AL-HAQ
3 Jamaadil Ula 1445
17 November 2023
PALESTINE
TRIALS FROM ALLAH AZZA WA JAL
Fir’oun had slaughtered thousands of male babies of Bani Israaeel. This mass slaughter was allowed by Allah Azza Wa Jal. It was a great trial imposed on Bani Israaeel by Allah Ta’ala. Allah Ta’ala says in the Qur’aan Majeed in several Aayaat:
“They (the people of Fir’oun) slaughtered your sons and left your females alive. In this (mass slaughter) was indeed a great trial from your Rabb.” (Al-Baqarah, Aayat 49)
This aayat is repeated several times in the Qur’aan Majeed. Allah Ta’ala had allowed Bani Israaeel to be enslaved by the kuffaar as a punishment for their gross sin and transgression. They were at one stage rulers, then Allah Ta’ala snatched away sovereignty from them and made them the slaves of the kuffaar.
Today Allah Ta’ala has engulfed the Muslims of Palestine in a ‘Great Trial’. If Muslims fail to understand the cause for this ‘Great Trial from your Rabb’, the misery will not abate. A Gaza doctor narrates:
Haytham Kallab is a general practitioner at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. He told Al Jazeera he’s witnessed horrific injuries that are hard to comprehend:
“The war on Gaza is completely different than any previous wars, because of the huge numbers of casualties we receive in Nasser hospital.
“The nature of the cases that arrive at the hospital is terrifying. The type of burns that we receive are not like previous wars and neither is the number of casualties. The majority of the cases that I receive are children and women. Most of the people who come for treatment are civilians.
“Hitting and targeting hospitals is not ethical at all. Imagine the pressure we’re under because we might be attacked at any moment while doing our jobs – especially a humanitarian job.
“An ambulance was hit inside Nasser hospital while I was working. It was a horrifying scene, especially seeing my colleagues who were helping and moving patients, then becoming injured themselves. People who work in emergency departments – especially during wars and specifically in Gaza – see things that no human could ever comprehend.
“Maybe the hardest case me for was a mother holding her child. The child was dead. She was holding her baby while her legs were broken. She had multiple injuries and had to be resuscitated. I didn’t know whether to take her child away from her. I decided to allow her to keep holding her son. This affected me so I followed up. Then I heard her say she wished she had died rather than had her legs amputated.”
(Al Jazeera)
Al Jazeera further reports:
An entire building at al-Shifa Hospital – the specialised surgeries building – has been completely damaged from the inside, in addition to Israeli forces blowing up a warehouse for medicine and medical equipment inside the hospital.
The Israeli military literally tore it apart – all the partitions, walls between the rooms, and all the medical equipment inside the building have been completely destroyed.
Meanwhile, there are reports of some 200 people being blindfolded and interrogated and taken to unknown areas; their fate is unknown. Witnesses inside the hospital who we spoke to said [Israeli troops] started with 30 people who were stripped of their clothes, and taken to the courtyard of the hospital. More people were taken after interrogation, blindfolded and put into groups.
Unfortunately, this failure in confirming [the Israeli allegations of Hamas’s presence in the hospital] just resulted in massive destruction in the hospital and renewed attacks on its building and redeploying troops at the gates of the hospital from all sides.
All of this is happening under the heavy cover of air strikes and tank shells around the al-Shifa Hospital.
Another doctor describing the horror, says:
Orthopaedic surgeon Fadel Naim, based in the Gaza Strip, says patients with injuries “up to the moderate level” are having to undergo surgery without anaesthesia because of a lack of medical supplies.
“[It’s] to preserve the remaining supply of anesthesia, which is on the verge of depletion at any moment, for major and critical surgeries,” he said on X.
“The pain experienced by the patients during the surgical interventions without anesthesia is beyond what humanity on this Earth can endure.”
All of this horror is undoubtedly a “Great Trial from your Rabb”. What is the solution? When Bani Israaeel complained to Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam) about the horrific persecution of Fir’oun and his nation of Copts, what did he advise? What was the solution he offered? Hadhrat Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam) said:
“Seek help from Allah with Sabr (Patience). Verily, the earth belongs to Allah. He grants it (power to rule) to whomever He wills from His servants. The Aaqibah (final outcome of victory) is for the Muttaqeen.” (Al-A’raaf, Aayat 128)
“His servants: in the context refers to both Muslim and Kuffaar. It is Allah Azza Wa Jal Who has installed the kuffaar as rulers of the earth. It is Allah Ta’ala Who has empowered them to do whatever they are doing. Not an atom can move without the decree of Allah Azza Wa Jal.
No amount of stupid and monkey protests in emulation of the kuffaar can ever change the decrees of Allah Ta’ala. Every nation has an appointed time for its operation.
“For every nation there is an appointed time. When its ajal (appointed time for its demise) arrives, they will not be able to delay it a moment nor not bring it forward.” (Al-A’raaf, Aayat 34)
This refrain is stated in a number of Verses. The domination and oppression of America and all other kuffaar superpowers will run the prescribed course fixed by Allah Ta’ala. When the decreed moment arrives, they will be eliminated.
The remedy proffered by Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam) for the heart-rendering plight of Bani Israaeel was not stupidities, merrymaking, and satanism as Muslims are perpetrating today in emulation of the kuffaar. Prescribing the remedy, Allah Ta’ala said:
“We inspired Musa and his Brother… (to command their people) to establish Salaat in their homes, and and give glad tidings (of victory) to the Mu’mineen.” (Yoonus, Aayat 86)
Fir’oun had prohibited Bani Israaeel from performing Salaat in public. They had no Musaajid, hence the command was to perform Salaat in their homes. In Salaat and in Obedience to Rabbul Aalameen lie the success and victory of the Mu’mineen, not in the ways, methods and practices of the kuffaar Satanists whom Muslims are insanely emulating today during the horrific Palestinian crisis.
It is necessary to reflect on the fact that the brutal extermination of thousands of male infants by the kuffaar is termed ‘a great trial of your Rabb.” by Allah Ta’ala. In similar vein, what is transpiring currently in Palestine is ‘a great trial of your Rabb.” The solution for this Athaab is the very same which was stated by Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam), namely, Inaabat Ilallaah : Turn to Allah Ta’ala with repentance and reformation. Then He will make you the rulers of the Land.
What is happening today in Palestine is the ‘greater of the two punishments’. Regarding the two punishments, the Qur’aan Majeed states:
“Most assuredly We shall make them taste (first) the lesser Athaab before the greater Athaab so that they (heed) and return (to Obedience).” (As-Sajdah, Aayat 21)
Before the ultimate ‘greater punishment’ befalls people, Allah Ta’ala inflicts lesser punishment in the form of bearable hardships and calamities. When even the lesser forms of punishment do not serve as lessons, and the people continue drunkenly in their life of sin and transgression (fisq, fujoor and kufr), then the ‘greater athaab’ is the affliction imposed by Allah Ta’ala. This is what is happening in Palestine as well as in other countries where entire Muslim communities are languishing in misery under kuffaar domination. The remedy of the Qur’aan Majeed is only one:
Seek aid with Sabr, Taubah and Taa-at.
Allah Ta’ala commands:
“O People of Imaan! All of you (together) turn unto Allah with repentance so that you attain victory.” (Qur’aan)