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“In
consequence of the wickedness and injustice of the Jews We made unlawful for
them certain (foods), good and wholesome, which had been lawful for them. (We
have also done so because) they obstructed so many from Allah’s way, and
(because) they took usury (Riba) though they were forbidden to do so, and (in
doing so) they wrongfully took the wealth of others. (Because of these evil
deeds) We have prepared for those among them who reject Faith a terrible
punishment.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:160-1)
Introduction
Israel is a modern secular State located in the Holy Land.
Like all other secular states in the world today its economic system is based
on Riba. Riba is
usually translated as usury, i.e., the lending of money on interest
regardless of the rate of interest. But the definition of Riba in Islam
also includes transactions that are based on deception and which give to the
deceiver a profit or gain to which he is not justly entitled. In American
vocabulary such a transaction is described as a ‘rip-off’!
If judgment were to
be made according to the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam), then we
ask the following: What would be the religious legitimacy of an Israel which is
located in the Holy Land and whose economy is based on Riba? Does it
conform with or violate the divine conditions established for inheritance of
the Holy Land?
At the end of those revolutions Euro-Christian civilization,
which used to be based on faith in God and in His Sovereignty and Supremacy no
longer recognized the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) as Sovereign,
nor His Authority and His Law as supreme. The ‘modern secular state’ was now
recognized as ‘sovereign’, and that was Shirk! The authority and law of
the ‘modern secular state’ were now recognized as ‘supreme’, and that was Shirk!
The state had the authority to declare Halal (i.e. to declare legal
and permissible) that which the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) had
declared to be Haram (illegal and prohibited) – and it proceeded to do
so – and that was Shirk!
Shirk is a very
great sin. Indeed it is the greatest of all sins. It is the one sin that the God
of Abraham, Most High, declared that He would not forgive:
“Surely Allah does not (or will not) forgive Shirk. But He (can)
forgive everything else to whomsoever He wishes. And whoever commits Shirk has
committed an awesome sin”.
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:48)
Whoever commits Shirk, and dies in that state, can
never enter into heaven:
“…. Allah has made it
Haram for whoever commits Shirk to ever enter into heaven.Such (people) will
dwell in hell ….”
(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:72)
The worship of idols is the most overt form of Shirk. This
form of Shirk has largely disappeared from the world today.
But there are other forms of Shirk that are also
described in the Qur’an. Pharaoh, for example, declared to Moses (‘alaihi
al-Salam): “I am your Lord-God
the Most High”, and he declared to the Chiefs of his people: “Oh
Chiefs! No God do I know for you but myself …”.That was Shirk! The worship of Pharaoh by the Egyptian
people required them to submit to his authority as the supreme authority in the
land of Egypt, and to recognize his law as the supreme law in the land of
Egypt. That, also, was Shirk!
The Qur’an has repeatedly admonished those who
establish Hukm, i.e., the system of law and justice, on the basis of
‘other than’ or ‘contrary to’ Allah’s authority and Allah’s law. However, when
the divine guidance reaches a people (such as Jews, Christians, Muslims), and
they accept that guidance, then the situation is quite different. If such
people have an opportunity to establish their control over territory and they
then fail to establish law and authority on the basis of the revealed Divine Law,
then the Qur’an unequivocally condemns them and accuses them of Kufr (disbelief),
Dhulm (injustice) and Fisq (wickedness and awesome sin):
“ …. And whoever fails to judge on the basis of that which Allah
revealed has committed Kufr (disbelief).”
“ …. And whoever fails to judge on the basis of that which Allah
revealed has committed Dhulm (injustice and oppression).”
“ …. And whoever fails to judge on the basis of that which Allah
has revealed, has committed Fisq (wickedness and enormous sin).”
(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:44 - 47)
Since the declaration by Pharaoh and its concrete
application in the land of Egypt were acts of Shirk, it followed
therefrom that the same declaration by the modern secular state was also an act
of Shirk! Since the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) declared
that: “Whoever fails to judge on
the basis of that which Allah revealed has committed Kufr (disbelief),
Dhulm (injustice and oppression)
and Fisq (wickedness and
enormous sin)”,and the modern secular state has done precisely that, it
followed therefrom that Jews, Christians, Muslims etc, who establish the
secular state after having received the Divine Law through the Torah, Psalms,
Gospel and Qur’an, would be guilty of having committed Kufr, Dhulm
and Fisq!
