Allah,
Most High, wages war against Israel
Allah the Supreme spoke with such forceful language
concerning the sin of Riba that it is, perhaps, the greatest sin (other
than Shirk) that exists in the realm of belief or conduct. Allah’s anger
against the oppressor (because of the oppression of Riba) is so great
that they will stand before Him after their resurrection as a people who appear
to be driven to madness by the touch of Satan. When the Jewish State of Israel
engages in Riba then Allah will not simply punish such people in the
next life, rather He and His Messenger (‘alaihi al-Salam) will wage war
against them in this world.
“O ye who believe! Fear Allah, and give up what remains of your
demand for usury, if ye are indeed believers. If ye do it not, take notice of
war from Allah and His Messenger...”
(Qur’an, al-Baqarah, 2:278-9)
This book directs attention to the fact that Jews control
the banking system around the world today. Yet the above verse of the Qur’an is
indicative of the supreme importance Allah Most High attaches to the
prohibition of Riba. In the entire history of divine revelation, to the
best of my knowledge, Almighty Allah has never used such extremely strong
language for anything else besides Riba.
After the death of Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salam) the
Israelites corrupted the Torah by rewriting it several times in several
different versions. The Harvard-trained American Biblical scholar, Richard Friedman, has conclusively
demonstrated this in his very important work entitled: "Who Wrote the Bible?" (New York: Harper and Row,
1989).
The Israelites removed all references in the Torah to the
temple (or masjid) built by Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) and
Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam) in Arabia. The Ka’aba and the Hajj
are no longer to be found in the Torah. They also substituted all references to
Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam) as the son of the sacrifice with the name of
his brother Isaac (‘alaihi al-Salam), even though Isaac (‘alaihi
al-Salam) was not even born when the trial of the sacrifice took place. In
addition, the child of the sacrifice was described by Allah in the Qur’an
as Haleem (patient and forbearing) (Saffat, 37:101), whereas the
son to be born to Sarah was described as Aleem (wise) (al-Hijr,15:53).
They substituted Arabia with Palestine as the place of the sacrifice. Zam Zam, the miraculous
spring of water that sprang from the desert sand when Gabriel (‘alaihi
al-Salam) rubbed his heel on the sand, now became a well in Palestine. They
demonized Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam) in the Torah as “a wild ass of a
man” and excluded him from Allah’s covenant so that they could claim
exclusive title to being the ‘chosen people’ of Allah. Most dangerous of all,
however, was their corruption and willful distortion of the divine prohibition against
Riba. They rewrote the Torah to make it permissible for money to be lent
on interest to non-believers while maintaining the prohibition against Riba in
intra-Israelite transactions (Deuteronomy,
23:20-21).
Allah the Almighty responded to this heinous crime by
sending against them one of His creatures who possessed mighty prowess. The
Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar, overran Palestine, defeated the Israelites,
enslaved all those whom he captured, destroyed the State of Israel and Masjid al-Aqsa (which had been
built by Solomon), and transported the Israelites as slaves back to Babylon (al-Isra,
17:4,5). This was most certainly a powerful demonstration of Allah’s
capacity to wage war.
There was a second demonstration when the Roman Emperor,
Titus, ravaged Jerusalem and destroyed the temple (or masjid) a second
time (al-Isra, 17:7, 104).
This, also, was related to Riba. Allah had sent three
Prophets, Zakariah (‘alaihi al-Salam), John (‘alaihi al-Salam),
and Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam), to the Israelites. That part of the
Israelites who rejected these Prophets became known as Jews (al-Yahood).
The Jews murdered Zakariah (‘alaihi al-Salam) inside of Masjid
al-Aqsa (Matthew, 24:35, 36; Luke,
11:51). John (‘alaihi al-Salam) was beheaded by way of
deception. And, finally, the Jews boasted of how they had killed Jesus (‘alaihi
al-Salam). In all three instances the Prophets of Allah had attacked them
and denounced them for their wickedness. This included their denunciation of
the Jews for the crime of changing the Torah and for consuming Riba.
Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salam), for example, went into Masjid al-Aqsa
and found them engaged in Riba. He cursed them, turned over their
tables, chased them out of the temple (Masjid) and declared: “You have taken the house of Allah and transformed
it into a den of thieves.” Thus it was because the Prophets of Allah exposed
their wickedness of consuming Riba, among other crimes, that they killed
them (except for Jesus, whom Allah saved miraculously). Allah Most High
responded to this wickedness by sending a Roman army that destroyed the State
of Israel for a second time. (It will be destroyed for a last time by a Muslim
army led by Imam alMahdi.)
The warning of a declaration of war from Allah Most High for
the consumption of Riba, assumes even greater importance when we reflect
over the fact that Allah Most High intervened to protect the first Masjid
(i.e., Ka’aba) when Abraha came with his army of elephants to destroy it (Qur’an,
al-Fil, 105:1-5). Even when the Ka’aba was filled with idols, Allah
Most High still intervened to save it from destruction. And yet, even though
there were no idols in the second Masjid (i.e., Masjid al-Aqsa), Allah
Most High twice sent armies to destroy it. Such is the state of Divine anger over the oppression caused
by Riba.
The dire warning for the Jews is that the Shirk of
the secular State of Israel and the Riba in its economic life both
manifestly violate the divine conditions for inheritance of the Holy Land. The
consequence of such violation is that Allah Most High would respond by
punishing them.
to be continued....
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