A Thousand Little Pieces

News:

According to British Police, hate crimes against Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim in the United Kingdom are up by 140 percent compared with this time last year. The United Kingdom anti-Islamophobia organization Tell MAMA has received a sevenfold increase in reports of Islamophobia since October 7. (Aljazeera.com)

Comment:

More than 20,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict with at least 8,000 children and 6,200 women dead. More than 52,600 victims have also been injured. Gaza, where thousands are still reportedly under the rubble, has witnessed the destruction of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, educational institutions and places of worship, in targeted attacks. The people of Gaza, have been facing these horrors for the last seventy-five years, this time multiplied because of the increased confidence of the Zionists and their sympathizers and the apathy of the Muslim Leaders of the world. This time the impact is so strong that the echo of pain and hatred can be heard around the world. People inside Gaza are being bombed and starved, left to live a life without proper shelter, food and health facilities. They feel abandoned by the Muslim countries that hold strategic and military strength. While the image portrayed by ‘Israel’ with the help of western media is of savages from Hamas running around beheading innocent ‘Israeli’ babies. This is putting fuel to the fire of anti-Muslim propaganda that has been around since the dawn of Islam. For years, one of the biggest threats to Muslims in the world has been the misrepresentation of their identity by the enemy. The mammoth effort required to keep the Ummah down even after dismantling the Islamic State shows the fear in the hearts of the enemies of Allah. This fear of Islamic revival is so strong that they dream of erasing the Islamic Ideology by believing that if they kill the Muslims they can diminish the belief system. One wonders that even after entering their lands, grabbing their resources, and dividing them into a thousand little pieces, why is the intensity of fear and worry growing stronger than before? It is because they are trying to fight the inevitable success decided by The Supreme Divine Power, with their human abilities and strategies. Multiple cases of harassment, injuries and even murder against Muslims are coming to light in the US and Europe.

These hate crimes are supported directly or indirectly by governments that are held up as beacons of freedom. These incidents are not because the world sees the Ummah as weak but to keep it weak, and the suggested solution is to cease fire till they find it appropriate to start the killing spree again.

Narrated Thawban: The Prophet (saw) said:

«يُوشِكُ الأُمَمُ أَنْ تَدَاعَى عَلَيْكُمْ كَمَا تَدَاعَى الأَكَلَةُ إِلَى قَصْعَتِهَا» فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: وَمِنْ قِلَّةٍ نَحْنُ يَوْمَئِذٍ؟ قَالَ: «بَلْ أَنْتُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ كَثِيرٌ وَلَكِنَّكُمْ غُثَاءٌ كَغُثَاءِ السَّيْلِ وَلَيَنْزِعَنَّ اللَّهُ مِنْ صُدُورِ عَدُوِّكُمُ الْمَهَابَةَ مِنْكُمْ وَلَيَقْذِفَنَّ اللَّهُ فِي قُلُوبِكُمُ الْوَهَنَ»‏.‏ فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَمَا الْوَهَنُ؟ قَالَ: «حُبُّ الدُّنْيَا وَكَرَاهِيَةُ الْمَوْتِ»

“The people will soon summon one another to attack you as people when eating invite others to share their dish.” Someone asked: Will that be because of our small numbers at that time? He replied: “No, you will be numerous at that time: but you will be like foam that carried down by a torrent, and Allah will take fear of you from the breasts of your enemy and last enervation into your hearts.” Someone asked: What is wahn (enervation)? Messenger of Allah (saw): He replied: “Love of the world and dislike of death.” Sunan Abi Dawud.

Allah (swt) has commanded the Muslims to be united and stay as one Ummah, as a body, taking commands from one head. How can a body be calm and festive while multiple parts are in terrible pain? We as Muslims need to revive the connection between all Muslims and protect and fight for each other. A Muslim in India is being harmed because the enemy knows that he is the brother of a Muslim in an opposite part of the World. A 6-year-old child in Chicago is stabbed to death as the killer feels hatred for his Muslim brothers in Palestine. A Muslim woman’s scarf is snatched as it links her to her Palestinian sisters. A boy from Germany is killed for expressing empathy for his Palestinian brothers. So, if the enemy of Allah knows that we are all connected, why are we not aware that this connection is the only lifeline for Muslim Ummah as it connects us to the rope of Allah (swt) and provides us a Khalifah (caliph) as a head of State whose orders no Muslim army can refuse to obey and whose actions will put such fear in the hearts of the enemies and hypocrites that they will not dare to harm any part of this Ummah.

Nu'man b. Bashir reported that Rasool Allah (saw) said;

«الْمُسْلِمُونَ كَرَجُلٍ وَاحِدٍ إِنِ اشْتَكَى عَيْنُهُ اشْتَكَى كُلُّهُ وَإِنِ اشْتَكَى رَأْسُهُ اشْتَكَى كُلُّهُ»

“Muslims are like one body of a person; if the eye is sore, the whole body aches, and if the head aches, the whole body aches.” (Sahih Muslim)

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Ikhlaq Jehan