The Wilderness in the Islamic Nation

The Muslims lost the way after the passing of the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad bin Abdullah pbuhap, as Abu Bakr and a group of hypocrites jumped to authority and he usurped the successorship of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap . And most of the companions failed to support the successor of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap who was appointed by Allah, Ali bin Abi Talib pbuh , as the Messenger of Allah pbuhap appointed him by the command of Allah to be the Prince of Believers and the khalifa of the Messenger of the Lord of the Worlds pbuhap after him in Ghadir Khum in the Farewell Pilgrimage (Hujjat al-Wadaa) . And not only did they usurp the right of Imam Ali pbuh and the right of Mankind to receive the Word that there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger, but it also extended to the attempt of Omar bin al-Khattab and a group of hypocrites to burn the house of Fatima al-Zahraa pbuh and she is the only daughter from the lineage of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap . And loving kindness towards her, and towards al-Hassan and al-Hussain and Ali pbut, was obliged by Allah in the Quran . The Almighty said, ﴾I do not ask you for any payment for this message [but] only loving kindness of the kinship .”﴿^[1] And when this attempt did not succeed in forcefully making the Imam pbuh go out to pay allegiance to Abu Bakr, they broke into the house of Fatima al-Zahraa pbuh and broke her rib, and they caused her to miscarry her fetus and a nail pierced into her chest, and she is the one about whom the Messenger of Allah pbuhap said, ﴾[She is] the mother of her father and a piece of me . And Allah satisfies by her satisfaction and He angers for her anger . And [she is] the Lady of the women of the worlds from the first ones and the last ones .”﴿^[2] So Muslims would not have evaded the wilderness and the wilderness would not have evaded them after they had walked the same path of the Children of Israel, pace by pace . The Messenger of Allah pbuhap said, ﴾By Whom my soul is in His hand, you will follow in the

footsteps of those before you, pace by pace and speck by speck, such that you will not evade their way and the way of the Children of Israel will not evade you .”﴿^[3] And this nation lost its chance and supported its enemy and fought its supporter and Imam and angered its Lord, so it began to enter the wilderness and astray from then until it settled in the heart of the desert today . So from Muawya and Ziad to Yazeed and the son of Ziad, and Muslim bin Aqaba to Marwan, Abdul-Malik and his children, and al-Hajjaj to the Abbasids, al-Saffah and al-Mansoor al-Dawaniqi and al- Hadi and al-Mahdi^[4] and al-Rasheed, the misguided ones, to al-Ameen [the safe] and al-Mamoon [the entrusted] who are not to be trusted, to al-Motawakkel [the dependant] on Satan, to … and to … a terrible journey that this nation went through . So how many cities had their sanctities violated, their good people killed and the honor of their women transgressed . And even the city of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap and the Holy Kaaba were not spared . (Yazeed (Allah curse him) sent Muslim bin Aqaba, who is more worthy of being called a criminal [rather than Muslim -Trans .], to Madeena and over ten thousand Muslims were killed including seven hundred companions, and over a thousand virgins were raped, and this did not satisfy him; he moved toward the Holy Kaaba [planning to destroy it -Trans .], but Allah swt destroyed him as He destroyed the people of the Elephant .)^[5] And how extensively were the free ones tortured and the good ones killed, and how many of them spent time in jails and dark dungeons, wherein you cannot recognize night from day . And if you looked into what the Umayyad children and the Abbasid children did to the Muslims, you would be filled with horror, and if you knew about their debauchery and disbelief and how much they withdrew from the religion,