If a Jew, Christian, or Muslim, were to cast a vote in a
national election in a modern secular state, that vote would imply that he
considered that party he voted for to be fit to govern over him. And if that
party as government committed or commits Shirk, Kufr, Dhulm and Fisq,
then the implication would be that the Jew, Christian, or Muslim, would follow
his Party and his Government into Shirk, Kufr, Dhulm and Fisq! The
Qur’an has also denounced as Shirk the act of making Halal
whatever Allah had made Haram (and vice-versa). Thus revelation came
down from the God of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam) in which He denounced
Jews and Christians of such a monstrous sin:
“They took their Priests and Rabbis as Lord-Gods beside Allah;
and (they did this in respect of) the Messiah, the son of Mary (as well). But
they were not ordered other than to worship and serve one God. Glory is to Him.
He is far and above the Shirk which they commit.”
(Qur’an, al-Taubah, 9:31)
When the Jews acted in this way, David (‘alaihi al -Salam)and Jesus (‘alaihi al -Salam) cursed
them:
“Curses were pronounced
on those among Banu Israil who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of
Jesus, the son of Mary, because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses. They
did not enforce the prohibition of that which was sinful and evil which they
committed: evil indeed were the deeds which they did.”
(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:78-9)
Whoever dies with a curse of a Prophet upon them have no
chance whatsoever of ever escaping from the burning flames of the hellfire! In
fact it is the height of hypocrisy for a people to declare that they worship
the God of Abraham and to then proceed to legalize that which He had made
illegal, and to prohibit that which He had made permissible:
“The Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with
each other: they enjoin evil, and forbid what is just, and are close with their
hands. They have forgotten Allah; so He hath forgotten them. Verily the
Hypocrites are rebellious and perverse.”
(Qur’an, al-Taubah, 9:67)
If it were an act of Shirk when Priests and Rabbis
made Halal that which Allah declared to be Haram, then it would
also be an act of Shirk when a government does the same thing now. And
if it earned the curses of Prophets at that time, it would do the same now!
Now the usual method of approach for studying this subject
is to weigh the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of participation by believers in the
electoral politics of the modern secular state. The defenders of the secular
state wax eloquently about its merits. Some argue: “If we do not participate in
electoral politics then we will have no political representation – no one to
struggle for our rights.” At a more serious level of thought another argument is raised: “Participation in
electoral politics is the necessary condition for any successful struggle to
change the godless political system.” The matter of Shirk is addressed
by way of a subterfuge: “We will participate in elections but will do so on the
basis of a public stand that we do not accept the secular constitution and the
secular state which it preserves. This escape clause will protect us from Shirk.”
Our
response is to point out that participation in
electoral politics in a secular state ipso facto signifies acceptance of
the secular character of the state. The secular state makes the same declaration that Pharaoh made to Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam). That declaration
is: The state is sovereign. Its authority is supreme. Its law is supreme. That is Shirk! When people vote
in elections in a secular state they thereby accept the claim of the state to
be sovereign. They accept its claim to supreme authority, and they accept its
law to be the supreme law. When believers vote in such elections, therefore, they
cannot escape from committing Shirk.
Secondly, when believers vote in elections in a secular state they
have to vote for a political party. If that party, as government, declared to
be Halal what the God of Abraham, Most High, made Haram, or
enforced laws as such, then that government committed Shirk. Around the
world today governments and parliaments of secular states have already declared
Halal nearly everything that Allah declared to be Haram. When
believers cast their votes for such political parties and governments that have
already committed Shirk upon Shirk, such votes would imply acceptance of
such people as fit to govern over them. Thus believers follow them into Shirk, Kufr, Dhulm and Fisq!
Thirdly, this method constitutes a violation and an abandonment of
the Sunnah of the Blessed Prophet of Islam(sallalahu ‘alaihi
wa sallam).
Political parties and governments around the world today are
comprised of those who disdainfully persist in declaring Halal that
which Allah declared to be Haram. When a people disdainfully persist in Haram
they pay a dreadful price. It is as plain as daylight that the modern secular
world is already paying precisely that price. What is it?
