The Jewish Religious View
of An Arab
The spiritual leader of Israel’s Orthodox Shas Party of Sephardic
Jews reportedly declared in his sermon on August 5, 2000: “The Ishmaelites (Arabs) are all cursed evil-doers, all
enemies of Israel. The Holy One, blessed be He, regrets that He created these
Ishmaelites.” The report described Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ridiculing the
efforts of the then Barak Government of Israel to reach some kind of an
agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization in their mutually
conflicting claims to the sacred city of Jerusalem. “Why
divide the Old City?” he asked, “so
that they can have another opportunity to kill us? Why do we even need them
alongside us?” Addressing Israeli Prime Minister Barak the Rabbi
added: “You bring snakes next to us. How can you
make peace with a snake? . . .Barak is running amuck after the wicked Ishmaels….He
will bring us snakes to live next to us in Jerusalem. He has no sense.”
The Jerusalem Post reported that the Rabbi’s remarks were greeted with applause
(see www.JerusalemPost.com - August 5, 2000).
One reason for the Rabbi’s hostility toward the Ishmaelite
people (i.e., Arabs) and to their claim to Jerusalem is, that the Book of
Genesis in the Torah declared Ishmael to be:
“ ….a wild ass of a man; his hand against
everyman, and everyone’s hand against him.”
(Genesis, 16:12)
The Rabbi and his followers are thus likely to argue that
the relentless and escalating oppression visited upon the Arabs by the State of
Israel is justified as a divine sanction as
conveyed in the ominous words: “everyone’s
hand is against him”. How else can the rest of the civilized world
explain the ruthless and barbaric Israeli attack on the Jenin refugee camp? Had
the Jews not rewritten the Torah with the addition of this falsehood against
Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam), the son of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam),
it would have been easier to discern the deception involved in the devilish
Zionist scheme to dispossess the Arab-Muslims of the Holy Land in order to
restore the State of Israel.
The description of Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam), the
Prophet of Allah Most High that is given in the Qur’an, clearly reveals
this statement of the Torah to be a lie against Allah Most High:
“Also mention in the Book (the story of) Ishmael: He was
(strictly) true to whatever he promised and he was an Apostle (and) a Prophet.
He used to enjoin on his people Prayer and Charity and he was most acceptable
in the sight of his Lord.”
(Qur’an, Maryam, 19:54-5)
“And commemorate Ishmael, Elisha and Dhul-Kifl: each of them was
of the company of the Good. This is a message (of admonition): and verily for
the Righteous is a beautiful place of (final) Return….”
(Qur’an, Sad, 38:48-49)
“That was the reasoning
about Us which We gave to Abraham (to use) against his people: We raise whom We
will degree after degree: for thy Lord is full of wisdom and knowledge. We gave
him Isaac and Jacob: all (three) We guided: and before him We guided Noah and
among his progeny David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses, and Aaron…
“And Zakariya and John and Jesus and Elias: all in the ranks of
the righteous: And Ishmael
and Elisha and Jonas and Lot: and to all We gave favor above the nations: “(To
them) and to their fathers and progeny and brethren: We chose them. And We guided
them to a straight way...
“These were the men to whom We gave the Book and authority and
Prophethood: if these (their descendants) reject them behold! We shall entrust
their charge to a new People who reject them not. Those were the (Prophets) who
received Allah’s guidance: copy the guidance they received...
“No just estimate of Allah do they make when they say: Nothing
doth Allah send down to man (by way of revelation). Say: Who then sent down the
Book that Moses brought as a light and guidance to man? But ye make it into
(separate) sheets for show while you conceal much (of its contents)…
“And this (Qur’an) is a Book which We have revealed bringing
blessings and confirming (the revelations) which came before it: that thou may
warn the Mother of Cities and all around her...”
(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:83-92)
The Rabbi should beware of this dire warning given in the Qur’an
to all those who attribute lies to Allah Most High including lies concerning
Ishmael and the Ishmaelites:
“Who can be more wicked than one who concocts a lie against
Allah or says: I have received inspiration when he hath received none or
(again) who says: I can reveal the like of what Allah hath revealed? If you
could but see how the wicked (do fare) in the flood of confusion at death! The
angels stretch forth their hands (saying): Yield up your souls. This day shall
you receive as your reward a penalty of shame for you used to tell lies against
Allah and scornfully reject His Signs!”