your wonderment would increase . al-Masoody said about one of them who is al-Waleed bin Yazeed bin Abdul Malik in the book of Murooj al-Thahab, “Ibn Aisha sang, so al-Waleed admired him and said, ‘Well done, by Allah, repeat it by the right of the worshipper of the sun,’ so he repeated and al-Waleed said, ‘Repeat by the right of Umayya .’ So he repeated . So al-Waleed went to the singer and did not leave a part of his body except that he kissed it, then al-Waleed leaned in to kiss his urethra, so the singer turned away from him, so al-Waleed said, ‘By Allah I shall kiss it .’ And he insisted until he kissed it, and he gave him one thousand dinars and a donkey, and he said, ‘Walk with the donkey over my carpet,’ so he did . And then al-Waleed placed a bath in a garden and filled it with wine, in which he used to swim with the obscene ones and drink from it until it would recede . And he once approached his own daughter and said, ‘Whoever observes what people do dies from grief .’”^[6] Al-Sayed al-Mortatha said in the book of Al-Amali that Abu Obaidullah al-Mazrabani said that Ahmed bin Kamel said that al- Waleed bin Yazeed was a heretic and he opened the Quran one day and he saw, ﴾And they requested victory from Allah, and disappointed, [therefore], was every obstinate tyrant﴿,^[7]so he took the Quran as a target and began shooting arrows at it, while saying, “You are warning every obstinate tyrant … so I am that obstinate tyrant . So if you meet your Lord … say, ‘O Lord, al-Waleed has pierced me .’”^[8] And I am indeed sorry to convey the history of such filth, and what I mentioned is only a small portion of that history . And if this history was nothing but the killing of the progeny of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap by these oppressive rulers and expelling them to the ends of the land, where nowadays, we find the lineage of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap living in Iran, Afghanistan, India, and all the countries distant from the city of their grandfather pbuhap, then this would be enough proof that they went far away from the religion and that they fought Islam, and this would be enough proof for their grudge against the Messenger of Allah pbuhap .

And this injustice and corruption continues to this day; our wealth is in the hands of tyrants, they are using it for all kinds of corruption in the land and towards the servants, and they are bestowing it upon whoever worships them without Allah . The likes of their prisons were never known throughout history, in them there are forms of torture that make the body shiver, and their armies are equipped with all types of weapons, not to defend the Islamic countries, but to oppress the Muslim people . And whoever calls out that there is no god but Allah and calls the Muslims to rule by what Allah sent down gets thrown into those dark dungeons or gets killed . And we do not know when this wilderness and astray will end and when Islam will return to rule the Muslims like it did in the days of the Messenger of Allah pbuhap, and when justice will spread in the Islamic countries, and therefore throughout the earth . But we know for certain that it will come back, because the Messenger of Allah pbuhap promised us and told us that Islam will come back fresh in the end times by the hands of his son, al-Mahdi pbuh . And this blessed appearance of this great reformer will not be fulfilled until the reasons for his absence are lifted and a generation within this nation arises which is ready to carry the divine message to all the people of the earth, in order for the divine promise of making this religion victorious to be fulfilled . So if we really want justice to be fulfilled on earth and want to come out of this desert and this wilderness and want the appearance of Imam al-Mahdi pbuh , we have to go back to the Islam that Allah wants, not the Islam that the tyrants want . Allah said, ﴾And We certainly sent unto every nation a messenger, “Worship Allah and avoid tyranny .” So among them were those whom Allah guided, and among them were those upon whom error was deservedly decreed . So proceed through the earth and observe how the end of the deniers was .﴿^[9] Those tyrants, who took over the nation with the help of America, though they show enmity toward it to complete the chapters of this abhorrent play, want to marginalize Islam and make the core of the Muslim empty and deprived of any faith in Allah, only coated with religious shells which have no truth . And if they could discard these