“….and then, when they disdainfully persisted in doing what they
had been forbidden to do, We said to them (i.e., We ordained for them) Be as
apes despicable!”
(Qur’an, al’Araf, 7:166)
What this implies is that they would now live like apes, so
incapable of exercising any restraint over their gross appetites and passions
that, by the ‘End Time’, they would be committing sexual intercourse in public like donkeys.
The modern secular state legalized the lending of money on
interest (Riba). An everincreasing number of modern secular states have
already legalized gambling (and lottery), the consumption and sale of
intoxicants (e.g. alcohol) and pork, the use of paper money that constantly
loses value. Abortion, homosexuality,
lesbianism, adultery and fornication.
Around the world today most modern secular states no longer
recognize Allah’s Law that a son must inherit twice as much as a daughter. They
declare such a law to be discriminatory against women, and they establish their
own laws that, they claim, are more just than Allah’s Laws. In fact their law
is no law. A man can leave his entire estate to a jackass and leave nothing for
his wife and children! The modern secular state has prohibited a man from
marrying more than one woman at a time since they claim that such would be
discriminatory against women. Rather they have made it mandatory for a man to
have no more than one wife at a time, and such, they claim, removes the
injustice against women that is present in Allah’s Law. This alternative has
resulted in a sexual revolution that is making a mockery of marriage itself! A
wife no longer has an obligation, legal or moral, to be obedient to her husband
since such would discriminate against the equality of the male and female. The
sun has never risen on a stranger world than the modern, relentlessly godless,
and awesomely glamorous modern
Euro-world, and that is surely an ominous sign!
The defining characteristic of the religion of Abraham
(‘alaihi al-Salam) is that there is no place whatsoever for Kufr (disbelief)
and Shirk (corruption of, or rejection of the worship of One True God) in it.
Yet the secular political system of the new essentially godless Euro-Christian
civilization – now known as modern western civilization, is based on Kufr and
Shirk. The United Nations Organization was founded on Shirk. The UN Charter declared that Allah Most
High is not al-Akbar! Articles 24
and 25 of the Charter declared that the Security Council has supreme authority
in the world in all matters pertaining to international peace and security, the
authority of the Security Council being higher than the authority of Allah Most
High and of His Messenger (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam). That is Shirk.
How then do we explain Banu Israel's acceptance of a modern
secular state in the Holy Land? And how do we explain the acceptance by Muslims
around the world of the modern secular state as a valid substitute for the
Caliphate? Perhaps this is the right moment for us to explain what the
Caliphate was and then compare it with the modern secular state. The ignorance
of the world today is such that even Muslims are unaware of the subject.
“And We gave
warning to Banu Israil through revelation, that twice would they corrupt the (Holy)
Land and be elated with mighty arrogance (and twice would they be
punished)!When the first of the
warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our servants who were capable of terrible
warfare. They entered the very inmost parts of your homes, and it was a warning
fulfilled.And after a time We allowed
you to prevail against them once again, and aided you with wealth and
offspring, and made you more numerous.
If
you persevere in doing good you will do so for your own good; whereas if you
commit evil you will (yourself) bear the consequences.
And so when the prediction of the second (period of wickedness) came
true, (We raised new enemies against you and allowed them) to disgrace you
utterly, and to enter the Temple as (their forerunners) had entered it once
before, and to destroy with utter destruction all that they had conquered.”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil,
17:4-7)
Surah Banu Israil
of the Qur’an(Surah No. 17) records the history of Jerusalem
that exposes the following fraudulent statement in the Torah:
“Know therefore that it is not because of your
righteousness that the Lord, your God has given you this good land to possess
it; for you are a stiff-necked people.”
