The series "Caliphate and Imamate in Islamic Thought"
By the writer and thinker Thaer Salama – Abu Malek
Part Eight: Beware of betraying God, His Messenger, and the Islamic nation without realizing it!
Suppose a very immoral suitor comes to propose to your neighbor's daughter, and you know of his immorality, but they do not. Wouldn't your silence about his morals and your failure to inform them of what you know be a crime against the betrothed and her family and a betrayal of them1? However, the betrayal is greater if you know for sure that a criminal is planning to attack their honor by force, and you do not inform them of this so that they can take precautions! If he does and the crime occurs, there is no doubt that you have a share in its sin just because of your silence and inaction2!
It is not enough to be described as a traitor just because your intentions are good and you did not intend to harm people, and someone else did this harm. Rather, you must take the initiative to act, otherwise you will be a traitor without realizing it!
Al-Izz bin Abd al-Salam, may God have mercy on him, said, "Whoever settles in a land where adultery is rampant and tells people about the prohibition of usury has betrayed."
Isn't neglecting to talk about applying God's laws on earth a betrayal of God, who does not accept any ruling with Him? So, work must be directed towards eliminating the evil rule of hardened criminals and implementing God's rule so that we may be free from betraying God.
Isn't neglecting to speak and act to implement God's laws on earth a betrayal of His Messenger, who worked day and night, struggling and proclaiming the truth, facing harm, torment, and conspiracies, and fighting and struggling against falsehood as long as he lived, until the state of truth was established on earth with its pillars, justice was established, and injustice was eradicated? He is the one who said, "The Imam is only a shield (i.e., a protective shield for Muslims) behind whom they fight and by whom they are protected." So how, when this shield has been broken, isn't working to restore it as a protection for the chests of the nation the most obligatory of duties?
Isn't neglecting to speak and act to implement God's laws on earth a betrayal of His Qur'an, which was only revealed to be applied, revealed to make lawful what is lawful and forbidden what is forbidden, revealed to be a law and a way of life, a way of living and a judge in every dispute, revealed to establish the balance of justice between people so that there is no injustice with its judgment, revealed as the truth that God cast upon falsehood, so it destroys it? Wouldn't working to cast falsehood with it to destroy it be the most obligatory of duties, so that the Qur'an rules and falsehood perishes?
The wars we are witnessing against the Islamic world, some of which are taking each other's lives, are nothing but a third world war, but it is a war against a nation, not a war between nations, a war of extermination against the Islamic world.
What is the reason that emboldened hateful Russia, the head of misguidance and terrorism, and the greedy, infidel Western world, which still lives with the mentality of the dark Middle Ages, against the Islamic world in this blatant, filthy manner?
And with all forms of systematic extermination, except for the West's knowledge of the absence of a protector and shield for the Islamic nation? The Caliphate,
Otherwise, because of its dispersion, and the transformation of its rulers into patrons of the interests of the infidel West, in exchange for a cheap price of dilapidated chairs, and this is an inevitable result of the absence of the Imam or Caliph!
Not a day passes for them after the destruction of their caliphate, but it is dark in the depths, black on the sides, gloomy, stained with the blood of Muslims, their honor, the plundering of their wealth, the domination of their rabble, and their tyrants over them, the violation of their sanctity, and the domination of their enemy. You hear nothing in it but the screams of orphans, the wailing of bereaved mothers, the oppression of the oppressed, the groaning of the wronged, and the rumbling of the bellies of the hungry. Has the best nation brought forth for people reached this unfortunate place among people except for its distance from applying the law of its Lord?
"And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life."!...
The enemies of the nation have worked in its body, and the nation's turning away from the law of its Lord has caused diseases and calamities in its body, and cancer has spread in it like fire in straw. So any talk about the symptoms of the disease without treating the root cause of the disease is a crime against the patient, and it only increases the severity of the cancer. And any action that does not contribute to treating the root cause of the affliction does not bring the nation closer to solving its problems by an inch, but rather distances it from it by miles!
So, engage in establishing the most dangerous of obligations, O Muslims. Establish the obligation that protects the obligations, and you will succeed.
"O you who have believed, do not betray Allah and the Messenger or betray your trusts while you know."
1- A Muslim is commanded to conceal the faults of his brother and to avoid mentioning them to people, as it was narrated from Abdullah bin Umar, may God be pleased with them, that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim, he does not wrong him, nor does he hand him over [to his enemy]. Whoever is concerned for the needs of his brother, God is concerned for his needs. Whoever relieves a Muslim of a distress, God will relieve him of a distress on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever conceals [the fault of] a Muslim, God will conceal him on the Day of Resurrection." Narrated by Al-Bukhari in his Sahih. However, this general rule may be superseded by circumstances that make it permissible, or even obligatory, and this is not considered forbidden backbiting. This includes revealing the influential defects of the suitor or the betrothed, because that is part of the advice in religion that the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, commanded. Tamim al-Dari reported that the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "Religion is advice." We said, "To whom?" He said, "To God, His Book, His Messenger, and the leaders of the Muslims and their common people." Narrated by Muslim in his Sahih. Advice is also obligatory by mentioning the flaws if he knows that he intends to meet with him, even if he does not consult him, and this is not forbidden backbiting, Al-Siraj Al-Wahhaj, vol. 1, p. 362, as evidenced by what was narrated from Fatima bint Qais, who said: When I became lawful [after divorce], I mentioned to him that Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan and Abu Jahm had proposed to me. The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: "As for Abu Jahm, he does not put his staff down from his shoulder, and as for Muawiyah, he is a pauper with no money. Marry Usama bin Zaid." I disliked him, then he said: "Marry Usama." So I married him, and God made good in him, and I was content. Narrated by Muslim in his Sahih.
2- "If people see a wrongdoer and do not stop him, God is likely to inflict them all with punishment," narrated by Abu Dawood, al-Tirmidhi, and al-Nisa'i with authentic chains of narration. Just their silence about him and failure to stop the wrongdoer makes them partners in the sin and deserve punishment! God Almighty said: "And it has already been revealed to you in the Book that when you hear the verses of Allah being denied and ridiculed, then do not sit with them until they enter into another conversation. Indeed, you would then be like them. Indeed Allah will gather the hypocrites and disbelievers in Hell all together." [An-Nisa' / 140].
