Our precious Ummah: you are the best nation brought forth to the people enjoining the good and forbidding evil. O Ummah of Islam, O Ummah of daring, how happy I was when you stood up for your Lord, and emerged from your silence to defend your Prophet – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
How the blood of the monotheists of Gaza mingled with your tears O Ummah. How happy we were when you prayed for us, and we saw the effects of this clearly on the battle ground. Because of you, Allah delivered us from bombing and gunfire so that I said to some of my brothers once: Do not doubt that this is because of some old woman praying for us.
Imam al-Bukhari said in his book of Jihad in his Sahih: Chapter: The One Who Asks for the Help of the Weak and Righteous in War: Ibn ‘Abbas said, Abu Sufyan related to me: Caesar said to me, I asked you whether the nobles of the people or the weak ones followed him (Muhammad) and you said that the humble people followed him. They are always the ones that followed the messengers. And after that he narrated the Hadith of Sa’d, may Allah be pleased with him, in which the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: Are you not given victory and sustenance because of the weak among you?‛
Ibn Hajar said, when he explained this chapter (The One Who Asks for the Help of the Weak and Righteous in war) that (this means) their blessings and prayers. And he explained the hadith (‚Are you not given victory and sustenance because of the weak among you?‛) in the al-Nisa’I narration, saying that Allah has championed this Ummah because of its people’s weakness, supplications, prayers and sincerity. And he had a witness in al-Nisa’I and Ahmad of the Hadith of Abu Darda for the words‚ “You are given victory and sustenance because of your weak ones.” Ibn Battal said, ‚The interpretation of the Hadith is that the weak are more sincere in their prayers and more humble in their worship because their hearts are empty of attachment to the vanities of this world‛. Then he added, ‚If the strong one is ascendant because of his bravery than the weak is ascendant because of his prayers and sincerity‛. Here ends the words of this witness, may Allah have mercy on him.
Yes, O my Ummah, having sympathy with us, praying for us and all the Mujahideen and before them our prisoners and oppressed are among the duties of required faithful fraternity in these times in which iniquity has prevailed. However, come my Ummah and reflect upon our ailments more if Allah is to cure them.
O my Ummah have you heard the call
And heard my voice crying in the desert
For your sake the patient has stolen my cure
And thrown the garb of sorrow over my clothing
~Abu Qhandahar al-Zarqawi
0 comments:
Post a Comment