(Deuteronomy , 9:6)
The statement is fraudulent because it establishes the
foundation for the belief that the Divine grant of the Holy Land to the Jews
was unconditional. In other words, it allows a Jew to argue that the Holy Land
would still belong to the Jews even if they were not righteous in their conduct
since righteousness was not a condition for their inheritance of that Holy
Land. The Jew would argue that Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salaam) was righteous
and, in consequence of his righteousness, the Land was given to him and to his
progeny! Thereafter no violation of the standard of righteous conduct by the Jewish
people could invalidate their right to the Holy Land. After all, the Torah was quite
plain and clear on the subject:
“Therefore impress these My words upon your very
heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your
forehead, and teach them to your children reciting them when you stay at home
and when you are away, and when you lie down and when you get up; and inscribe
them on the door posts of your house and on your gates to the end that you and your
children may endure, in the Land (i.e., Holy Land) that the Lord swore to your
fathers to give to them, as long as there is a heaven over the earth. If you
faithfully keep all the instructions that I command you, loving the Lord your
God, walking in His ways, and holding fast to Him, the Lord will dislodge
before you all these nations: you will dispossess nations greater and more
numerous than you. Every spot on which your foot treads shall be yours; your territory
shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River Euphrates to
the Western Sea. No man shall stand up to you: the Lord your God will put the
dread and the fear of you over the whole land in which you set foot, as He
promised you.”
(Deuteronomy , 11:18-25)
(The article by Michael Avi-Yonah in the Jewish
Encyclopeadia declares that “David (‘alaihi alSalaam), in the course of
his conquests, made Jerusalem the center of an empire extending from Egypt to
the Euphrates, although it was only in the reign of his successor, Solomon,
that full advantage was taken of this fact.”)
But Deuteronomy 9:6 as well as
11:18-25 are false in so far as they exclude righteousness and faith
as conditions for inheritance of the Holy Land! The Qur’an not only reaffirmed
‘righteousness’ as the condition for such inheritance (Surah alAnbiyah, 21:105), but went on to direct
attention to the historical evidence that violation of that condition always
resulted in Divine expulsion from the (Holy) Land. The Surah recounted
(at least) two occasions when the Israelite people so betrayed the religion of
Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salaam) and the standard of righteous conduct that
Allah Most High expelled them from the Holy Land.
On the first occasion in 587 BCE, a Babylonian army led by
Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem, then burned the city, murdered its
inhabitants, destroyed the Masjid built by Solomon (‘alaihi
al-Salaam), and carried the cream of the Jewish population into slavery in
Babylon. The Prophet Jeremiah had warned them that this would happen (Jeremiah: 32:36),
exactly as Allah, the Supreme, had declared in the Qur’an that He never
destroys a people before sending a warning to them (Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:15-16).
They were so punished because, among other things, they
changed the Torah to make Halal (permissible) that which Allah, the
Supreme, had made Haram (prohibited). They rewrote the Torah to make it
permissible for them to lend money on interest to those who were not Jews while
yet prohibiting such in intra-Jewish transactions:
“Thou shalt not lend on interest to thy brother
(Jew); whether it be lending money on interest, or lending commodities on
interest (because commodities were sometimes used as money) or lending on
interest anything which is lent on interest (i.e., anything which functions as
money). Unto a stranger (i.e., one who is not a Jew) you may lend on interest…”
(Deuteronomy , 23:19-20)
On the second occasion they were again expelled from the
Holy Land because of their killing of the Prophets of Allah (see, for example, Qur’an, al-Baqarah,
2:61).They killed
Zakariah (‘alaihi al-Salaam) in the Masjid. John (‘alaihi
al-Salaam), his son, was killed by deception. Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam)
referred to this killing of the Prophets, and he minced no words in his fierce
condemnation of this heinous crime:
“This is why the wisdom of God said: I will send
them Prophets and Messengers. Some they will kill and some they will persecute.
It was that the blood of all the Prophets shed from the foundation of the world
might be charged upon this generation (of Jews), from the blood of Abel down to
the blood of Zakariah, who was slain between the altar and the House of God - yes,
I tell you, it will all be charged upon this generation….”
(Luke, 11:49-51)
Finally they boasted of how they killed the Messiah, Jesus,
the son of Mary (but Allah, the All-Powerful, saved him from death):
“That they said (in boast): We killed the Messiah, Jesus the son
of Mary, the Messenger of Allah; but they killed him not, nor crucified him,
but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of
doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a
surety they killed him not.”
(Qur’an, al-Nisa, 4:157)
It was after this that Allah Most High punished them for the
second time. A Roman army led by General Titus besieged Jerusalem in 70CE.