shells and fight them they would not hesitate, like they did in Turkey today . And whoever doubts that they are agents of America and Zionism, especially those who pretend that they are their enemy, let him refer to their dark history and he will find that for each day they remain in power, they serve their masters, the Americans and the Zionists, by the wars they wage on the Muslims and the Arabs, and by oppressing every Islamic movement and religious awakening, and whoever wants further proof let him refer to the Torah, Book of Daniel, and he will find that in the region of the Middle East, there are ten kings who are agents of America, or as is symbolized, an Iron Kingdom, eating and stomping on all the kingdoms of the earth, but Allah willing the Mahdi of this nation pbuh will stomp on it, just as it was mentioned in the Book of Daniel itself . Moreover, a tyrant cares only about himself and that which keeps him in power, and his throne stands only upon blood and remains, so he kills whoever rejects his rulership and oppression, and he occupies the people with crises that never end except by the ending of his rulership, so he wages wars and plants prejudices and Satanic shouts between the tribes, he even deprives the people of bread so that they are always occupied with acquiring it . Life under the shadow of the tyrant is humiliation; moreover, it is death in life, it is the loss of this world and the hereafter . The Greek philosopher Plato says in the description of the government of the tyrant and its formation, “Among the callers for democracy and the protectors of the people, he who is their most violent and most crafty stands out . So he exiles the wealthy or executes them, he cancels debts and divides the lands and provides protection for himself from the evil conspiracies . So the people become happy with him and he seizes the authority for himself . And in order to empower himself and distract the people from himself and perpetuate the need for him, he announces war with his neighbors after he had made peace with them, so he can focus on fulfilling his wish from within, and he beheads every competitor or critic, and eliminates every virtuous man and draws a group of mercenaries closer to him and gives generously to the poets whom we exiled from our city, so they praise him with compliments excessively . And he demolishes the structures and starves the people in order to feed his guards and entourage . So the people realize that he

switched from freedom to tyranny, and this was the original government [the same as the previous one] .” As for the slaves of the tyrant and his mercenaries, they are under the illusion that they are safe and that their lives are secure and settled, for as long as they continue in the service of the tyrant no harm shall touch them, as their master is powerful, he cuts the necks while the people are submissive and have surrendered to injustice . And this is an illusion, because fire remains under the ashes . The Almighty said, ﴾The example of those who take supporters other than Allah is like that of the spider who takes a home . And indeed, the weakest of homes is the home of the spider, if they only knew .﴿^[10] And the truth is known to whoever follows the history of the nations and the peoples, that the end of every tyrant and his mercenaries is through the revolution of the weakened and the oppressed, and those who have oppressed will know to which return they will be returned . As for those who surrendered to the tyrants and submit to them while claiming that they are Muslims, they are out of the allegiance of Allah but they do not know . The Almighty said, ﴾Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what was sent down to you, and what was sent down before you? They wish to refer legislation to tyranny, while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray .﴿^[11] And the tyrants push them into wars with the Islamic nations and they will not cease helping them due to fear of them, and they fight the supporters of Allah and they violate the sanctities of the believers . So what state is worse than theirs and what disbelief is greater than their disbelief, and they support the enemies of Allah? The Almighty said, ﴾Those who believe fight in the way of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the way of tyranny . So fight against the supporters of Satan . Indeed, the plot of Satan has ever been weak .﴿^[12] And perhaps some of them use the excuse that they fear the tyrants and fear being killed, but it is an ugly and unacceptable excuse, for if the weapon must be carried, let us carry it in the face of the tyrants, not in support of them .

The Almighty said, ﴾Indeed, those whom the angels take [in death] while unjust toward themselves - [the angels] will say, “In what [condition] were you?” They will say, “We were oppressed in the land . ” The angels will say, “Was not the earth of Allah spacious for you to migrate therein?” For those, their refuge is hell - and it is an evil destination .﴿^[13] And the Almighty said, ﴾32 Those who were arrogant will say to those who were oppressed, “Did we avert you from guidance after it had come to you? Rather, you were criminals .” 33 Those who were oppressed will say to those who were arrogant, “Rather, [it was your] conspiracy of night and day when you were ordering us to disbelieve in Allah and attribute to Him equals .” But they will confide regret when they see the punishment; and We will put shackles on the necks of those who disbelieved . Will they be recompensed except for what they used to do?﴿^[14] Also, supporting the tyrants and taking refuge in them is forbidden, for leaving jihad and abandoning the commanding of good and forbidding of evil is forbidden, and shifting away from the life of the Muslims does cancel the test, and whoever becomes apathetic about the matters of the Muslims is not one of them, even if he is a cleric claiming to be a general representative of the Imam [al-Mahdi] pbuh . And let each Muslim look at his heart and what is within it, is it the fear of Allah, or the fear of the tyrant? And the two fears do not gather in the heart of the believer, as the fear of Allah makes the tyrants more despicable than a mosquito in the eyes of the believer, so they do not have any influence on the believer or on his decisions, except where the obligatory taqiyya^[15] is concerned . The Almighty said, ﴾Have you not seen those who were told, “Restrain your hands [from fighting] and establish prayer and give zakat”? But then when fighting was ordained for them, at once a party of them feared men as they fear Allah or with greater fear . They said, “Our Lord, why have You decreed upon us fighting? If only You had postponed [it for] us for a short time .” Say, the enjoyment of this world is little, and the Hereafter is better for he who fears Allah . And injustice will not be done to

