Fire of the Kuffar
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“So their Lord accepted of them (their supplication and answered them), "Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female. You are (members) one of another, so those who emigrated and were driven out from their homes, and suffered harm in My Cause, and who fought, and were killed (in My Cause), verily, I will remit from them their evil deeds and admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise); a reward from Allah, and with Allah is the best of rewards.”
[T.M.Q. Al-e-Imran: 195]
This Ramadhan has indeed shown the eternal truth of the Qur’an. The more we read the examples of the Prophets and their suffering of Believers past, the more we see the same events unfolding before our very eyes. The struggle between those who believe and those who do not continues to this day.
Narrated in Sahih Muslim, (Book 41, Hadith Number 7148) Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam informed his Sahaba radhiallahu anhum at the time,
Narrated Suhayb ibn Sinan, the Roman: Allah’s Apostle sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said: “There lived a king before you and he had a (court) magician. As he (the magician) grew old, he said to the king: I have grown old, send some young boy to me so that I may teach him magic. He (the king) sent to him a young man so that he might train him (in magic).
On his way (to the magician) he (the young man) found a monk sitting there. He (the young man) listened to his (the monk’s) talk and was impressed by it. It became his habit that on his way to the magician he met the monk set there so he was late in coming to the magician. He (the magician) beat him because of the delay.
He made a complaint about it to the monk and he said to him: When you feel afraid of the magician, say: Members of my family detained me. And when you feel afraid of your family you should say: The magician detained me.
It so happened that there came a huge beast (of prey) and it blocked the way of the people. He (the young boy) said: I shall find out today whether the magician or the monk is superior. He picked up a stone and said: O Allah, if the affairs of the monk are dearer to Thee than the affairs of the magician, bring death to this animal so that the people will be able to move about freely. He threw that stone towards it and killed it and the people began to move about (on the path freely).
He (the young man) then came to that monk and informed him. The monk said: My son, today you are superior to me. Your affairs have reached a stage where I find that you will be soon put to the test, and in case you are put to the test, don’t reveal my identity.
That young man began to treat the blind and those suffering from leprosy and he began to cure people of (all kinds) of illness. When a companion of the king, who had become blind heard, about him, he came to him with numerous gifts and said: If you cure me, all these things collected together here will be yours. He said: I myself do not cure anyone; it is Allah Who cures. If you affirm faith in Allah, I shall also supplicate Allah to cure you. He affirmed his faith in Allah and Allah cured him. He came to the king and sat by his side as he used to sit before. The king said to him: Who restored your eyesight? He said: My Lord. Thereupon he said: It means that your Lord is One besides me. He said: My Lord and your Lord is Allah; so he (the king) took hold of him and tormented him until he revealed the identity of boy.
The young man was thus summoned and the king said to him: O boy, it has been conveyed to me that you have become so proficient in your magic that you cure the blind and those suffering from leprosy and you do such and such things. Thereupon he said: I do not cure anyone; it is Allah Who cures. He (the king) took hold of him and began to torment him. So he revealed the identity of the monk. The monk was thus summoned and it was said to him: You should turn back from your religion. He, however, refused to do so. He (ordered) a saw to be brought (and when it was done) he (the king) placed it in the middle of his head and backed it until it fell apart. Then the courtier of the king was brought and it was said to him: Turn back from your religion but he refused to do so. Therefore the saw was placed in the middle of his head which was backed until it fell apart.
Then young boy was brought and it was said to him: Turn back from your religion. He refused to do so and he was handed over to a group of his courtiers. He said to them: Take him to such and such mountain; make him climb that mountain and when you reach its top (ask him to renounce his faith) but if he refuses to do so, then throw him (down the mountain). So they took him and made him climb the mountain and he said: O Allah, save me from them (in any way) Thou likest. The mountain began to quake and they all fell down young man came walking back to the king. The king said to him: What has happened to your companions? He said: Allah has saved me
from them.
He again handed him to some of his courtiers and said: Take him and carry him away in a small boat and when you reach the middle of the ocean (ask him to renounce) his religion, but if he does not renounce his religion throw him (into the water). So they took him and he said: O Allah, save me from them and what they want to do. It was not long before the boat overturned and they were drowned but he came walking back to the king. The king said to him: What has happened to your companions? He said: Allah has saved me from them. He also said to the king: You cannot kill me until you do what I ask you to do. And he said: What is that? He said: You should gather people on a plain and hang me by the trunk (of a tree). Then take an arrow from the quiver and say: In the name of Allah, the Lord of the world; then shoot an arrow and if you do that then you would be able to kill me. So he (the king) called the people to an open plain and tied him (the boy) to the trunk of a tree. Then he took an arrow from his quiver placed the arrow in the bow and then said: In the name of Allah, the Lord of the young boy; he then shot an arrow and it hit his temple.
He (the boy) placed his hands upon the temple where the arrow had hit him and he died. The people said: We affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man, we affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man, we affirm our faith in the Lord of this young man.
The courtiers came to the king and it was said to him: Do you see that their faith is in the Lord? He (the king) commanded ditches to be dug at important points in the path. When these ditches were dug, and the fire was lit in them it was said (to the people): He who does not turn back from this (boy’s) religion will be thrown in the fire or they will be told to jump in it. (The people chose death but did not renounce their religion) till a woman came with her child and she felt hesitant about jumping into the fire. The child said to her: O mother, endure (this ordeal) for it is the Truth.”’
Early Muslims met with the same fate. We are familiar with the hounding and torment of the early Muslims in Makkah under the rule of the mushrik Quraish at the time. Sumaiyah and Yasir radhiallahu anhum the first shuhada of Islam, the torture of Khabbab and Bilal radhiallahu anhum, the persecution of Rasullallah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and his family and tribe to mention but a few of the many who were tortured to death or persecuted simply for their steadfast belief in Islam and refusal to submit to any other than Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala are well known to us.
Haqq and Batil are manifest
No matter who was behind the event and no matter what were their motives, 9-11 has dramatically polarized the world. Those who stand with Haqq and those who gather around batil now stand clearly apart once more.
Anxiously, the Believers, without the ideological leadership of Islam stand confused in limbo – unsure whether to rise to the equal of the early Believers who gathered around Islam and Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, or to sink down into the mire of corruption and compromise of kufr and the kuffar. A choice, between suffering persecution and death, or to live as slaves and sheep, subservient to taghut, under the feet of the kuffar.
In Falluja and elsewhere in Iraq, there is slaughter. In Palestine, Chechnya and Thailand there is butchering of Muslims. In ‘egalitarian’ France there is the disrobing of our daughters.
In ‘tolerant and liberal’ Holland there are bombs in mosques after blasphemy and insult to Islam. This is the same nation whose soldiers, who were charged with defending the Muslims by the UN, dishonourably stood aside in Srebrenica to allow the slaughter of over 7,000 innocent children and men by the Serbs.