Titus destroyed the city of Jerusalem, murdered the inhabitants and expelled
the remnant of Jews from the Holy Land. The Masjid was again destroyed
and soldiers tore it apart, stone by stone, in search of melted gold exactly as
Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam) had warned and prophesied "not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown
down." (See Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:4-7):
“And We gave (clear)
warning to Banu Israil through revelation, that twice would they corrupt the
(Holy) Land and be elated with mighty arrogance (and twice would they be
punished)!”
“When the first of the
warnings came to pass, We sent against you Our servants capable of terrible
warfare.” “They entered the very inmost parts of your homes; and it was a
warning (completely) fulfilled.”
“And after a time We allowed you to prevail against them once
again, and aided you with wealth and offspring, and made you more numerous
(than ever).”
“(And We said) “If you persevere in doing good you will but be
doing good to yourselves; and if you do evil it will be done to yourselves.”
And so when the prediction of the second (period of iniquity) came true, (We
raised new enemies against you and allowed them) to disgrace you utterly, and
to enter the Temple as (their forerunners) had entered it once before, and to
destroy with utter destruction all that they had conquered.”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:4-7)
“….soon shall I show you the homes of the wicked (how they lie
desolate).”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:145)
The Qur’an referred to the Temple that was twice
destroyed, as ‘al-Masjid’. But just before doing so it described the
miraculous journey of Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi alSalaam) (i.e., al-Isra
and Mi’raj) as a journey from al-Masjid al-Haram (in Makkah) to
al-Masjid al-Aqsa (i.e. the distant Temple):
“Glory to (Allah) Who did take His servant for a Journey by
night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We did
bless, in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who
hears and sees (all things).”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:1)
The Masjid of the Qur’anic verse, which was twice
destroyed, could not have been any other than the Masjid built by
Solomon (‘alaihi al-Salaam) in Jerusalem. The Prophet (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) himself confirmed this. It is this same Masjid that is
described above as Masjid al-Aqsa to which the Prophet (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) was taken by night on a miraculous journey. The Qur’an
explained that he was taken there in order to be shown some of the ‘Signs’ of
Allah, Most High. More than anything else those ‘Signs’ related to the destiny
of Jerusalem.
After punishing the Jews for a second time by expelling them
from the Holy Land, Allah Most High declared His intention to keep on punishing
them (and expelling them) if they kept on desecrating the Holy Land with
violations of the condition of faith and righteous conduct:
“….but if ye revert (to
your violation of the condition imposed for inheritance of the Holy Land) We
shall revert (to Our punishments. i.e., you will be expelled again and again)….”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:8)
The destiny of Jerusalem is plainly written in the above
warning and firm declaration in the Qur’an. This remains so regardless
of any, or all, or the following:
Øagreements negotiated in Camp David or elsewhere between the
secular nationalist representatives of the Palestinian people and the secular
nationalist European Jewry who presume to represent Banu Israil, or
Øresolutions of the US Senate and House of Representatives
which have replaced the British Parliament as the Ultimate Patron and Protector
of the Jewish State, or
Øresolutions of the UN Security Council or General Assembly
which assume the status of world government,
The destiny of Jerusalem is plainly visible in the context
of the awesome godlessness, decadence and oppression, which now pollutes the
Holy Land. Some of this has been described in subsequent chapters of this book
in the analysis of the political Shirk
of the State of Israel and the Riba of its economy. It is Israel’s
destiny that it will be subjected to the same divine punishment that it
experienced twice before. The first divine punishment came in the form of a
Babylonian army that destroyed Israel. The second time it was a Roman army. And
the third and last time it would be a Muslim army which would destroy the
Jewish State.
The Divine ‘Signs’ that were shown to Prophet Muhammad (‘alaihi
al-Salaam) during his miraculous visit to Jerusalem were ‘Signs’ which,
among other things, revealed to him the destiny of Jerusalem. This matter seems
to have escaped the attention of Daniel Pipes.
The Last Prophet (‘alaihi al-Salaam) saw the Last
Age. He saw with his spiritual eyes the return of the Jews in that age to the
Holy Land. He saw the creation of the Impostor State of Israel, and the
godlessness, decadence and awesome oppression that it would visit upon the Holy
Land. He saw the return of Jesus (‘alaihi al-Salaam), the son of Mary,
and the destruction of Israel by a Muslim army. And he saw the Truth, Justice
and Righteousness in the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salaam) that
the ‘true’ Messiah will restore to the Holy Land when he returns.