you, [even] as much as a thread [inside a date seed] .”﴿^[16] And praise is to Allah that the Islamic nation today is starting on the path of returning to Allah, and on the path of the Islamic religious awakening that we see every day to be expanding to include all the Islamic countries and threatening the thrones of the tyrants who took over this nation and did their best to drown the Muslim youth in their materialistic and sexual desires, and they spread nightclubs, alcohol and debauchery in the Islamic countries, and broadcast through television and through others all that which Allah has forbidden from music and naked women and stories about the lives of the Westerners, the goal of which is dismantling the Islamic family, but Allah foiled their plans and destroyed their building from its foundation and the roof shall collapse on their heads soon, Allah willing . And these tyrants, just like the previous ones, are under the illusion that they can eradicate the real characteristics of the religion of monotheism, and disfigure Islam and kill the true ideologies which threatens their thrones, especially the ideology of waiting for al-Mahdi pbuh , but they are far from it; and the Quran which is between our hands exclaims in our ears, ﴾5 And We wanted to confer favor upon those who were oppressed in the land and make them Imams and make them inheritors 6 and empower them in the land and show Pharaoh and Haman and their soldiers through them that which they had feared .﴿^[17] ﴾105 And We have written in the Book of Psalms after the remembrance that the earth is inherited by My righteous servants . 106 Indeed, in this is a declaration for a worshipping people .﴿^[18] ﴾Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish their religion for them which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security . They worship Me, not associating anything with Me . But whoever disbelieves after that, then those are the defiantly disobedient .﴿^[19] And the meanings that were brought by the Messenger of Allah

pbuhap exclaim in our ears, ﴾If only one day was left of this world, one of my sons would come out and fill it with justice as it was filled with tyranny and oppression .”﴿^[20] And al-Mahdi pbuh is among us . Muslims benefit from him just as the earth and its inhabitants benefit from the sun when covered by clouds .^[21] O Muslim men and women, O beloved ones, believe in Allah and disbelieve in the tyrant, and hold on to the most trustworthy handhold, which is the Proof of Allah ( Hujjatullah) in His land, al-Mahdi pbuh , and know that the belief in Allah is inseparable from the disbelief in the tyrant, and they are one matter, just like the fading of darkness and the emergence of light, for nothing can be understood from the fading of darkness except the emergence of light . The Almighty said, ﴾The right course has become clear from the wrong . So whoever disbelieves in tyranny and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it . And Allah is All-Hearing and All-Knowing .﴿^[22] Fear Satan and the desires of the self and follow that which the Messenger of Allah pbuhap and his pure Progeny pbut brought to you from Allah swt . Allah forgives all guilt, but He does not forgive associating others with Him . The Almighty said, ﴾Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, and He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills . And he who associates others with Allah has certainly fabricated a tremendous sin .﴿^[23] And believing in the tyrant, referring to him, supporting him, submitting and surrendering to him are all acts of association with Allah and misguidance from the straight path of Allah, and what a great misguidance it is . Do you see that if a disbeliever in Allah or someone