(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:93)
The Rabbi, and all those whose beliefs are based on such
forgeries in the Torah, live in an unreal world. Their perception of reality is
false and distorted. The damage done was that it created, and still sustains, a
false belief concerning Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam) above. At no time
does the Torah offer any evidence of evil, misconduct or rebellion on the part
of Ishmael (‘alaihi al-Salam) that could explain that harsh allegedly
divine condemnation. Rather, the same Ishmaelites whom the Rabbi now despises
as ‘snakes’ offered the Jews
residence amongst them for 2000 years. They enjoyed security for their lives
and property, and were given freedom to live and worship as Jews.
Those who supported, and still support, the creation of the
Impostor State of Israel (a secular, nationalist, essentially godless
enterprise) on foundations of injustice and oppression, are a people with no
spiritual insight at all. The same spiritual blindness which render them
incapable of recognizing this Impostor State, …that spiritual blindness also
led them to declare that Mary had committed fornication, that Jesus (the Messiah)
was a bastard child, and that his claim to be the Messiah was false. It also
led them to commit the most disgraceful and evil deed ever in history, i.e., to attempt to crucify Jesus (‘alaihi
al-Salam), and then to boast that they had succeeded in killing him. That
spiritual blindness caused them to reject the last Prophet sent to mankind by
the God of Abraham, the Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).
It led them to reject the Qur’an as the Word of the God of Abraham, Most
High. Their spiritual blindness has led them, time and again, to commit deeds
that have provoked the anger of Allah, Most High. Their present racial,
financial, and economic conduct is manifestly abominable.
When they insulted Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam), a long
time ago, and declared that he and his Lord should fight (to liberate the Holy
Land) while they would remain where they were, Allah Most High responded to
this abominable conduct by making the Holy Land Haram (prohibited) for
them for 40 years, and by consigning them to wander in distraction through the
earth. Then Allah Most High addressed Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) and said
to him: "Do
not grieve over these sinful people." There is no place for
sympathy in those words. Even if the world did not have the Qur’an
pointing to forgeries written into the divine Torah, spiritual insight should
have sufficed for the followers of the Torah and Bible to sense that all was
not right with statements such as the one concerning Ishmael.
And so they did not deserve sympathy at that time, and for
precisely the same reason they do not deserve sympathy now. Their time is up.
Their fate is sealed. They have been deceived into the grandest deception
history has ever witnessed, deceived into leaving the lands where they had
lived amongst the Arab Ishmaelites in relative peace, security and religious freedom for 2000 years
(Yemen, Morocco, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, etc.) and to returning to the Holy
Land to support oppression and injustice.
Ominously so, that oppression increases day by day. Muslims
did not deceive them. Muslims did not invite them to return. The Qur’an
declares that the God of Abraham Himself ordained their return. The same God,
Most High, Who twice ordained the destruction of the Temple (Masjid)
built by Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salam), will Himself ensure the destruction
of the Impostor State of Israel. .. On the day that such occurs, and it is
inevitable, the greatest divine punishment ever visited upon any people in history
will unfold before their horrified eyes. Let
the Rabbi take warning!
The same distorted perception of reality that is clearly
visible in the statement of the Rabbi is also visible in the two negotiating
partners who have negotiated, in an exercise in futility, the future of
Jerusalem and the Holy Land, i.e., the PLO and the State of Israel. In their
case, however, they both display total ignorance of, or disregard for, the Qur’an
and the Torah as sources of guidance pertaining to the subject. They have more
in common with each other than
either has with the religions of Islam or Judaism. They are both secular
nationalist movements that exploit religion... Secular nationalism has no
appetite for the search for Absolute Truth.
Perhaps some ingenious compromise will be achieved
pertaining to the Palestinian demand for East Jerusalem as the capital of their
Palestinian State. But if and when that Palestinian State is established it
will be a replica of the secular nationalist Jewish State of Israel. The Holy
Land would then be more fully confirmed as part of the new world-order of Shirk that emerged from modern western
civilization. Shirk is manifestly committed when sovereignty is located
in the State rather than with Allah, Most High! Shirk is committed when
the State is vested with supreme authority, and when the law of the State is
the supreme law!
