come within the scope of the Aayaat which emphatically promise Nusrat of Allah Azza Wa Jal for them. Hamas has never been an ambassador of Islam. On the contrary it had abolished the Law of Allah Ta’ala, hence raising slogans of “Allahu Akbar!” in the battlefield against the Yahood is meaningless.
While a ceasefire has been hammered out between Shiah Hizbullah and Israel, hitherto the objectives of both anatagonists have not been achieved. Neither has Israel achieved its objective of destroying Hizbullah nor has the latter attained its repeated declaration of continuing the fight until the Jews withdraw from Gazzah. The ceasefire has been instituted in Lebanon while the massacres and genocide continue in Gazzah and Palestine.
In terms of the Shariah, a ceasefire is valid only in two scenarios:
(1) The kuffaar sue for peace and hand over their country to the Khalifah. Islam with its Shariah shall be the Law, and the non-Muslims will become Zimmies (citizens of the Islamic states) on whom a small tax (Jizyah) will be levied.
(2) To regroup and rearm to renew the Jihad.
A truce is not valid in Islam for any other reason. It is not for the fiction of ‘coexistence’ and ‘harmony’ as the interfaith molvis and sheikhs promote. Coexistence and harmony with the kuffaar in terms of Islam are possible only when they are subjects of the Islamic State. Of course, there is no Islamic state existing today.
The primary Maqsad (Objective) of Jihad is I’laa Kalimatullaah – to raise the Word (Deen) of Allah. There is no other objective of Jihad. Allah Ta’ala says in the Qur’aan Majeed:
“Wage Jihad against them until there exists no fitnah (the fitnah of kufr) and until the Deen is only for Allah.” (Al-Baqarah, Aayat 193)
“Wage Jihad against them until there remains no Fitnah and until all Deen is only for Allah.” (Al-Anfaal, Aayat 39)
Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “I have been commanded with Jihad until all people accept ‘Lailaha ill al laah”.
While defensive wars such as the fight against the Yahood by Hamas, are technically Jihad, they have no relationship with the Primary Jihad commanded by Allah Ta’ala. On the contrary, the war today in Palestine has no affinity with the Deen. The participants are all bad-deen (irreligious) or be-deen (without deen). One Palestinioan group which is part of the resistance is in fact a cartel of atheists. Allah Azza Wa Jal and Islam have been deleted in entirety from the equation of Muslim life of today. That is the glaring cause for Divine Abandonment of Muslims. That is the reason for the Athaab of Allah Ta’ala, which has settled on the Palestinians in the form of Yahood-Nasaara brutality and genocide.
The “ultimate victory” mentioned in the Qur’aan Majeed is reserved for the Mu’mineen. Alas! Today there are no ‘Mu’mineen’ in the Qur’aanic meaning. In this regard, the Hadith states:
“A time will dawn when the people will gather in their Musaajid and perform Salaat while not a single one will be a Mu’min.”
“You will ultimately be victorious” is the Message of the Qur’aan for genuine Muslims. Alas! There are no such Muslims, hence the ongoing misery and brutality.
“And, there is no aid except from Allah, The Mighty.” (Qur’aan)
“If He (Allah) abandons you, then who is there besides him to help you?” (Qur’aan)