who associates others with Allah, fasts and prays, that his prayer and fasting are accepted? The acts of worship were made for the worshipper to prove through them the obedience to Allah, so if he is obedient to the tyrant and is an enemy of Allah, what meaning is left for his acts of worship? The moment in which a human being obeys the orders and rules of a tyrant is a moment of disbelief in Allah and exit from the allegiance of Allah into the allegiance of the tyrant, and from the light into the darkness . The Almighty said, ﴾Have you not seen those who claim to have believed in what was sent down to you, and what was sent down before you? They wish to refer legislation to tyranny, while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray .﴿^[24] Thus the path of return to Allah and His allegiance is the same path of disbelief in the tyrant and exit from his allegiance, and truthfully, they are both one path, and it is the straight path by which the acts are accepted, because they are for Allah the One, the Alone . So if we really want the true return to the authentic Islam of Muhammad pbuhap, we have to believe in all that was brought by Muhammad bin Abdullah pbuhap, we must believe in all of Islam and its rulings, and not believe in whatever suits our desires and abandon the rest . We must adhere to the path that was drawn by the successors of Muhammad pbut , they are the arks of survival, and whoever proceeds without them is an apostate, and whoever lags behind them is bound to disappear, and whoever abides by them survives . As for those who disbelieve in some of the Book and believe in some of it, they will eventually find themselves panting toward a mirage in the desert . And let there be for us, as believers, a good example in the magicians who believed in Moses pbuh , and such believers were far from the divine method, moreover they were supporters of the tyrant and they initially stood with Pharaoh (may Allah curse him) to argue against Moses pbuh . But when they went against their desires the truth was shown to them, so they believed in Allah and disbelieved in Pharaoh, and the light of the truth shone in their hearts, and the darkness of the tyrant was lifted from their insight . And this time, they stood with Moses pbuh to fight in the way of Allah and to fight Pharaoh (may Allah curse him) and to clarify to people his lies, weak-

ness and shame . Allah said: ﴾70 So the magicians fell down in prostration . They said, “We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses .” 71 [Pharaoh] said, “You believed him before I gave you permission . Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic . So I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and you will surely know which of us is more severe in [giving] punishment and more enduring .” 72 They said, “Never will we prefer you over what has come to us of clear proofs and [over] He who created us . So decree whatever you are to decree . You can only decree for this worldly life .﴿^[25] For those believing servants, the world became extremely small in their eyes . Thus Pharoah’s threat (may Allah curse him) of cutting off their hands and legs and crucifying them had no impact on their decision to follow the Truth, and they did not prefer life, rather the truth of this life and this materialistic world which Pharaoh and Haman and Qarun and the likes of them flock towards was made clear to them, and the magicians passed the test and overcame the obstacle, so they won the satisfaction of Allah and for them is Toobah^[26] and a good return . The Slaughtered One of the progeny of Muhammad, al-Hussain pbuh , said, ﴾If this world is considered precious … then the home with the reward of Allah is higher and more noble . And if the divisions of livelihood are predestined … then the lack of one’s concern about the gain is more beautiful . And if all moneys are collected for leaving behind … then what is the matter with the one miserly about a thing left behind . And if the bodies were created for death … then to be killed by the sword for Allah is better .”﴿^[27] And we should raise the question, is it not time for our hearts to be subject to the call of Allah and for us to repent a true repentance to Allah so that we support the supporters of Allah, and fight the enemies of Allah, and make Islam a constitution and a method for our life, and make the Quran a slogan for us, and the word that there is no god but

Allah a refuge and a fortress for us!! Is it not time for us to say to the tyrant, “Decree whatever you desire to decree, for you can only decree (regarding) this life of the world”!! Is it not time for us to choose the rule of Islam and to reject the rule of the days of ignorance!! Is it not time for our hearts to shine with the light of the Truth, so that the darkness of the tyrant can be lifted from it!! Will we remain in this wilderness, and in this desert panting towards a mirage, while the exit is in our hands, and the water is so near to us? The Almighty said, ﴾And you are not a guider of the blind away from their misguidance . You will only make hear those who believe in Our verses so they are Muslims [in submission to Allah] .﴿* • Surat ar-Room (The Romans) 30:53 .