The most brazen-faced display of Shirk we have ever
encountered was a proposal which the US Government presented to seek to resolve
the conflicting positions of the Israeli Government and the PLO regarding the
site in which is located the Masjid built by Solomon, now known to
Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as the Temple Mount. The US
plan would have given to the State of Israel ‘sovereignty’ over the Western
Wall (or ‘Wailing Wall’). The Jews
recognize it as a remnant of the original Temple (Masjid) built by
Solomon. The Palestinian State, on the other hand, would have had ‘sovereignty’
over Masjid al-Aqsa and the Masjid of Umar (known as the Dome
over the Rock). And the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) would have had
to be contented with ‘sovereignty’ over the rest of al-Haram al-Sharif.
Shirk is
committed when the State proceeds to declare Halal what Allah Most High
made Haram, and vice-versa. It is as certain as the sun rises in the
East that the future Palestinian State will legalize gambling and lotteries and
even establish state sponsored lotteries. It will legalize Riba, i.e.,
the lending and borrowing of money on interest. It will legalize the
consumption of alcohol. In other words, the Palestinian State will embrace Shirk
in precisely the same way that Jewish Israel and the rest of the world
(including most of the Muslim world) have already done. A Palestinian State established
by the PLO would also visit upon its people the same decadence that today
pervades the secular Jewish State as well as most of the rest of the world.
Muslims cannot, and should not, lend their support to any
agreement such as the recent Saudi Plan, which seeks to legitimize the secular
nationalist State of Israel and accept its fifty years of oppression upon the
indigenous people of Palestine, Christians as well as Muslims. Nor should
Muslims accept in the Holy Land the establishment of a Palestinian State that
would be but a replica of the Jewish State.
This book also seeks to explain the reality to Jews who have
so uncritically accepted a secular nationalist Israel as representative of the
glorious State created by David (‘alaihi al-Salam) and Solomon (‘alaihi
al-Salam). This State of Israel is an impostor that has deceived Jews. Dr. Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi, the Palestinian
Islamic scholar who was an outspoken critic
of Israel, and who was murdered in the dark, described Israel as “a
colonial enterprise”, “conceived in sin”, “founded upon outdated concepts of national
character and mission”, and “a militaristic oppressor of indigenous peoples”.
The indigenous Arab people who were driven from their homes, or had to flee in terror,
were a people who worshipped the God of
Abraham. Yet, even when the Jews had consolidated their control over the
Holy Land, they refused to invite these refugees to return to their homes, or
to allow them to do so. To this day, more than fifty years later, the Jewish
State adamantly refuses to allow the return of the refugees to their homes
while extending an open invitation to Jews, wherever they may be in the world, to
come and reside in the Holy Land. This is not virtuous conduct! Rather, it is
Satanic!
The prophecies of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa
sallam) indicate that the Zionist State of Israel will eventually betray Banu
Israil and cast them before the very people who have been relentlessly
oppressed by Israel with the most shameless and undisguised oppression.
Yassir Arafat is also an impostor who does not represent the
Palestinians who were dispossessed of their homes and have been relentlessly
oppressed by Israel for more than fifty years.
Many have lived in refugee camps in Lebanon and elsewhere for more than
fifty years. Arafat can betray them just as Israel is betraying the Jews. Those
betrayed by Arafat will eventually be at the vanguard of the Muslim army that
will confront and punish the Jews resident in the Holy Land when the State of
Israel abandons them. That Muslim army has already demonstrated its fighting
prowess in Southern Lebanon. And the
Israeli withdrawal from Southern Lebanon, which effectively abandoned the
surrogate Christian army in that territory (after it had fought on Israel’s
behalf), is a prelude to the more dramatic event that is to come.
The racial oppression of the Ishmaelites by the secular
Jewish State of Israel has dramatically intensified the already awesome
religious, political, and economic oppression in the Holy Land. That oppression
is constantly increasing. It is in this context that we can now understand the
ominous prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) who
declared:
“You will surely fight the Jews, and you will
surely kill them. (And this will continue) until (even) the stones will speak
(saying): Oh Muslim! There is Jew hiding behind me so come and kill him.”
(Sahih Bukhari)
